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The product was recently spotlighted when makeup artist Jenna Anton revealed on Instagram that the mascara is one of the staples she uses while creating Bündchen’s signature fresh-faced look. The formula is designed to build length and definition without creating that thick, overly dramatic effect. Instead of clumping or weighing lashes down, it separates and lifts each lash, creating the appearance of longer, fuller lashes that still look soft and natural.

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Ever since Steven Spielberg‘s Jaws was released in 1975, killer shark movies haven’t lost much steam, whether on streaming or on the big screen. Jason Statham added some box office juice to the subgenre with his blockbuster The Meg in 2018, while other recent films, like Jai Courtney‘s Dangerous Animals, have added new twists to how the sea creatures are utilized in the on-screen thrills. For Netflix, the recent French horror actioner Under Paris found success by mixing a Jaws-like premise with a personal story of loss centering on a biologist whose husband was killed by a vicious shark now loose in the Seine River. The streamer is now about to deliver a more comedic, yet still harrowing take on the aquatic predators in just one month, written and directed by Violent Night‘s Tommy Wirkola.

Premiering on April 10, Thrash combines a killer shark thriller with an environmental disaster flick, taking place in a coastal South Carolina town ravaged by a Category 5 hurricane. The storm surge destroys homes, upends lives, and generally brings devastation, but worst of all, it paves the way for ravenous bullsharks to enter neighborhoods and feast on anyone left alive. Those who are fortunate enough not to be killed by the flood are forced into a battle for survival against predators thrust out of their usual environment. A new trailer released on Thursday offers a fresh look at the carnage and the diverse cast of characters caught in the middle of the unbelievable disaster.

At first, nobody takes the threat of the hurricane seriously in the trailer, opting instead to keep swimming and going about their lives until the winds and rains hit. However, an oceanic researcher, played by Djimon Hounsou, understands how dire a situation it is when reports that the storm is a Category 5 come in. When the levee finally breaks, all hell breaks loose as the town becomes cut off from all hope of rescue, and a pregnant woman (Phoebe Dynevor) finds herself stuck in her car with the water rapidly rising. A demented rendition of “Baby Shark” heralds the arrival of the fish in a way that’s tongue-in-cheek while still driving home the danger for everyone. While the scattered survivors are prepared to fight back with everything from boats to broken planks and explosives, Dynevor’s expectant mother is especially ready to ensure her child lives long enough to take his first breath.

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The Bridgerton alum Dynevor reunites with Netflix for Thrash ahead of a few high-profile roles, including in M. Night Shyamalan and Nicholas Sparks‘ team-up Remain and the upcoming adaptation of Emily Henry‘s Beach Read. In addition to Hounsou, she’s joined by Whitney Peak, Matt Nable, Andrew Lees, Alyla Browne, Stacy Clausen, and Dante Ubaldi. Wirkola was also joined by two high-profile producers, in Anchorman and The Big Short helmer Adam McKay and his Don’t Look Up production partner Kevin Messick. The Life of Chuck executive producer D. Scott Lumpkin also serves as an executive producer here.​​​​​​

Thrash premieres on Netflix on April 10. Check out the official trailer in the player above.

For an actor, winning an Oscar is perhaps the most exceptional honor that they can hope to achieve in the film industry. However, some Oscar-winning performances are undeniably better than others. Indeed, throughout history, there have been certain pieces of acting that have proved themselves worthy of the Academy’s love, and which have gone down in history as some of the greatest performances of all time.

From Hollywood’s Golden Age with its very unique brand of acting, to method acting from the modern era, the performances that can be called the best Oscar winners ever are of varying types and tones. Whether it’s a terrifying villain, a complex lead in a character study, or a nuanced antihero, these actors and actresses are able to play complicated characters like absolute pros.

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Mo’Nique as Mary

Won Best Supporting Actress for ‘Precious’ (2009)

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Precious, based on the novel Push by Sapphire, is far and away one of the most harrowing and hard-to-watch coming-of-age dramas of all time. Unflinching in its darkness yet beautifully genuine in the bits of triumphant hope that it throws into the mix, it’s a remarkably effective melodrama that proves that the genre doesn’t need to be all gloom and doom without any space for flashes of joy.

Even still, make no mistake: This is a dark, dark film. A lot of that comes from the performances, particularly that of comedian Mo’Nique, cast very much against type in the role of the titular protagonist’s abusive mother. No comedian-turned-dramatic-actor performance had ever been this astonishingly transformative before, and perhaps none ever will be again. Though Mo’Nique certainly peaked with this Oscar-winning performance, it’s a jaw-dropping piece of acting nonetheless, horrifyingly gritty yet with a surprising amount of sympathy and emotional layeredness.

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Adrien Brody as Władysław Szpilman

Won Best Actor for ‘The Pianist’ (2002)

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Despite the negative associations that come with director Roman Polanski, it’s impossible to deny that The Pianist is one of the greatest war movies ever made, anchored by one of the greatest war movie performances ever delivered. That was by Adrien Brody as real-life pianist and Holocaust survivor Władysław Szpilman, a portrayal which made Brody the youngest winner in the Best Actor Oscar category ever—a record he still holds.

It’s a well-earned record, too. The work that Brody delivers in The Pianist is a once-in-a-lifetime kind of performance. Utterly transformative both physically and spiritually, it’s a profoundly moving example of what flawless dramatic acting looks like. Painful, sympathetic, and largely—perhaps even primarily—responsible for how devastating the film is, it’s a portrayal which will go down in history as one of the best of the 2000s.

