Beau

American rapper, singer, and songwriter Azealia Banks took to her Instagram Stories and posted a rant over Matty Heally, calling him a ‘full-on incel’ and also questioning his knowledge about the industry itself. The 31-year-old singer shared text posts and voice messages mocking the 34-year-old frontman of 1975, in which she ripped off his band’s music. She also included several lewd sexual comments about him and Taylor Swift. Her tirade appears to have been inspired by criticism Healy made of racist comments made to…

DAVID SAVED TINA(Photo Credit: Bang Showbiz) Tina Turner credited her rumoured one-time lover David Bowie with helping salvage her career. The ‘Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll’, whose death aged 83 was announced on Wednesday (24.05.23) after a six-decade career, told how the late ‘Ziggy Stardust’ icon helped her back on her feet after she was left feeling lost and isolated following her divorce from her violent, controlling husband Ike Turner. Tina Turner told Female First in a resurfaced interview from 2004: “In 1983 David…

Film: Beau is AfraidCast: Joaquin Phoenix, Patti LuPone, Amy Ryan, Parker Posey, Nathan Lane, Armen Nahapetian, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Richard KindDirector: Ari AsterRating: 3/5Runtime: 179 min Beau (Joaquin Phoenix) is a paranoid schizophrenic given to hallucinations. This film is basically about his attempt to get to his mother who lives in a different city and it’s an epic odyssey of wildly fluctuating moments of esoteric and quixotic drama, the likes of which we’ve never seen before. And it’s…

Ari Aster, the American writer-director of Hereditary and Midsommar, describes his sprawlingly picaresque third feature as a three-hour “anxiety comedy” – an archly surreal “odyssey of sorts” that is also an “elaborate Jewish joke” inspired by Greek plays and Kafka-esque paranoia. A rambling, labyrinthine, navel-gazing romp, it has narrative echoes of Tristram Shandy (both Sterne’s novel and Michael Winterbottom’s film) and an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink aesthetic reminiscent of the chaotic Cinerama comedy It’s a Mad,…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThere’s a comfort to be found in the savage neuroses of Beau Is Afraid – if you think it’s hell to live inside of your own head, imagine what it’s like to live in Ari Aster’s. Aster’s film takes the so-traumatic-it’s-funny sequences of his previous work – Toni Collette frothing at the mouth in Hereditary, or Midsommar’s bad boyfriend going up in flames – and spins them into a…

Human remains found last month on an abandoned property in Santa Monica have been identified as the body of a tech founder and chief executive who was missing for a year and a half, the Los Angeles County coroner’s office said. Beau Mann, 39, was last seen Nov. 30, 2021, at a convenience store in the 11000 block of Ventura Boulevard in Studio City, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. He had gotten into an Uber outside a 7-Eleven store near the L.A. offices of Sober Grid, a community platform he founded for…

Screengrab via YouTube Actress Parker Posey recently revealed what it was like filming the daring sex scene in Beau Is Afraid with her co-star Joaquin Phoenix and also opened up about the vulnerabilities that came with that moment.  The film follows a worrisome man named Beau Wassermann (Phoenix), who attempts to confront his fears and find his way home after his mother tragically dies. Beau is Afraid also stars Patti LuPone, Amy Ryan, Nathan Lane, Kylie Rogers, Denis Ménochet, Zoe Lister-Jones, Richard Kind,…

It might be tempting to call Ari Aster’s new movie Beau Is Afraid a therapy session. It clearly addresses the writer-director’s parental anxieties, allowing him to vent and visualize a series of dreams-turned-nightmares related to guilt, repression and inherited trauma. (It is an A24 sort-of horror movie, after all.) But ultimately, describing Beau as therapy would be inaccurate, or at least incomplete: therapy sessions are rarely this long.Including its end credits (which technically run over the lingering final scene of…

Image via A24 If you’ve found the time to head out and check out Ari Aster’s lengthy third feature film Beau is Afraid, you’ll know that it has certainly turned out to be… something. While the internet is hard at work breaking down all of the film’s messaging, both blatant and subliminal, it turns out that the man in the director’s chair isn’t so sure himself of what exactly he ended up creating.  Many folks who have seen the film would argue that Beau is Afraid arrives somewhere at the crossroads between…

Image via A24 Right now, director Ari Aster’s Beau is Afraid is on a slow rollout across the country. The film led by Joaquin Phoenix is a bizarre adventure which goes to some surreal places, and, naturally for an idea like it, it took a long time to finally achieve its current, viewable form. Aster reveals the fact in a new article published by the A.Frame digital magazine from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He says the first draft came about around 11 years ago, was very different and only…