Imagine a world in which Stephen Sondheim made Sicario. Yes, that Stephen Sondheim; yes, that 2015 thriller about the world of Mexican drug cartels. Got that? Good. Now add in Selena Gomez as the wife of a narco who, in a moment of deep grief and remembrance, utters the line, …
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Those lucky enough to have discovered Yorgos Lanthimos right as he was establishing himself as a world-cinema weirdo — we’d carbon-date the initial who-the-fuck-is-this-guy?! moment as mid-2009, when his breakthrough film Dogtooth was worming its way through the festival circuit — remember what a shock it was to encounter the …
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Hannah Dodd didn’t mean to audition for Bridgerton. Then again, she didn’t mean not to. It was the spring of 2022 and Dodd was responding to a casting call. She had “no idea” what the project was — the title and character name were kept tightly under wraps — only …
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At one point in the new Apple TV+ miniseries The Big Cigar, Black Panther Party founder Huey P. Newton (André Holland) attends a party and recalls the time he and film producer Bert Schneider (Alessandro Nivola) tried to write a movie about his life, which would have starred comedian Richard …
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Leading up to Sabrina Carpenter‘s Saturday Night Live debut this weekend, and host Jake Gyllenhaal‘s return, the pair teamed up with Bowen Yang to tease the upcoming season finale. In the video, in seeming reference to her sun-kissed hit song “Espresso,” Yang exclaims: “Sabrina, your song is stuck in my …
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In a rare interview, Kevin Spacey spoke to Chris Cuomo on NewsNation Thursday to defend himself against the latest accusations against him. “I’m trying to show that I’ve listened. I’ve learned. I’ve got the memo,” Spacey insisted during his first live television appearance in years. “I feel very strongly that …
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Withering exasperation is not an emotion one usually expects to encounter at great length in a family film. But what else could John Krasinski have been seeking when he secured Ryan Reynolds to star as a sad clown in his mawkish new live-action fairy tale, IF? Reynolds plays Cal, a …
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John Mayer just misses his friend Bob Saget. On Friday, on what would’ve been the late comedian‘s 68th birthday, Mayer shared a sweet post remembering Saget. “I miss you the most when I’m exhausted and I just want to talk to my friend,” Mayer wrote, captioning a selfie of the …
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Dabney Coleman, the Emmy-winning actor known for roles in 9 to 5, Boardwalk Empire, and Tootsie, died Thursday at his home in Santa Monica. He was 92. “My father crafted his time here on Earth with a curious mind, a generous heart, and a soul on fire with passion, desire …
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Travis Kelce was as surprised as everyone else by his casting in Ryan Murphy‘s forthcoming FX series Grotesquerie. Speaking on the latest episode of his New Heights podcast, Kelce recounted working on the series, which also stars Niecy Nash-Betts. “I was kinda blown away and kinda, like, shocked that he …
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