Twee-virtuoso Wes Anderson is back with a trailer for his latest film, Asteroid City. This new project is a departure from his usual relationship-centric postmodern stories seen in The French Dispatch, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Grand Budapest Hotel. Asteroid City is just as hyper-stylized as ever, but this time he’s stepping out from his contained plots and looking toward the stars. The trailer shows that Anderson can put his pastel-clad touch on just about anything, including the science-fiction theme of his latest film. The plot follows...

In her hit HBO series Somebody Somewhere, bawdy cabaret balladeer Bridget Everett mines her Midwest roots to create TV’s most relatable heroine. “I’m hungover, but I’m fresh,” Bridget Everett assures me, adjusting her computer’s camera. We’re on Zoom, like most people nowadays, and she is joining me from her apartment on New York City’s Upper West Side, still riding the energetic high she’d experienced at a live theater performance the night before. It’s difficult to describe Everett. If I were to take the professional route, I could...

Taylor Swift was honored with the Innovator Award at the iHeartRadio Music Awards on Monday, March 27th, and her friend Phoebe Bridgers made an appearance at the event to present the award. As Bridgers walked onto the stage, she sarcastically stated, “I love public speaking so... I’m not shaking.” But those nervous jitters clearly faded away quickly, as the singer/songwriter then went on to give an immensely heartwarming speech about how important Taylor’s songs were to her development as a songwriter. She stated, “Gradually, my...

The feminist punk-rock protest group Pussy Riot announced on March 6th that they’ll be going on tour this spring! The tour will include six stops in Vancouver, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Guadalajara, and Trenčin, Slovakia. Three of the shows will be festival performances, which includes the Belltown Bloom festival in Seattle, Washington on May 5th, where they will be headlining. (Artists such as Mannequin Pussy and Skating Polly will also be playing Belltown Bloom, so it’ll be a bit of a feminist utopia.) Other festival performances include...

The youngest child of a Korean mother and a Black American father, Dana Davenport grew up on a military base in Seoul, South Korea. Not much for academics as a teen, she tells me that her first foray into the world of art was born out of a desire to lighten her class load. “I took a yearbook class so I could skip class to take pictures,” the Los Angeles and N.Y.C.-based artist says with a chuckle. From there, a natural interest in photography and...

You might have noticed director Sofia Coppola trending on Twitter this morning and gotten excited for a potential new project, or for updates on the Priscilla Presley biopic she’s helming. It unfortunately was neither of these things. Instead it was because Sofia Coppola and Thomas Mars’s 16-year-old daughter, Romy Croquet Mars went viral after posting a TikTok complaining that her famous parents wouldn't allow her to charter a helicopter.  With this (since deleted) TikTok, Mars has added another piece of content to the great nepo baby...

Based on a true story,The Lost King , directed by Stephen Frears, introduces audiences to Philippa Langley, a British woman with no formal academic training who, in 2012, helped find the lost grave of King Richard III underneath a parking lot. When the film opens, Langley is an almost-divorced office worker struggling with a misunderstood chronic illness. A performance of Shakespeare’s play about the infamous Middle Ages monarch reinvigorates her; she becomes convinced that Richard III was unjustly maligned and she subsequently joins a club of “Ricardians”...

As stated at the beginning of each episode, Swarm “is not a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is intentional.”  Show creators Donald Glover and Janine Nabers weren't playing around about this. According to Nabers, “This story is 100 percent taken from real events and real internet rumors and real other things, true crimes that have happened between the years of 2016 and 2018.” Here are 7 real-life events that inspired some of the darkest (and most thrilling) moments in...

Actress Tessa Thompson discusses what it means for her to be an artist, the Creed films, her friendship with Michael B. Jordan, coming out in the public eye, and how she wishes to “expand the way that a woman like me is perceived” in Hollywood. Read highlights from the convo below, and be sure to check out the full article (with interview by Sabrina Ford and photos by Phylicia J. L. Munn) in BUST magazine's new Spring 2023 issue, on sale now,  or subscribe today for...

Singer, songwriter, actress, icon, legend, and cat lover Taylor Swift made an announcement on her Instagram yesterday, March 16th, that she would be releasing four songs at midnight in honor of her upcoming tour. Three of the four songs she released were re-recordings of some of her old hits, (now branded with Taylor’s Version, of course). Those included, “Eyes Open (Taylor’s Version),” “Safe & Sound (featuring Joy Williams and John Paul White) (Taylor’s Version),” and “If This Was A Movie (Taylor’s Version).” Both “Eyes Open” and...