The theme of the 2026 Oscars was “humanity.” The walking caviar bar suggested otherwise. Here is everything writer Rachel Handler saw and overheard behind the scenes of Hollywood’s biggest awards ceremony.
went to the “human” themed oscars and wrote about it
had lunch with kate hudson in the east village and we got into it — her oscar nom, almost famous memories, the rom-coms she’s done and won’t do, kurt & goldie, and getting coffee at the strip club with chris robinson in the early aughts
Kate Hudson, 2026 Oscar nominee, still wants to make rom-coms that last. “People think, ‘We can do that.’ Same formula, same feeling, but less money, newer talent … I don’t think they’re the same genre.”
NYC theatergoers are arriving in droves to judge Jacob Elordi and a skin wall that’s allegedly making the Brontë sisters roll in their graves. Vulture’s Rachel Handler visited cinemas in the city to talk to the first Wuthering Heights audiences.
As a quarter-century (and maybe democracy) comes to a close, a film and TV trope is back: All the cool girls are walking into bodies of water — Rose Byrne, Tessa Thompson, the women on ‘Hacks.’ Is this the defining visual metaphor of 2025?
My wife and I just read this while rundown out loud — its fucking hilarious and EXACTLY the reviews I needed www.vulture.com/article/netf...
Netflix’s Christmas movies are eerily normal this year. ‘My Secret Santa,’ ‘Champagne Problems,’ ‘A Merry Little Ex-Mas,’ and ‘Jingle Bell Heist’ are all workmanlike, occasionally competent. They appear to have been directed. Something’s different.
Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody have entered their Elder Seinfeld era. On their new advice podcast about nothing, ‘Don’t Listen to Us,’ the actor couple argue, make up, weep, and laugh. “And some people like it.”
talked to jennifer lawrence and lynne ramsay about die my love, postpartum depression, filming nude scenes while pregnant, and murder podcasts: www.vulture.com/article/jenn...
The actress says she had no problem performing a nude sex scene for director Lynn Ramsay while she was pregnant. Watching her movie postpartum, however, was harder to do.
The late Diane Keaton, the star of ‘Baby Boom,’ ‘Father of the Bride,’ and ‘Something’s Gotta Give’ breaks down the genius of her longtime collaborator. Republished from 2020.
Joachim Trier made ‘Sentimental Value’ — a movie about a bad dad who happens to be a director — shortly after becoming a father himself: ‘You’re right, I am exorcising something,’ he tells Rachel Handler.
A Rachel Handler Instant Classic
"it commits the cardinal sin of heterosexuality: Don’t ever tell a man he’s stacked *and* his podcast is good. This line may singlehandedly fast-track the downfall of civilization."
www.vulture.com/article/tayl...
By simply and innocently pressing play on Taylor Swift’s “Wood,” I was forced to choke down a lumber truck’s worth of information about Travis Kelce’s ‘Wood.’
Here’s what I now know against my will.
The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.
WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!
‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ was like ‘Challengers’ for teenagers, with far-reaching incestuous undertones. Thank God it’s not actually ending.
www.vulture.com/article/and-... “I will miss it desperately, in the same way that I made fun of and now miss the dysfunctional concept of American democracy.” @rachelhandler.bsky.social
This should be offered unpaywalled as a balm for our wounded psyches. A must-read. Pure art.
‘And Just Like That …’ was a state of mind, and that mind is in a coma. It was a place to go for 44 minutes a week, a safe and necessary container for our wild and dangerous national id, which will now roam unchecked and destroy us all.
wrote an obituary for “and just like that…,” which was, among so many other things, a container for our wild and dangerous national id, which will now roam unchecked and destroy us all www.vulture.com/article/and-...
I profiled Jennifer Love Hewitt, who was vulnerable & honest as we talked about surviving the early aughts, the ongoing conversation about her body instead of her work, her anxiety over returning to I Know What You Did Last Summer & a lot more www.vulture.com/article/jenn...
Jennifer Love Hewitt faced intense sexism early in her career. It almost kept her from returning to the franchise that made her famous, ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer.’
nadia melliti won best actress at cannes! she is astonishing and this was her first acting role ever. she’d never even been in a school play. www.vulture.com/article/the-...
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thank you 🥰
my final cannes dispatch 🫡
