With all due respect to Coming to America’s Cleo McDowell — owner of an off-brand McDonald’s featuring a logo with golden arcs, not arches, and a Big Mick burger, not a Big Mac — John Amos’ two most iconic roles came more than a decade prior, in the Seventies. In …
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Sixty-two minutes into the Season Three finale of Industry, you might have mistakenly thought it was safe to exhale. HBO’s notoriously tense finance drama, which revolves around the exploits of employees at the fictional investment bank Pierpoint & Co., was giving us a rare moment of resolution for its key …
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Let’s say that, in January of 1972, you had never heard a note of Kris Kristofferson‘s music. You didn’t know the former helicopter pilot and Rhodes scholar had written “Me and Bobby McGee,” which Janis Joplin had turned into her signature song. Or “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down,” which he gave …
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After spending her entire career as a comedian and talk-show host consumed by what other people think of her, Ellen DeGeneres says in her new Netflix special For Your Approval that she “just can’t anymore.” “But if I’m being honest, and I have a choice of people remembering me as …
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In the movie Hook, Steven Spielberg’s 1991 Peter Pan sequel starring Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman, Williams’ Peter visits the London home of his wife’s family, where he reconnects with her grandmother, a very grown up Wendy Darling played by Dame Maggie Smith. She first appears as a ghostly silhouette …
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A rabbi and a podcaster walk into a party, and Netflix makes a show out of it. Well, sort of. In the new romantic comedy Nobody Wants This, Adam Brody plays the rabbi, Noah, fresh out of a long-term relationship with the …
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“When did you first feel cancelled by your age?” You knew that some variation of this question would be asked — it was really just a question of when, and if it would come before the inevitable query about all that nudity. Seven minutes into the Cannes Film Festival press …
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This post contains spoilers for the premiere of the new CBS drama Matlock, which is now streaming on Paramount+. Ordinarily, a spoiler warning like the one above shouldn’t be necessary for a show like Matlock, a reboot of the Andy Griffith legal drama, which ran for close to a decade …
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“That’s gonna be the fuckin’ headline for this piece, isn’t it?” Natasha Lyonne asks, in the most Natasha Lyonne way imaginable. “‘Natasha Lyonne Does Not Slide Into Directors’ DMs.’ Which, y’know, trust me — you’re going to get a lot of people writing in to say that isn’t true!” The …
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Natasha Rothwell has no fear of flying. With stamps on her passport from Turkey to Tokyo, the actress is completely at ease with the wheels up. She gets to the airport well ahead of takeoff (“being early is on time,” she says). On board, she loves a window seat and …
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