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Jeffrey Wells

Los Angeles

Hollywood/Oscar Columnist

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  • 1 week ago | hollywood-elsewhere.com | Jeffrey Wells

    What are the likely consequences? I’m asking.

  • 1 month ago | hollywood-elsewhere.com | Jeffrey Wells

    Orange Mussolini has curiously acquiesced to Kid Rock’s idea of a White House dinner with Bill Maher this week, but he’s clearly uncomfortable with the fact that Maher isn’t a devotional boot–licker. The meeting wouldn’t have been scheduled in the first place, of course, if Maher hadn’t earned a certain respect from righties for having routinely trashed woke lunatics over the last few years, and yet the authoritarian-in-chief still feels antsy…what a fragile child.

  • 1 month ago | hollywood-elsewhere.com | Jeffrey Wells

    “Not happening…way too laid back…zero narrative urgency,” I was muttering to myself. All to say that the sixth episode of White Lotus Thai SERIOUSLY disappoints. Waaay too slow. Things inch along but it’s all “woozy guilty lying aftermath to the big party night” stuff. Glacial pace…waiting, waiting, waiting. I thought the story strands were going to begin to tighten up, but they’re just lying there. Flaccid, lazy, leisurely.

  • 2 months ago | hollywood-elsewhere.com | Jeffrey Wells

    Really Nice RideJuly 3, 2024To my great surprise and delight, Christy Hall‘s Daddio, which I was remiss in not seeing during last year’s Telluride... More »

  • Jan 24, 2025 | hollywood-elsewhere.com | Jeffrey Wells

    Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will be able to score very handily now, and a 5 pm “happy hour” inside the Pentagon will become an instant thing.

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Hollywood Elsewhere
Hollywood Elsewhere @wellshwood
26 Nov 24

Sketchy thoughts about “A Complete Unknown” https://t.co/RCietFRBfj

Hollywood Elsewhere
Hollywood Elsewhere @wellshwood
26 Nov 24

5. “No Direction Home” (208 mins.). Such a running time would’ve allowed for more breathing space & a generally fuller feeling. And yet historical canvas-wise so much of “Unknown” is a spot-on, the real thing, a bell-ringer.

Hollywood Elsewhere
Hollywood Elsewhere @wellshwood
26 Nov 24

4. and (in the ‘65 section) surly insolence to generate compelling personal drama. And Jay Cocks’ fast-moving narrative is forced to cram in so many story points that it feels at times like a stone skipping across a pond. It should’ve been the length of Scorsese’s sprawling…