Benjamin Svetkey

5 days ago | hollywoodreporter.com | Benjamin Svetkey

There’s no perfect way to describe a Palisociety hotel, but try imagining a New England boarding school dorm designed by a Parisian antiques dealer. Or a Hamptons beach house crossed with a Silver Lake flea market. Or maybe a Nantucket inn decorated by Wes Anderson using a Bergdorf Goodman credit card. For lack of a better term, let’s call it preppy-à-porter.

1 week ago | hollywoodreporter.com | Benjamin Svetkey

With a real-life conclave set to start in Rome on May 7, movies about the Holy See have piqued the public’s interest. Conclave, last year’s Oscar contender in which Ralph Fiennes plays a cardinal navigating a new pope’s election, saw a 283 percent viewership jump on Amazon the day after Pope Francis died. Netflix’s The Two Popes, a 2019 drama about the relationship between Francis and his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, also saw a spike, with viewership soaring 417 percent.

1 week ago | hollywoodreporter.com | Benjamin Svetkey |Julian Sancton

Francis Ford Coppola got a standing ovation at the Dolby Theatre on April 26.

1 week ago | msn.com | Benjamin Svetkey

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1 week ago | hollywoodreporter.com | Benjamin Svetkey

Ever wonder where Donald Trump gets his policy ideas? Take, for example, the presidential proclamation he fired off Sunday night on Truth Social, ordering the Bureau of Prisons to reopen and expand Alcatraz to house “America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders.” Where, oh where, could that have come from? It’s not like anyone’s seriously floated reopening The Rock since it shut down in 1963 and became a fog-shrouded tourist attraction run by the National Park Service.