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Matthew Jacobs is a freelance culture writer who covers movies and TV. He has contributed to Vulture, Vanity Fair, GQ, The Hollywood Reporter, Thrillist, and HuffPost.

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Blake Lively’s New Film Is a Campy Distraction From Scandal

HERE WE GO AGAIN

While everyone is fixated on Lively’s bombshell lawsuit, “Another Simple Favor” premiered at SXSW—and is actually a great time.

Matthew Jacobs | Published Mar 08, 2025

Making History: There’s Finally a Gay Indian Rom-Com

MEET THE PARENTS: HINDU EDITION

Stars Jonathan Groff and Karan Soni and director Roshan Selthi on the joy of making “A Nice Indian Boy,” joking: “An independent film needs a famous white person to get made.”

Matthew Jacobs | Published Mar 12, 2024

The Reason eBay Sent a Box of Cockroaches to Bloggers’ Home

CAN’T MAKE IT UP

“Whatever It Takes,” which just premiered at the SXSW Film and TV Festival, chronicles the sordid harassment that a pair of bloggers received from eBay—stalking, bugs, and all.

Matthew Jacobs | Published Mar 09, 2024

The Moving Sundance Doc About a Gym Run by Former Prisoners

A NEW START

Director Debra Granik talks to The Daily Beast’s Obsessed about her lively, eye-opening new documentary about the challenge of triumphing after incarceration.

Matthew Jacobs | Published Jan 26, 2024

The Magic, Manipulative Secrets of NYC Psychics Revealed

THE GIFT?

In “Look Into My Eyes,” a documentary filmmaker peeks behind the curtain of the mysterious world of New York psychic readings. What she learned may surprise you.

Matthew Jacobs | Published Jan 24, 2024

Meet River Gallo, the Intersex It Star of Sundance

NEXT GENERATION

Gallo wrote and stars in “Ponyboi,” the electric new film in which they star alongside Dylan O’Brien playing a sex worker, custodian, drug dealer, and Bruce Springsteen fan.

Matthew Jacobs | Published Jan 21, 2024

Lucy Lawless: How Xena Became Sundance’s Hottest Director

SECOND ACTS

The former Warrior Princess tells Obsessed about her unlikely journey to directing the documentary “Never Look Away,” about an intrepid war correspondent.

Matthew Jacobs | Published Jan 20, 2024

The Reason Why You Love the Horror Comedy ‘Totally Killer’

BEHIND THE SCENES

Nahnatchka Khan dishes with Obsessed about her new film and what made past projects like “Always Be My Maybe” hits.

Matthew Jacobs | Published Oct 07, 2023

The Real-Life Bank Heist That Should Have Us All Petrified

CAN’T MAKE IT UP

The new documentary “Billion Dollar Heist” chronicles the 2016 digital attack on Bangladesh’s financial system, which could have been worse with the help of today’s AI. Be afraid…

Matthew Jacobs | Published Aug 25, 2023

Ari Aster Answers All Your Questions About ‘Beau Is Afraid’

SPOILER ALERT!

Talking Mariah Carey songs, decapitations, and penis monsters in a very spoiler-y conversation with the director of “Beau Is Afraid.”

Matthew Jacobs | Published Apr 17, 2023

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