This story is great, but the Soderbergh bit is a bummer. I'd wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt on AI, because he treats every new technology as a tool to mess around with in a kind of value-neutral way. I just don't know how he could miss that this particular tool absolutely sucks ass.

Rachel Handler, 🙏🏽 for falling on your sword. This was grim and (not the part I’m quoting) very funny! ‘“I have a pair,” he said, smiling. He and his comedy group were all 21 years of age. I told him I found the glasses creepy, an invasion of privacy. “Not at all,” he said. “We do pranks with them.”’

2026 was the year boomer AI slop arrived at Cannes. Vulture’s Rachel Handler dragged her decreasingly human form from Meta House to Soderbergh’s doc to yacht parties and found the prestigious film festival overrun by tech.

on soderbergh’s boomer-facebook-slop john lennon doc, french comedians pranking people with meta ray-bans, an “ai-native” film about about a farting demon, and more www.vulture.com/article/the-...

At Cannes, Andy Garcia discusses his long-stewing passion project ‘Diamond,’ Cher, nightmares, and AI: ‘Anything that takes away the human experience, or a job away from someone who needs one, I just don’t like it.’

In an interview with Rachel Handler at Cannes, Cate Blanchett discusses AI-phobia, ‘risk-averse’ Hollywood, how she’s preparing to play Martha Stewart, waking up with anxiety at 3 a.m., and why she started the Displacement Film Fund.

At a Cannes gala, Sharon Stone dommed the audience. “Put that down. Stop eating. Turn to that guy right there. Yes, you in the white, turn to him, tell him you care he’s carrying pain, that you love him.”

@rachelhandler.bsky.social I’ve never clicked on an article faster in my life

‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ has become a consensus choice for the best of Cannes so far. “I have a feeling for a lot of people, especially men, the sex scenes will be like, ‘What am I looking at?’” explains director Jane Schoenbrun.

This year’s Cannes Film Festival is decidedly Hollywood-less, featuring zero American studio movies in the official lineup. But Demi Moore still showed up to discuss AI: ‘Againstness breeds againstness.’

The theme of the 2026 Oscars was “humanity.” The walking caviar bar suggested otherwise. Here is everything writer Rachel Handler saw and overheard behind the scenes of Hollywood’s biggest awards ceremony.

went to the “human” themed oscars and wrote about it

had lunch with kate hudson in the east village and we got into it — her oscar nom, almost famous memories, the rom-coms she’s done and won’t do, kurt & goldie, and getting coffee at the strip club with chris robinson in the early aughts

Kate Hudson, 2026 Oscar nominee, still wants to make rom-coms that last. “People think, ‘We can do that.’ Same formula, same feeling, but less money, newer talent … I don’t think they’re the same genre.”

NYC theatergoers are arriving in droves to judge Jacob Elordi and a skin wall that’s allegedly making the Brontë sisters roll in their graves. Vulture’s Rachel Handler visited cinemas in the city to talk to the first Wuthering Heights audiences.

As a quarter-century (and maybe democracy) comes to a close, a film and TV trope is back: All the cool girls are walking into bodies of water — Rose Byrne, Tessa Thompson, the women on ‘Hacks.’ Is this the defining visual metaphor of 2025?

My wife and I just read this while rundown out loud — its fucking hilarious and EXACTLY the reviews I needed www.vulture.com/article/netf...

Netflix’s Christmas movies are eerily normal this year. ‘My Secret Santa,’ ‘Champagne Problems,’ ‘A Merry Little Ex-Mas,’ and ‘Jingle Bell Heist’ are all workmanlike, occasionally competent. They appear to have been directed. Something’s different.

Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody have entered their Elder Seinfeld era. On their new advice podcast about nothing, ‘Don’t Listen to Us,’ the actor couple argue, make up, weep, and laugh. “And some people like it.”

talked to jennifer lawrence and lynne ramsay about die my love, postpartum depression, filming nude scenes while pregnant, and murder podcasts: www.vulture.com/article/jenn...

