Gina Carano has been dropped from The Mandalorian, Variety reports. Lucasfilm said the actress is not currently employed by the company after she drew criticism for “abhorrent” social media posts. Carano portrayed Cara Dune, a former Rebel trooper who became a Marshal for the New Republic, in the first two …
Read More »'SNL': Watch Dan Levy's (Covid-Safe) Opening Monologue and Backstage Tour
Saturday Night Live’s pre-Super Bowl featured musical guest Phoebe Bridgers and actor-director-producer Dan Levy for his first hosting gig. “Somewhere, my 13-year-old self has fainted in a really needy, melodramatic way,” the Schitt’s Creek mastermind began his opening monologue. He then began to explain how his life had changed (mostly) …
Read More »Armie Hammer Exits Making of 'The Godfather' TV Series
Armie Hammer will not be starring in The Offer, the upcoming Paramount Plus series that pulls back the curtain on the making of The Godfather, Variety reports. Hammer had been tapped for the role of Godfather producer Al Ruddy. The series tells the behind-the-scenes story on the making of the …
Read More »'The Little Things': Tortured Cops, Serial Killers, Denzel — What Else Do You Need to Know?
It will never not be strange that the true crime genre and its fictional counterpart — bloody genres besotted with dead and missing women, haunted detectives, outpourings of familial grief — are not only entertainment, but, for many, an ideal Friday night comfort watch. It’s not a moral question, really; …
Read More »In 'White Tiger,' Lessons Are Learned (and Relearned) About India's Class System
Ramin Bahrani’s The White Tiger, newly streaming on Netflix, has two openings, both of them startling. In Delhi, in 2007, a truck whose driver, Pinky (Priyanka Chopra), is drunk, speeds down a dangerously foggy road, swinging and swerving its way amid the night’s hidden dangers — a vehicle here, a …
Read More »Secret Service Confirms John Mulaney Investigation Over 'SNL' Jokes
When John Mulaney went on Jimmy Kimmel Livelast month, he told the host that the Secret Service had opened up an investigation on him following jokes he made during his monologue on Saturday Night Live in February 2020. “I did a joke that was not about Donald Trump,” he explained. …
Read More »Jessica Campbell, 'Election' and 'Freaks and Geeks' Star, Dead at 38
Jessica Campbell, who played Tammy Metzler in Election, has died at the age of 38. Campbell’s family confirmed the news to TMZ,stating that Campbell died on December 29th, 2020, in Portland, Oregon.Campbell, who left acting to become a naturopathic physician, spent the day seeing patients at her practice, her cousin …
Read More »Tanya Roberts, Star of Bond Film 'A View to Kill' and 'That '70s Show,' Dead at 65
Tanya Roberts, who famously played a Bond girl in 1985’s A View to Kill and later had a recurring role as Midge Pinciotti on That ’70s Show, died Monday, January 4th, The New York Times reports. She was 65. Roberts’ partner, Lance O’Brien, confirmed her death, although it came after …
Read More »Martin Scorsese Reveals New Fran Lebowitz Doc, 'Pretend It's a City'
“People are frequently infuriated by me because I’m filled with opinions,” Fran Lebowitz says in the trailer for Pretend It’s a City, the new documentary from Martin Scorsese that will begin streaming on Netflix on January 8th, 2021. The film focuses on her frustrations with how people navigate her beloved …
Read More »'It's About a Certain Kind of Blackness': Steve McQueen on the Making of 'Small Axe'
Steve McQueen‘s five-film opus Small Axe concludes with Friday’s release of Education, the story of a boy named Kingsley (Kenyah Sandy), whose difficulty with reading has him reassigned to a school for the “educationally subnormal” — a.k.a. students for whom the British school system has abandoned all hope. Education completes …
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