Jack Quaid bounds up the stairs of Manhattan’s Midtown Comics like a Golden Retriever on a long-promised walk, his plaid winter jacket fluttering behind him in the January chill. Sandwiched between a 99-cent pizza joint and a smoke shop, the Times Square institution is one of the largest stores of …
Read More »Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson Reprise 'True Detective' Roles, Push for Texas-Based Productions
Texas-born actors Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson reprised their True Detective roles in a video today as they urged the state Legislature to bring more Hollywood productions to the Lone Star State. The four-minute clip, “True to Texas,” follows McConaughey and Harrelson down a desolate two-way road, and it feels …
Read More »Dennis Quaid Plays Smiling Serial Killer in 'Happy Face' Trailer
In the Nineties, Keith Hunter Jesperson murdered at least eight woman over a five-year time span. Soon he got the name Happy Face Killer, after sending law enforcement post-murder notes featuring the cheerful expression. Paramount+ released a trailer Monday for the true-crime series Happy Face, tracing the former truck driver’s …
Read More »Hollywood Courted and Spurned Demi Moore. She Brings It All Out in 'The Substance'
“When did you first feel cancelled by your age?” You knew that some variation of this question would be asked — it was really just a question of when, and if it would come before the inevitable query about all that nudity. Seven minutes into the Cannes Film Festival press …
Read More »'Reagan' Is Everything the Right Gets Wrong About Art
There’s a reason that hardline American conservatives regard so many books, movies, TV shows, music, theater, and other creative arts as ideologically poisonous, tools for “indoctrinating” people with “woke” values or “grooming” children to adopt an LGBTQ+ identity and become sexually permissive. It’s because they find little value in a …
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