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Fran Hoepfner is a freelance writer and film critic who covers pop culture and the Internet. She is a senior editor at Bright Wall/Dark Room and publishes the weekly Substack Fran Magazine.

  1. say ‘hunk’ again
    The Hunks Du Jour Need to Start Having Fun on Instagram AgainWe have the report cards and the curve isn’t looking so… hot.
  2. keeping up with the royals
    Wherever She Is, Kate Middleton Isn’t on Our SideThe princess is no folk hero, or lesbian, or secret IRA member.
  3. recap
    Here’s What You Missed Last Time on DuneAhead of Dune: Part Two’s release, let’s jog your memory of the big plot points in the first movie.
  4. including her son?
    A Brief Defense of Tenet’s Worst LineElizabeth Debicki uttering “including my son” gets at the root of Christopher Nolan’s whole ethos.
  5. dune: part haiku
    Josh Brolin Explains His Viral Poetry for Dune: Part Two“I love that there’s a poem that they exploited into the idea that I wanted to sleep with Timothée.”
  6. my sob will go on
    Have You Tried the Score Cry?It feels good to shed tears during a movie. It feels even better to bawl your brains out to a soundtrack.
  7. culture wars
    Gina Carano and Elon Musk Team Up Against Disney and LucasfilmThese two think they’re the scrappy underdogs in this free-speech fight.
  8. a good old chinwag
    Is Paul Giamatti the First-Ever Oscar Nominee With a Podcast?The Holdovers star has been chatting it up on a mic for nearly a year.
  9. oscars 2024
    A Joe Hisaishi Oscar Nomination Could Have Made HistoryAs the Academy Awards gets with the times, Best Original Score is still left in the dust.
  10. awards season
    The Couples of This Year’s Awards Season, RankedThe Oscar nominations gave us a reason to update our ranking of the smooching duos we may see this award season.
  11. elly conway
    Taylor Swift Did Not Write the Argylle Book, So Why Do Swifties Think She Did?Some of the evidence is actually compelling.
  12. taking another look at two
    What Is a Bradley Cooper Film?The answer is more complicated than “a love story starring Bradley Cooper.” Sort of.
  13. extra extra
    We Talked to the May December Kid Who Jumps Up to Impress Natalie PortmanAnd, apparently, jumping up to touch a doorframe to impress Natalie Portman is more of a middle-school thing these days.
  14. books
    Every Celebrity’s a Writer NowA guide to 2023’s overflowing library of celebrity memoirs (and memoirishes).
  15. ‘true’ story
    May December May Cause Internet BrainTodd Haynes’s kaleidoscopic new film was not built for online discourse.
  16. timmy wéek
    Timothée Chalamet’s Eternal Online BoyhoodA generation’s biggest movie star grew up vagueposting.
  17. elizabeth debicki of boys
    The Jacob Elordi Charm Offensive Goes BigWe can’t stop talking about Jacob Elordi, and he can’t stop talking about his dog.
  18. classic marty
    How Much Press Can One Man Do?The Killers of the Flower Moon press tour is forcing Scorsese to do things he’s never done — and it hits different, as he might now say.
  19. goddess talk
    In Worthy, Jada Pinkett Smith Centers HerselfIt is in many ways the most Virgo book of all time.
  20. celebrity memoirs
    Jada Pinkett-Smith Is the Queen of Contradictory SpinPinkett-Smith isn’t claiming to come clean. She’s just “taking back her narrative.”
  21. swift engine optimization
    Did Taylor Swift Attend a New York Jets Game to Detract From Her Private Jets?Other famous people have gone to greater lengths to bury their own Google results.
  22. feuds
    What’s Going On in This Vicious Kardashian Phone Call?You know you’re watching kwality reality TV when an on-camera feud ends with one sister calling the other a [bleep] witch.
  23. what were the 2010s?
    The 50 Best Comedy Sketches of the DecadeDid you think you could end the 2010s without one more viewing of “David S. Pumpkins”?
  24. appreciations
    Tim Robinson’s Netflix Sketch Show Is Comedy PerfectionIt’s Robinson’s world and we’re all screaming our way through it.