Alec Baldwin‘s Donald Trump held a bipartisan meeting on gun control in the latest Saturday Night Live cold open that lampooned the actual president’s response to the Parkland, Florida shooting. “It’s clear something has to change. We have to take a hard look at mental health, which I have so …
Read More »CNN's Chris Cuomo: How a Political Son Became America's Toughest News Anchor
In 2013, when Chris Cuomo agreed to make the jump to CNN from his longtime post at ABC News, the anchor made one thing clear to his new employer: “I’m confrontational,” Cuomo remembers telling Jeff Zucker, the president of the network. “I will engage. That’s what I do.” And he’s …
Read More »'Star Wars' Details Han Solo Film Synopsis
Star Warsunveiled the official synopsis of the upcoming Han Solo standalone film, Solo: A Star Wars Story. The movie is scheduled to openMay 25th. “Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in Solo: A Star Wars Story, an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel …
Read More »'The Handmaid's Tale': See Unnerving First Season 2 Trailer
Fresh off its Golden Globe win for Best Drama TV Series, The Handmaid’s Tale has unveiled the unnerving first trailer for its upcoming second season. While the first season was based on Margaret Atwood’s acclaimed novel, the second season of the dystopian drama will feature its characters – led by …
Read More »Watch Seth Meyers' Hilarious, Weinstein-Blasting Golden Globes Monologue
Seth Meyers saluted the “ladies and remaining gentlemen” of Hollywood in his sharply crafted opening monologue for the 2018 Golden Globes. The Late Night host cracked jokes about the Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey scandals, the Hollywood Foreign Press and President Trump in his hilarious teaser. “Marijuana is finally allowed, …
Read More »'Downsizing' Review: Damon Shines in 'Bracing Comedy of Shocking Gravity'
Alexander Payne, one of our best and most inventive filmmakers, is thinking big about being small. In Downsizing, a bracing comedy of shocking gravity, Payne and longtime writing partner Jim Taylor posit a future where human beings are offered the chance to shrink down to about five-inches in size and …
Read More »10 Best TV Episodes of 2017: 'I Love Dick'
This year, we’ve asked 10 writers to pick some of their favorite TV episodes from 2017 and weigh in on why they were great stand-alone eps and the highlights of our viewing year. Today: Rob Sheffield on I Love Dick‘s“A Short History of Weird Girls.” Let’s hear it for the …
Read More »'I, Tonya' Review: Tonya Harding Biopic Is the Movie We Need Right Now
This might be the perfect time for a Tonya Harding biopic … or rather, a Harding “biopic,” one set some 23 years after the public’s memory of the tabloid diva having drilled down to “white-trash figure skater who had something to do with smashing the knee of her rival Nancy …
Read More »Queen Biopic Fires Director Bryan Singer
UPDATE 2:Dexter Fletcher has been named as the new director for Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, according to The Hollywood Reporter. On Wednesday, Twentieth Century Fox announced Fletcher would helm the film following the ousting of Bryan Singer, who was let go of the project on December 4th. The film is …
Read More »'Call Me By Your Name': The Story Behind the Most Romantic Movie of 2017
Luca Guadagnino is sitting in a hotel in Beverly Hills, but his mind is back in Italy. The 46-year-old director is doing press duties forCall Me By Your Name, his rapturous romance about star-crossed lovers falling for each other over one memorable, wistful summer. (It hits theaters on November 24th.) …
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