Modern Beauty Trends: In: Hunky Firemen | Out: Instagram Addictions

Friday, October 20, 2017

In: Hunky Firemen | Out: Instagram Addictions

Has our collective Instagram obsession gone too far? Probably.
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“My mom would always say, ‘food is love.’ I don’t always agree, but sometimes it really is.” — Jake Gyllenhaal

Firemen

Snowmen

There’s another odd assortment of flicks at the box office this weekend, but on the wide-release front, at least, the critical buzz is clear: There’s only one film worth seeing. It’s not The Snowman, which stars Michael Fassbender as a detective named Harry Hole and has received reviews as unfortunate as that character’s name. Natural disaster–themed Geostorm hasn’t been screened for critics yet, but it is said to be a disaster flick in more ways than one. Reviews aren’t in yet either for Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween or for the faith-based Same Kind of Different as Me, but don’t hold your breath. What critics do love, however, is Only the Brave, which stars Josh Brolin as the leader of a team of elite, mountain-based firefighters (it’s currently got a 91 percent on Rotten Tomatoes). If none of that strikes your fancy, awards-season contenders BPM (Beats Per Minute), Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes’s latest), and The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell's second spooky team-up of the year) all open in select cities.

TV Documentaries

Scripted Series

As for your small-screen viewing, well, The Walking Dead returns to AMC on Sunday night. If you’re looking for something else, your best bets might be a trio of small-screen documentaries. Remember that time three years ago, when Sean Penn and a Mexican actress met the world’s most notorious drug dealer, El Chapo? Yeah, wild stuff. Well, that actress, Kate del Castillo, tells her side of the story and how she got cozy with the drug dealer in the first place, in Netflix’s documiniseries The Day I Met El Chapo (Penn reportedly hates it). Saturday at 9 p.m., Showtime premieres its George Michael tribute/documentary, George Michael: Freedom. (Kate Moss, Elton John, and other famous friends are rumored to appear in it.) Hulu might have the most intriguing doc of all with Too Funny Fail. It looks back at The Dana Carvey Show—which included future superstars like Steve Carrell and Stephen Colbert in the cast, as well as a murderers’ row of a writers’ room, with Louis C.K., Charlie Kaufman, and 30 Rock co-creator Robert Carlock all there—and bravely asks why the show was so terrible.

Unplugging

Instagram Addiction

Have we gone too far with Instagram? Last week we found out (thanks to science) that people were choosing their vacation destinations based on how cool they would make them look on Instagram. Now we’ve found out that the latest trend in Russia is renting a private jet, but not to take you anywhere. People literally just pay to get on the jet while it’s on the ground and take Instagram pictures on it like they’re international, well, jetsetters. Buyers can get both the “look at me 35,000 feet in the air” shot and the “just casually boarding my jet” tarmac shot. Of course, if you’re looking for a real plane to take you somewhere for Instagram purposes, it should come as little surprise that, according to a new analysis, the most Instagrammed cities in America are, in order, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, and Las Vegas. Of course, two are the biggest cities in America, but all four are, in their own way, shallow, glittering dens of sin and consumption.

Claudia Vergara

@CDVergara

With more than 150,000 Instagram followers, Sofia Vergara’s lookalike niece, Claudia, has firmly established herself as an influencer and noteworthy person in her own right (hey, she’s already on the cover of Colombian tabloids).