Cannes Gowns, Round 4 (and 'Armageddon Time')

Previously: round 1, 2 and 3 

Anne Hathaway is in Cannes to attend the premiere of James Gray's memoir drama Armageddon Time. Juror Rebecca Hall and Cannes mainstay Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai also walked the red carpet. Sheila Atim, who you'll recall just won the Olivier Award, is having a very good year. She was this year's actress honorary at Chopard's annual Cannes ceremony which spotlights one male and one female star each year (Jack Lowden was the male winner this year). The four most recent actress winners were Anya Taylor-Joy (2017), Elizabeth Debicki (2018), Florence Pugh (2019), Jessie Buckley (2021) so that's very good company to be in. Atim is onscreens now in a small role in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and supports Viola Davis later this year in The Woman King.  

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Armageddon Time has received very warm reviews which might bode well for a James Gray movie finally being in Oscar competition (*might* because his films aren't as sentimental as this genre and Oscar voters like to embrace). The movie is based on Gray's memories of his 80s adolescence. THR says "Hathaway does her best work since Rachel Getting Married" as the mother and both Entertainment Weekly and IndieWire single out Anthony Hopkins as the grandfather mentioning his golden late career phase and that he continues "to mine raw honesty from the depths of human frailty". The Guardian though didn't much like it describing it as "slightly laborious and self-consciously acted" 

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one of the craziest parts of hollywood is learning that most celebrity’s email addresses are like, cateblanchett @ gmail . com

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 a couple minutes of amusing distraction for you via curated tweets awaits after the jump...

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Linkers Dozen

• THR talks to Michelle Yeoh about her new film Everything Everywhere All At Once. Great 'meeting Tarantino' story and now I wish they'd have worked together
• AV Club our era of famous faces being paid lots of money for those faces to be buried / unrecognizable under prosthetics continues with Sean Penn in a Watergate thriller

Vanessa Bayer, Ewan McGregor, Anne Hathaway, and more after the jump...

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Capsule Review: Tech Triple Threat - "Super-Pumped," "The Dropout" and "WeCrashed"

by Christopher James

Which new show about the rise and fall of a major tech company prevails in the end?Do you ever get deja vu while watching a TV or movie? Trends always lag a year or two when it comes to pop culture. More so than ever, the minute a story or documentary takes off, production companies are working on the scripted version of the story. In the course of a month, there will be three separate miniseries dramatizing famous tech flameouts from the last decade. Showtime was the first out the gate with Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber, which has already been renewed for season two, centering around Facebook. Next up was Hulu with The Dropout, which cast Amanda Seyfriend as Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. By the end of the month, Apple TV+ will premiere WeCrashed, where Oscar winners Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway star as the charismatic couple behind WeWork, Adam and Rebekah Neumann.

It’s easy to make comparisons when so many similar series come out in quick succession. Between the three shows, there’s a clear winner and clear loser. Which is which? Read on to find out...

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Horror Actressing: Anjelica Huston in "The Witches"

by Jason Adams

What's your favorite flavor of witch? Do you prefer a goth punk madwoman like Fairuza Balk in The Craft? A sexy hyper-stylish artiste like Tilda Swinton in Suspiria? A cackling crone like Margaret Hamilton in The Wizard of Oz?

What if I told you you didn't have to pick just one? That there exists a witch out there already that snatches a dash of this, a dash of that, until her cauldron bubbles over with the cartoonish bombast of Cruella de Vil meets Helena Markos. I think you'd nod, say duh, throw your head back and holler, "Anjelica Huston as the magnificent Grand High Witch forever, darling-kk!!!"

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