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features writer @ new york mag/vulture just here so i don’t get fined
“I explain that I’m here for an interview, and she looks at me with a distinctly French mix of pity and disdain that I have come to know quite intimately. ‘It is *not* possible,’ she says, shaking her head.” @rachelhandler.bsky.social:
How Cate Blanchett Is Navigating Today’s ‘Risk-Averse’ Hollywood
The actress co-founded the Displacement Film Fund, the initiative behind Mo Amer’s and Bao Nguyen’s next films.
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Features writer Rachel Handler spent 60 minutes inside John Early and Kate Berlant’s perfect, ‘brain-dead’ relationship. The best friends and ‘Maddie’s Secret’ stars discussed sincerity, couples therapy, and why they’ve never had a TV show.
60 Minutes Inside John Early and Kate Berlant’s Relationship
Features writer Rachel Handler spent 60 minutes inside John Early and Kate Berlant’s perfect, ‘brain-dead’ relationship. The best friends and ‘Maddie’s Secret’ stars discussed sincerity, couples therapy, and why they’ve never had a TV show.
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This story is great, but the Soderbergh bit is a bummer. I'd wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt on AI, because he treats every new technology as a tool to mess around with in a kind of value-neutral way. I just don't know how he could miss that this particular tool absolutely sucks ass.
Vulture@vulture.com · 3mo ago2026 was the year boomer AI slop arrived at Cannes. Vulture’s Rachel Handler dragged her decreasingly human form from Meta House to Soderbergh’s doc to yacht parties and found the prestigious film festival overrun by tech.
Rachel Handler, 🙏🏽 for falling on your sword. This was grim and (not the part I’m quoting) very funny! ‘“I have a pair,” he said, smiling. He and his comedy group were all 21 years of age. I told him I found the glasses creepy, an invasion of privacy. “Not at all,” he said. “We do pranks with them.”’
Vulture@vulture.com · 3mo ago2026 was the year boomer AI slop arrived at Cannes. Vulture’s Rachel Handler dragged her decreasingly human form from Meta House to Soderbergh’s doc to yacht parties and found the prestigious film festival overrun by tech.
2026 was the year boomer AI slop arrived at Cannes. Vulture’s Rachel Handler dragged her decreasingly human form from Meta House to Soderbergh’s doc to yacht parties and found the prestigious film festival overrun by tech.
The Year Boomer AI Slop Came to Cannes
2026 was the year boomer AI slop arrived at Cannes. Vulture’s Rachel Handler dragged her decreasingly human form from Meta House to Soderbergh’s doc to yacht parties and found the prestigious film festival overrun by tech.
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on soderbergh’s boomer-facebook-slop john lennon doc, french comedians pranking people with meta ray-bans, an “ai-native” film about about a farting demon, and more www.vulture.com/article/the-...
The Year Boomer AI Slop Came to Cannes
From Meta House to Soderbergh’s doc to yacht parties, tech overran the prestigious film festival.
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At Cannes, Andy Garcia discusses his long-stewing passion project ‘Diamond,’ Cher, nightmares, and AI: ‘Anything that takes away the human experience, or a job away from someone who needs one, I just don’t like it.’
‘Unfortunately, Joe Diamond Is Andy Garcia’
At Cannes, Andy Garcia discusses his long-stewing passion project ‘Diamond,’ Cher, nightmares, and AI: ‘Anything that takes away the human experience, or a job away from someone who needs one, I just don’t like it.’
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In an interview with Rachel Handler at Cannes, Cate Blanchett discusses AI-phobia, ‘risk-averse’ Hollywood, how she’s preparing to play Martha Stewart, waking up with anxiety at 3 a.m., and why she started the Displacement Film Fund.
How Cate Blanchett Is Navigating Today’s ‘Risk-Averse’ Hollywood
In an interview with Rachel Handler at Cannes, Cate Blanchett discusses AI-phobia, ‘risk-averse’ Hollywood, how she’s preparing to play Martha Stewart, waking up with anxiety at 3 a.m., and why she started the Displacement Film Fund.
