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Straits Times
4 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Straits Times
At The Movies: I Know What You Did Last Summer doesn't hook, Sharp Corner is a slow burn
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox (From left) Sarah Pidgeon, Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King and Tyriq Withers in I Know What You Did Last Summer. I Know What You Did Last Summer (M18) 111 minutes, opens on July 31 ★★☆☆☆ The story: Five friends are stalked by a killer a year after they caused a fatal car accident and conspired to cover up their involvement. I Know What You Did Last Summer is best understood by first remembering what the high-school grads in the 1997 movie of the same title did 27 summers earlier, which was to inspire a Hollywood horror franchise with their bad decision to conceal a hit-and-run. This feature fourquel remake-update returns to the fictional North Carolina fishing town of Southport. Another generation of cavorting juveniles has again cost a driver his life, and a hooded vigilante is chasing down the four rich twits (Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King and Tyriq Withers) plus their working-class pal (Sarah Pidgeon) to harpoon them with his fishing hook. Pretty faces and privilege cannot save them. Their only hope is to seek help from the two millennial idol survivors of the original massacre. Freddie Prinze Jr's Ray Bronson advises them against fleeing to the Bahamas. If his reference to the 1998 sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer is not sufficiently self-reflexive, there is Jennifer Love Hewitt's Julie James demanding: 'What did you do last summer?' Top stories Swipe. Select. Stay informed. Singapore MHA to support HSA's crackdown on Kpod abusers and help in treatment of offenders: Shanmugam Business S'pore's Q2 total employment rises, but infocomm and professional services sectors see more job cuts Singapore Fewer than 1 in 5 people noticed suspicious items during MHA's social experiments Asia Powerful 8.8-magnitude quake in Russia's far east causes tsunami; Japan, Hawaii order evacuations Singapore Migrant workers who gave kickbacks to renew work passes were conservancy workers at AMK Town Council Business Seatrium to pay $168m to Brazilian authorities, $73m to Singapore authorities to settle corruption case Singapore Man charged with having 320 vape pods and over 70 vapes meant for sale in car at Bugis mall Singapore Escape, discover, connect: Where new memories are made American writer-director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge, 2022) winks at the film series and its slasher genre formula as the terrified victims continually run into dead ends and locked doors. How dumb such tropes have come to be, nearly five decades after their introduction in Halloween (1978). But the movie offers neither reinvention nor ingenious kills. The intrigue of the bogeyman's identity aside, it is a jokey bloodbath consequently just as dumb, although rarely dull. Hot take: Self-aware humour is the feeble hook for a 1990s teen-scream revival. Sharp Corner (M18) 111 minutes, opens on July 31 ★★★☆☆ Ben Foster in Sharp Corner. PHOTO: SHAW ORGANISATION The story: Family man Josh (Ben Foster) moves into a woodland residence with his wife Rachel (Cobie Smulders) and young son (William Kosovic), and becomes fixated on the auto collisions recurring outside their front yard. The first time a car skids by, sending a tyre crashing through the window on the couple's first night in their new dream house, they dismiss the traumatic experience as a freak incident. But soon, another vehicle crashes, then another. The Canadian-Irish co-production Sharp Corner is not an episode of sci-fi TV series The Twilight Zone (1959 to 2020). A sharp road corner is the logical explanation for the fatalities. The property filmed in Nova Scotia sits at a blind spot, and Canadian writer-director Jason Buxton's (Blackbird, 2012) adaptation of a Russell Wangersky short story is a psychological thriller about Josh himself going round the bend, so to speak, in his spiralling obsession to save future victims. Only by being a hero can he prove his manhood, he believes. What is he, after all, except an unmotivated IT project manager with a paunch and a balding pate, married to a capable, attractive psychotherapist? American actor Foster, long a hair-trigger presence in crime dramas like Alpha Dog (2006) and Hell Or High Water (2016), delivers an uncharacteristically internalised performance of existential unease in a disquieting study on masculine insecurity. In his search for purpose, Josh begins to furtively miss work for first aid training. More and more it consumes his life, until he loses everything and is left alone at home just waiting and hoping for – and eventually orchestrating – the next accident. Hot take: Such are the calamitous consequences of bad feng shui.
