This post contains spoilers for the series finale of Barry, which we recapped here. Henry Winkler had already had the acting career of a lifetime decades before he got cast to play hacky, narcissistic acting teacher Gene Cousineau on HBO’s Barry. As Arthur “The Fonz” Fonzarelli on Seventies and Eighties …
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Week after week, in frantic monologue after frantic monologue, Sarah Goldberg delivered one of the greatest performances on TV in recent memory as Barry‘s self-obsessed actress Sally Reed, whose intensity occasionally unnerved even Bill Hader‘s titular hitman character. She scored an Emmy nomination for her performance in Season One —for …
Read More »'Succession' Finale Delivers a Masterful, Feel-Bad Ending
This post contains spoilers for the Succession series finale, “With Open Eyes.” A lot happens over the course of the 90-minute Succession series finale, “With Open Eyes.” Alliances are made, broken, and made again. Votes happen, fortunes rise and fall, losers become winners, and vice versa. For all intents and …
Read More »Arnold Schwarzenegger Reacts to Bruce Willis' Retirement: Action Stars Never 'Retire,' They 'Reload'
Arnold Schwarzenegger knows the golden rule: Actions stars stick together. Schwarzenegger shared his praises for fellow action star Bruce Willis, who announced his retirement from Hollywood after following hisfrontotemporal dementia diagnosis. “I think that he’s fantastic,” Schwarzenegger told CinemaBlend. “He … is a huge, huge star. And I think that …
Read More »Martin Scorsese Meets With Pope Francis, Says Next Film Is About Jesus
Martin Scorsese’s next project will be about Jesus, the legendary filmmaker hinted following a moving personal meeting with Pope Francis, according to multiple reports. The 80-year-old director had a private audience with the Pope on Saturday, later explaining that the “Holy Father’s appeal ‘to let us see Jesus’ acted in …
Read More »Succession's Matthew Macfadyen Opened Up About the Series Finale
THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS for the Succession series finale. Succession came to an end on Sunday, answering the longtime question from fans of the HBO series since its inception five years ago: Who will succeed Logan Roy as the CEO of Waystar? A lot of viewers predicted one of the …
Read More »Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne Want to Bring Back the Light TV Comedy
It’s the age-old question: can men and women be friends? Well, in Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen’s new Apple TV+ series Platonic, the most important question isn’t can they — it’s should they? Byrne stars as Sylvia, an exhausted middle-aged mom. Once a lawyer with a promising career, she’s spent …
Read More »'Succession' Finale: Mourning the Meme Account That's Kept Us Laughing
When 33-year-old Anna Golez started her No Context Succession Twitter account in July 2019, she was filling a void in her own interest and fandom. An avid TV fan, Golez turned her eye toward Succession after her other favorite HBO series, Veep, ended in May 2019 and she “wanted something …
Read More »Arnold Schwarzenegger Wants to 'Rephrase' Climate Change, Focus on Pollution
Arnold Schwarzenegger is on a crusade to tackle climate change, but first he believes the phrase needs a rebranding. “As long as they keep talking about global climate change, they are not gonna go anywhere. ‘Cause no one gives a shit about that,” he said in a Sunday Morning segment …
Read More »You've Seen Tobias Menzies Everywhere. But Never Like This.
Nicole Holofcener’s wonderful new film, You Hurt My Feelings, raises an essential question: Should you lie to ensure happiness in a marriage? It’s a query not easily answered, although the couple at the heart of the story, Beth (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and Don (Tobias Menzies), find their own solution after Beth …
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