There may not be a movie that has more BDE (Brooklyn Dad Energy) than Good One — you’d have to go to closing time at a Park Slope bar with nothing but The National on the jukebox to find a more concentrated dose of paternal moodiness than writer-director India Donaldson’s …
Read More »'Cuckoo' Is Hunter Schafer's New Horror Movie. 'Batshit' Would Be a Better Title
Deep in the forests of Germany, there is a resort, a quaint getaway nestled right at the bottom of the Bavarian Alps. Step out of your car, and you immediately feel like you’re stepping into a postcard; you half expect men in lederhosen, hoisting large steins of Pilsner, to greet …
Read More »What Is Going on With the 'It Ends With Us' Cast?
The gossip started earlier this week. Amid the press blitz for the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling romantic drama-slash-domestic violence cautionary tale It Ends With Us, fans started to notice something seemed amiss. The film’s director and co-star, Justin Baldoni (who optioned Hoover’s book in 2019 and is also …
Read More »'Skeleton Crew': 'Star Wars' Goes 'Goonies' in Trailer for New Series
Star Wars goes Goonies in the first trailer for Skeleton Crew, the franchise’s latest spinoff series coming to Disney+ in December. In the preview, which debuted at Disney’s D23 expo Friday, a bunch of space kids leave the safe-but-boring confines of their intergalactic suburb after stumbling across a hidden Jedi …
Read More »'Avatar 3' Titled 'Fire and Ash,' James Cameron Reveals
Avatar will keep with the elemental theme following 2022’s The Way of Water, with the third film in the series now titled Fire and Ash. Director James Cameron and stars Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana were on hand Friday, at the Disney D23 expo, where they revealed the title of …
Read More »Arianne Zucker, Subject of Trump's Lewd Tape, Wins Round in 'Days of Our Lives' Lawsuit
Arianne Zucker, the Emmy-nominated actress known for playing Nicole Walker on Days of Our Lives and beingthe subject of Donald Trump’s vulgar commentson the infamous Access Hollywood tape, has overcome a major challenge to her lawsuit filed last February alleging sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation on the set of the …
Read More »How Hunter Schafer Became 'A Badass Thriller Bad Bitch'
H unter Schafer greets me with a confession. Beckoning me through a small gated fence into the winding maze of the Chateau Marmont’s lush, greenery-covered courtyard, she gives me a hug, then yawns. “There’s a lot happening right now,” she says. “I’ve barely gotten a handle on it.” There’s a …
Read More »'Borderlands' Is an Insult to Gamers, Movie Lovers and Carbon-Based Life Forms
Cate Blanchett has played queens, prime ministers, psychiatrists, artists, hipsters, thieves, Southern belles, evil stepmothers, Norse deities, Nazis, Katherine Hepburn, Bob Dylan, and an elf. She’s an actor who’s fearless in her choices and boundless in her versatility. So you can imagine her being approached to play a bounty hunter …
Read More »SNL's Chaotic Opening Night Captured in First Trailer for 'Saturday Night'
The chaotic first night of Saturday Night Live — and how the show was almost dead-on-arrival — is the focus of the upcoming “thriller-comedy” Saturday Night, which depicts the hours leading up to the premiere broadcast. “At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers …
Read More »How Do You Market a Domestic-Violence Movie? Not Like 'It Ends With Us'
In author Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel It Ends With Us, the main character Lily Blossom Bloom is certain of a few things. One, her name is ridiculous, especially since her dream is to open a flower shop. Two, no relationship has come close to what she experienced at age 15 …
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