In the grand tradition of declaring Saturdays “for the boys” and bromances sacred, Anthony Mackie has some thoughts about his onscreen chemistry with Sebastian Stan. “The idea of two guys being friends and loving each other in 2021 is a problem because of the exploitation of homosexuality.” He went on to suggest that the sanctity […]
After weeks of speculation, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune will have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 3. has had a lot of luck at the Venice Film Festival, debuting several films — Gravity, A Star Is Born, and Joker — that could have been considered untraditional Oscar fare, but went on to […]
George—in black fur coat and lime green pants—straps on a Telecaster as John arrives to take in the weird scene through gold-framed spectacles: amplifiers and mics, movie cameras and crewmen scurrying around the rooftop of a five-story building on a cold gray day. The approximately 43-minute sequence from director Peter Jackson’s forthcoming documentary, The Beatles: […]
A few weeks after he saw Derek DelGaudio’s show In & Of Itself for the first time, Stephen Colbert took him out for a drink to talk about tightrope walking. In & Of Itself ran as an Off-Broadway show for more than a year, and before it ended in August 2018, director Frank Oz captured […]
but will be bicoastal—that is, also in the Hamptons sometimes this summer! She’s looking for schools for her kids on the West Coast! Intrigue: They discussed how they would handle the paparazzi, and Affleck’s reported mantra about it all is: “It is what it is!” Backstory: Affleck’s dad, Timothy, commented on the relationship. Here, I […]
A year ago, when the pandemic was first raging, director Jon Chu faced a painful decision: He could send his new musical adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights straight to streaming on HBO Max or wait for the theaters to reopen once the pandemic was over—a depressingly indeterminate time. The movie—about a community of immigrant […]
Thirteen long years ago, I cut my teeth as a blogger by recapping Gossip Girl, the CW’s soapy series about mean teens on the decidedly un-mean streets of the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Where were the drugs and the sex, so dishily strewn across the pages? The show had to be more tame, because […]
Shortly before the end of the TV run of my beloved Sex and the City, I was discussing the show with a friend of my mother’s, a smug yuppie then obsessed with getting her son into Harvard. With the odd air of triumph that comes from crushing someone else’s fantasy, she explained, “They’re too old.” […]