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At a Cannes gala, Sharon Stone dommed the audience. “Put that down. Stop eating. Turn to that guy right there. Yes, you in the white, turn to him, tell him you care he’s carrying pain, that you love him.”
Sharon Stone Doms Cannes
At a Cannes gala, Sharon Stone dommed the audience. “Put that down. Stop eating. Turn to that guy right there. Yes, you in the white, turn to him, tell him you care he’s carrying pain, that you love him.”
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‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ has become a consensus choice for the best of Cannes so far. “I have a feeling for a lot of people, especially men, the sex scenes will be like, ‘What am I looking at?’” explains director Jane Schoenbrun.
Jane Schoenbrun’s New Movie Just Might Heal the American Sexual Psyche
‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ has become a consensus choice for the best of Cannes so far. “I have a feeling for a lot of people, especially men, the sex scenes will be like, ‘What am I looking at?’” explains director Jane Schoenbrun.
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This year’s Cannes Film Festival is decidedly Hollywood-less, featuring zero American studio movies in the official lineup. But Demi Moore still showed up to discuss AI: ‘Againstness breeds againstness.’
A Hollywood-less Cannes Begins
This year’s Cannes Film Festival is decidedly Hollywood-less, featuring zero American studio movies in the official lineup. But Demi Moore still showed up to discuss AI: ‘Againstness breeds againstness.’
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The theme of the 2026 Oscars was “humanity.” The walking caviar bar suggested otherwise. Here is everything writer Rachel Handler saw and overheard behind the scenes of Hollywood’s biggest awards ceremony.
Everything I Saw and Overheard at the ‘Human’ Oscars
The theme of the 2026 Oscars was “humanity.” The walking caviar bar suggested otherwise. Here is everything writer Rachel Handler saw and overheard behind the scenes of Hollywood’s biggest awards ceremony.
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had lunch with kate hudson in the east village and we got into it — her oscar nom, almost famous memories, the rom-coms she’s done and won’t do, kurt & goldie, and getting coffee at the strip club with chris robinson in the early aughts
New York Magazine@nymag.com · 5mo agoKate Hudson, 2026 Oscar nominee, still wants to make rom-coms that last. “People think, ‘We can do that.’ Same formula, same feeling, but less money, newer talent … I don’t think they’re the same genre.”
Kate Hudson, 2026 Oscar nominee, still wants to make rom-coms that last. “People think, ‘We can do that.’ Same formula, same feeling, but less money, newer talent … I don’t think they’re the same genre.”
Kate Hudson Has Some Notes for Contemporary Rom-Coms
Kate Hudson, 2026 Oscar nominee, still wants to make rom-coms that last. “People think, ‘We can do that.’ Same formula, same feeling, but less money, newer talent … I don’t think they’re the same genre.”
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NYC theatergoers are arriving in droves to judge Jacob Elordi and a skin wall that’s allegedly making the Brontë sisters roll in their graves. Vulture’s Rachel Handler visited cinemas in the city to talk to the first Wuthering Heights audiences.
‘The Brontë Sisters Are Rolling in Their Graves’
NYC theatergoers are arriving in droves to judge Jacob Elordi and a skin wall that’s allegedly making the Brontë sisters roll in their graves. Vulture’s Rachel Handler visited cinemas in the city to talk to the first Wuthering Heights audiences.
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As a quarter-century (and maybe democracy) comes to a close, a film and TV trope is back: All the cool girls are walking into bodies of water — Rose Byrne, Tessa Thompson, the women on ‘Hacks.’ Is this the defining visual metaphor of 2025?
All the Cool Girls Are Taking Themselves Out to Sea
As a quarter-century (and maybe democracy) comes to a close, a film and TV trope is back: All the cool girls are walking into bodies of water — Rose Byrne, Tessa Thompson, the women on ‘Hacks.’ Is this the defining visual metaphor of 2025?
