British designer Alexander McQueen was an ordinary man who made extraordinary clothes. Or at least that’s the main takeway of Ian Bonhote and Peter Ettedgui’s documentary McQueen. The stor…
Generation Wealth Movie Review: Lauren Greenfield has Created a Culmination of Her Career Thus Far
Over the past couple of decades, photo-essayist Lauren Greenfield (kids + money, The Queen of Versailles) has sought out lives filled with glamor and extravagance, striving to capture how our percepti…
Love, Cecil Movie Review: A Breathtaking Portrait of Glamour and Elegance
At the beginning of Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s latest documentary, subject Cecil Beaton is described as a fashion designer, photographer, an author, and a dandy. How can one man be all those thin…
‘Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind’ Movie Review
Robin Williams had so many memorable roles throughout his career. One minute he was a doctor using humor to help sick children smile, the next he was a wise-cracking animated blue genie, and then he w…
For Your Consideration: Somebody Feed Phil
This edition of “For Your Consideration” features the hidden food-eating gem that is Netflix’s Somebody Feed Phil. Now, Phil Rosenthal didn’t get his start in food. He is most likely best known …
Always at the Carlyle Movie Review: A Documentary You’ll Want to Stay and Live In
There’s a certain facet of people who love to swoon over the elegant (and with it, the expensive). I’m one of those people who has justified staying at an expensive hotel because of the &#…
Call Her Ganda Movie Review: A Critical Exploration of Trans Rights and American Imperialism
In 2014 trans woman Jennifer Laude was brutally murdered in the Philippines by an American serviceman. What would have played as a typical murder in the United States became an international incident,…