Vogue
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Vogue
Not to Be Dramatic, But the Paparazzi Are Ruining Movies for All of Us
Obviously, paparazzi taking pictures of TV and movie stars while they film is nothing new (especially when they're doing it in New York City, in broad daylight), but thanks to the ubiquity of Instagram, X, and every other social media app slowly sapping years off of my lifespan, it feels like there's been a shift in just how widely those pictures are disseminated—and how quickly they're absorbed by the Discourse, for better or for worse. Like, I'm as excited as you would imagine any Vogue employee to be about The Devil Wears Prada 2, but I'm not going to lie: Already knowing what Anne Hathaway's Andy Sachs wears in the movie is kind of letting the wind out of my sails. I want to imagine Andy's grown-up, post-Runway world for as long as I can until the movie's actually in theaters, okay? Ditto for Ryan Murphy's upcoming John-John and Caroline Bessette-Kennedy series, actually. Yes, I'm devouring every paparazzi photo of a blonded-up Sarah Pidgeon like candy, but I'm feeling just as mildly nauseous and overstimulated in the aftermath as I do when I polish off an entire bag of gummy peach rings and call it 'lunch.' One could argue that if I really wanted to discourage the spread of these spoilery pap shots, I could simply stop trawling Getty Images and SplashNews and republishing them—but come on. We in fashion and entertainment media rely on the shadowy paparazzo economy to do our jobs. What I do think would be nice, however, is if paps respected the bounds of intellectual property just a little bit more, and stuck mostly to haunting the Meatpacking District, looking for drunk, overexposed celebutantes doing embarrassing stuff on their way out of clubs, as per tradition. Just let me look forward to something on this cruel mortal coil, for God's sake!
Daily Mail
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Kennedy fans have mixed reaction to latest images of Sarah Pidgeon as Carolyn Bessette for new movie
There is a new movie coming out about the Kennedys. American Love Story will follow JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy's whirlwind romance as they became a power couple then tabloid fodder. The couple tragically passed away in a plane crash in 1999 when she was 33 and he was 38 but there is still massive intrigue about the two. Sarah Pidgeon, 29, is playing Carolyn in the new project. On Tuesday a new look at Sarah as Carolyn was shared with mixed reviews on if she nailed the look. Some fans on Reddit said she was 'spot on with those big eyes' while others felt her hair was not 'blonde enough' to play the glam queen of New York. Many wondered if Sarah was wearing a wig or if she dyed her hair blonde. The movie premieres in February 2026 Pidgeon was seen filming on the street in New York City. The star wore a black turtleneck with slacks and a black purse over her shoulder. Her long blonde hair was worn down in a casual style as she had on brown eye makeup and red lipstick on. Her bails were short as she did not appear to have her wedding rings on. The star was coming out of the subway exit in the midtown area of Manhattan. Carolyn was a fashion publicist who worked for Calvin Klein until her 1996 marriage to JFK Jr. The couple, along with her older sister Lauren, died in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard in 1999. Bessette was born in White Plains, New York and had two older sisters, twins Lauren and Lisa. The star with the French background attended Boston University's School of Education, graduating in 1988 with a degree in elementary education. Bessette briefly attempted a modeling career, but it did not pan out. On Tuesday a new look at Sarah as Carolyn was shared with mixed reviews on if she nailed the look During her career at Calvin Klein, she went from being a saleswoman to becoming the director of publicity for the company's flagship store in Manhattan. Then she worked with Klein's high-profile clients like Annette Bening and Diane Sawyer. Bessette first met Kennedy in 1992, while he was dating actress Daryl Hannah. Bessette and Kennedy began dating in 1994, she then moved into Kennedy's Tribeca loft in the summer of 1995, and the couple became engaged later that year. Kennedy and Bessette wed on September 21, 1996 on the remote Georgia island of Cumberland. The couple honeymooned in Turkey. She got a ton of media attention and there were comparisons to her mother-in-law, former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Her long blonde hair was worn down in a casual style as she had on brown eye makeup and red lipstick on. Her bails were short as she did not appear to have her wedding rings on. The star was coming out of the subway exit in the midtown area of Manhattan There was talk the Kennedys were experiencing marital problems and contemplating divorce in the months preceding their deaths. In his book, The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years, Klein claimed that the couple's problems reportedly stemmed from Bessette-Kennedy's difficulty dealing with the media attention. Bessette-Kennedy died on July 16, 1999, along with her husband and older sister Lauren, when the light plane John Jr. was piloting crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the western coast of Martha's Vineyard. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the probable cause of the crash was: 'The pilot's failure to maintain control of the airplane during a descent over water at night, which was a result of spatial disorientation. Factors in the accident were haze and the dark night.' After a five-day search, the wreckage was discovered in the late afternoon of July 21. The bodies were recovered from the ocean floor by Navy divers and taken by motorcade to the county medical examiner's office, where autopsies revealed that the crash victims had died upon impact. All tested negative for alcohol and drugs. The new movie has several other Kennedy characters in it. Jackie O - also known as Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis - is being portrayed by Naomi Watts, 56. Onassis was a writer, book editor, and socialite who served as the first lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963, as the wife of President John F. Kennedy. Jackie died in 1994 at the age of 64 in New York City. Blonde actress Watts sported a brown wig as she transformed into Jackie. Watts was filming a scene in a park on Monday afternoon in New York City. Also in the movie is Paul Kelly, who will play Jackie's son John F. Kennedy Jr. Grace Gummer, who is playing Jackie's daughter Caroline Kennedy, was also seen playing in the park with two little girls that are playing Caroline's daughters Rose and Tatiana. JFK Jr's ex-girlfriend Daryl Hannah is being played by Dree Hemingway, 37, whose mother is actress Mariel Hemingway. She gained attention playing the lead in director Sean Baker's feature Starlet. Dree has since become known for her high-profile fashion campaigns and her extensive work in independent film.
