Straight Up

Harry Styles, controversial new Bumble film Swiped and Reese Witherspoon


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On the show this week: Reese Witherspoon has teamed up with Harlan Coben to write a thriller, an AI R&B artist has just landed a £2.4 million record deal and Matthew McConaughey’s take on the secret to lasting love has gone viral. Plus, Harry Styles’ marathon run, Charli XCX’s Sicily wedding, the controversial new Kanye West doc In Whose Name and our review of the Bumble founder biopic Swiped. Does Lily James’ portrayal of Whitney Wolfe Herd signal the return of the girl boss, or provide proof that dating apps really are dead? Enjoy hunnies! 


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Recs/reviews


  • Reese Witherspoon, The Interview, NYT
  • Gone Before Goodbye, Reese Witherspoon
  • Gen Z Only Watches TV Through Social Clips. Hollywood is Scrambling, The Ankler
  • Matthew McConaughey, Diary of a CEO
  • Cornfield Chase, Hans Zimmer’s Interstellar soundtrack 
  • In Whose Name 
  • Dear Dickhead by Virginie Despentes, from all good bookshops
  • Swiped, Hulu / Disney+ 
  • Tell Me Lies, Disney+ 
  • Culture Debrief: Are We Witnessing The Second Coming Of The Girlboss? Grazia 
  • Black Rabbit, Netflix
  • Lily James leads a Girl Boss social network that is half film, half Bumble advert, Independent 
  • Lily James: ‘Would I use a dating app? Maybe I don’t need one’, Telegraph


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