Matthew Jacobs

Austin

Freelance Writer and Editor at Freelance

editor @theinfatuation + culture writer @vulture, @vanityfair, @thr, @thedailybeast, more. I wanna lead a country one day for all I know.

Articles

The Casual Weeknight Dinner Guide

1 week ago | theinfatuation.com | Nicolai McCrary |Matthew Jacobs |Max Bonem |Raphael Brion

Since Licha’s is located inside an old house, having dinner here basically feels like you’re already at home—or at least at a friend’s place with a much larger backyard than yours. Come here for a post-work margarita and to try some hard-to-find Mexican food, like the huaraches and tlacoyos. RESERVE A TABLEHold Out Brewing is a one-stop shop that makes some of the best burgers and wings in town.
Will Poulter on Warfare and the Ending of Death of a Unicorn

3 weeks ago | vulture.com | Matthew Jacobs

Will Poulter is currently pulling off a very twunky one-two punch — sweaty military fatigues here, pleated white shorts there. He stars in a pair of polar-opposite movies opening two weeks apart, playing a Navy SEAL officer leading an Iraq War mission in Warfare and a reckless blue blood helping his parents (Richard E. Grant and Téa Leoni) plunder unicorns’ healing powers in Death of a Unicorn.
How Charli XCX Ended Up in Poland With Jeremy O. Harris and Pete Ohs

1 month ago | vulture.com | Matthew Jacobs

Not long before they absconded to Poland to make a movie with Charli XCX at the height of Brat mania, Jeremy O. Harris and director Pete Ohs spent two weeks making a very different movie in the wilderness — upstate Massachusetts, that is.
Blake Lively’s New Film Is a Campy Distraction From Scandal

1 month ago | thedailybeast.com | Matthew Jacobs |Jesse Hassenger |Nick Schager

AUSTIN, Texas—Late Friday afternoon, the crowd stationed outside of South by Southwest’s biggest theater hoisted large balloons shaped like martini glasses—a branded homage to the first A-list premiere at this year’s festival. As the stars of Another Simple Favor arrived in downtown Austin, they paused to snap selfies with the admirers cheering for them behind barricades.
What’s at SXSW? Unicorns, Threesomes, and Another Simple Favor

1 month ago | vulture.com | Alison Willmore |Matthew Jacobs

Anna Kendrick in Another Simple Favor, Nicole Kidman in Holland, and Jenna Ortega in Death of a Unicorn. Right as Oscar season finally crosses the finish line, South by Southwest comes around to start the next phase of the Hollywood calendar. It’s the springiest of any film festival.
Patrick Fischler Answers Every Question We Have About Mulholland Drive

2 months ago | vulture.com | Matthew Jacobs

On David Lynch’s passing, and memories of the diner scene: “The dread just came to me. I can feel it in my chest right now.” If David Lynch’s work can be boiled down to a handful of scenes, as many people have done since he died this month at age 78, the Winkie’s diner scene from Mulholland Drive looms especially large in the pantheon.
Liberia: des milliers de personnes aux funérailles de l'ex-chef de guerre Prince Johnson

Jan 18, 2025 | capitol.fr | Matthew Jacobs

Des milliers de personnes se sont réunies samedi dans le nord du Liberia pour les funérailles de l'ex-chef de guerre devenu politicien Prince Johnson, réputé pour sa cruauté et acteur majeur des guerres civiles qui ont ravagé le Liberia entre 1989 et 2003. Prince Johnson, rendu célèbre par une vidéo le montrant en train de siroter une bière pendant que ses hommes torturaient à mort le président Samuel Doe en 1990, était toujours un sénateur influent dans son pays.
Hans Zimmer on His Most Unusual and Underrated Scores

Jan 16, 2025 | vulture.com | Matthew Jacobs

Hans Zimmer’s scores cannot be contained by even the biggest movie screens. They demand live audiences crying to The Lion King in 20,000-seat arenas and sloshed Coachella-goers swaying to the Pirates of the Caribbean strings after dusk. You’ve heard “BRAAAM,” or something like it, in umpteen trailers, but you haven’t really heard it until a stranger in the next row starts pointing at the stage like Leonardo DiCaprio in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
The Renegades Who Made A Woman Under the Influence

Dec 27, 2024 | vulture.com | Matthew Jacobs

The costume designer cooked the spaghetti for A Woman Under the Influence’s big breakfast scene. At one point, the script supervisor found herself operating a camera. A recent college grad hired to help paint the set wound up overseeing the entire lighting operation. “We all did everything,” says Elaine Kagan, one of the few people who was part of the movie from its earliest days, transcribing John Cassavetes’s dialogue in shorthand as the director paced around and smoked Marlboros.
The Best Amy Adams Movies and TV Shows, Ranked

Dec 6, 2024 | vulture.com | Matthew Jacobs

The “overdue” Oscar label reduces a vibrant career to fickle awards metrics. Amy Adams was doing a Minnesota dinner-theater production of Brigadoon when she auditioned to play a dotty cheerleader in Drop Dead Gorgeous. The role was small, and the movie famously went nowhere at the time. Still, it was enough to convince Adams to hightail it to Los Angeles, where she spent most of the next decade portraying perky sweethearts.