In the years since Love Actually was released, it’s been analyzed in hundreds of different ways. Not least of which is the shudder-inducing, super creepy stalker elements of…
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Read more “Last Christmas” Is “Secretly” About Being Outed By the Object of Your AffectionIn what might be deemed a cruel irony, George Michael died on Christmas Day of something that prompted the Grinch himself to live a much fuller life: an…
Read more “Last Christmas” Finally Gets Its Deserved UK Christmas Number 1 SpotNew York Times critic A.O. Scott was forced to get into the Christmas spirit a little too early in 2003. On November 7—20 years ago today—he published two…
Read more ‘Love Actually’ and ‘Elf’ Are Timeless, and Very Rooted in a Specific EraEven Bill Nighy hated auditioning. The star of Living took a trip down memory lane with Vanity Fair and talked through his storied career, from Love Actually to…
Read more Bill Nighy Never Auditioned Again After ‘Love Actually’
