Is Bob Dylan a good singer? Timothée Chalamet, who plays him in A Complete Unknown, opening Dec. 25, didn’t hesitate to give his opinion in a previously unpublished segment of his interviews for our recent cover story on the film. “I think he’s a fantastic singer,” he said, citing Dylan’s …
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You will know the most gleeful, instantly gratifying, oh-this-is-going-to-be-good moment in Gladiator II when you see it. The dopamine peak of Ridley Scott‘s long-awaited sequel to his 2000 Oscar-winning epic isn’t the opening battle scene, in which Paul Mescal and his neighbors unleash hell on Roman centurions attacking them. It …
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To his 700,000 TikTok followers and thousands of online fans, Caleb Hearon is a stand-up comedian, podcaster, actor, and screenwriter known for his absurdist take on zillennial comedy. Take, for instance, one of his most famous viral clips: When an anonymous troll commenter wrote that Hearon looks like “he broke …
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For Malcolm Washington, an appreciation for August Wilson plays runs in the family. Several years ago, his father Denzel committed to producing film adaptations of Wilson’s Century Cycle plays — a collection of 10 works, each covering one decade of the Black experience in 20th-century America. Denzel started with the …
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As a reality TV fan, there is a strange (and slightly unhinged?) feeling of loss when the reality stars whose lives you’ve watched unfold for so many years step away from the camera. You realize that the over-familiar (and entirely one-sided) relationship you’ve formed with them won’t continue in the …
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John C. Reilly, the Oscar-nominated actor whose film credits seem to include at least one movie on any person’s list of all-time favorites, is in a good mood when we connect by phone two days before Thanksgiving, and says he’s about to buy his turkey. “I’m the rotisserie king of …
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The Wizard of Oz was a pop culture phenomenon practically from the minute the original Frank Baum book arrived in 1900. A musical adaptation hit stages all across America a mere two years later, and a 15-minute silent film followed in 1910 when Hollywood was in its infancy. A much …
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In both anticipated or unexpected ways, great art can inspire, comfort, and heal. And sometimes bad art can serve exactly the same purpose — especially when we’re in desperate need of a laugh. So, this holiday weekend, we give extra thanks to the Lifetime Channel for Christmas in the Spotlight, …
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Among all of the preparation Paul Mescal did for his starring role in Gladiator II (out now), the sequel to Ridley Scott’s 2000 swords-and-sandals epic — hitting the gym six days a week and eating unholy amounts of chicken to add 18 pounds of muscle to his frame — some …
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During Alyah Chanelle Scott’s first trip to Los Angeles in 2020, she was feeling lost in her fledgling career. Straight out of college, she’d been cast in the national tour of The Book of Mormon, the musical comedy from South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker about Mormon missionaries …
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