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Climate activist and filmmaker Adam McKay was discussing the Los Angeles Fires and climate change during an interview with NME when he reflected on his satirical comedy Don’t Look Up. When asked about the film’s impact as one of the most watched movies on Netflix more than three years after …

Adam McKay has shared his thoughts on Wicked‘s future in the U.S. Recently, the movie musical was briefly banned in Kuwait because of its LGBTQ cast. McKay took to X, formerly Twitter, to say that he “wouldn’t be surprised to see the movie banned in 3-5 years” in the U.S. …

In February, ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods pointed a finger at the public for failing to solve the climate crisis — suggesting that consumers were to blame for the toxic carbon emissions produced by the oil giant. “The dirty secret nobody talks about is how much all this is going to …

Adam McKay would like to bring to your attention that the world is burning. “We’re living in a ridiculous farcical comedy, but the consequences are real,” says the director who turned a planet-ending comet into a metaphor for climate change in his film Don’t Look Up. “We can’t seem to …

Adam McKay would like to bring to your attention that the world is burning. “We’re living in a ridiculous farcical comedy, but the consequences are real,” says the director who turned a planet-ending comet into a metaphor for climate change in his film Don’t Look Up. “We can’t seem to …

A self-published novelist is claiming Adam McKay ripped off a book he wrote for his 2021 Netflix movie Don’t Look Up in a new lawsuit. William Collier claims that in 2007, he wrote a novel called Stanley’s Comet, which was later self-published in 2012. The suit describes Stanley’s Comet as …

This post contains spoilers for the Season Two finale of HBO‘s Winning Time, now streaming on Max. Winning Time, the HBO drama about the Los Angeles Lakers’ Showtime dynasty in the Eighties, has been accused by members of those teams of rewriting history. With what unexpectedly turned out to be …

Throughout the Season Two premiere of HBO’s basketball drama Winning Time, various characters, from Lakers assistant coach Pat Riley (Adrien Brody) to Boston Celtics general manager Red Auerbach (Michael Chiklis) talk about how difficult it is to repeat as champions. The real Riley would eventually refer to this as “the …

In the fourth episode of HBO’s new drama Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, first-time NBA head coach Jack McKinney (Tracy Letts) lets us in on his vision for how he wants to use his new position to transform the way basketball is played. He compares old-school offense …