Angela Bassett has spoken out about her Oscar loss for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, recalling the discussion that ensued surrounding Bassett’s viral reaction after Jamie Lee Curtis took home the Best Supporting Actress award for her role in Everything Everywhere All At Once. “I found it interesting,“ Bassett told Town …
Read More »Robert De Niro Digs Into a Devious Conspiracy in New 'Zero Day' Teaser
Robert De Niro navigates a sinister web of competing political and industrial forces in the new teaser for Zero Day, the upcoming limited series premiering Feb. 20, 2025, on Netflix. De Niro stars as George Mullen, a respected former U.S. President, who’s brought back into the federal government for one …
Read More »Will You Trust Tom Cruise 'One Last Time' With Final 'Mission Impossible' Movie?
The two-minute teaser for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, features deep sea dives, fiery battle scenes, and high-intensity chases in the action-packed franchise. As usual, if something can explode, it probably does, and there’s of course one scene showing Cruise dangling off the side of a flying plane. At …
Read More »'Damsel': Millie Bobby Brown Is Your New Mother of Dragons
“There are many stories of chivalry where the heroic knight saves the damsel in distress,” a voice informs us before a single image appears on the screen. “This is not one of them.” It probably isn’t necessary to prep and/or warn viewers that Damsel, Netflix‘s expensive-looking throw of the cinematic …
Read More »Millie Bobby Brown Faces a Dragon in the New 'Damsel' Trailer
Stranger Things‘ Millie Bobby Brown is entering another kind of Upside Down. In the Damsel trailer released Tuesday, Elodie, a disgraced princess, attempts to survive an impossible fate. After a damsel (Brown) agrees to marry a prince, her body is chucked into a cave home to a fire-breathing dragon — …
Read More »'Orion and the Dark' Is 'Inside Out' for Anxious Insomniacs
It’s easy for children to be feel apprehensive and overwhelmed by the world. (To be fair, it’s also easy for a lot of adults to feel apprehensive and overwhelmed by the world, which, you know — thank god for therapists!) You could do a lot worse than to show a …
Read More »Angela Bassett: 'Tina Turner Showed Others What Love and Freedom Should Look Like'
Angela Bassett has paid tribute to the late Tina Turner, whom she portrayed in the 1993 movie What’s Love Got to Do With It?, in the wake of the singer’s death on Wednesday after a long battle with illness. In a statement published in The Hollywood Reporter, Bassett praised Turner’s …
Read More »Jamie Lee Curtis Mouths 'Shut Up' as She Wins Best Supporting Actress at 2023 Oscars
In what became one of the most hotly contested, unpredictable categories at this year’s Academy Awards, Jamie Lee Curtis won Best Supporting Actress for her role in Everything Everywhere All at Once on Sunday. In disbelief that her name was the one being called as the winner, Curtis excitedly mouthed …
Read More »Oscars 2023: What Will Win and What Should Win
We have just one question for you regarding the Oscars: How do you feel about hot-dog fingers? When the nominees for the 95th Academy Awards were announced on Jan. 24, the lineup was a traditional combination of the usual suspects and welcome outliers. The expected standouts from the fall festival …
Read More »Angela Bassett on Ariana DeBose's Viral BAFTA Rap: 'It Was Beautiful'
Angela Bassett finally did the thing and commented on Ariana DeBose’s now-viral BAFTA rap. “I DM’d her last night. I did. It was beautiful,” Bassett toldVarietyof the red carpet at the NAACP Image Awards Saturday. “I just wanted to make sure she was okay because, you know, it’s a lot …
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