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My wife and I just read this while rundown out loud — its fucking hilarious and EXACTLY the reviews I needed www.vulture.com/article/netf...
Netflix’s Christmas Movies Are Eerily Normal This Year
I worry that by pointing out how insane these movies are for years on end, I have accidentally bullied Netflix into making them more coherent.
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Netflix’s Christmas movies are eerily normal this year. ‘My Secret Santa,’ ‘Champagne Problems,’ ‘A Merry Little Ex-Mas,’ and ‘Jingle Bell Heist’ are all workmanlike, occasionally competent. They appear to have been directed. Something’s different.
Netflix’s Christmas Movies Are Eerily Normal This Year
Netflix’s Christmas movies are eerily normal this year. ‘My Secret Santa,’ ‘Champagne Problems,’ ‘A Merry Little Ex-Mas,’ and ‘Jingle Bell Heist’ are all workmanlike, occasionally competent. They appear to have been directed. Something’s different.
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Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody have entered their Elder Seinfeld era. On their new advice podcast about nothing, ‘Don’t Listen to Us,’ the actor couple argue, make up, weep, and laugh. “And some people like it.”
Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody Enter an Elder Seinfeld Era
Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody have entered their Elder Seinfeld era. On their new advice podcast about nothing, ‘Don’t Listen to Us,’ the actor couple argue, make up, weep, and laugh. “And some people like it.”
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talked to jennifer lawrence and lynne ramsay about die my love, postpartum depression, filming nude scenes while pregnant, and murder podcasts: www.vulture.com/article/jenn...
Jennifer Lawrence’s Worst Nightmare
The Die My Love actress had no problem performing a nude sex scene pregnant. Watching her movie postpartum was harder.
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The actress says she had no problem performing a nude sex scene for director Lynn Ramsay while she was pregnant. Watching her movie postpartum, however, was harder to do.
Jennifer Lawrence’s Worst Nightmare
The actress says she had no problem performing a nude sex scene for director Lynn Ramsay while she was pregnant. Watching her movie postpartum, however, was harder to do.
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The late Diane Keaton, the star of ‘Baby Boom,’ ‘Father of the Bride,’ and ‘Something’s Gotta Give’ breaks down the genius of her longtime collaborator. Republished from 2020.
A Delightful Conversation with Diane Keaton
The late Diane Keaton, the star of ‘Baby Boom,’ ‘Father of the Bride,’ and ‘Something’s Gotta Give’ breaks down the genius of her longtime collaborator. Republished from 2020.
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Joachim Trier made ‘Sentimental Value’ — a movie about a bad dad who happens to be a director — shortly after becoming a father himself: ‘You’re right, I am exorcising something,’ he tells Rachel Handler.
‘You’re Right, I Am Exorcising Something’
Joachim Trier made ‘Sentimental Value’ — a movie about a bad dad who happens to be a director — shortly after becoming a father himself: ‘You’re right, I am exorcising something,’ he tells Rachel Handler.
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"it commits the cardinal sin of heterosexuality: Don’t ever tell a man he’s stacked *and* his podcast is good. This line may singlehandedly fast-track the downfall of civilization." www.vulture.com/article/tayl...
I Didn’t Need to Know All of That About Travis Kelce
On Taylor Swift’s “Wood.”
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By simply and innocently pressing play on Taylor Swift’s “Wood,” I was forced to choke down a lumber truck’s worth of information about Travis Kelce’s ‘Wood.’ Here’s what I now know against my will.
I Didn’t Need to Know All of That About Travis Kelce
By simply and innocently pressing play on Taylor Swift’s “Wood,” I was forced to choke down a lumber truck’s worth of information about Travis Kelce’s ‘Wood.’ Here’s what I now know against my will.
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WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!
‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ was like ‘Challengers’ for teenagers, with far-reaching incestuous undertones. Thank God it’s not actually ending.
I Can’t Wait to See These Freaks Again
‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ was like ‘Challengers’ for teenagers, with far-reaching incestuous undertones. Thank God it’s not actually ending.
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