The actress says she had no problem performing a nude sex scene for director Lynn Ramsay while she was pregnant. Watching her movie postpartum, however, was harder to do.

The late Diane Keaton, the star of ‘Baby Boom,’ ‘Father of the Bride,’ and ‘Something’s Gotta Give’ breaks down the genius of her longtime collaborator. Republished from 2020.

Joachim Trier made ‘Sentimental Value’ — a movie about a bad dad who happens to be a director — shortly after becoming a father himself: ‘You’re right, I am exorcising something,’ he tells Rachel Handler.

A Rachel Handler Instant Classic

"it commits the cardinal sin of heterosexuality: Don’t ever tell a man he’s stacked *and* his podcast is good. This line may singlehandedly fast-track the downfall of civilization." www.vulture.com/article/tayl...

By simply and innocently pressing play on Taylor Swift’s “Wood,” I was forced to choke down a lumber truck’s worth of information about Travis Kelce’s ‘Wood.’ Here’s what I now know against my will.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ was like ‘Challengers’ for teenagers, with far-reaching incestuous undertones. Thank God it’s not actually ending.

www.vulture.com/article/and-... “I will miss it desperately, in the same way that I made fun of and now miss the dysfunctional concept of American democracy.” @rachelhandler.bsky.social

Everything about this piece from @rachelhandler.bsky.social is true and silly and beautiful.

This should be offered unpaywalled as a balm for our wounded psyches. A must-read. Pure art.

‘And Just Like That …’ was a state of mind, and that mind is in a coma. It was a place to go for 44 minutes a week, a safe and necessary container for our wild and dangerous national id, which will now roam unchecked and destroy us all.

wrote an obituary for “and just like that…,” which was, among so many other things, a container for our wild and dangerous national id, which will now roam unchecked and destroy us all www.vulture.com/article/and-...

I profiled Jennifer Love Hewitt, who was vulnerable & honest as we talked about surviving the early aughts, the ongoing conversation about her body instead of her work, her anxiety over returning to I Know What You Did Last Summer & a lot more www.vulture.com/article/jenn...

Jennifer Love Hewitt faced intense sexism early in her career. It almost kept her from returning to the franchise that made her famous, ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer.’

nadia melliti won best actress at cannes! she is astonishing and this was her first acting role ever. she’d never even been in a school play. www.vulture.com/article/the-...

my final cannes dispatch 🫡

The 95-year-old June Squibb is at the festival as the lead in ‘Eleanor the Great,’ Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut.

had lunch with my girl june squibb at cannes and we gossiped about men, matzoh ball soup, and lying www.vulture.com/article/june...

‘Titane’ director Julia Ducournau was ‘scared’ to make her new film, ‘Alpha,’ and calls it her most ‘exposing’ work yet.

In their new film, Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor were "naughty": "Josh has the capacity to make me feel very much like a young boy. I felt very playful," Mescal added www.vulture.com/article/paul...

The great @rachelhandler.bsky.social is this generation's Nellie Bly.

"I did not recognize anyone in attendance, in neither the celebrity sense nor the existential sense."

Rachel is the best chronicler of Cannes insanity

spent an absolutely cursed evening listening to kevin spacey ramble at cannes; was sat on by a woman who didn’t notice i was not a chair www.vulture.com/article/kevi...

approached spike lee at the highest 2 lowest party at cannes and we ended up sitting down and getting into it about the knicks, the mysteries of the universe, and cannes past, all while he scrolled through his instagram explaining his photos to me www.vulture.com/article/spik...

Jennifer Lawrence speaks at Cannes about how motherhood shaped her role in Lynne Ramsay’s film Die My Love with Robert Pattinson

talked to kristen stewart at cannes about the chronology of water, blood and orgasms, being married, fiona apple, her new tattoos and pink hair, and how making this movie “wounded” her www.vulture.com/article/kris...

Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut just premiered at Cannes, where she was frank about the sexist barriers she faced in getting it made — and why she didn’t star in it herself.

At a Cannes Film Festival Q&A with this year’s Honorary Palme d’Or recipient Robert De Niro, the actor said confoundingly few words, frustrating some attendees.