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Emma Fraser
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I write about TV. Words at many places including The Daily Beast, Elle, Marie Claire, IGN, The Playlist, Backstage Magazine, and more. Talking about costumes, fashion and Felicity’s hair.
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Back on the costume beat for the LAT Envelope, talking to designer Grace Snell and Jacqueline Durran about their collaborations with Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun and Blitz. They are two v different movies and settings with some surprising overlapping sartorial themes www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Saoirse Ronan's two new films are worlds apart. Their costumes? Not so much
Despite being set more than 70 years apart, London nightlife scenes in the World War II drama 'Blitz' and 'The Outrun’s' 21st century tale of alcoholism and recovery each display a 1930s influence on ...
www.latimes.com
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We're doing an Advent calendar of iconic Christmas movie dresses and we're kicking things off with Donna Reed's dutiful wife frock in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE and how it highlighted the film's themes, time and place:
tomandlorenzo.com/2025/12/chri...
Christmas Movie Dress Advent Calendar Day 1: Donna Reed in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE - Tom + Lorenzo
We're highlighting a different classic Christmas movie dress every day until Christmas Eve and we figured we'd kick things off with one of the most iconic
tomandlorenzo.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
December 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company
December 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
December 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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I hate that our collective response to the news of a cultural destruction in the form of Netflix acquiring Warner Bros. is, "well, at least it wasn't the other evil conglomerate."
December 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This interview that @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social did with the great Tommy Schlamme is one I think of often www.vulture.com/2015/02/amer...
December 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Wrote about this week's episode of Pluribus! www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/the...
The Surprise Celeb Cameo Behind This Super Gross TV Twist
Never in a million years would we have predicted this person showing up on this show.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Took a trip to my hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon to explore the real-life places from Hamnet, as well as chatting to production designer Fiona Crombie about bringing the famous landmarks to life on screen www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/how...
How ‘Hamnet’ Exhumes Shakespeare’s Real-Life Stomping Ground
We visited the birthplace of William Shakespeare to summon the playwright’s spirit in the town where he lived—and which comes back to life in the buzzy new movie.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Took a trip to my hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon to explore the real-life places from Hamnet, as well as chatting to production designer Fiona Crombie about bringing the famous landmarks to life on screen www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/how...
How ‘Hamnet’ Exhumes Shakespeare’s Real-Life Stomping Ground
We visited the birthplace of William Shakespeare to summon the playwright’s spirit in the town where he lived—and which comes back to life in the buzzy new movie.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Hell yeah. Skarsgårds and Jessie Buckley/Colin Farrell are also immediate must-sees for me.
They put the Friday Night Lights guys together!!!
December 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The Americans rewatch continues and the icicles conversation from S2 is still an all-time Philip and Elizabeth moment for me. The intimacy! No one does eye intense, meaningful eye contact quite like Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell.
December 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Turns out that the end credits music from Hamnet was something Max Richter had written for *the* scene. I get the urge to use On the Nature of Daylight, but the original score would've had more impact (and I love the movie) theankler.com/p/hes-the-re...
December 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”

What a legacy he had.

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
The involuntary jolt that comes from hearing the alarm I use on my phone (you know the one) whenever I hear it in a TV show or movie. Every single time.
November 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I'm gonna miss Harry Lawtey, but I also cannot wait for more Industry. Happy New Year, indeed! www.elle.com/culture/movi...
Here's Your First Look at 'Industry' Season 4 and Its New Power Players
Creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay tease the most “compulsively watchable” season yet.
www.elle.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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RIP Udo Kier, a true original
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his one and only social media post:
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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This is the funniest thing that has happened this year.
"I expect to be helping him, not hurting him. A big help" -- Trump is totally charmed by Mamdani
November 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The new episode of Pluribus made me want to rewatch You Hurt My Feelings (and the guest star is brilliant casting).
November 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I had a great chat with Johnny Berchtold about playing Paul Murdaugh in Murdaugh: Death in the Family www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/mur...
What It’s Like Playing the Victim of the Murdaugh Murders
“Murdaugh: Death in the Family” star Johnny Berchtold takes us inside the chilling finale episode.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Still not into the VF Hollywood Issue coming out in November (and the all dude cover rumor is true) www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
The 2026 Hollywood Issue: Let’s Hear It For the Boys!
A$AP Rocky, Glen Powell, Jonathan Bailey, Michael B. Jordan, Andrew Garfield, and seven more stars join our new class of leading men.
www.vanityfair.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM