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Forbes
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
11 Things Olivia Munn Loves, Including An Unusual Item In Her Carry-On
Shop Like is a column in which Forbes Vetted asks some of the most stylish and notable personalities about their favorite items to buy, gift and receive. Look no further for shopping advice and inspiration. As a mom of two, a wife and an actress, Olivia Munn has a packed schedule. The Your Friends & Neighbors star is currently filming season 2 of the hit Apple TV show, but that didn't stop her from attending Through Her Lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women's Filmmaker Program luncheon last week in New York City. For Munn, the reaction to the show has been unparalleled. 'The response we've gotten from the first season has been so amazing; it has given everyone an extra boost as we film,' she told me. 'Since the finale, I've gotten so many texts and DMs from friends that were so surprised by the ending and never predicted it, which is what you want in a 'whodunit' storyline.' Between filming and caring for her two young children with husband John Mulaney, she's always on the go, so an effortless but elevated wardrobe is what she gravitates toward. 'My look works perfectly for me because it's an elevated version of what I wear on a daily basis,' she said of her outfit [below] from the event. 'I love denim paired with an easy blouse or tee, then paired with a classic and timeless bag and watch. I always gravitate towards timeless and classic pieces over trendy: pieces that will wear and age beautifully over time that I can pass down to [my daughter] Mei to wear one day.' Olivia Munn, wearing Chanel, attends Through Her Lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women's Filmmaker Program luncheon at the Greenwich Hotel on June 6, 2025, in New York City. Jamie McCarthy/WireImage Below, Munn shares her shopping essentials that help fuel her success and keep her organized—and always looking chic. 'I recently got the Celluma red light therapy device and will use that every night, which is a great time to meditate, since I have to lie down for it.' 'I will buy any vintage, worn-in Levi's that I find. I have so many, and I love each and every one. I literally can't get enough.' 'A Lego t-shirt that has pictures of Lego pieces on it. I was just at Legoland with my son, and all he wanted was a shirt with Lego pieces on it—and can you believe that not one gift shop has that? They only have ones with Lego heads on it.' 'A small, very flat mirror. Checking my makeup in my phone in selfie mode never helps because it looks distorted. A mirror is the only way I can see if I blended my makeup fully. There have been one too many times I've gone outside only for a friend to tell me to go back inside and blend.' 'If I had to pick just one beauty product, it would be Sublimage Le Masque Ultimate Mask. It leaves my skin so hydrated that I wake up with softer, dewy skin. And since using it, I've had so many compliments from friends who see a difference in my skin. A little tip I learned when layering products is to apply them in order of thinnest consistency to thickest. It helps penetrate into the skin better and then lock it in.' 'I use a squishy blanket as a pillow. It's plush and scrunches up into a pillow consistency. I wrap it halfway around my neck, so if I turn my head while sleeping, it doesn't press into my face. Lying on your side can really age your face, and this has helped tremendously. I've been doing this for years. The one I get is the Snuggle Sac.' 'I carry a hot water bottle. I'm cold on every flight. The hot water bottle has changed the flying game for me. I bring it onto the plane empty and ask the flight attendant to fill it with the hot water they use for their tea and coffee.' 'Having two children—a 3-year-old and an 8-month-old—most of my top-handle purses have moved to the back of my closet to make way for all of my crossbody ones.' 'I love my Tumi carry-on suitcase. It's the perfect size to hold everything I need for a three-day trip—it's lightweight so I can put it in the overhead compartment by myself. There are so many brands that make their luggage so heavy that by the time you add your clothes and shoes, it tips the scales into having to pay to check a bag.' 'The Nanit baby camera is my favorite. The interface is amazing, and the video quality is fantastic.' 'As a second-time mom, I made a list of items that are must-haves. The Doona stroller is an incredible invention. It converts from a car seat to a stroller, so you don't have to lug around both.
