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One Battle After Another, the sui generis 162-minute epic that’s now in wide release, is many movies in one. It’s writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s fiendishly inspired riff on postmodern master Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland; it’s a riveting action flick; it’s a hilarious stoner comedy; it’s a treatise on the …

“I’d like a Coke, with ice,” Paul Thomas Anderson says, addressing the waiter standing before his table. “And I’d like a Coke, with ice,” Leonardo DiCaprio echoes, emphasizing the words to the point that the renowned filmmaker sitting to his right immediately starts laughing as the server walks off. Anderson …

B enny Safdie desperately wants to tell me about the time he got punched in the face. Over a long breakfast at Old John’s Luncheonette — the kind of New York diner that, despite a recent renovation, still emanates a distinct greasy-spoon vibe — the 39-year-old writer, director, and actor …

It’s difficult to think of Jimmy Kimmel as a canary or imagine Stephen Colbert in a coal mine, but here we are. Having worked in late-night television during the presidency of our country’s most revered Republican icon, Ronald Reagan, I know firsthand how bizarre the harassment of talk-show hosts by …

John Mulaney has one humble goal as he plans for the biggest crowd of his career: “I’m hoping all gangs form a truce for the night. I think it’d be a real statement that we’re gonna put down the switchblades and the guns tonight and for 90 minutes all of …

Earlier this summer, as protests erupted across the country in response to a wave of ICE raids, comedian Cristela Alonzo instantly thought back to her childhood in South Texas. Growing up in the Rio Grande Valley along the Texas-Mexico border, Alonzo remembers Border Patrol and immigration raids as a constant …

It would have been easy for Greg Daniels, who adapted The Office for American audiences to wild success, to revive the beloved series by hiring a cast of returning faces or bringing its mockumentary cameras back to the Scranton, Pennsylvania, paper company Dunder Mifflin. Instead, to some people’s surprise, he …

Jimmy Kimmel‘s suspension under these circumstances is a fundamental attack on each individual American, regardless of party affiliation, regardless of whether or not you even vote. It affects every single American’s ability to lead the life they want to lead, to think whatever they want to think. I truly believe …

At one point in HIM, the Justin Tipping-directed football horror out Sept. 19, football phenom Cameron “Cam” Cade, played by Tyriq Withers, gets into a fight with legendary quarterback Isaiah White, played by Marlon Wayans. The scene is bloody and intense, and took three days to shoot. But Withers has …

He was a Hollywood golden boy and the Sundance kid, the missing link between The Twilight Zone (check out the towheaded 25-year-old playing the Prince of Darkness) and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. An actor-turned-director who helped everybody from Scarlett Johansson to Brad Pitt become household names. A film festival founder …