Category: film-tv
Julio Torres Moves Beyond Cinematic Love
Anyone who has been lucky enough to enter the magnanimous mind of Julio Torres can tell you things are a bit different over there. Over the past decade, the comedian, writer and performer has made a name for himself via his singularly surrealist approach to humor, first as the resident avant-gardist on Saturday Night Live’s…
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Diarra Kilpatrick Keeps It Pushing
There is a game that Detroiters play upon first meeting, tossing our respective qualifiers back and forth to track the commonalities and differences among us. Are you an eastsider or a westsider? What neighborhood are you from? Where did you go to elementary, middle and most importantly high school? To outsiders, it’s an immature exchange.;…
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Hollywood’s Archival Fashion Arms Race
The Oscars have come and gone. Designers were worn and shown off, specifically those of yesteryear. In the current red carpet climate, stylists have grown bold in their archive pulls, or desperate. It depends on who you ask. There’s a fashion war that rages behind the scenes of each awards season that defines most of…
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Versace Celebrated the Oscars With Icons Only
To kick off Oscars weekend, Donatella Versace, Alison Loehnis and NET-A-PORTER hosted a very exclusive cocktail party in Los Angeles to celebrate of the brand’s icons in music, film, fashion and television. The party was a continuation of the brand’s Versace Icons events, which have included dinners in New York and Shanghai co-hosted by Donatella…
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Sally Potter’s Smartphone Cinema Provokes ‘Rage’ 15 Years Later
“Smartphone cinema” could sound to one like an oxymoron, but Sally Potter, the British filmmaker behind such essential works as Orlando, Ginger and Rosa and The Party, does not see the utility in such distinctions. There must be some way, she believes, to merge the syntax of cinema with the ubiquity of the mobile phone.…
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‘The Vince Staples Show’ Reflects Vince’s Nonchalant Chaos
At this point, Vince Staples is just completing side quests. Since cementing his place in the music industry over a decade ago, the 30-year-old has proven himself as a Renaissance man, having conquered the worlds of television, fashion and even comics with a signature nonchalant swag. His newest venture, The Vince Staples Show, streaming now…
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Gena Marvin’s Surreal Queer Art Is Protest
“I still think it’s a bit of an illusion,” Gena Marvin tells me with confidence. They’re talking about Paris, where the Russian-born artist has, at the time of our call, lived for less than a year. But the illusion is deceptive. France should, theoretically, be a haven for someone who’s escaped a country with a…
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Coolest Person in the Room: Tara Raani
Popularity is relative, especially in the digital age. You could have hundreds of thousands of followers online but be completely unknown in the streets — massively famous on Instagram, YouTube or Twitter, but lack any kind of real, authentic cool in person. For our series Coolest Person in the Room, we pinpoint all the people…
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Theda Hammel Is Exploring Beauty and Queer Id
There are two noises that stick out in the memories of a certain kind of upwardly mobile, progressive, aspiring queer person living in New York from the summer of 2020. One is the tension between the raging sirens from police cars and the uncanny silence in streets that once wore its thrumming soundtrack of chaotic…
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The Best and Not So Great Looks at the Golden Globes
The Golden Globes have come and gone, but the looks? Those last forever, especially if you’re Hunter Schafer’s stylist Dara Allen. Then the day after is cause for celebration, considering the numerous “best dressed” roundups you’ve landed her on. The night saw wins for critical darlings like Actress in a Drama Motion Picture winner Lily…
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