Jonah Hill Gossip

Describing Maniac is pointless. It’s a dozen different shows stuffed into one larger framework, and if it accomplishes nothing else, it at least makes me want to see a fantasy series starring Emma Stone as a half-elf ranger with a drinking problem. But Maniac does accomplish more than that—though everyone’s mileage will vary as it TESTS YOU—because within its nested narrative is a decent story about trauma, loss, and recovery, and how hard it is to heal. Full Story

Bradley Cooper and Jonah Hill are tight, so it’s interesting that both of their directorial debuts, A Star is Born and Mid90s, premiered on the same night, in the same city, right after each other on Sunday. Full Story

Cary Joji Fukanaga has been absent our screens since Beasts of No Nation. He returns to Netflix in September, though, with a limited series called Maniac that he adapted from a Norwegian show. The details have been scarce until now, about six weeks before the series debuts, as we finally get a trailer giving us very little real idea of what this show will be. Full Story

Lainey calls him “Jonah Hill, 2x Oscar nominee and friend of Leo, Scorsese, and Brange”, but I think Jonah Hill needs a nickname update. Not only because the Brange is no more—who do you think got him in the divorce?—but because Jonah Hill has another tick on his resume: filmmaker. Full Story

Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot is Gus Van Sant’s first feature film since 2015’s disastrous Sea of Trees. Three years is not an unreasonable amount of time between features, but given how very, very bad Trees is, Foot can’t help but feel like a comeback. Full Story

Yesterday Netflix released a batch of first-look photos of their new series, Maniac, which is a “psychological black comedy” and not another remake of the slasher classic of the same name. Full Story

The first trailer for Gus Van Sant’s new movie, Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot—maybe the longest title since The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford—was released yesterday. It looks very good. The movie stars Joaquin Phoenix as cartoonist John Callahan—sample of work here Full Story

Everything I hate about Jonah Hill, 2X Oscar nominee and friend of Leo, Scorsese, and Brange (before they broke), was all on display last night when he took the stage to present Best Actress to his friend Emma Stone. Full Story

Playing a little catch up as we close out August, starting with Todd Phillips’ latest bro-nightmare movie, War Dogs. For a director known for comedies—namely The Hangover trilogy, but also Road Trip, Old School, and Due Date, among others—Phillips doesn’t seem to like directing comedies. Full Story

Katie Holmes confirms that she was in the Hamptons for Jamie Foxx, but also included a #friendship tag. Usually I would find this extremely annoying celebrity behaviour, but considering how she had to ninja her way out of her last marriage, I don’t blame her. I think public declarations of adoration probably terrify her now. Full Story

Cold soup is an insult to food (and don’t come at me with gazpacho because it is literally the worst) but I do appreciate Jessica Seinfeld’s captions. We need a little more sarcasm in lifestyle.   When it's too late or too hot to make dinner, you can make Sunset Soup. Puree a mango with some water, dice and add your favorite fresh stone fruits and berries (and cucumber?) and sprinkle some cinnamon on top. It's called Sunset Soup because sometimes the sun sets and you realize you have to make dinner for people and you want them to maybe go away and figure it out for themselves for once but you can't say that so you act like it's your favorite thing in the world to do and you give them Sunset Soup and, in your mind, tell them to eat it and STFU. Or maybe I am the only one who does that. Full Story