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Jack Nicholson as R.P. McMurphy

Won Best Actor for ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ (1975)

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One of Jack Nicholson’s most essential films, the brilliant One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest holds the impressive Oscars record of being the second of only three movies that have won the Big Five Oscars (Picture, Directing, Screenplay, Actor, and Actress), the other two being It Happened One Night and The Silence of the Lambs. The Best Actor award went to Jack Nicholson, who delivered here what some might call the best performance of his illustrious career.

Everything that the extraordinary script of Cuckoo’s Nest calls for, Nicholson delivers. He’s irresistibly magnetic as the charming R.P. McMurphy; he can be incredibly funny when the scene demands it; and when a different scene calls for a much darker, more devastating tone, he’s also up for the challenge. It’s an almost unbelievably complicated performance, but it’s hardly surprising that Nicholson, one of the greatest thespians the big screen has ever seen, was able to deliver.

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Holly Hunter as Ada McGrath

Won Best Actress for ‘The Piano’ (1993)

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Jane Campion is a legendary filmmaker with impeccable taste, and she’s also able to get some terrific performances out of her actors. Her eight feature films are full of excellent performances, but the best of the best is perhaps Holly Hunter‘s in The Piano. Haunting, evocative, erotic, and psychologically charged, it’s one of the best female-led movies of the 1990s.

Hunter’s performance in The Piano is one of the greatest of all time, let alone one of the best Oscar-winning performances. It’s an exquisitely inscrutable piece of work; silent, as her character is mute, yet full of understated power. Hugely dedicated and surrounded by an enigmatic intensity, it’s a fierce performance that fully deserved Oscar gold.

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Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone

Won Best Actor for ‘The Godfather’ (1972)

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Many would call Francis Ford Coppola‘s The Godfather the greatest film of all time, making its three Oscar wins entirely deserved. This crime epic is the peak of filmmaking in every sense imaginable, from writing to directing to visuals to, of course, performances. Though Al Pacino‘s tends to be praised as the best of the bunch, there’s one that’s even more iconic—and thus won a Best Actor Oscar: Marlon Brando‘s as the titular Godfather, Vito Corleone.

If The Godfather is one of the most timeless movies of all time (and that it certainly is), it’s largely thanks to the excellence of each and every member of its cast, but it’s undeniable that Brando steals every scene Vito is in. Idiosyncratic yet never cartoonish, layered as much as it is entertaining, it’s acting at its most hypnotizing and its most admirable. Whether Brando should have instead campaigned in the Supporting Actor category (where Pacino was mysteriously nominated) is up for debate, but what’s unarguable is that this is one of the most memorable acting performances ever.

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Heath Ledger as The Joker

Won Best Supporting Actor for ‘The Dark Knight’ (2008)

Ever since it came out, Christopher Nolan‘s Dark Knight Trilogy has been praised as one of the best comic book movie franchises of all time. Not coincidentally, many would refer to 2008’s The Dark Knight as the single greatest comic book film ever. It’s hard to deny that that would probably not be the case without Heath Ledger‘s legendary performance as The Joker, Batman’s mortal enemy.

This is one of the best Oscar-winning performances of the 21st century, as flawless and memorable as a supervillain performance could ever be. It’s the gold standard for acting in the genre, and it has been for nearly two decades. Ledger is simply faultless as the Clown Prince of Crime; horrifying, indecipherable, and terribly imposing, but also with just the right doses of camp and humor. It’s proof that even genres typically considered “lowbrow,” like superhero films, can also be home to legendary acting.

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Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois

Won Best Actress for ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ (1951)

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When it comes to film acting, particularly the style present during the period of Classical Hollywood, people always end up referring back to A Streetcar Named Desire. With three acting Oscar wins to its name, it might just be the best-acted film in the history of Hollywood’s Golden Age, with an impeccable Vivien Leigh in the lead role.

Though it wasn’t the role that brought her fame, Leigh’s portrayal of the iconic Blanche DuBois is probably the best work of her career, and thus is usually praised as one of the best performances of the period. Transforming her elegant, beautiful star persona into a character that’s sad, broken, and washed-out, it was a remarkably bold casting choice for the era, and it paid out marvelously.

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Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview

Won Best Actor for ‘There Will Be Blood’ (2007)

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Probably the greatest Best Actor-winning performance of the 21st century, Daniel Day-Lewis‘ portrayal of the complicated antihero/villain Daniel Plainview in Paul Thomas Anderson‘s impeccable There Will Be Blood is perhaps the actor’s best and most iconic performance. It’s a dark, gritty, intimidating piece of acting, proof that Day-Lewis’ method undeniably yields historic results.

The actor brings unbelievable depth and complexity to the flawlessly-written role of Plainview, turning him into a figure who the audience is fascinated by yet can’t quite finish deciphering. It’s one of the most Oscar-deserving performances in history, and the experience of watching DDL completely disappear into this role and create such a complex and realistic individual out of thin air is mesmerizing.

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Meryl Streep as Sophie

Won Best Actress for ‘Sophie’s Choice’ (1982)

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Arguably the best female Oscar-winning performance of all time (ergo, the most deserving performance of 3-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep), Streep’s portrayal of Nazi concentration camp survivor Sophie in Sophie’s Choice needs no introduction. The story is about Sophie finding a reason to live in the form of Nathan, a sparkling American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust.

