Booksmart, Cousins shows how cinema has broadened its horizons, telling a wider range of stories from a more inclusive group of filmmakers than before. That can only be a good thing for cinema, but it also presents Cousins with a minor obstacle. Part of the joy of his film essays on cinema is seeing the breadth of his knowledge on cinema history and how he has championed directors, especially women, who the mainstream ignored and forgot. Now he s starting to talk about an era where the mainstream has begun to mirror his taste, which has made it much harder for Cousins to showcase unheralded talents and provide hot takes on overlooked films. The new essay is full of movies that played well at film festivals, with most dropping at Cannes. There are fewer surprising choices.
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The rehabilitation of Brad Pitt is finally complete
Forgiven by Jen, awarded joint custody of his children, sober, content, and highly respected, Pitt appears to have found peace at last
Brad Pitt, gazing at his future of sober contentment
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It is a good time to be Brad Pitt. To that observation, you might counter, “Quite literally any time spent existing as the beautiful, charming, multi-millionaire, Oscar-winning Brad Pitt is a good week; shut up”, and you would be correct. But even by the standards of being Brad Pitt, it is a good time to be Brad Pitt.
First, the news that matters: Jennifer Aniston still likes him. Since Pitt’s split from Angelina Jolie in 2016, every single person on earth has been scanning the news daily – Google alerts, setting up beacons on hillsides, a rota of nightwatchpeople, the lot – for signs that the turn of the century’s golden couple might, maybe, perhaps, recouple?