Macaulay Culkin celebrated his brother Kieran Culkin‘s win at the 97thAcademy Awards for his supporting role in Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain. When speaking at the Vanity Fair Oscars party on the red carpet, Macaulay said that the he only tuned into the ceremony for his brother’s moment. “That’s the …
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Is it us, or has this year’s lead-up to the 97th annual Academy Awards been a bit of a roller-coaster ride? After the nominations were announced roughly a month ago, we knew going in that there wouldn’t be a clear front-runner like last year, when Oppenheimer entered the competition with …
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Not everybody’s a winner — and some, shockingly, aren’t even contenders. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominations for the 97th Oscars this morning, and as usual, there were yelps of joy throughout the land: Big up The Brutalist! Viva Anora! You got in for Best …
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You did it, Golden Globes. You made it to 2025. It sounds crazy, but the unkillable tenacity of the Golden Globes is such a surprise, it’s downright heartwarming. Just a couple of year ago, it looked like the end of the line for the drunkest, messiest, tackiest, ditziest, and bitchiest …
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Kieran Culkin has revealed himself as the “naughty young actor” who was responsible for getting Mark Ruffalo and other co-stars high during a Broadway production of The Moment When. Ruffalo previously discussed the incident on The Graham Norton Show in 2012, but didn’t mention Culkin by name. “There was a …
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Jesse Eisenberg was stuck. Then he saw four words. The actor, writer, and director had been trying to adapt “Mongolia,” a 2017 short story he’d written for Tablet Magazine, into a movie, and was, by his own admission, hitting a brick wall. A tale of two college friends — one …
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You probably know someone like David: early 40s, has a steady job (selling internet ads), loves his wife and toddler son. He’s on meds but still anxiety-ridden, somehow seems both highly observant and perpetually distracted. Takes the responsibility of adulthood seriously. Very seriously. Maybe you’re related to that person. Maybe …
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Jesse Eisenberg continues his evolution from actor to filmmaker with his second project, A Real Pain. The Eisenberg-directed and written film premiered at Sundance, and now the first official trailer for the dramedy, which he also stars in alongside Kieran Culkin, has arrived. In the film, Eisenberg and Culkin play …
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Kieran Culkin looks as though someone’s stolen a piece of his soul. We’re seated across from one another in the bustling lobby of the Pendry, a tony hotel in Park City, Utah, and the Succession star has just clocked a middle-aged man not-so-surreptitiously snapping several photos of him from across …
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There’s some obvious good news about this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards. The show, hosted by Anthony Anderson, and dedicated to celebrating 75 years of television for the 75th annual Emmy ceremony, was about as solid and entertaining as modern awards telecasts get: lots of nostalgia, lots of reminders of why …
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