Sophie’s Choice is a haunting, phenomenally crafted Holocaust drama in its own right, but it isn’t the least bit controversial to say that the primary reason to watch it has always been Streep’s performance. It’s a piece of acting as hypnotic as it is absolutely shattering, perhaps the most perfect female acting performance of any American movie in history. This is the gold standard for Oscar-winning performances.

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Robert De Niro as Jake La Motta

Won Best Actor for ‘Raging Bull’ (1980)

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The most deserving male Oscar winner in history is Robert De Niro for his incomparable work in Martin Scorsese‘s Raging Bull. It’s not even a competition. It may just be the greatest male acting performance in film history, and one of the main reasons why many consider De Niro the greatest actor of all time. The actor’s portrayal of real-life boxer Jake La Motta is as flawless as an acting performance can be.

Raging Bull is one of the most essential De Niro movies, a gloomy and thought-provoking biopic with some of Scorsese’s best direction and some of Paul Schrader‘s best screenwriting. Highly dedicated both physically and psychologically, incredibly intense, and full of raw sincerity, it’s the peak of prime De Niro. If ever an Oscar has been fully and entirely deserved, it’s this one.

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Mardik Martin, Paul Schrader

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Hollywood legend Harrison Ford has built a reputation as one of the most iconic actors of his generation, but during a recent television appearance, he reminded fans that his sense of humor is just as sharp as ever. 

While promoting his latest work, Ford sat down for a lively conversation that unexpectedly veered into personal territory. 

What began as a casual interview quickly turned into a moment that had the audience roaring with laughter after the veteran star made a surprisingly candid admission.

Harrison Ford Drops Unexpected Bedroom Confession On Late Night TV

During his appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” Harrison Ford found himself facing one of the more unusual questions a late-night host could ask.

Host Jimmy Kimmel decided to poke fun at the actor’s legendary filmography by asking whether any of the famous musical scores from Ford’s movies had ever made it into his personal life.

Specifically, Kimmel wondered if the star had “ever made love to the soundtrack of one of [his] films.” 

The question clearly caught Ford off guard at first, and he took a brief pause before responding. However, when he finally answered, the reaction inside the studio was immediate.

“Of course I have,” Ford said. The blunt response prompted loud laughter and applause from the audience, with Kimmel visibly amused by how casually Ford delivered the line.

Although the actor confirmed the moment happened, he left viewers guessing about which movie soundtrack might have been playing. 

Given Ford’s long career, possibilities range from the sweeping scores of “Star Wars” to the adventurous themes from “Indiana Jones.”

Ford Explains Why Choosing A Favorite Film Isn’t Possible

While the playful confession became the highlight of the interview, Harrison Ford also spoke seriously about his decades in the movie business. 

With more than 40 films to his name, Kimmel naturally asked if the 83-year-old had a single favorite project.

Ford explained that the question was harder than fans might expect. “I don’t have a favorite because I really love the making of a movie,” he explained while describing what keeps him passionate about the craft.

For the Hollywood star, the creative process behind the camera was where the real satisfaction lay. Working with directors, crew members, and fellow actors was what he remembered most fondly.

“That’s where I’m satisfied, when we’re making it,” Ford stated. He also joked that once a film reached theaters, the experience changed dramatically from the one he remembered during production.

“When you see it, it’s been all screwed up. When I did it, it was better than that,” he revealed. The line earned another burst of laughter from the audience.

Harrison Ford Honored With Major Career Achievement Award

A few days before the late-night interview, Ford was recognized for his immense contribution to cinema at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. 

The ceremony, which streamed on Netflix, honored the actor with the prestigious Life Achievement Award.

Ford’s longtime friend Woody Harrelson presented the award, praising the veteran star’s lasting influence on Hollywood.

Harrelson described Ford as an amazing actor who possesses “an indescribable energy he brings to everything he does.”

“Harrison is a true Renaissance man, an iconic actor, a distinguished pilot and a master carpenter who built his own home. I don’t know how to work the coffee machine, and it’s a French press,” Harrelson joked per Variety.

The tribute highlighted Ford’s impact on generations of moviegoers through unforgettable roles across action, drama, and science fiction.

Ford Gets Emotional While Thanking His Wife And Family

During his acceptance speech, Harrison Ford balanced heartfelt gratitude with the same humor that made his television interview so memorable. 

The “Blade Runner” star took time to acknowledge the people who supported him throughout his long career, including his wife, Calista Flockhart.

He thanked his “extraordinary, beautiful wife” and his family members, whom he said gave him “love and courage through all of it.”

As the camera cut to Flockhart in the audience, she appeared visibly emotional as she watched her husband on stage. 

Ford also joked about the unusual nature of receiving a lifetime achievement award while he still planned to continue acting.

“Well, I’m here to receive a prize for being alive,” he quipped per the Daily Mail, prompting laughter throughout the room. 

He later added another lighthearted remark about the timing of the honor, saying it felt strange to be recognized at what he jokingly called the “half point” of his career.

Harrison Ford Reflects On Finding His Place In Hollywood

Beyond the humor, Ford also spoke candidly about the path that led him into acting.

The actor admitted that early in life, he struggled to find direction, especially during his college years. 

