“Where’s the outrage?” That’s the theme that underlies just about every news report on Donald Trump, and nearly every documentary that spins around him. That would include “Stormy,” a reasonably absorbing film that presents the Stormy Daniels saga from Daniels’ point-of-view, revealing her to be a compelling and highly conflicted figure. The movie, which premiered tonight at SXSW (it drops on Peacock on March 18), replays the scandal with a kind of breathless, furrowed-brow, tabloid-meets-serious-news propulsive documentary “excitement.” It casts Stormy Daniels as a liberal folk hero, a soldier in the culture wars, and a post-MeToo tabloid-ready figurehead of the resistance. The whole intention of the movie is to stoke the outrage.
Yet somehow, the outrage is never quite there — or, rather, it’s there in a film like “Stormy,” but it’s never where it’s supposed to be, which is in the hearts of the people who...
Yet somehow, the outrage is never quite there — or, rather, it’s there in a film like “Stormy,” but it’s never where it’s supposed to be, which is in the hearts of the people who...
- 3/9/2024
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Last weekend, The Art of Elysium, a non-profit organization with a focus on healing and inspiring through art, hosted its 2024 Heaven Gala at The Wiltern in Los Angeles.
Honoree Neil Gaiman, recipient of the Visionary Award, attends The Art of Elysium's 25th Anniversary Heaven Gala
Credit/Copyright: Araya Doheny/Getty Images for The Art of Elysium
The gala served as a celebration of the organization’s 25th anniversary and honored the following:
Writer, director, and producer Neil Gaiman with The Visionary Award where he transformed the venue from a music venue to a mystical library for his version of “Heaven on Earth” where knowledge is free and refuge is given. Gaiman teamed up with his longtime collaborator, Good Omens production designer Michael Ralph, to bring his vision to life and enlisted playwright Jeremy O. Harris to serve as the evening’s “librarian” emcee. Actress Amy Smart and TV Host Carter Oosterhouse...
Honoree Neil Gaiman, recipient of the Visionary Award, attends The Art of Elysium's 25th Anniversary Heaven Gala
Credit/Copyright: Araya Doheny/Getty Images for The Art of Elysium
The gala served as a celebration of the organization’s 25th anniversary and honored the following:
Writer, director, and producer Neil Gaiman with The Visionary Award where he transformed the venue from a music venue to a mystical library for his version of “Heaven on Earth” where knowledge is free and refuge is given. Gaiman teamed up with his longtime collaborator, Good Omens production designer Michael Ralph, to bring his vision to life and enlisted playwright Jeremy O. Harris to serve as the evening’s “librarian” emcee. Actress Amy Smart and TV Host Carter Oosterhouse...
- 1/10/2024
- Look to the Stars
Jonathan Taplin has had more careers than most folks — Bob Dylan and The Band’s tour manager, film producer (the Last Waltz and Mean Streets) Wall Street entrepreneur, teacher at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. In an exclusive excerpt from his latest book, “The End of Reality: How 4 Billionaires Are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars and Crypto,” Taplin lays out the dangers of becoming complacent in the face of the fantasy worlds offered by the leading technocrats.
Four very powerful billionaires— Elon Musk, Peter Thiel,...
Four very powerful billionaires— Elon Musk, Peter Thiel,...
- 9/24/2023
- by Jonathan Taplin
- Rollingstone.com
We live in an age when all kinds of behavior that was once not thought of as scandalous is now scandalous. Yet the mentality of “calling people out” can extend to less serious and sometimes even trivial things. That’s been the drama of “Don’t Worry Darling” — and by drama, I don’t mean the story of a Stepford housewife, played by Florence Pugh, who wakes up to discover that the candy-colored ’50s dreamworld she’s been living in is a carefully constructed nightmare. That drama, as I wrote in my review, is just okay; it starts enticingly and then loses steam. But the offscreen drama? That’s been a gift of gossip that keeps on giving.
Part of the addictive fun of “Don’t Worry Darling: The Offscreen Diaries” is that it’s been a juicy backbiting tabloid celebrity saga in which nobody actually did anything too wrong. (You...
Part of the addictive fun of “Don’t Worry Darling: The Offscreen Diaries” is that it’s been a juicy backbiting tabloid celebrity saga in which nobody actually did anything too wrong. (You...
- 9/24/2022
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Great cinema is sometimes grand themes, dramatic camerawork, and sophisticated montage; or, it’s a guy playing “Pac Man” for 90 minutes. Joel Potrykus’ “Relaxer,” the latest wacky gambit from the Michigan-based provocateur, finds the “Buzzard” director reteaming with his perennial star Joshua Burge, again taking a cartoonish lowbrow approach to acerbic social critique. Set on the eve of Y2K, “Relaxer” exclusively takes place in the confines of a living room, where Burge’s character endures prolonged attempts to reach an impossible high score on the the aforementioned video game, while enduring hardships that include milk vomit, fecal matter, overheated cartridges, and rat poison. It’s a grotesque downward spiral, both hilarious and mesmerizing, but above all elevated by its insights into the depraved final gasp of the analog age.
Media scholar Neil Postman diagnosed the ills of entertainment media in his aptly titled 1985 tome “Amusing Ourselves to Death;” that...
Media scholar Neil Postman diagnosed the ills of entertainment media in his aptly titled 1985 tome “Amusing Ourselves to Death;” that...
- 3/10/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
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