Netflix’s Red Notice Is Much Less Than the Sum of Its Stars

Three of the biggest movie stars in the world converge for one big action-adventure spectacular, enlivened by sound like some project from the late 1990s, before IP became the selling point and actors more incidental. The experiment of Rawson Marshall Thurber’s film is to see if their respective styles can meld together into something that […]

Why Ruth Negga’s Passing Role Is “Still Haunting” Her

Inhabiting the character of Clare, who poses as a white woman in 1920s Harlem, Passing star Ruth Negga cycled through “joy, fear, anxiety, manipulation, devastating honesty” in quick succession. Passing is a stunning directorial debut from Rebecca Hall, starring Negga and Tessa Thompson as childhood friends who now live on opposite sides of the color […]

Natalie Wood Was Raped by Kirk Douglas, Her Sister Alleges in a New Book

In 2018, Natalie’s younger sister, Lana, claimed on a podcast that 16-year-old Natalie had been raped by a “big star” at the Chateau Marmont hotel. “I remember that Natalie looked especially beautiful when Mom and I dropped her off that night at the Chateau Marmont entrance,” Lana writes in her upcoming memoir, Little Sister: My […]

Rust Armorer’s Lawyer Suggests Shooting Death Could Be “Sabotage”

Without citing any evidence, attorney Jason Bowles said in a Today show interview Wednesday that investigators should consider this possibility as they assess the October 21 shooting. “There was a box of dummy rounds, and the box is labeled ‘dummy,’” Bowles said. While that might absolve his client of some responsibility, the theory would seemingly […]

Tom Hanks, a Dog, and a Robot Go on a Sad Journey in Finch

It’s Tom Hanks, a little weatherbeaten but still giving off that cozy glow of his, befriending a robot of the title character’s creation as they traverse an inhospitable land faintly recognizable as our own Earth. There are, rather curiously and maybe entirely intentionally, some parallels to be drawn with Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, about a […]

Kristen Stewart Wants “Caviar and 7-Eleven,” “Princess Di Ballads,” and Guy Fieri at Her Wedding to Dylan Meyer

“We’re marrying, we’re totally gonna do it,” Stewart said while guesting on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show. Thank goodness Stewart went on Stern again, so the world could hear a big update on the relationship. They met each other years previously on a film set, she said, but two weeks into dating Stewart told her […]