At the time, he didn’t yet realize that storytelling would eventually define his career. That changed when he became involved with people who were passionate about theater.

He recalled discovering “the company of people putting on plays, storytellers, people I once thought were misfits and geeks turned out to be my people.”

The realization opened the door to a career that would later include classics like “Blade Runner,” “Apocalypse Now,” and “The Fugitive.” 

Looking back on the journey, Ford told the audience he considered himself fortunate to still be doing the work he loved.

“Lucky to have found my people, lucky to have work that challenges me, lucky to still be doing it,” he said. “And I don’t take that for granted.”

The Original Screenplay category at the Oscars has always been an intriguing category. It used to be a category where films that were a bit too daring and unique for the Best Picture race could get their accolades for their originality and ambition. For example, a young Christopher Nolan and Wes Anderson were able to earn their first Oscar nominations in this category, or a film like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind might not get a Best Picture nom, but it could earn Charlie Kaufman an Oscar.

This year’s nominees include everything from Iranian and Norwegian films, a Southern vampire movie, a biographical dramedy, and the story of an up-and-coming table tennis player. As the Oscars have embraced their strange side in recent years, the Original Screenplay category remains as diverse as it always has been. With that in mind, here is our ranking of the five nominees in the Original Screenplay category at this year’s Oscars.

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‘Blue Moon’ – Written by Robert Kaplow

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In his first screenplay for Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon, writer Robert Kaplow has to walk a precarious fine line. In crafting this story of Lorenz Hart, on what might be the most difficult night of his life, he has to focus on a character that is overly verbose, pretentious, and ultimately tragic, but also ensure that he never becomes too overwhelming or exhausting, which he is to several characters within this film. For the most part, he’s able to handle this balance, but it’s not always entirely effective, as Hart can become far too much here and there in this film.

This screenplay also shows just how much Ethan Hawke’s performance as Hart brings to this story, as we can see the heartbreak, exhaustion, and loneliness on his face. Hawke is subtly showing us the interiority of Hart, even as he waxes poetic about song lyrics and name-dropping. On the page, you don’t quite get that, even though the woe is always there. For a first screenplay, Kaplow’s work here is impressive, but it’s still the weakest screenplay of the nominees this year.

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‘It Was Just an Accident’ – Written by Jafar Panahi. Script collaborators – Nader Saïvar, Shadmehr Rastin, Mehdi Mahmoudian

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It Was Just an Accident marks Jafar Panahi’s first narrative feature in quite some time, and it’s been a bit since a Panahi film hasn’t been a docufiction starring Panahi himself. Yet It Was Just an Accident proves that Panahi has only gotten better as a screenwriter with his latest, which he has stated is in honor of the Iranian political prisoners that he became friends with during his time of imprisonment. Through It Was Just an Accident, Panahi asks questions about revenge, how societies are supposed to move forward after particularly dark times, and the lengths people will go to when pushed to the brink. But maybe most impressive is how Panahi does this in a film that’s also surprisingly funny in its own dark way.

More than any other nominee on this list — and quite frankly, most of the nominees that have ever been in this category — It Was Just an Accident is a film that feels like it could’ve only been written by Panahi. The filmmaker has always excelled at presenting Iranian culture, and considering his time in the prison system for making his great films, it’s hard to imagine anyone having as much empathy, passion, and humor about this situation as Panahi does. It’s absurd, but also based on horrifying circumstances that have very real consequences, and Panahi handles all of that beautifully. If anything, It Was Just an Accident deserved far more than just two nominations at this year’s Oscars.

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‘Sinners’ – Written by Ryan Coogler

As a piece of writing, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners screenplay is most brilliant in how it constantly shifts and changes in ways that are both surprising and yet make total sense. What begins as a story of two twin brothers trying to open a juke joint is captivating enough as it is, but then it morphs into a fantastic vampire story, all of which delves into discussions of music, history, and race seamlessly. It’s the kind of writing that Coogler has done so well since he started as a filmmaker, writing that entertains, but manages to hit on a deeper, more meaningful level, without ever sacrificing the fun of it all.

As one might expect, however, even though Sinners’ script is great, Coogler’s story just doesn’t have the same magic on the page. For example, the bravura “I Lied to You” segment was clearly put together more cohesively in the editing room, capturing several scenes from throughout the film, and it’s much easier to appreciate the beauty of this vampire tale with Coogler’s direction and Autumn Durald Arkapaw’s stunning cinematography. Yet, Coogler’s screenplay is easily his best so far, and it’s a testament to his greatness in how much beauty and how many layers he can bring to a type of story we’ve seen countless times.

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‘Marty Supreme’ – Written by Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie

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Having worked together on films like Heaven Knows What, Good Time, and Uncut Gems, Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie know how to write a propulsive script that hits the gas and rarely lets go. That’s absolutely what they do on their latest collaboration, Marty Supreme, as we follow Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet), an ambitious yet frustrating table tennis player trying to get enough money to compete in a massive tournament. Marty doesn’t know how he’ll make this money, and Bronstein and Safdie ensure we feel every bump and twist on Marty’s journey.

