Does Top Chef: Wisconsin feel desperate? Do we think that Gail and Tom being added to the Quickfire judging is a maybe not-great reflection of Kristen’s job as host, and how we know less about her criteria and opinions than we do her fon... More »

Two imperious blondes haunt Maia Novi throughout her play Invasive Species: Gwyneth Paltrow and Eva Perón. At drama school, Novi is told that she needs to shear off her Argentinian accent and try to imitate Paltrow’s crisp-as-a-summer-blouse American one. (Specifically, Novi keeps listen... More »

OMG, Maria is fu … Oops. Sorry. I forgot this is a family show. OMG, Maria is screwed. She has played, by far, the best game of anyone left in Jeff Probst’s petri dish, but she might just have shot herself right in the foot by deciding to stick with Q rather than continue her ve... More »

Many of the Furiosa reviews coming out of the Cannes Film Festival will rightly focus on Anya Taylor-Joy’s coalfire performance, on the film’s labyrinthine action sequences, on its r... More »

To experience the Cannes Film Festival, one cannot merely read about it. You have to watch Mr. Bean’s Holiday, too. Seriously folks, the media maelstrom of Cannes is wild, and this fest is particularly known for wildin’ out in one particular way: weirdly long standing ovations. (Also More »

The grapes at the Avaline vineyard will simply have to wait to be plucked or wither on the vine, because More »