It’s commonly said that movies are an escape from reality. In fact, the opposite is often true. Sometimes, the greatest films force us to face the subjects that make us most uncomfortable. This year has been one of the more divisive in recent history, and its defining performances—many of them, ... More

Heartbreak is the language that Michelle Williams speaks most fluently. Sometimes she speaks it by way of silence, as she did in Brokeback Mountain, her breakout performance as the long-suffering wife of Heath Ledger’s (immortalized) gay cowboy. Sometimes she screams it, like she did in Blue Valentine, as she and ... More

“Thank you so much for being so patient. I’m sorry this took so much time to schedule.” Before I can even introduce myself to Jake Gyllenhaal, he is apologizing to me. It’s a blustery Saturday afternoon in October and we are in a room deep in the bowels of the ... More

This weekend, celebrate Halloween at Inferno, The McKittrick Hotel’s cinematic annual Halloween party, where costumes aren’t optional and tickets come with a warning that “guests enter entirely at their own risk.” The faux hotel is the home of famed immersive theater experience Sleep No More, as well as a sultry ... More

Just in time for the holidays, Relais & Châteaux has released their first ever entertaining book, The Art of Entertaining, published by Rizzoli New York. Each chapter features a decadent soirée put on by a Relais & Châteaux hotel, with tips and recipes for hosting ... More

A man named Seymour Levov—known as “the Swede”—meets a young woman at a hotel who purportedly knows the whereabouts of his missing daughter. Once in the room, the woman, Rita Cohen, berates the Swede for his shortcomings as a father, a businessman, a human being, then lays down on the ... More

As Lily Collins slinks back into a deep brown leather sofa after the photo shoot she just completed, a beam of light catches a speck of glitter that remains in her eyelashes, creating an illusion of glamorous tears about to stream down her dewy cheeks. But if there’s any young ... More

A tall, wiry man with round glasses is standing in the palatial lobby of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the sprawling museum and gardens complex snuggled into the hills of Brentwood. He’s holding an iPad, which he’s suspending feebly toward distracted passersby. He asks if we’d like to take a ... More

Ato Essandoh gets the kinds of roles any actor would be proud of. He’s made a name for himself on television series like BBC America’s Copper and HBO’s Vinyl, and has landed on the big screen in movies including Blood Diamond and Django Unchained. But until recently, he’s had trouble ... More

In Indignation, the new film from director (and accomplished screenwriter) James Schamus, a young man leaves behind his New Jersey roots to attend college in Ohio. And while this move brings about an intense bit of self-discovery, perhaps more important is his discovery of another student: the beautiful, troubled, beguiling Olivia ... More