Marty Supreme’s screenplay is a dense 168 pages, but like the film itself, this script flies by, whipping us around New York City, as though we’re trying to keep up with Marty. Even an action script can fail to make you feel its excitement, but Bronstein and Safdie have no problem keeping readers on the edge of their seats. That’s especially true near the end, when Marty has his big culminating table tennis match, which reads like a great sports story unfolding. At this point, Bronstein and Safdie know how to write this type of screenplay that doesn’t let up, and Marty Supreme is a great example of how fantastic these two are when they work together.

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‘Sentimental Value’ – Written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier

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With Sentimental Value, writers Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier aren’t just telling the story of a filmmaker Gustav (Stellan Skarsgård) and his two daughters, Nora and Agnes (Renate Reinsve and Inga Ibsdotter Lileaas), as he tries to make a film about his life. It’s also very much the story of a house and its century of existence, the people who have lived in it, and how this place has become a home to so many. In Trier’s film, it is all intertwined beautifully, and in reading the screenplay, this approach becomes more pronounced, almost like a better version of Robert Zemeckis’ Here.

On the page, Sentimental Value is also a great example of how a film can change in small but integral ways. Trier and Vogt’s script has several moments that don’t exist in the final film, and it makes a big difference. For example, early on in the film, we originally follow Nora after the night of her big freak-out before she went on stage, and she finds out that her mother had died that same night, which seems like a strange, unnecessary coincidence. Or there’s a strange moment where Agnes’ son makes an AI-generated short film influenced by his grandfather’s films. It’s fascinating to see how this story existed in this script and how Trier was able to improve upon it as it came to the screen.

Sentimental Value is the most complex script in this list of nominees, an amalgamation of a filmmaker exploring his own life through his film, his daughters, the actress (Elle Fanning) who wants to do justice to this story, the previous films that he’s made, how these films present what he’s feeling, as well as the story of a home. It’s a lot to handle, but Vogt and Trier’s screenplay handled it tremendously well, giving us a fuller picture of the Borg family, rather than feeling overstuffed with unnecessary details and tangents. Vogt and Trier want us to understand how past generations can impact current ones and how the past bleeds into the present in ways we might not even feel. Sentimental Value is a script that’s trying to juggle quite a bit, but it’s the best screenplay in this category because Vogt and Trier know how to present it all in a captivating and impactful way.

Love Is Blind star Devonta Anderson had some big news to share at the season 10 reunion.

“I wanted to go into this to be a husband and a father, those were two of the most important things for me,” Devonta, 32, said during the reunion, which dropped Wednesday, March 11, on Netflix. “I got some exciting news that I am gonna be a father this year.”

Devonta further confirmed that he is engaged to his new partner, who does not live with him in Arizona. (Devonta lives in a house with Love Is Blind costar Alex Henderson.)

Devonta proposed to Brittany Wicker sight unseen during Love Is Blind season 10, which was set in Ohio. He notably struggled with his attraction to Brittany, 33, once they met in person. The couple ultimately called off their wedding days before their would-be ceremony.

“The more I’m clinged onto or the more I’m pressured, the harder I push back,” Devonta said in a confessional during the finale, which aired earlier this month. “She is sometimes like a shadow to me and sometimes I’m, like, ‘Just wait out there, I’ll be right back. I’m just going to change my shirt.’ It’s something I don’t want to keep dragging down the road if it’s not going to work out.”

According to Devonta, he had “self-doubt” about whether he could love Brittany in a way that she wanted from her husband.

Brittany was admittedly shocked by Devonta’s decision to end their engagement, but she still had hopes that they could date after Love Is Blind wrapped.

“I feel like we’re still together, and we’re just taking a slight pause on when we actually get married,” Brittany told Devonta on the show. “I think when it comes to you feeling more comfortable with a prenup. For me, say we would have got married today, I was willing to make adjustments to what I believe.”

She continued, “We’re still gonna be together. We’re still engaged. I do see [us] 100 percent marrying each other.”

While it appeared that Brittany was blindsided by Devonta’s decision, she actually could sense his wavering throughout their relationship.

“I think that [Devonta] was processing so much emotionally with the loss of his grandfather,” Brittany exclusively told Us Weekly last month, referring to Devonta questioning his pod participation after his grandpa died during production. “It would be, like, sometimes he was so in [and] ready to build this life together, and we were on the same page.”

While Brittany felt that she and Devonta were “very much in alignment” on their future, she did occasionally see pockets of doubt creep in.

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“There would be days where he would just wake up and he was feeling the weight of the world and everything that was happening,” she recalled to Us. “I would feel that in return.”

Brittany also got to confront Devonta during Wednesday’s reunion, revealing that his “shadow” comments were “highly offensive.”

“He said that I was a ‘shadow,’ which I found very offensive because I gave him so much space, so much so, that I felt my love language was not being fulfilled,” she stated on Wednesday’s special. “[His comments were] highly confusing to me. … I feel like as soon as he walked out of my doors, he was done with the relationship and he just didn’t want to say that to me. He still dragged it out for weeks.”

When asked about Devonta’s baby news, Brittany added that she wasn’t “fazed by” the news and is currently single herself.

Love Is Blind season 10 is now streaming on Netflix.

There’s a scene in the very first episode of Derry Girls where Erin Quinn (Saoirse-Monica Jackson), sixteen years old and melodramatically self-involved, is furious. Not about the British Army checkpoint that rerouted her bus. Not about the bomb scare that made her late for her first day back at her all-girls Catholic school. She’s furious because her cousin has read her diary…and now she’s cracking it open in class for her upcoming book report.

