Taylor Swift has left the building. In Portugal anyway – but it seems the European country and its capital has left its mark on the record-breaking star.
17.05.2024 - 12:25 / variety.com
Jessica Kiang (Baby) It’s cold outside. Strings of gaudy rainbow lights twinkle from gables.
In cozy living rooms, grandmothers and great aunts doze in their chairs while middle-aged siblings bicker and booze it up around the dining table. Little kids squirm in makeshift beds trying to stay awake for Santa, while truculent teenagers sneak out into the suburban night to do secret teenager things.
Ok, so there are no chestnuts roasting on an open fire — instead there is a salad bowl full to the gluttonous brim with red and green M&Ms — but in almost every other respect Tyler Taormina‘s delightful stocking-stuffer “Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point” is as alive to the domesticated magic of holiday tradition as any Nat King Cole seasonal classic. And probably even more so: Taormina’s fondly multivalent, Millennial-Norman-Rockwell perspective incorporates a child’s experience of the holiday, overlaid with a teen’s and a parent’s and a grandparent’s and a cousin’s and an in-law’s and so on.
It feels as though all his Christmases have come at once. It is sometime in the early 2000s and the chattering ensemble that represents four sprawling generations of the Italian-American Balsano family, is loosely centered on one of its many tangled branches.
Teenager Emily (Matilda Fleming) is at That Age and engaged in an unexplained war of sulky attrition with her mother Kathleen (Maria Dizzia), while her father (Ben Shenkman) drily steels himself for an evening with the in-laws as they drive to Kathleen’s family home on Long Island. En route they pass by a police cruiser in which the world’s two most ineffectual traffic cops, played by Michael Cera and Gregg Turkington, sit in a silence that is loaded, as we’ll later discover, with
.Taylor Swift has left the building. In Portugal anyway – but it seems the European country and its capital has left its mark on the record-breaking star.
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What kind of Christmas movie do you get when your director’s inspirations are early-90s Nickelodeon live-action shows and 1960s European cinema? In Tyler Taormina‘s case, the answer is Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point.
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Katcy Stephan Bleecker Street and ShivHans have partnered to tak U.S. rights to the cosmic love story “Love Me,” written and directed by Sam and Andy Zuchero, and starring Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun. Bleecker Street will co-release the film with ShivHans Pictures, with a U.S.
tribute.After a two-month hiatus, the Eras Tour picked up again for its European leg with a run of shows in the City of Love, and as promised, Kelce made it out to support his gal. He’s currently based in California to shoot a Ryan Murphy show before going back to NFL training, but was spotted in the crowd .
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Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor NBC is increasingly throwing the ball to the NFL. The Comcast-backed media conglomerate said Monday that it had purchased the rights to broadcast an extra NFL game on Saturday, December 21, presumably adding a bigger audience to the last shopping weekend before Christmas. NBC already has the rights to broadcast a game on December 22 as part of its “Sunday Night Football” lineup.
William Earl administrator The first half of Season 3 of “Bridgerton” is almost here, and fans are in a frenzy waiting to return to the Regency-era drama. The first looks of the show have teased the glamor and romance audiences are used to, as well as put a spotlight on Penelope (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin (Luke Newton), whose romance will be central to the third season of “Bridgerton.” Variety spoke with showrunner Jess Brownell — who took over from Chris Van Dusen — about the biggest burning questions fans have going into the new season. Season 3 introduces a new love interest for Penelope in Lord Debling (Sam Phillips), who isn’t in the books. What made you decide to add him into the equation? We’ve watched poor Penelope on the sidelines for two seasons, and I’ve always felt like Penelope is eligible if she would only work on her confidence.
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