Cate Blanchett
Cate Blanchett Breaks Out Her Best Dance Moves in Sparks’ New Music Video: Watch
The actor stars in the visual treatment for "The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte." Cate Blanchett Breaks Out Her Best Dance Moves in Sparks’ New Music Video: Watch Eddie Fu
Cate Blanchett Says Cancel Culture Allows History to Repeat Itself
In a recent interview, the actor defended TÁR, in which she plays a successful conductor accused of abuse. Cate Blanchett Says Cancel Culture Allows History to Repeat Itself Abby Jones
Composer Hildur Guðnadóttir on Creating the Music You Do (or Don’t) Notice for Cate Blanchett and Todd Field in Tár
Little Children director Todd Field’s return to film, the acclaimed drama Tár, was worth the wait. A haunting descent into the psyche of a composer/conductor (Cate Blanchett) whose ambitions get derailed by her past and present foibles, the film presents a lush soundscape that includes many layers, from the original composition that Lydia Tár is struggling to create, to the lush symphonies of Mahler, to the uneasy underlying score created by Oscar-winning composer Hildur Guðnadóttir (Joker). Field brought Hildur onto the project very early on — “I think I was like the second person to join the project after Cate,” she tells Consequence via Zoom — and she says that when she first read the script, she felt like the writer/director had authentically captured a lot about the modern-day world o...
Cate Blanchett Is a Conductor on the Edge in Trailer for Todd Field’s TÁR: Watch
Todd Field has readied TÁR, his first film in 16 years, and he’s enlisted none other than Cate Blanchett for the occasion. Watch Blanchett play Lydia Tár, a famous but floundering composer, in the film’s first trailer below. The fictional Tár, as the trailer explains, is a talented composer who rises to become the first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra. Despite her success, the film makes clear that she struggles to write. “I keep hearing something,” she explains of the issue, as the clip shows her devolving into paranoia. Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss, Sophie Kauer, Julian Glover, Allan Corduner, and Mark Stron round out the cast of TÁR. The film marks writer and director Field’s first project since 2006’s Little Children, and it contains original mu...
Trailer for Documentary Now! Reveals Stone-Throwing, Monkey-Loving, Art-Making Season 4: Watch
Just under a month away from the return of the hit mockumentary series, IFC has revealed a trailer for Season 4 53 of Documentary Now!. Coming from co-creator Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Seth Meyers, and Rhys Thomas, the new season promises insights into the strange worlds of stone throwing competitions, monkey-obsessed documentarians, and the styles of hairdressers in a small coastal village. Along for the ride is an all-star cast including Alexander Skarsgård (The Northman), Nicholas Braun (Succession), August Diehl (Inglourious Basterds), Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes), John Rhys-Davies (The Lord of the Rings trilogy), and even Tom Jones. The newcomers join a number of returning Documentary Now! alum, including Armisen himself and Cate Blanchett, as well as Helen Mirre...
Guillermo del Toro Turns From Gory Monsters to Gauzy Film Noir with Nightmare Alley: Review
The Pitch: When we first meet Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper), he’s burying a body under the floorboards of a country home and setting it aflame, burning his past and his previous life to the ground, presumably to start anew. Eventually, his wanderings lead him to a run-down carnival deep in the sticks, where he quickly ingratiates himself with the freaks and geeks who populate it. It’s not long before he sees the flim-flams underpinning each of their acts — particularly the mentalism of fortune teller Zeena (Toni Collette) and her drunken husband, Pete (David Strathairn), who correctly divines the identity of objects with the help of verbal codes — and wants in on the action. Stars in his eyes, Stan makes his way to the big city with young, virginal carny Molly (Rooney Mara) in tow...
Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline to Star in Alfonso Cuarón’s New Thriller Series Disclaimer
Alfonso Cuarón — the Mexican film director behind the Academy Award-winning Roma — is prepping a new thriller series for Apple called Disclaimer. Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline have just been announced as the show’s first confirmed stars. Based on Renee Knight’s 2015 novel of the same name, Disclaimer follows a successful documentary journalist named Catherine Ravenscroft (Blanchett), whose work focuses on uncovering clandestine wrongdoings of long-respected institutions. A mysterious novel written by a widower (Kline) appears on Ravenscroft’s bedside table, which — much to her horror — reveals that she’s the main character in a story she’d rather everyone forget. In addition to directing, Cuarón will serve as the screenwriter while executive producing under his Esperanto Filmoj ...
Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley Gets First Trailer: Watch
Guillermo del Toro has offered the first look at his upcoming psychological thriller, Nightmare Alley, which stars Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Willem Dafoe, Toni Collette, Richard Jenkins, Ron Perlman, Rooney Mara, and Tim Blake Nelson. Watch the newly revealed teaser trailer below. An adaptation of William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 novel of the same name, the film tells the story of an ambitious con-man (Cooper) who partners with a female mentalist (Blanchett) to swindle Chicago’s social elite. Nightmare Alley is set to hit theaters on December 17th, 2021. The film will be distributed by Fox Searchlight, which previously partnered with del Toro on his Oscar-winning 2017 film, The Shape of Water. Advertisement Related Video [embedded content] Share this: You Deserve to Make Money Even Whe...
Top 25 TV Shows of 2020
Our Annual Report continues as we reveal the Top 25 TV Shows of 2020. Stay tuned for more awards, lists, and articles in the days and weeks to come about the best music, film, and TV of the year. If you’ve missed any part of our Annual Report, you can check out all the coverage here. It feels strange to say, but television has never felt more important than it did in 2020. With the ensuing COVID-19 pandemic all but trapping us in our homes, the medium has served as an essential, if not comprehensive, escape for viewers worldwide. This notion became clear with Tiger King, a show that nabbed record eyes (or so Netflix says) in the budding days of lockdown. The world became so scary, we looked to a bizarre tale of over-the-top zoo owners and assassination attempts for comfort. With...
Nigerian doctor named one of TIME’s Most Influential People in the world
TIME named Nigerian physician Tunji Funsho to the 2020 TIME100, its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. The full list and related tributes are available now at time.com/time100, and Mr Funsho’s TIME100 profile is available here. The list, now in its seventeenth year, recognizes the activism, innovation and achievement of the world’s most influential individuals. Mr Funsho, a cardiologist based in Lagos, Nigeria, is the first Rotary member to receive this honour for the organisation’s work to eradicate polio, having played an essential role in ensuring Africa’s certification as wild polio-free in August of 2020. “I’m honored to be recognized by TIME for my part in ensuring that no child in Africa will ever again be paralyzed by wild polio, a disease that once disabl...
Top 10 TV Shows of 2020 (So Far)
Our Mid-Year Report comes to a captivating conclusion today as we reveal the Top 10 TV Shows of 2020 (So Far). In case you missed it, be sure to revisit our previous mid-year lists for top albums, songs, metal albums, and films. Television’s always been there. There’s a reliability to the boob tube that gives us solace day in and day out. It’s the reliable notion that no matter how awful things get in real life, you can always eject, curl up on the couch, and escape into a story. Well, rest assured, television has been working overtime in 2020. As billions of people across the world stay locked inside — we can only hope — the small screen has become less of a life line and more of a permanent member of the family. Fortunately for all of us, we’ve been living in a time of Too Much Televisio...
Cate Blanchett’s Style Is Undeniably Elegant, but These 13 Looks Surpassed Our Expectations
Cate Blanchett has always been a minimal style queen. Even in the ’90s, when fellow up-and-coming actors were finding their fashion bearings, Cate had already mastered her personal style. The reason she always looks so elegant on the red carpet is because of a winning combination: her go-to colour palette that complements her skin, hair, and eyes perfectly, a careful balance of classic gowns and casual suited looks, and consistently poised poses — she definitely knows her angles. Cate is a fan of classic black-and-white looks, and we can’t blame her; it’s the most timeless colour combination to grace the red carpets. When she isn’t in a sophisticated monochromatic outfit, she isn’t afraid to experiment with frothy floral gowns and sweet pastel suits. Embellish...