That joke – one of modern Europe’s longest-running civil conflicts as an inconvenience, the diary as a full-blown crisis – is creator Lisa McGee’s Netflix comedy in a nutshell. For people like her, who lived through the Troubles, war was the backdrop, not the whole story. That was everything else: the teenage humiliations, obsessions, and laughable mishaps that an absolutely unhinged group of friends living in a small town with nothing to do too often got into. Prestige TV, up until this point, never really got that, but Derry Girls – which ran for three seasons between 2018 and 2022 – definitely did. It is, by a considerable margin, the funniest show about an active ethno-nationalist conflict ever made. Actually, no. This is simply one of the funniest shows ever made, full stop.

‘Derry Girls’ Makes the Troubles Funny (Without Ever Making Light of Them)

Set in Derry in the early 1990s, Derry Girls follows Erin (Jackson), her cousin Orla (Louisa Harland), their friends Clare (Nicola Coughlan), Michelle (Jamie-Lee O’Donnell), and Michelle’s English cousin James (Dylan Llewellyn), who attends their Catholic girls’ school because, as is repeatedly explained, it just isn’t safe for him to go to the boys’ school. He is, in the show’s most reliable running gag, treated as one of the girls by everyone around him. (It’s the hair…and maybe the cheekbones, too.)

The five of them stumble through adolescence with a specific but timeless incompetence: they scheme, fail, embarrass themselves publicly, rinse and repeat. The Troubles exist at the edges of every episode via newscasts, blown bridges, terrorists stowed away in the trunk of the family car, and errant suitcases that spark bomb squad calls. They are part of the setup, but never the punchline of the joke. The teenagers are. Or, more specifically, how deeply, cosmically unequipped they are for the adulthood they so desperately crave.

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That’s a choice that could have gone badly. Comedy about a real, ongoing, traumatic war is a minefield (metaphorically, and in this case, literally), but what keeps Derry Girls from tipping into bad taste is the specificity. McGee grew up in Derry. Her characters are people she knew, her settings are places she visited daily. If the show is irreverent or dismissive about grander political problems, it’s because it’s earned the right to be. In an interview with The New Yorker, McGee admitted she never wanted to write about the Troubles because every story she saw was entirely too bleak. “There were never any jokes,” she said. “I don’t know any Northern Irish person that isn’t funny. They’re so joyful.” Maybe that’s why Derry Girls always seemed to understand the difference between laughing at and laughing with, because it channeled joy instead of judgment.

Take That, Escaped Zoo Bears, and the Radical Normality of ‘Derry Girls’

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To really appreciate what Derry Girls got right about the era, it helps to think about what came before it. The Troubles have generated some serious drama, on-screen that is. Works of genuine craft and moral meaning that want you to understand the politics, the violence, the historical reckoning of it all. Those films and shows and documentaries matter, but they have a tendency to flatten every experience into tragedy. War becomes the thing, and everyone exists in relation to it. But for anyone who’s actually lived that experience, that just doesn’t ring true. Life doesn’t work like that, and it shouldn’t be portrayed like that, at least not all the time.

In 1993 Derry, teenagers were still obsessed with Take That – enough so that those like Erin and her friends would absolutely concoct a ruse to escape to the city while the adults fretted over the polar bear who had just escaped the local zoo. And parents? They were still mortifying, confusing pop culture references to Macaulay Culkin with Protestant rebels met at a summer camp. Checkpoints and ceasefires and peace negotiations were happening, yes, but so was homework and heartbreak and the specific social catastrophe of being accidentally outed in the latest edition of your school’s newspaper. Derry Girls holds all of this at once, that’s what makes it so authentic and undeniably funny.

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Derry Girls ended at three seasons, which was the right call – even if we did all lose our shite at the time. The story it wanted to tell had a shape, outlining childhood in the shadow of conflict, ending with the arrival of peace, and McGee told it expertly. Its legacy, though, is a bit harder to pin down. It’s proof that comedy can carry historical weight without being crushed by it. It’s a view of a place that has been defined for decades almost entirely by violence, one that insists on the fullness of life there.

There’s absurdity, warmth, and a deeply Irish chaos to it all despite, or maybe because of, what its characters are living through. And it’s all available on Netflix, which means, if you haven’t checked it out yet, you should. The first episode is just 24 minutes long, but you’ll know if it’s your thing within the first four. Spoiler: It will almost certainly be your thing.

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It turns out that a lot happened in Ohio after the Love Is Blind cameras left.

“We’re about to get all your burning questions answered,” cohost Vanessa Lachey began, after revealing that 150 former contestants were in attendance to celebrate the show’s milestone 10th anniversary.

Love Is Blind season 10 ended with two marriages between Victor St. John and Christine Hamilton, as well as Jordan Faeth and Amber Morrison. While five other couples got engaged sight unseen in the pods, they all called it quits before saying “I do.”

Keep scrolling for the biggest reunion bombshells from the season 10 cast — and where the couples stand now:

Vic and Christine Join the Ranks of ‘Love Is Blind’ Success Stories

Victor St. John and Christine Hamilton confirmed at the reunion that they are still living in married bliss after she moved to her beau’s home city of Columbus from Cleveland.

“We’re now just putting a home together, so that’s where we’re at now,” Vic said. “I think the best part of living with Christine is that the home is a home. I’m talking about notes around the house, saying, ‘Have a great semester with the students,’ notes encouraging me on a new publication, psalms and scriptures and notes on my computer.”

