Bad Lighting Alexandra Pelosi’s latest documentary, American Selfie, offers a chaotic, unsettling snapshot of the times we’re living in
The Dark Side of Lolita Sue Lyon was 14 when she starred in the film. The producer slept with her anyway
For a Good Time in Paris, Call Her “Madame Claude” supplied high-end prostitutes to J.F.K., the Shah of Iran, Frank Sinatra, and others. Was she a feminist icon or a thug?
Second-Wives Club Armie Hammer, Lily James, and Kristin Scott Thomas remake the Hitchcock classic Rebecca
Out of Control Filmed in secrecy in the months since the coronavirus outbreak, Alex Gibney’s new documentary delivers the true tale—and scope—of the U.S.’s failure
Charlotte Hope The Game of Thrones actress on the difficulty of moving on from playing Henry VIII’s first wife
Rupert Everett Can’t Help Himself The devastating male beauty of 80s and 90s cinema, the star of Another Country, Dance with a Stranger, and My Best Friend’s Wedding, plays a porno villain in the new British series Adult Material
Collins on the Rocks American expats are fuming over Emily in Paris, Darren Star’s absurd new Netflix series
Killing Jason Bourne: Stoppard’s Secret Movie Scripts … Revealed! Britain’s most esteemed playwright quietly contributed to the scripts for Star Wars, Schindler’s List, The Bourne Ultimatum, My Mom’s a Werewolf, and 102 Dalmatians, among others
Trump’s Spitting Image Get ready for a new cast of puppets—Beyoncé! Bezos! Kardashians! Kanye! Ivanka! Thunberg! Zuckerberg!—as Britain’s biting, satirical, take-no-prisoners Spitting Image returns to television
Lust in Translation Bill Murray is back in the picture in Sofia Coppola’s new film about Gen X marriage, On the Rocks
A Different Draft of History Oktoberfest 1900 gives the Bavarian beer festival an injection of Scorsese menace and mayhem
Hear Them Roar Susan Sontag, Germaine Greer, Norman Mailer, and others battle over “women’s lib” in a rarely seen documentary about the epic 1971 all-star debate
“I Know Those Guys” Before he met Nora Ephron, Nick Pileggi learned everything he needed to know to write Goodfellas in Bensonhurst
A Stand-Up Duchess Fearless, filthy, and brash, Katherine Ryan is a single mother—and Netflix star—seizing her moment
Bake-Off Bakes On Fans of The Great British Baking Show, as it’s known in the U.S., will be relieved to learn that the show will soon come back for its 11th season
September 16, 2020
Wax On, Wax Off Cobra Kai, a TV-series sequel to The Karate Kid, pays worthy homage to the original while undoing it
September 15, 2020