Break out the tini-tinis and get some French toast for the table! Somebody Somewhere, the Peabody-award winning HBO comedy starring, written, and executive produced by Bridget Everett — about a middle-aged woman who moves back to her Kansas hometown to care for her dying sister and ends up staying, and …
Read More »Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldaña Star in the Eye-Popping Trailer for Queer Narco Thriller Musical 'Emilia Pérez'
The first trailer for one of this year’s wildest Cannes Film Festival hits — the narco thriller musical about a transgender cartel boss, Emilia Pérez — has finally arrived. Helmed by French director Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez centers around the story of the titular Mexican cartel leader, played by Karla …
Read More »'I'm Not A Hero': 'Super/Man' Doc Follows Christopher Reeve's Quadriplegic Journey
In the trailer forSuper/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, Christopher Reeve recounts the harrowing reality that set in after the debilitating May 1995 horse-riding accident that left him paralyzed from the shoulders down. The late actor was despondent but recalled the words from his wife, Dana, that gave him a reason …
Read More »Want Some 'Friends' Memorabilia? The Sitcom's Couch, Clothing Up for Auction
Some of your favorite Friends memorabilia will be up for auction. To celebrate the sitcom’s 30th anniversary, tops worn by Courteney Cox’s Monica, Jennifer Aniston‘s Rachel, and Lisa Kudrow’s Phoebe — along with a reproduction of the couch, seen in the opening credits — will be up for grabs. The …
Read More »'La Bamba' Remake Will Retell the Story of Singer Ritchie Valens
The 1987 musical biopic La Bamba chronicled the life and career of Mexican-American rock pioneer Ritchie Valens. Now, according to Variety, a remake of the film is in the works. Lou Diamond Phillips starred as Valens in the original, which was nominated for a Golden Globe and earned Los Lobos …
Read More »'Close Your Eyes' Reintroduces a Major Spanish Filmmaker
Some five decades separate director Victor Erice’s debut film, The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), and his latest, Close Your Eyes. In between these twin professional highlights, there are two other features — El Sur (1983), a work haunted by the fact that filming was halted before a key scene …
Read More »See John Lennon and Yoko Ono Embrace Radical Politics in Doc Trailer
A new documentary, Daytime Revolution, will look at all that went into John Lennon and Yoko Ono‘s legendary weeklong 1972 residency as guests on The Mike Douglas Show — the most-watched daytime talk show at the time — and its impact. A trailer shows how the couple used the opportunity …
Read More »Emily in Rome: Emily Lands in Italy and Finds a Possible New Romance in 'Emily in Paris' Part Two Trailer
Emily in Paris turns Emily in Rome in the upcoming second part of the fourth season of the hit Netflix show. A new teaser for the second set of episodes was released Monday, showing Emily (Lily Collins) embarking on a spontaneous trip to Rome and meeting a new coworker (and …
Read More »Francis Ford Coppola: 'I Have Nothing Left to Lose'
F rancis Ford Coppola is sitting ina large, library-like space that is right next to the gift-shop area of his Inglenook Winery in Napa, California, behind a usually closed set of doors. The awards, family pictures, and massive collection of vintage zoetropes are all in the lobby. The tasting room, …
Read More »Why 'The Crow' — and Brandon Lee — Still Haunts Us
“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, …
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