This year s spread assembles 11 vibrant, wildly different stars seizing their moment in 2024 as the hottest actors of the moment posed for the Hollywood issue.
Paul Joyce, a filmmaker, photographer and artist, and The Arb's very own arts & media correspondent, lets loose on Bradley Cooper's Maestro. In my decidedly less than humble opinion, the only real reason for Maestro, Bradley Cooper's inconsequential biopic, getting close to an awards envelope, is the astonishing power and charisma of his subject's ability to haunt us from his grave - Leonard "Lenny" Bernstein. Here the quote that immediately comes to mind ends with "…all sound and fury, signifying nothing." However, I would certainly not go so far as to claim his film, Maestro, is told to us, in the words of William Shakespeare, by an idiot, for Cooper is an accomplished actor and at his best a competent director; it's rather than in taking on both jobs he has diluted his talents so severely as to render the whole enterprise little more than a miserable pastiche. Why am I being so harsh on a film which has some considerable highs along