In first-time director Kelly Oxford’s snappy, super-saturated account of her personal battle with anxiety disorder, “Pink Skies Ahead,” the main character is named Winona, but it’s her best friend Stephanie who does all the shoplifting. It’s like a compulsion: Every time they go to the convenience store, Winona distracts the awkward, androgynous-looking clerk behind the counter while Stephanie roams the candy aisle, filling her pockets. Then they both buy Slurpees to cover their tracks.
This is behavior that would be right at home in high school — or a high school movie, like “Ghost World,” which might explain Winona’s Slurpee-blue dye job — when young people are testing the boundaries of what they can get away with and still largely oblivious to how their actions impact others. But Winona is a 20-year-old college dropout, embodied by “End of the F—ing World” star Jessica Barden, who’s a few years older still,...
This is behavior that would be right at home in high school — or a high school movie, like “Ghost World,” which might explain Winona’s Slurpee-blue dye job — when young people are testing the boundaries of what they can get away with and still largely oblivious to how their actions impact others. But Winona is a 20-year-old college dropout, embodied by “End of the F—ing World” star Jessica Barden, who’s a few years older still,...
- 10/19/2020
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The group that persuaded Will Smith to bungee jump out of a helicopter to celebrate his 50th birthday are launching a podcast with Cadence13 and Headspace Studios.
The founders of Yes Theory, a content company and YouTube channel with over 1.8M viewers, are launching the The Yes Theory Podcast.
It will feature Thomas Brag, Matt Dajer and Ammar Kandil explore the process of self-improvement and explore how people can all become their “truest selves”. They will discuss topics like meditation, ego, and vulnerability.
Episodes will include meditation with Headspace co-founder and former Buddhist monk Andy Puddicombe; uncertainty with Ozan Varol and Arthur Brooks; pursuing novelty with Ben Nemtin and Jason Silva; kindness with Francois Clemmons and Houston Kraft; hope with Mark Manson and Dina Al Shahabi; burnout with Anne Helen Petersen; physical discomfort with Aaron Ferguson and Lauren Ash and reinvention with Ryan Holiday and Rich Roll.
This series...
The founders of Yes Theory, a content company and YouTube channel with over 1.8M viewers, are launching the The Yes Theory Podcast.
It will feature Thomas Brag, Matt Dajer and Ammar Kandil explore the process of self-improvement and explore how people can all become their “truest selves”. They will discuss topics like meditation, ego, and vulnerability.
Episodes will include meditation with Headspace co-founder and former Buddhist monk Andy Puddicombe; uncertainty with Ozan Varol and Arthur Brooks; pursuing novelty with Ben Nemtin and Jason Silva; kindness with Francois Clemmons and Houston Kraft; hope with Mark Manson and Dina Al Shahabi; burnout with Anne Helen Petersen; physical discomfort with Aaron Ferguson and Lauren Ash and reinvention with Ryan Holiday and Rich Roll.
This series...
- 9/3/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Armie Hammer is going to war with Buzzfeed senior culture writer Anne Helen Petersen. The “Call Me by Your Name” star called out Petersen over her criticism of Jennifer Lawrence’s recent Vanity Fair profile. Related: Timothee Chalamet Gives Armie Hammer’s Wife Hilarious Shout-Out “I have read a lot of painfully banal celebrity profiles but this new Vanity Fair one on Jennifer Lawrence,”...
- 2/28/2018
- by Shakiel Mahjouri
- ET Canada
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