Gizmodo
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
The Ending of ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer' Changed Weeks Before Release
Filmmakers love to tinker with their movies until the last possible second. A nip here, a tweak there, change the sound, the levels, etc. But, eventually, the studios need a finished movie so it can be sent to theaters, screened for press, etc. This week's new horror film, I Know What You Did Last Summer, had tinkering too, but it was even closer to release and more impactful to the story than most other movies. In fact, the entire ending of the movie flipped on its head mere weeks before coming to theaters. Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, star Madelyn Cline revealed she was asked to come back in June to shoot new scenes that changed the the film, Cline's character, Danica, and her best friend, Ava (Chase Sui Wonders), attempt to escape the killer on a boat. Of course, they soon realize the killer is on that boat in the person of their friend Stevie (Sarah Pidgeon). Stevie appears to kill Danica, who falls into the water, at which point Ava flags down Ray (Freddie Prinze Jr.), who 'shoots' Stevie before coming back to shore, and, well, you know the rest. After that, though, we see Danica wash up on the beach and get taken to a hospital, where she and Ava reunite to bask in the glory of survival. But, it seems, that scene on the beach as well as the hospital scenes were shot after test screenings made it clear they didn't want Danica to die. 'I only got the news that I was coming back about two-and-a-half weeks ago,' Cline told the trade on June 28. 'Yeah, we shot all those very, very end scenes about two weeks ago.' Having seen the movie, it certainly feels added on. Danica surviving doesn't make a ton of sense, and the speed with which she and Ava reunite and haphazardly throw around the revelation that Stevie was not killed by Ray, which basically means they are still in danger, is unexplored and tacked on. But also, Danica is an awesome character, so if we do get to come back to this story, it's nice that she'll be there again. For more on these reshoots, including how an additional scene was shot to set up the film's big second act cameo (here's a hint: that's a photo of it at the top of this article), head over to the Hollywood Reporter. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what's next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.
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Vogue
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
Sarah Pidgeon—Ryan Murphy's CBK—Has Actually Gone Blonde
It was the camera test that launched a thousand think pieces (not to mention TikToks, Instagram carousels, and a pair of stories on this very website): On June 13, Ryan Murphy's production company shared images from his upcoming American Love Story series, giving the world a first glimpse at Paul Anthony Kelly as John F. Kennedy Jr. and Sarah Pidegon as Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy. BrosNYC / BACKGRID The internet's reaction was mixed. While some on social media scrutinized the costuming, Bessette-Kennedy's colorist Brad Johns suggested to Vogue that Pidgeon, who is a natural brunette, had been turned a shade of blonde that felt 'too 2024.' In the wake of the backlash, Murphy went on the record with Variety, sharing that a style advisory board had been put in place to make sure the show got everything right (and that Pidgeon's blonde in those shots was, in fact, a wig). Then, last night, almost a month to the day since the test shots were released, Pidgeon appeared at the Los Angeles premiere of her new film, I Know What You Did Last Summer, with a surprise: a new dye job. No Daenerys Targaryen coloring here. In New York City on March the Los Angeles primere of I Know What You Did Last Summer on July colorist Kari Hill has confirmed to Vogue exclusively that this time, it's not a wig. 'Going from dark brown to blonde is always a journey,' Hill says, noting that she used Schwarzkopf Professional products to get the look. 'The transformation took approximately 18 hours in total, spread over two days to ensure the health and integrity of Sarah's hair throughout the process.' (When reached for a statement on the change, Ryan Murphy declined to comment.) Hill describes Pidgeon's new color as 'a soft, natural root that melts into multi-tonal blondes, with buttery, golden highlights and subtle lowlights woven throughout to create a beautifully blended, sunlit effect.' And buttery it is—an important hue in the world of Bessette-Kennedy and Johns, who made butter his signature shade.
