You know the Tolstoy quote about all happy families being the same, but “every unhappy family is unhappy in their own way?” The quartet at the center of Steven Soderbergh’s ghost story Presence has refined their own particular brand of dysfunction to perfection. The mom, Rebecca (Lucy Liu), is a …
Read More »'Saturday Night Live' Origins Movie Casts Its Lorne Michaels
The Fabelmans star Gabriel LaBelle is set to play Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels in an upcoming SNL origins movie, according to a report from Deadline. SNL 1975, written and directed by Jason Reitman, is based on behind-the-scenes accounts of the long-running comedy show’s debut night. Per the outlet, …
Read More »Kieran Culkin on Life After 'Succession' and Learning to Love Acting
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 …
Read More »'Eno' Remixes the Music Doc — and Brian Eno's Entire Career
You can never step in the same river twice. And, unless you are blessed with an infinite amount of patience, time, and mortality, you can never see the same version of the Sundance documentary Eno twice. This is by design. Brian Eno — former Roxy Music member, legendary recording producer, …
Read More »Jacob Elordi Is 'So Babygirl' and Reneé Rapp is 'Mother' in New 'SNL' Teasers
Bisexual panic is seeing Reneé Rapp and Jacob Elordi teasing their appearances on Saturday Night Live. Together. On Thursday, SNL dropped its weekly teasers for this Saturday’s show, which will see Elordi as host and Rapp as musical guest. The video features the two stars alongside Bowen Yang cracking jokes …
Read More »Melissa Barrera Says She's 'So Grateful' for 'Scream' Franchise Despite Firing
Melissa Barrera is keeping things positive after being removed from the Scream movie franchise. In November, Spyglass Media Group — the production company behind thefilms — fired Barrera following her social media posts in support ofPalestineamid theIsrael-Hamas war, claiming they have “zero tolerance” for antisemitism. Speaking to Deadline at Sundance …
Read More »Jaboukie Young-White on Fixing Matt Rife and the Death of Twitter
Twitter recently lost one of its premier chaos agents: Jaboukie Young-White, the ace comic responsible for maybe the best single act of trolling in the hellsite’s history. The Illinois native attracted a large social media following in the 2010s thanks to his Instagram posts and tweets brimming with sardonic wit …
Read More »Wanna See Jacob Elordi's Face When He Smells His Own 'Saltburn' Bathwater Candle?
One of the most unforgettable scenes in Saltburn — as in, once you’ve seen it, you can’t unsee it, like many scenes in the surprisingly delightful cringefest — portrays Barry Keoghan lapping up Jacob Elordi‘s bathwater after the latter actor, uh, gratified himself in the tub. Of course, because the …
Read More »'Freaky Tales' Ignites Sundance With Nazi-Bashing, Rap Battles, and Pedro Pascal
The Bay Area was a weird place in 1987. You had the remnants of the Me Decade’s cults of touchy-feeliness bumping up against Silicon Valley’s computer-nerd capitalism. Competing D.I.Y. music scenes meant you could surf between S.F. Thrash, East Bay rap, and pockets of punk popping up from everywhere; shows …
Read More »'Emily in Paris' Actress Ashley Park Recovering From 'Critical Septic Shock'
Ashley Park, the actress known best for Emily in Paris, Joy Ride, and Beef, revealed on Instagram Friday that she is recovering in a hospital from septic shock. Last month, Park contracted tonsilitis, which “spiraled into critical septic shock,” she wrote in the post, next to photos and video of …
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