This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Severance, which is now streaming on Apple TV+. A whole lot happens in the Severance Season Two finale, which we recapped here. Most notably, Innie and Outie Mark did a team-up of sorts to liberate Outie Mark’s wife Gemma from her …
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This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The Pitt, now streaming on Max. The hospital is running out of blood. It’s early evening at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center. There has been a mass shooting at a local music festival, and most of the victims have been sent to …
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Following last night’s Season Two finale, Apple TV+ has confirmed — unsurprisingly — that Severance will return for a third season. The news was announced Friday morning, March 21, after Ben Stiller, the show’s director and executive producer, tweeted at Apple CEO Tim Cook: “So some fansare asking for Season …
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The It Ends With Us legal saga has now grown to six lawsuits, with Justin Baldoni accusing former publicist Stephanie Jones of leaking text messages to Blake Lively’s team, which helped spark the unfolding drama. The new suit is actually a counterclaim to a lawsuit Jones filed last December against …
Read More »'The Last of Us' Star Bella Ramsey Says Being Diagnosed With Autism Was 'Freeing'
Bella Ramsey learned she had autism while filming the first season of HBO‘s The Last of Us. In an interview with British Vogue, the actress shared that a crewmember with an autistic daughter prompted her to get a psychiatric evaluation. “I’ve spoken a bit about neurodivergence before, but I always …
Read More »'The Alto Knights' Is De Niro Con: The Movie
There are, by the organization’s current count, some 160,000 members of the Screen Actors Guild, many of whom are booking gigs on the regular. To be fair, very few of these performers are genuine 1970s cinema icons, not to mention the brand-name embodiment of a whole genre. Robert De Niro …
Read More »Murder Aside, 'The Residence' Offers a White House You Can Escape Into
Late in the new Netflix limited series The Residence, a character complains, “People like a murder mystery! They think they’re fun!” After a beat, though, he can’t help but admit, “And it is fun.” “Fun” is absolutely the watchword of this comic thriller, created by Paul William Davies and produced …
Read More »Every 'Snow White' Controversy Over the Film's Tortured Production
It’s been a long road for Disney’s live-action iteration of Snow White starring Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot. From Covid delays to criticism regarding the fairy tale’s depiction of little people, racist fans taking issue with Zegler’s Latina heritage, and a premiere event that excluded journalists, the production was mired …
Read More »Aubrey Plaza Called in Welfare Check for Husband Jeff Baena Before His Death
Aubrey Plaza called on a friend to perform a welfare check on her late husband Jeff Baena in October 2024, according to new reports from the Los Angeles Country Medical Examiner. At the time, around three months before the writer and director died by suicide at 47, Baena reportedly made …
Read More »Paul Thomas Anderson Returns With Guns Blazing in 'One Battle After Another' Teaser Trailer
It’s been four years since Paul Thomas Anderson released his most recent feature film. But the director will return on Sept. 26 with One Battle After Another — and he’s coming back with guns blazing. The first-look teaser trailer for the film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti …
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