The Jinx—Part Two, premiering April 21 on HBO, is uniquely positioned within the world of true crime because the docuseries itself became part of the story. Spoiler alert if you haven’t seen it (and if so, go watch now! It’s just as engrossing years later!), but Robert Durst was arrested for the murder of his best…
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You may be forgiven for thinking, as we did, that it was wildly flattering of the folks behind the new Apple TV+ series Franklin (which premieres April 12) to cast Michael Douglas as that titular founding father. Even at 79, the Wall Street and Fatal Attraction actor is as dashing and charming a screen presence as…
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The Criterion Channel is a bright spot in the streaming revolution, and one that has swung us back to thinking cable was actually pretty great. The difference between Criterion and Netflix or Hulu is curation. Criterion lays out a feast of titles, all chosen for their quality, cultural import, or simply being an…
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All those people who accused Greta Gerwig of selling out when she announced her Narnia films likely didn’t know that there was an even bigger Rich Uncle Pennybags lurking in the shadows of Barbie Land. Even though her character left the world of toys to become a real girl at the end of Barbie, Margot Robbie is hopping…
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At a recent panel event following a screening of Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV, Drake Bell and All That alums Giovonnie Samuels and Bryan Hearne addressed criticism of the parents of child stars, who ostensibly didn’t protect their children from the “dark side” that the docuseries covered. “We hear a lot…
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The Blair Witch Project is a once-in-a-lifetime film. It’s the type of low-budget horror movie, like Evil Dead and Night Of The Living Dead, that not only inspires a generation of creative, passionate, and hardworking filmmakers but also a generation of Hollywood executives attempting to turn them into cinematic…
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No one has written a more scathing takedown of an author than the ones currently being shared about Lauren Oyler since, well, Lauren Oyler. The Fake Accounts (2021) author, best known for her brutal critiques of fellow writers like Roxane Gay, Jia Tolentino, Greta Gerwig, and Sally Rooney, has a new essay collection…
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Kevin Costner finally said a bit more about Yellowstone, though we’ll be honest—his comments are pretty vague. Amid drama over his exit and rumors he wasn’t getting along with Taylor Sheridan behind the scenes, Costner told Entertainment Tonight that he’d “like to be able to do” the remaining episodes of the fifth and…
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“You have two very alpha, driven people. You get two, there can only be one.” That’s John Cena’s theory on The Fast And The Furious Feud, otherwise known as the Candy Ass Controversy of 2016, otherwise known as Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson vs. Vin Diesel. This is common knowledge: nobody can out-alpha an alpha, so two…
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Ever since she was announced as the West End’s new Juliet in March, Bad Education’s Francesca Amewudah-Rivers has received a nasty barrage of racist abuse from the usual suspects online. Amewudah-Rivers will star alongside Tom Holland in the Jamie Lloyd Company’s new staging of Romeo & Juliet, which opens in London…
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Why do we love kaiju movies so much? Is it the sight of an enormous creature stomping its way through a metropolis, tapping into our secret desires to see them leveled? Or the representation of nature’s wrath against humanity for its mistreatment of the planet? A punishment for our sins of avarice and hubris? Whatever…
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Yulin Kuang is a lifelong devotee of the romance genre. Having a passion for passion is why she was tapped to adapt two of Emily Henry’s bestselling novels, People We Meet On Vacation and Beach Read, the latter of which she’ll also direct. Tackling BookTok’s favorite romances is a tall order, and the appetite for…
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Give it up for Allison Janney, ladies and gentlemen. After half a season of essentially twiddling her thumbs, the woman is on fire throughout this week’s Palm Royale. Let me run down some of my favorite Evelyn Rollins lines from this episode:
The Crow just flew into CinemaCon, and, boy, are its arms tired.
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Get your jazz hands ready, people. Joker 2, which premieres in theaters October 4, finally has a trailer. The buzzy sequel to the 2019 Batman offshoot is subtitled Folie á Deux, which is a term for shared psychosis, or when two people share the same delusion. As two of our most gonzo actors working today, there are…
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George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, two old friends whose careers have long intersected. Coppola, of course, got George Lucas his start in the business, and Lucas dropped Apocalypse Now to make Star Wars. Lucas sits on a mountain of cash after selling Star Wars to Disney for a cool $4 billion. Coppola sold his…
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