Globe and Mail
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Globe and Mail
What to watch this weekend: Canadian horror for Friday the 13th – and the high and low bars for FUBAR on Netflix
Hell Motel, Hollywood Suite On Demand On Friday the 13th comes the first episode of this new Canadian horror whodunit from the creators of the anthology series Slasher (Aaron Martin and Ian Carpenter). A group of true-crime influencers attend the opening weekend of a resort built on the site of a diabolic slaughter 30 years earlier, and you'll be unsurprised to learn that they start to be knocked off one at a time next. Paula Brancati – of Degrassi: The Next Generation and also one of many Slasher alums in the cast – stars as a scream queen aging out of 'crying and dying' roles, while Will & Grace's Eric McCormack hams it up as a TV chef who serves up vegan dishes shaped like severed body parts. Stage greats Yanna McIntosh and Gray Powell play a couple of RV-ing normies who get stranded at the motel during a hurricane. It's solid self-aware Canadian genre TV that doesn't pretend to be anything more that a bloody good time. Though it premieres Friday, new episodes stream Tuesdays. ROMCON: Who the F**k is Jason Porter?, Prime Video More Canadian horror streaming as of Friday the 13th: This two-part doc follows up on the true-crime tale of a Toronto-area romance scammer some may remember from a 2022 Toronto Life feature (by Jane Gerster, who makes an appearance). The man sometimes known as Jason Porter finally met his match in a real estate broker named Heather – who he moved in with during the pandemic, and who persisted until charges were laid once she figured out his scam. I admire the bravery of the many women who speak out on camera about their experience being love-bombed followed by a disturbing mix of gaslighting, fraud and theft. 'You don't want to be known as the woman who got fooled by a con man,' says one. Director Henry Roosevelt keeps things light-ish in this doc being sold as 'the dark side of dating in one of North America's largest cities,' but in the margins is sad commentary of how police can brush off 'domestic' crimes and the glacial pace of the Ontario criminal justice system. Bottoms, Crave When this subversive spin on the teen-sex comedy from Toronto-born filmmaker Emma Seligman was released in cinemas in 2023, The Globe and Mail's Barry Hertz described it as Fight Club meets But I'm a Cheerleader meets Wet Hot American Summer. After a run-in with the football team, lesbian virgin besties PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri) start a feminist self-defence club in order to attract their cheerleader crushes, and the proceedings only get more satirical and surreal from there. 'While Bottoms' final leg dips ever so slightly into genuine emotion – forgetting its detached, ironic cool – Seligman's concoction is delightfully strange and unabashedly, proudly queer,' wrote Hertz in his Critic's Pick review. The film lands on Crave on June 13. FUBAR, Netflix Arnold Schwarzenegger's action-comedy series is back for a second season, with creator Nick Santora having upped neither his action nor his comedy game since the show's first batch of episodes two years ago. The former Governator and Monica Barbaro (seen in the interim as Joan Baez in A Complete Unknown) return as father and daughter CIA operatives Luke and Emma Brunner – their cover blown and now living in an overcrowded house in an undisclosed location with family members, exes and fellow spies. Mostly shot in Ontario, FUBAR's cup runneth over with Canucks from Jay Baruchel to Enrico Colantoni, but only Burnaby, B.C.'s Carrie-Anne Moss, a new addition this season as a former East German spy, manages to elicit so much as a smile from a script crammed with leaden exposition and wan one-liners. So, why am I including it on the list this week, you may ask … FUBAR, Netflix (and CBC Gem and Crave with Starz) … because FUBAR the series is just the latest Hollywood product to unconscionably muddy the search results of an earlier, superior Canadian screen classic by using the same title (see: Paul Haggis's Crash versus David Cronenberg's; Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom vs. Ken Finkleman's). It's my duty as a patriotic watcher then to remind viewers of Michael Dowse's cult 2002 mockumentary, FUBAR – in which Edmonton metalhead misadventurers Terry (David Lawrence ) and Dean (Paul Spence) have their beer-shotgunning bromance complicated by a diagnosis of testicular cancer. In 2023, Globe film critic Barry Hertz deemed it the eighth best comedy ever produced in this country: 'a high-beer mark of Canadian comedy, as committed to its central bit as it is sincere in its love for its 'just give'r' heroes.' The film is leaving Netflix on June 30, but both FUBAR and FUBAR 2 (2010) are also on CBC Gem and Crave with Starz. The short-lived TV series FUBAR Age of Computer (2017) is, alas, only available for rent or purchase at the moment as far as I can tell.
Daily Mail
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Queen Camilla set to feature in whodunnit thriller starring her 'favourite detective'
As its claret-coloured carriages clatter off the tracks, a shot rings in the air. Just who has derailed the royal train with Queen Camilla on board, is this really an assassination attempt - or could there be an even more sinister murder afoot? Fortunately no-one is likely to be more thrilled to find themselves taking a leading role in their own royal whodunit than Her Majesty The Queen. A voracious reader, who is partial to a good crime thriller - the twistier, the better - she is, the Mail can reveal, about to star in the latest 'Roy Grace' novel, the multi-million selling literary sensation by British writer Peter James. It can even be disclosed that Camilla had something of a hand in the gripping new plot, having suggested to James some time ago that he might want to set his legendary Brighton-based detective's latest case in London. 'And where better in London than Buckingham Palace?' the writer says. While not endorsed by the palace, James has nevertheless had the opportunity for some 'extensive behind-the-scenes research' there, as well as 'insights' from members of The Royal Household - including the Queen herself. Making the identities of those at the heart of 'The Hawk is Dead: A Killer in the Palace' all the more intriguing. The book, which will be published by Pan Macmillan on October 21, is set to become a global bestseller. 'Opening with a cinematic derailment of the royal train, The Hawk is dead takes Roy Grace deep into the heart of Buckingham Palace, where he is called upon to solve a murder and what looks to be a royal assassination attempt,' its publishers told the Mail yesterday. 'Queen Camilla, a well-known book-lover and reading champion through her charity, The Queen's Reading Room, has always been one of the first people to receive each Grace novel and is excited to have a starring role, alongside His Majesty King Charles, in Peter's latest thriller.' It is understood that Camilla, 77, has already had a sneak peak at this as yet unpublished one too. James, who was born and brought up in Sussex where his books are based and now lives on Jersey, has 21 Sunday Times No.1 bestsellers under his belt and sold over 23 million copies worldwide. His Roy Grace series has also been made into a television show staring John Simm, with the fifth series having just been aired and a sixth in production. Her Majesty has made no secret of being a fan, having named James as her favourite crime writer. The two have founded an unlikely but firm friendship over the years, with the Queen visiting the set of 'Grace' in 2021 and James becoming a dedicated supporter of her 200,000-strong online book club and charity The Queen's Reading Room, designed to promote a love of literature and passion to improve literacy. James, who said he was 'moved to tears' by her nomination of Grace as her favourite detective because of the novels' 'pretty terrifying' storylines and the hero's tragic personal life, said: 'It's a decade since I discovered Queen Camilla is my No.1 fan and we've since built up a great rapport. 'She asked me when I might set a Roy Grace novel in London … and the seed was sown. Where better in London than Buckingham Palace? 'It has been the most fascinating research I've ever done, learning about the inner workings of the Royal Household and the Palace.' James added: 'I came up with an idea, which I ran by Her Majesty – and she loved it. Throughout the writing of the novel, during which I've done extensive behind-the-scenes research at the Palace, I have received invaluable insights from members of the Royal Household, including Her Majesty herself. 'The story begins with Queen Camilla travelling on the Royal Train to Brighton to begin a tour of hospices along the South Coast, but the train is derailed in a tunnel just north of the city. As she and her entourage emerge, a shot rings out and a member of the Royal Household is killed. 'Detective Superintendent Roy Grace takes charge of the investigation, which is being treated by everyone – except him – as an assassination attempt on The Queen. But Roy thinks there is something else going on. A second killing, this time inside the Palace, indicates he might be right . . .' He also revealed that the plot centres around a conspiracy 'deep in the Royal Household' to take advantage of the current - real life - building works going on there, a ten-year renovation programme of all 375 rooms. 'The conspirators are stealing items from the Royal Collection, 64,000 priceless pieces that have been moved into temporary storage, and are selling them to foreign buyers on the dark web,' he added. Buckingham Palace declined to comment, although aides stressed that writers had long been offered access for research purposes and 'The Hawk is Dead' was not endorsed by the royal household. Others also wryly noted the old adage that 'any resemblance to personas living… or dead… is purely coincidental'.
Telegraph
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Little Disasters, review: a Mumsnet message board brought to life
Hell is other people, particularly the people in your NCT group. There's always an immaculate mother who can find time to bake three varieties of biscuits for the coffee morning despite having a newborn, an alpha mother going demented because they can't wait to get back to the office, and a hippie mother who wants to tell you how they sautéed the placenta. This is the landscape of Little Disasters (Paramount+), a soapy whodunit about middle-class parents with vast kitchens and dark secrets. Jess (Diane Kruger) turns up to A&E one night with her 10-month-old daughter, Betsey. The doctor on duty is Liz (EastEnders' Jo Joyner), who discovers that Betsey has a fractured skull which Jess can't explain, and follows protocol by calling social services. This is awkward, because the two women have been close friends since meeting in a baby group a decade earlier. It's also tricky because we're talking about characters who live in Richmond upon Thames and take the sort of holidays in Provence that involve table-scaping and wearing expensive straw hats. 'They're used to being treated differently, as if they couldn't be on our radar,' a social worker tells the police. Over six episodes, we learn that – who'd have guessed it? – nobody is as perfect as they seem. Liz drinks too much. Jess, always serene and well-groomed in shades of silken cream, has been struggling with her mental health. The two other women making up the group are Charlotte (Shelley Conn), a glamorous lawyer who planned her induction around her work schedule and gave birth in a unit 'really popular with the royals', and pink-haired Mel (Emily Taaffe), married to a man who thinks he's cool because he works in the music business. The story is adapted from a novel by Sarah Vaughan, whose previous book, Anatomy of a Scandal, was a hit for Netflix. The thriller element comes from working out who hurt Betsey. It's bingeable but at times feels sloppily plotted – why on earth are these people still maintaining their friendships in the midst of all this? There is an air of unreality, and a sense that we're looking at fake sets rather than real homes. Why does everyone live in a madly luxurious house with the footprint of an aircraft hangar, even the NHS doctor married to a teacher? Best to stop asking questions and just enjoy the Crittall windows, bespoke cabinetry and sofas big enough to seat a family of 12. The men are very much secondary, although all of the actors do well with the limited material, particularly Patrick Baladi as Charlotte's thoroughly decent husband and Stephen Campbell Moore as Mel's less pleasant other half. Behind it all there are serious points being made about how new mothers can struggle: feeling unable to stop a baby's incessant crying, trying to manage the demands of older children, dealing with the pressures on a marriage. Then there are the smaller issues of screen time, table manners and whether or not you can tell someone else's children to belt up. It's a Mumsnet messageboard brought to life.