Christine, meanwhile, held back tears as she said it “makes [her] day” to see Vic when she comes home from work. The Netflix wife further revealed that her husband met her spouse nearly one month after the wedding.

“I’ve forgiven him,” she said, adding that the couple has “broken bread” with Christine’s dad.

Jordan and Amber Went Their Separate Ways

Jordan Faeth and Amber Morrison’s marriage, however, only lasted four months.

“We’re not together anymore,” Jordan revealed to cohost Nick Lachey. “We were certainly disappointed too. I feel like a lot changed in that period of time.”

For Jordan, he acknowledged that Amber had “trust issues” from past relationships that were apparently difficult to overcome.

“I was constantly trying to repair a trust that I didn’t break, for me, that took a toll,” he said, adding that they never even moved in together. “There were some ups, for sure, but for me, the negatives outweigh the positives.”

Amber, meanwhile, questioned whether Jordan was ever ready to get married.

“It’s really difficult to trust someone when they are only coming up [to see me] on the weekends or I’m going down there,” she acknowledged. “You wonder, why wouldn’t you want to be at home with your wife? Why do you want to be out on a Tuesday, Thursday with the boys? When I pictured marriage, I pictured somebody to come home [to] after work.”

Jordan claimed that he tried to visit Amber but she didn’t “appreciate” his efforts, subsequently going back and forth about who was in the right. Amber ended up storming off the stage after Jordan alleged that she was disrespectful and crossed boundaries in their allegedly unhealthy relationship.

“Don’t f**ing come into someone’s life if you’re going to do that,” Amber shouted at Jordan, stating that she also had to navigate her 7-year-old daughter Emma’s feelings about the breakup. “I told you!”

Jordan, who never said goodbye to Emma before leaving Amber, wasn’t sure he could still have a relationship with her if his marriage to her mom didn’t last. When Amber returned to set, she revealed that she’s in an “amazing place” thanks to her loyal support system, including costars Jessica Barrett and Emma Betsinger.

The ‘Love Is Blind’ Cast Comes for Chris

Chris Fusco made waves when he dumped fiancée Jessica Barrett over a lack of attraction and her gym habits, shortly before he tried to pursue Bri McNees despite her own engagement. Chris’ behavior sparked ire from the rest of the pod squad.

“I do still hate you,” Amber Morrison quipped, claiming he was the reason that she hated men. “[Jordan] is not a Chris. [He’s] not a douchebag.”

Connor Spies, meanwhile, added that Chris hasn’t “crossed [his] mind” since he tried to flirt with Bri. As for Bri, she felt that Chris “flipped a switch” in his behavior but never thought twice about switching sides.

Jessica, for her part, noted that Chris has some “deep insecurities” that led to their breakup.

“Finances, not feeling stable,” she listed her then-partner’s apparent insecurities. “While this was this huge bravo and dominance and alpha s***, when he had a different audience, that was never shown to me. I was never spoken to like that, I think, because that person knew that I wouldn’t really tolerate it or buy into it.”

Nick Lachey Goes for the Jugular

Host Nick Lachey also got in a jab at Chris Fusco.

“According to Chris, for things to work out, sometimes you need to work out,” Nick said. “Chris, I gotta tell you, man, I need to applaud you because you managed to do something this season that had never been done previously in nine seasons of Love Is Blind. You managed to piss off all the ladies and all the men. You literally alienated and pissed off every person on this stage.”

According to Nick, it was “absolutely brutal” for he and wife Vanessa Lachey to watch Chris’ onscreen antics.

“I have to ask you, as a man, watching that back, what was going through your mind?” Nick asked. “I’m not sure what that says about you, that’s for you and a therapist to figure out, but it’s not good.”

Chris did get a chance to defend himself, stating that it was difficult to watch the show.

“You know, watching it back was tough, I’m not gonna lie,” he said. “I’m not proud of a lot of those moments.”

Nick also encouraged Chris to reconcile with fellow “Ohio boy” Connor Spies, who succinctly apologized for disrespecting his onetime friend.

“I want to be accountable for what I did and what I said, and putting Bri in that position, as well,” Chris added. “I feel like I put her in that situation and was just way too, maybe, aggressive in that moment, and I’m sorry. I’m not asking for forgiveness.”

Moments later, Nick asked Chris whether he was checked out of his relationship with Jessica Barrett.

“Were you in Devonta’s [Anderson] ‘nothing box?’” he quipped, referring to Devonta’s comments over indecision about marrying Brittany Wicker.

Bri and Connor Are Still Together

Bri McNees and Connor Spies revealed that they decided to continue dating despite calling off their wedding.

“We are still together actually, ” Connor said during the reunion. “It just kind of lived life as, like, it was almost like a new chapter of, ‘OK, we did one of the craziest things. Let’s see how life looks just on a normal day-to-day basis.’”

According to Connor, he ended up moving next door to Bri in Columbus after filming.

“[I see us making it] to the altar,” Bri added. “I’m, like, ‘We will be in it till death do us part.’ I love this man.”

Jessica Found Love With a Pod Castoff

After Chris Fusco dumped Jessica Barrett, she moved on with another Love Is Blind alum.

