Review: Netflix’s Marriage Story wrenches an authentic heart out of an ugly divorce

Sam Brooks reviews Marriage Story, the latest Netflix movie that tackles that universally horrible experience: divorce. There’s a moment, about halfway into Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, Netflix’s new film about the dissolution of a marriage, that hit me harder than anything else in the movie up until that point. During their first mediation with lawyers, theatre director … Read more

Revealed: Scarlett Johansson’s secret history of deep-method movie roles

The blessed ScarJo has kept very quiet some of her most impressive performances. Movie star Scarlett Johansson has faced criticisms around taking the part (she ended up standing down) of a trans person in Rub and Tug and the lead in Ghost in the Shell, which was a Japanese character in its original manga form. She’s … Read more

The Spinoff’s unofficial celebrity eating tour of New Zealand

Alex Casey scours the internet to assemble the definitive guide to eating like a celebrity in New Zealand.  Just like a teacher buying bog roll at the supermarket or a chimpanzee riding a Segway in dungarees, there’s something not quite right about seeing a celebrity eat somewhere normal. Because if celebrities eat at normal places, … Read more