A tape recorder clicks on, playing the growling voice of former President Richard Nixon. He’s talking about the Vietnam war and actress Jane Fonda, specifically. He praises her father, actor Henry Fonda, before condescendingly opining how Fonda’s daughter is going…
McQueen Movie Review: A Troubled Life Bathed in Beauty
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 story of a small-town London bloke becoming one of the most iconic…
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 perception of social standing through gluttonous excess is rapidly evolving,…
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 things, defining every facet of popular culture from publishing…
‘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 would completely transform into a…
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 as being the creator of the beloved sitcom Everybody…
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 “ambiance,” the knowledge that it’s where…