At the Oscars, a classic story of art rebuking commerce – The Irish Times

For star-struck podcaster Scott Galloway, the Vanity Fair Oscar party on Sunday conjured “the most aspirational environment I’ve ever been in in my life”. I certainly felt aspirational. I aspired to have fun in the beautiful, curvaceous new wing of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art – before my high heels began to hurt. … Read more

Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Cathy 2.0, and I want my Wuthering Heights sequel – The Irish Times

Passionate sparring, deliciously delivered lines, an inspiring female lead, blood on the screen. It all spells obvious sequel potential. But enough about Sam Raimi’s Send Help. This weekend brings the release of “Wuthering Heights”, as the title is styled, and, with months of enjoyably derision-tinged chatter about the Emily Brontë adaptation all but guaranteeing a … Read more

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi’s Transformations

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Wuthering Heights,” now playing in theaters. “Wuthering Heights” director Emerald Fennell gave her hair and makeup department head, Sian Miller, a mood board of imagery featuring architecture, landscape, fashion, film, photography, food and kids with grass-stained knees. The vision board gave Miller a good idea of the vibe … Read more

Margot Robbie speaks out about Wuthering Heights scene ‘more shocking than Saltburn’s bathtub’

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights adaptation has been called out for its raunchy scenes, and now, Margot Robbie has come out about it. The flick that is based on the Emily Bronte book of the same name, stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, but features a moment that’s steamier than Saltburn’s most controversial scene. Saltburn was … Read more

‘I really didn’t imagine a film career for myself’ – The Irish Times

Alison Oliver leaps up from the couch and merrily yells out my name. We had both, apparently, been wondering if, four years ago, I was the first journalist ever to interview her. So it seems. “Your name just popped up and I thought, yeah, I think that was the first one,” she says, bubbling. I … Read more

Charli XCX’s Wuthering Heights album is banging, bonkers and better than Brat – The Irish Times

Wuthering Heights      Artist: Charli XCX Label: Sony If there was a moment when the sun finally went down on Charli XCX’s Brat summer, it was at Malahide Castle in Dublin last June, when the newly crowned pop superstar delivered an underwhelming and bloodless performance. Brat’s official colour scheme was a … Read more

What Irish cinemagoers made of Wuthering Heights

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Less 120 Days of Sodom, more Carry on Heathcliff – The Irish Times

“Wuthering Heights”      Director: Emerald Fennell Cert: 15A Starring: Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi, Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, Martin Clunes, Ewan Mitchell Running Time: 2 hrs 16 mins By the time we learned that Warner Bros was to render the title of Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” within quotation marks, the … Read more

Lupita Nyong’o, Odessa A’zion and the Norman Nobrains of racially controversial casting – The Irish Times

We are, for the foreseeable future, stuck with right and left yelling about racially controversial casting on TV and in films. The “perfect harmony” promised by that famous Coke commercial from 1971 will not be with us anytime soon. When a person of colour is cast in a role normally allotted to a white person, … Read more