“I’m really grateful for the experience,” she noted, before it was revealed that she was now dating Haramol Gill. “Well, Haramol and I had a very deep connection in the pods. After kind of everything blew up, Haramol was there for me as a friend, or at least I thought.”

Haramol subsequently shouted from the crowd that he was “shooting shots,” while Jessica thought he was still so kind, thoughtful and sweet.

“It took a long time for us to actually just sit down, just the two of us,” she said. “I came in sweatpants, like, ‘Hey, what’s up? Let’s hang out, have some drinks, whatever.’ [We] talked for hours and then … he’s a man. He’s, like, ‘Look, I know who I am and I know what I want, and it’s you.’”

As Haramol proclaimed that he was in love with Jessica, who was “so hot,” he felt grateful to have a second chance at pursuing her after letting her go in the pods.

Mike and Emma Had a Plan to Break Up Before Their Wedding

Mike Gibney revealed that he and Emma Betsinger spoke about both saying no at the altar days before their wedding.

“I just felt blindsided,” Mike claimed of Emma’s switch-up in the moment. “In the moment, I could not wholeheartedly say yes because that question [about kids] was still unanswered for us.”

While Mike “almost wanted” to agree with Emma, he went with a logical response and said no as planned.

Emma, for her part, noted that she and Mike had so much fun and built such a connection that it led her to change her mind.

“This was an act of love. I went the emotional route,” she said. “I loved [Mike] so much that I wanted to confess that, like, I know kids were going to be at the end of our journey. If I said yes, we would have had kids eventually. I thought that saying yes in front of your family and my family was a declaration of kids.”

Mike now has a new girlfriend of seven months named Tara.

Nick Lachey Has Questions for Alex

After Ashley Carpenter was thrown by fiancé Alex Henderson’s change of feelings and questions about his job, she dumped him at the altar. During the reunion, host Nick Lachey questioned Alex over why his story “kept changing.”

“I just think it was a lot of gaps, especially as it related to Austin and timelines with Austin,” Nick said after Alex asked the host to clarify his point. “Why do you think she felt that way?”

Alex, meanwhile, didn’t believe there were any “gaps” in his work, living or dating history.

“I do think we went through, ‘Hey, this is the timeline,’” he stated. “I do also think the only real time those questions were asked was when the cameras were rolling.”

Alex stressed that he did not cheat nor have any relationship overlap “at all,” and never lied to Ashley, who had the opposite perspective and questioned why her ex went on the show in the first place.

“To find a wife, I just didn’t see [one],” Alex said, prompting Nick to joke, “You’re not supposed to see them. That’s why it’s Love Is Blind.”

Brittany and Devonta’s Broken Engagement Was Just the Tipping Point

When Brittany Wicker and Devonta Anderson canceled their wedding, she still wanted to date her then-partner. Devonta, however, was conflicted and unsure whether they were meant to be.

During the reunion, Brittany was shocked by his comments and felt gaslit by Devonta.

“He said that I was a ‘shadow,’ which I found very offensive because I gave him so much space, so much so, that I felt my love language was not being fulfilled,” she stated. “[His comments were] highly confusing to me.”

Brittany added, “I feel like as soon as he walked out of my door, he was done with the relationship and he just didn’t want to say that to me. He still dragged it out for weeks.”

Brittany’s dad was also present, noting that he “wants [Devonta] to be OK” and make “the best choices” he can.

“Bro, you got to get some help with that,” he said. “You got to face that stuff because if you don’t face it, it’s gonna come get you. It bothers me that people are destroying you. … I hope you learn from this.”

Brittany’s dad then asked Devonta whether he lied about being ready to marry Brittany.

“At the time, I truly thought I was, but I’m not,” Devonta admitted. “I did take a moment away. I took two or three days where I needed to go sit with me before making that decision. … I guess, I don’t like to quit.”

Devonta Has a Baby on the Way

In the months since breaking up with Brittany Wicker, Devonta Anderson met a new partner and they got engaged.

“I wanted to go into this to be a husband and a father, those were two of the most important things for me, and I got some exciting news that I am gonna be a father this year,” he said, while Brittany’s dad hung his head in shock.

While Brittany was also surprised by the news, she told hosts Nick and Vanessa Lachey that she wasn’t “fazed by” Devonta’s family update.

Former ‘Love Is Blind’ Stars Share Their Own Updates

In between the season 10 cast’s discussion, alums AD Smith and Giannina Gibelli conducted “man on the street” interviews with fellow pod veterans. They revealed that season 8’s Joey Leveille and Sara Carton from Minnesota were still going strong after eight months, and season 1 OG Cameron Hamilton cried over wife Lauren Speed-Hamilton giving birth to their first baby after fertility challenges. Plus, season 4 couple Bliss Poureetezadi-Goytowski and Zack Goytowski announced that they are expecting a baby boy. (Bliss and Zack already share daughter Galileo.)

Kris Jenner has gone through a bit of a transformation in recent years — and I’m not talking about her facelift. The mogul also experienced significant hair growth thanks to some “delicious” gummies.

Jenner shared her results from taking Omi Hair Growth Peptides Gummies on Instagram, and the difference is staggering.

“Tracy Cunningham, who is my colorist, noticed my hair was thinning a little bit and she recommended Omi,” she explained in the clip. “I started taking two a day, and they pretty much changed my life. Everything started feeling fuller — no extensions necessary. It really is just fabulous.”

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