‘Inventing Anna’ Review: A Rorschach Test for How You Feel About the American DreamShonda Rhimes’ limited Netflix series will leave you wondering if famous fake German heiress Anna Delvey is a shrewd grifter or some kind of class-vaulting, feminist hero — or both “This whole story, the one you’re about to sit on your fat ass and… Feb 09 22February 09, 2022Article at Los Angeles Magazine
New ‘Pam & Tommy’ Hulu Series Hooks With a Heart of GoldThe show entertainingly recounts the sleazy tale of the infamous stolen sex tape. But while it redeems Pamela Anderson and reveals our culture’s troubling double standards, it raises uncomfortable questions about itself Pamela Anderson was robbed.… Jan 26 22January 26, 2022Article at Los Angeles Magazine
Will the ‘Scream’ Reboot Live Up to the Franchise’s Legacy?There’s a new Scream in town on January 14. With the first film, released in December 1996, and the sequels that followed, Wes Craven famously relaunched the slasher genre. Now the question is if and how the reboot—informally known as “Scream 5” but… Jan 06 22January 06, 2022Article at Los Angeles Magazine
‘Real World: Los Angeles’ Shows How Far We Have–And Haven’t–All ComeWhen Tami Roman, the breakout star of The Real World: Los Angeles, was asked to reunite with her roommates in the same Venice Beach house where, in 1993, she decided to terminate a pregnancy, she said no. Then she said no again. “I said no so many… Nov 22 21November 22, 2021Article at Los Angeles Magazine
Why Is Kate Beckinsale’s High IQ An Issue?We’re in the middle of a supply chain crisis with no resolution in sight, Biden’s economic plan is being whittled away as we speak, and a Hollywood set’s tragic prop gun misfire just left a female cinematographer dead, but you know what’s really… Oct 23 21October 23, 2021Article at Los Angeles Magazine
‘La Brea’ Serves Up Entertaining Disaster Porn—Especially for LocalsAngelenos famously live in panicky fear of the Big One, a when not if doomsday that promises to wreak massive chaos and destruction—and that’s in a city already contending with wildfires, droughts, TikTok mansions, and brutal traffic. But, hey, at… Sep 28 21September 28, 2021Article at Los Angeles Magazine
John Mulaney Said He Didn’t Want Kids and Now He’s Having One—So What?Comedian, actor, and Saturday Night Live writer John Mulaney dropped a baby bomb Tuesday on Late Night With Seth Meyers, revealing that he and Olivia Munn, whom he’s been dating since his split from wife Annamarie Tendler (and rehab), are now with… Sep 08 21September 08, 2021Article at Los Angeles Magazine
Millennial Critics Hate ‘He’s All That.’ Blame Their Misplaced Nostalgia for the OriginalNetflix just dropped He’s All That, a teen romcom about beauty influencer Padgett Sawyer (played by real-life influencer Addison Rae) who makes a bet she can turn hopeless misanthrope/photographer Cameron Kweller (Tanner Buchanan) into prom king by… Aug 30 21August 30, 2021Article at Los Angeles Magazine
Someone’s Gotta Die on ‘The White Lotus’ Finale—but Does It Really Matter Who?The White Lotus, HBO’s most addictive show about miserable rich white people since Succession, comes to an end this Sunday night. As Lotus loyalists know, viewers learn in the pilot that some mortal creature’s remains are flown back in a… Aug 13 21August 13, 2021Article at Los Angeles Magazine
Netflix’s ‘Cocaine Cowboys’ Makes ‘Miami Vice’ Look Like Child’s PlayThe adrenaline-packed tale of two Cuban drug kingpins (and speedboat racers) who flooded the U.S. with tons of blow, is an epic binge If you snorted so much as a bump of coke during the 1980s in any major city in the U.S., chances are it came from… Aug 05 21August 05, 2021Article at Los Angeles Magazine
Why ‘Ghost World’ Was 20 Years Ahead of Its TimeWhen Ghost World, a dark comedy about two teenage misanthropes鈥擡nid (Thora Birch), a classic hater, and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson), a normie-in-waiting鈥攄ebuted in July 2001, it was beloved by critics, misfits, and few others. A movie about a guy… Jul 20 21July 20, 2021Article at Los Angeles Magazine
