Andrew Crump

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Kevin Fallon |Nick Schager |Andrew Crump |Clare Donaldson

“ Don’t say it! Don’t f---ing say it! Don’t you f---ing say it, because I’ll hunt you down!”Nathan Lane is yelling at me in jest. Well, I hope in jest. Certainly in jest? He’s reached that kettle-whistle boiling point that’s become his comedy trademark; you can practically see the steam coming from his ears in the Zoom screen when we talk.

3 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Andrew Crump |Nick Schager |Clare Donaldson |Kevin Fallon

We’re mere months into the new year and the sophomore run of the current administration, and all of us have aged twice that amount. We could use a boon; we certainly need a reprieve. A movie about a unicorn, that symbol of hope and grace from European antiquity, seems like just the ticket, right? What better creature to relieve us, even if temporarily, of our dread and our anxiety in these dreadful, anxious times? As a bonus, Jenna Ortega co-stars with Paul Rudd! Score. Next stop: bliss.

1 month ago | thedailybeast.com | Andrew Crump |Clare Donaldson |Nick Schager |Laura Wheatman Hill

It’s a struggle for a man to live up to his father’s example. Oftentimes, that leads only to lingering in his shadow. For the sons of Hollywood royalty, that outcome’s likelihood is higher than most, though they’re at least able to console themselves with inherited piles of money. If they fall short of their dads’ talent, they’re nonetheless right in line with his accumulated wealth and clout.

Jan 24, 2025 | thedailybeast.com | Nick Schager |Andrew Crump

PARK CITY, Utah—Reimagining Cinderella as a horror-comedy about the misery women endure to be attractive in the hopes of catching men’s eyes, The Ugly Stepsister—which just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival—assumes an alternate POV and piles on the gore, but says merely muddled things about vanity and misogyny.

Jan 23, 2025 | thedailybeast.com | Nick Schager |Andrew Crump

PARK CITY, Utah—The Sundance Film Festival is known for off-kilter quirkiness, and By Design sends this year’s weirdness quotient through the roof. An insistently eccentric indie that’s at once indebted to Paul Morrissey and Peter Strickland and totally, doggedly, its own thing, writer/director Amanda Kramer’s latest tells the tale of a single woman who becomes far happier after transforming into a chair.