Who's That Girl ...who will be playing Madonna?

by Nathaniel R

Garner, Ferreira, Sweeney, Leon, and Pugh

As we've known for some time Madonna is writing and directing her own biopic. It's inching closer to production with casting and audition rumors. Word has it that Euphoria's Sydney Sweeney and Sky Ferreira have auditioned for the leading role as well. Earlier rumors suggested the role was going to either Oscar nominee Florence Pugh or Emmy winner Julia Garner. Some online gossip suggested Lourdes Léon, Madonna's eldest, might even be in the mix though we think that's just the internet internetting...

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TV Review: Inventing Anna (Netflix)

By: Christopher James

Julia Garner brings to life viral sensation Anna Delvey in Shonda Rhimes' latest show "Inventing Anna."We have a long history of idolizing iconoclast grifters. From Robin Hood to Jesse James, there’s something alluring about an outlaw getting one over on the hoity-toity establishment. Perhaps this is why Jessica Pressler’s article about Anna Delvey in The Cut went viral when it came out in 2018. Delvey pretended to be a German heiress and conned her way to the top of New York society. She lived large in swanky hotels and on lavish Marrikesh vacations all without paying for a dime of it herself. This was never destined to last, and Delvey wound up in jail for her crimes.

Netflix’s Inventing Anna dramatizes Delvey’s exploits, with Emmy winner Julia Garner bringing her to life...

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Which of these '94 born actors will follow Saoirse Ronan to an Oscar nomination?

by Nathaniel R

Saoirse Ronan for Vogue magazine

It's 27 days until Oscar so we thought we'd have a little speculative discussion prompt with the magic number of 27. Saoirse Ronan, who turns 27 next month, is the only actor born in 1994 to have been Oscar nominated so far. What's more she's already done it an incredible four times. Still Saoirse won't be the only Oscar-nominated member of the '94 vintage for much longer. The late twentysomething years is when female actors start getting Oscar-nominated and it's when the male actors start buiding the kind of fame that eventually earns them nominations (we don't make these double standard arbitrary age rules but it's how Hollywood operates, statistically and generally speaking).

So who do you think will be the first to join Saoirse from this crop of actors turning 27 in 2021? We've selected six that we're most impressed by (currently) after the jump as well as a few handfuls of alternates. Which of these actors are you rooting for and who has the brightest future?

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FYC: Julia Garner in "The Assistant"

by Ben Miller

This year’s Best Actress race is filled with powerful women going through big things.  Viola Davis and Andra Day portray groundbreaking artists dealing with systems stacked against them.  Frances McDormand and Vanessa Kirby are women trying to work through immense grief.  Carey Mulligan is exacting revenge for monumental wrongs.

In The Assistant, Julia Garner portrays Jane, an assistant to a Hollywood big wig.  Jane is not going through something big.  She is just doing her job.  Something big is happening nearby, she recognizes, but she can’t do anything about it...

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Emmy Review: Supporting Actress in a Drama

By Abe Friedtanzer

The nominations in this category were mostly expected save for the snub, once again, of Rhea Seehorn from Better Call Saul. Julia Garner, Thandie Newton, Samira Wiley, and Laura Dern have all won Emmys for these roles but only Newton and Wiley have ever competed against each other (and both lost). There’s no clear frontrunner but a handful of possibilities who could win here in a category that features a lot of very strong choices.  

I’ll try to avoid major plot details in my analysis – but if you’d like more spoiler-filled descriptions, click on the episode titles. Let’s consider each nominee…

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