As the first official scrimmage of awards show season, the annual IFP Gotham Awards, which unfolded last night at Cipriani Wall Street, offers an early forecast of the 2018 Oscars. Honoring achievements in independent feature and documentary filmmaking, the ceremony celebrated many of this year's most heat-seeking contenders, including Luca ... More

Suburbicon actress Karimah Westbrook was born and raised in Chicago, and made the leap to Los Angeles thanks to none other than Whoopi Goldberg. “At the time, she was like the black woman who looked like me,” Westbrook tells us. “She had natural hair, was a leading lady and she ... More

Last night, at the corner of West Broadway and Canal Street in New York City, Michael B. Jordan narrowly avoided a collision... with himself. He was headed into a nightclub with some old friends, when suddenly there he was—muscles bulging, chest puffed out just so—plastered to the side of a ... More

For the uninitiated, @DUDESxDONUTS is a recently launched Instagram zine serving a millennial pink motif, 90’s vibes, and – you guessed it – men suggestively posing with donuts. Their most recent recruit is Garrett Clayton, star of Hairspray Live! and King Cobra, who recently dipped into 90’s nostalgia himself by playing ... More

Happy Death Day, Blumhouse Productions’s heady horror flick about a young female college student reliving the day of her murder, hits theaters today, and while the film’s Friday 13th release may exploit obvious horror tropes, its high-concept hook is all-new. Mixing Groundhog Day-on-acid-style existential dread with a litany of more ... More

When attempting to sum up the career of Steven Spielberg – icon, Hollywood daddy, god-like creative – hyperbole is only fitting. But when veteran documentarian Susan Lacy set out to encapsulate Spielberg’s unparalleled legacy in her sweeping two-and-half hour documentary Spielberg, premiering at the New York Film Festival today and ... More

Emerging directors have a tendency to stick to topics that hit close to home but with her debut feature, October’s Novitiate, director/screenwriter Maggie Betts had no hesitation about going way out of her realm. Unlike the quirky romances and accounts of 20s-angst that make for so many indie-film forays, Betts’s ... More

You notice the voice before anything. Preceding her as she makes her way down the hall, the alluringly husky tone is striking, and causes you to sit up a bit straighter, while also being comfortingly familiar. When the woman herself arrives and sits down next to you, managing an impossibly ... More

In 2010’s Black Swan, the ballerina costumes, created by Rodarte’s Kate and Laura Mulleavy, were more than just couture eye candy. They were dramatic visual signifiers of Natalie Portman’s ratcheting paranoia, which peaks when she emerges onstage as the Black Swan in a jet-black tutu, white face and blood-red eyes. In ... More

Get used to the name Callum Turner, the 27-year-old British actor at the heart of the new film The Only Living Boy in New York; The film’s director, Mark Webb, has had a hand in the careers of some of Hollywood’s most iconic manic pixie dream boys. After breaking out ... More