Though the original series—a popular teen melodrama that got so big its stars were on the cover of Rolling Stone—ended less than 10 years ago, the TV powers that be decided it was ripe for a reboot. There are openly queer characters, and more people of color in the central cast this time around, something […]
This coming awards season just got a little more complicated. The studio is already apparently gearing up for a big campaign for the long-awaited Denis Villeneuve adaptation of Dune, with a Venice premiere secured before its October 22 release, and has other potential awards contenders on the calendar including the Will Smith vehicle King Richard […]
Over the weekend, the U.K.’s The Sun reported that the 30-year-old performer, who plays Ritchie on Channel 4/HBO Max’s It’s a Sin and fronts the band Years & Years, has been chosen as the first queer Time Lord. As Ood as it might sound, Olly is focusing on his music, for the time being.” Alexander […]
By that point, Epstein had pleaded guilty to state charges of procuring for prostitution a girl below the age of 18, registered as a sex offender, and served 13 months in custody. “I went to all the usual suspects and nobody was interested in it,” says Shearer, whose long-gestating docuseries Epstein’s Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell finally makes […]
The report does not break down how much money went to each prince, but a spokesman for Charles at Clarence House clarified that the Prince of Wales had allotted “a substantial sum” to support Harry and Meghan as they transitioned out of their royal roles. “The Duke’s comments during the Oprah interview were in reference […]
That is, except for McElhenney’s character, Mac, who underwent a physical transformation in season seven and then, in season 13, performed an elaborate dance routine as a way of coming out to his father. McElhenney saw an opportunity to take a basic workplace comedy about a video game company and use it to deconstruct his […]
There are a few iconic images from the college-admission scandal, a tale of uncapped privilege in which a handful of wealthy parents absolutely paid for their children to play in an already unequal system. Later, there was her hat, a large, round thing that shielded her from both the California sun and camera lenses, as […]
Several adolescent-aimed projects are hitting the streaming service next month, including second seasons of Mindy Kaling’s delightful coming-of-age comedy Never Have I Ever and Outer Banks, a soapy teen drama filmed on the Carolina coast. The subversive I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson is back for a second round of awkward sketch comedy […]
With her love of fashion, experience with fame, and, yes, collection of hair extensions, Keeley does share some DNA with Temple herself—and it doesn’t take long after Keeley is introduced to realize she, like Temple, is somebody special. In that one scene Keeley reveals that she is famous, wealthy, and popular—but also kind, the first […]
When, this spring, Jennifer Lopez split from her fiancé, erstwhile Bronx bomber Alex Rodriguez, and wound up with her former fiancé, big ball of gorgeous existential dread Ben Affleck, a rift in the gossip-sphere opened up, and in it poured photographers, anonymous sources, his dad, her mom, a couple coasts, and so many exes. On […]
In the movie, debuting Wednesday, Shlesinger plays a trusting, successful woman who is deceived and manipulated into romance by a man who builds himself up on a tower of increasingly elaborate lies. He lied about his job, where he went to college, where he lived, and played on her sympathy with tales of illness and […]
You could throw a visual-effects nomination The Avengers’ way, maybe, or give Guardians of the Galaxy a run for its screenplay, but the big races? The Academy was too finicky, too highbrow, too removed to stump for a superhero movie in a major way. Following Black Panther’s historic Oscar wins in 2019, the MCU now […]
In Physical, Rose Byrne plays Sheila—a sardonic, bulimic homemaker who snarls behind her husband’s back, drains his bank account, and uses his preoccupation with his political campaign to discretely pursue her own aerobic ambition. Watching the series, you may be struck by its frequent parallels to another 1980s-era woman—one who also struggled with an eating […]
Rachel Lindsay’s rose for the Bachelor franchise has officially wilted. Lindsay begins the essay itself by referencing her infamous Extra interview with Harrison, whose departure as host of The Bachelor was announced on June 8. Prior to her headline-making Harrison interview, Lindsay already had a thorny history with the Bachelor franchise. I wanted it to […]
The maker of E.T., Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Schindler’s List obviously carries immense weight when it comes to defining what counts as a movie—and what doesn’t. Spielberg himself has not revealed plans to direct any of the Netflix movies, and he made it clear in the announcement that he still had a longstanding […]
Having largely played the sturdy support system and best friend to Kate Winslet’s Mare, the character portrayed by Julianne Nicholson faced two unbearable revelations in the series finale: Not only had her husband, John shot Erin in an attempt to intimidate her. But this isn’t exactly her arrival in Hollywood; between lead roles in indie […]
The festival is not only the first major North American film festival held in person since COVID-19, but the first major cultural milestone to lure New Yorkers out of their homes. In the process of doing that, I think people felt like they were doing something useful and helping to regenerate the neighborhood and realizing […]
They had reached the most intimate scene of the limited series, in which Thuso Mbedu’s Cora and Harper’s Royal, the free man who’s just rescued her from captivity, declare their love for one another. That interaction helped the director “break the ice” before calling action—a fitting bit of levity, given the respite Royal provides The […]
Despite her onscreen superhero status, Elizabeth Olsen admits to Vanity Fair’s Joanna Robinson that she gets “panic dreams” before beginning a new project. That is, until she suited up as the Scarlet Witch once more for Sam Raimi’s upcoming sequel, Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness. Other top of mind topics include the lackluster box […]
On Wednesday, she trended on Twitter for comments she made on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert regarding criticism of the film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights for its lack of Afro-Latino and darker-skinned characters in central roles. Over the course of the doc, we watch as Moreno leaves Puerto Rico with her […]