In 2003, Nicole Kidman won her first—and only—Academy Award for portraying Virginia Woolf in The Hours. She was absolutely the front-runner to take home the gold that year for several reasons: First, her performance was incredible. But she also transformed herself, physically, to the point where she wasn’t even recognizable. (Her nose in particular garnered…
Read moreThere’s a moment in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel—Amazon’s delightful new comedy from the creators of Gilmore Girls—where the main character, Miriam “Midge” Maisel, is stuck in front of a judge who’s threatening to hold her in contempt for disrespecting him in court. Faced with having to choose between staying behind bars and not being able…
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Blake Lively’s made a habit of picking roles post-Gossip Girl that have required her to transform in some way. In 2016’s The Shallows, she swapped her signature glam aesthetic for a sandy wetsuit and beach waves. In All I See Is You, which premiered last month, Lively dyed her hair chestnut brown—a far cry from…
Read moreWarning: major spoilers ahead. This weekend, the television gods smiled down on us by making all nine episodes of the second season of Netflix’s Stranger Things available to fans—just in time for Halloween. If you haven’t had contact with the outside world since Friday and Saturday’s parties because you’ve been glued to your couch, you’re…
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PHOTO: Michael Yarish/Warner Bros. Sheldon Cooper‘s descent into groomzilla-land took approximately 20 minutes before that reign came to a much-needed conclusion on tonight’s Big Bang Theory. While his obsession over the perfect date wedding date was totally in line with his personality, the need to spend almost an entire episode on it—or the meaning behind…
Read moreThe recent Wonder Woman film is feminist in its DNA. It’s directed by a woman (Patty Jenkins), has a strong female lead (Gal Gadot, who plays Diana Prince/Wonder Woman), and features a slew of women both in front of and behind the camera. This is a huge reason why the film resonated so much with…
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