While appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to discuss the new documentary David Crosby: Remember My Name, Cameron Crowe and Jimmy Fallon reminisced about Almost Famous, Crowe’s semi-autobiographical 2000 film that Fallon had a role in. Fallon played big-time Stillwater manager Doug Hope, who was brought in to …
Read More »Sean 'Diddy' Combs, MTV Reviving Reality Competition 'Making the Band'
MTV and Sean “Diddy” Combs will be teaming up for a revival of the reality competition series. The original series launched in 2002 and ran for 12 seasons and spawned the vocal groups O-Town, Danity Kane, Da Band and Day26. Diddy shared the news on Instagram with a video explaining …
Read More »Trailers of the Week: 'Mulan,' 'Succession,' Teenage Dora the Explorer
This week in the wide, wide world of trailers: a first look at Disney‘s next big live-action adaptation of an animated classic for next year and an extended preview on a revisionist take regarding on of their old-school villains; a taste of what HBO’s aristocratic-bastards-behaving-badly hit has in store during …
Read More »'Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love' Review: A Ladies' Man and His Muse
In the 1960s, on the Greek island of Hydra, a Norwegian ex-pat met a young Canadian poet. She was shopping in a market when this dashing, mustachioed figure appeared in the doorway. “Would you like to join us?” the handsome silhouette asked her. “We’re sitting outside.” Their eyes met, and …
Read More »Watch Stephen Colbert Dry Heave Through Trump's Handling of Iran Crisis
Stephen Colbert examined President Donald Trump‘s nerve-wracking handling of the crisis with Iran, as well as his questionable word choice on Twitter, on The Late Show Monday. After Iran shot down an unmanned U.S. drone last Wednesday, Trump approved a retaliation strike but called it off at the last possible …
Read More »'Big Little Lies' Recap: Things Fall Apart
A review of “The End of the World,” this week’s Big Little Lies, coming up just as soon as I hire a child psychologist who dresses up as Little Bo Peep… The title “The End of the World” most literally refers to Renata and Gordon‘s daughter Amabella‘s panic attack in …
Read More »'Rolling Thunder Revue' Review: Scorsese's Dylan Doc Is Simply Brilliant
Just when you think you have this unruly, untamed phantasmagoria pegged, this unclassifiable documentary/concert film — subtitled “A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese” — continually pulls the rug from under you. The film features a glorious restoration of previously abandoned footage from the Rolling Thunder Revue as Dylan and …
Read More »Emma Thompson Plays a Fearsome Lady Boss in 'Late Night'
Watching Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling mix it up in Late Night will make you think you’ve died and gone to hilarity heaven. In Kaling’s woke script, the Oscar-winning British actress for Howards End plays Katherine Newbury, a late-night talk show host who takes a drastic step to stop her …
Read More »'Magic: The Gathering' Animated Series Heading to Netflix
Magic: The Gathering, the cult fantasy card game, will soon be the focus of an animated series bound for Netflix. The Russo Brothers, who helmed Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame, will oversee the series, with the duo crafting a new storyline revolving around the game’s stocked roster of wizards, …
Read More »Ali Wong and Randall Park Are a Romantic Dream Team in 'Always Be My Maybe'
Related: 50 Greatest Romantic Comedies of All Time Let’s hear it for Ali Wong, the Vietnamese-Chinese-American stand-up comic, and Randall Park, born to Korean immigrant parents, for bringing their own hilarious and heartfelt perspective to Always Be My Maybe. It’s an irresistible romantic romp that turns the familiar into something …
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