“When someone’s dead, they can’t come back, can they?” It’s a pretty straightforward line of dialogue. But when it was spoken near the end of The Crow, audiences silently shivered. All of us who saw the anticipated comic-book action movie when it opened on the weekend of May 13th, 1994, …
Read More »Can the Best of Star Wars Survive the Worst of Its Fans?
When George Lucas debuted his science fiction epic about a galaxy far far away in 1977, Star Wars went from a long-shot space opera into the highest grossing science fiction franchise of all time. Almost 50 years and one sale to entertainment conglomerate Disney later, Star Wars isn’t just a …
Read More »'MaXXXine' Actor Suing Mia Goth for Battery Has Checkered Legal Past
A background actor who alleges that actress Mia Goth deliberately kicked him in the head and called him a “big baby” during the filming of MaXXXine has been accused of being a “vexatious litigant” by an ex-girlfriend and her stepfather in separate ongoing civil lawsuits, according to court records obtained …
Read More »'Blink Twice' Star Naomi Ackie Says the Film Is a 'Warrior Cry' for Women
Naomi Ackie fondly remembers filming late-night dance montages with her Blink Twice castmates in Yucatán, Mexico. As the Dixie Cups’ island-inflected version of “Iko Iko” blared, the actors, covered in glitter, frolicked, squealed, and cheesed into the camera. But in this nightmarish thriller (out Aug. 23), which marks Zoë Kravitz’s …
Read More »Goodbye, 'Evil': You Were One Hell of a Wonderfully Weird Show
In a recent episode of Evil, Kristen (Katja Herbers) asks her colleagues Ben Shaki (Aasif Mandvi) and David (Mike Colter), “Do you ever think the world’s getting weirder?” Ben argues that the world has always been weird, and David adds that it seems weirder, “only because we expect it to …
Read More »'Love Island USA' Kaylor Martin Has No Tears Left to Cry After Aaron Evans Break-Up
While Love Island USA’s Kaylor Martin is famous for her many tear-filled moments on Season Six of the unscripted dating series, the reality star stood firm when confronting her fellow Islander and now-ex, Aaron Evans, at the show’s reunion on Monday night. Over the summer, the world watched Martin fall …
Read More »10 'Homicide' Episodes to Watch Right Now
Today, Homicide: Life on the Street officially gave up its title as the Best TV Show You Can’t Stream. All 122 episodes of the Nineties cop drama are now on Peacock, along with Homicide: The Movie, a 2000 telefilm featuring the entire cast — even the ones whose characters died …
Read More »Alain Delon Was More Than Just the Single Most Beautiful Movie Star Ever
Of course he was gorgeous — it was always the first thing you noticed about Alain Delon whenever he appeared onscreen, that otherworldly handsomeness that took your breath away no matter where you fell on the Kinsey scale. The French movie star knew that he was one of the most …
Read More »'Emily in Paris' Star Bruno Gouery on Playing 'Crazy Guy' Luc
When people recognize Bruno Gouery on the street he usually gets one of two reactions. Some fans are delighted to see the eccentric Frenchman Luc from Emily in Paris. Others are moved to (genially) scold him as one of those gay men who murdered Jennifer Coolidge on The White Lotus. …
Read More »'The Challenge 40: Battle of the Eras' Showrunner on Assembling the Biggest Season Yet: 'It Was No Easy Feat'
As the longest-running reality competition show on television, MTV’s The Challenge faces some pretty tough decisions every time it assembles a cast for a new season. Fans from the earliest day of the show in the late Nineties and early 2000s yearn to see OGs like Mark Long, Darrell Taylor, …
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