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Ask Bill Wyman what people should expect fromThe Stones and Brian Jones,documentarian Nick Broomfield’s new film about the late, doomed founder of the band, and he’s pretty straightforward about it: “The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but!” That may be a slight exaggeration, but there’s no denying that the …

Back in August, Below Deck Down Under was lauded for its handling of sexual misconduct on screen when Captain Jason Chambers fired Luke Jones, bosun of the deck crew, after he — while naked — attempted to get into bed with junior stewardess Margot Sisson without her consent. The crew …

Sofia Coppola zeroed in on her artistic signatures early on: The very first shot in her debut as a director, the 1998 short film Lick the Star, shows a teenage girl staring pensively out a car window. She did it again with a shot of Kirsten Dunst in a taxi …

As actors enter their 112th day on strike, Beanie Feldstein, Christopher Meloni, Zachary Quinto, Bill Irwin, and Carrie Preston marched in New York City this week as the union’s negotiating committee and Hollywood studios inch closer to a deal. Although discussions around AI protections have divided the two parties, both …

I n June 2020, Casey Bloys, HBO’s then-president of original programming, needed someone to “go on a mission.” Bloys—who was named HBO’s CEO and chairman in October 2022 — was irked by a tweet from Vulture TV critic Kathryn VanArendonk, who had some thoughts about Perry Mason, HBO’s series starring …

Matthew Perry entered his first rehab in 1997, back when the internet was a novelty and phones plugged into a wall. Friends was the king of prime time and Perry its court jester, a floppy-haired virtuoso of sarcasm and comic timing, but his 28-day stint in Hazelden for Vicodin, splashed …

H ow did I find monsters? My father. It was around Halloween 1956, the same week of Elvis Presley’s second appearance on Ed Sullivan. My parents often let me stay up and watch late movies. Adventure stuff mainly: Tarzan, tiger hunters, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry. Earlier that year, the first …

Across his grand filmography, Martin Scorsese has weighed up the deadly sins that make us all too human. Greed, wrath, envy, pride — name the flaw, he’s made it visceral on the screen. That he’s 80 years old and bringing out the epic Killers of the Flower Moon, based on …

R eality Winner has been out of prison since June 2021, but she’s still under lockdown. The whistleblower’s travel is confined to the Southern District of Texas and she must abide by a 10 p.m. curfew. If all goes according to plan — and it really, really hasn’t for most …

Over the past three decades, sketch comedy group The State has created an MTV series, a comedy album, a book, and a CBS special in addition to several spinoff projects like Reno 911!, Viva Variety, Stella, Wet Hot American Summer, RISK!, and Children’s Hospital. But the logistics of bringing the …