As Hollywood continues its incessant blood-sucking reliance on draining old intellectual property in lieu of supporting fresh ideas and stories, Sharon Stone is taking a righteous stand against the recently announced Basic Instinct reboot. “I mean, go ahead, but good fucking luck,” Stone said with a laugh on Today when …
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The Los Angeles woman charged with selling the liquid ketamine injected into Matthew Perry shortly before he died in a jacuzzi two years ago has reached a plea deal with prosecutors. Dubbed the “Ketamine Queen” in court filings, Jasveen Sangha, 42, has agreed to plead guilty to five federal charges, …
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Leave it to Spike Lee to explode the typical high-stakes remake. His new film, Highest 2 Lowest, which opened Friday, flips Akira Kurosawa’s mannered 1963 staple, High and Low, into a rowdy, topical, laugh-out-loud romp (starring Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, and A$AP Rocky) that’s as beautifully jarring as a dissonant …
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A brain, a jock, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal return to theaters in September when the John Hughes classic, The Breakfast Club, celebrates its 40th anniversary with a rerelease. The 1985 blockbuster about a group of suburban Chicago high school misfits who are forced to spend detention …
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Conan O’Brien said that late-night shows will eventually “disappear” from television amid the “seismic change” in the industry, but that hosts like Stephen Colbert — whose Late Show run will end next year — are “too talented and too essential to go away.” Speaking at the Television Academy Hall of …
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Terence Stamp, the Oscar-nominated British actor who starred in The Limey, Billy Budd, and as General Zod in Superman, has died at the age of 87. Stamp’s death was announced Sunday by his family, who said in a statement, “He leaves behind an extraordinary body of work, both as an …
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The Scary Movie franchise comeback just got a lot more exciting. On Friday, Marlon Wayans confirmed that Anna Faris and Regina Hall will be reprising their roles of Cindy and Brenda in the next Scary Movie installment, which is scheduled to hit theaters on June 12, 2026. “We can’t wait …
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Early on in My Undesirable Friends, filmmaker Julia Loktev’s monumental and marathon-length chronicle of Russian journalists attempting to practice their trade in Putin‘s Russia, an interview subject is asked about totalitarian regimes. If you look at how such governments are portrayed in movies, the person notes, the idea is that …
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I started watching Sex and the City in college. On Sunday nights, I’d walk over to my friend Anna’s room in our small Midwestern liberal arts college. I’d sit on the cheaply carpeted floor, our friend Kate on the bed. We’d drink beer or Fresca, eat bags of Doritos and …
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NBC reality show The Traitors will roll out an all-civilian edition next year. Alan Cumming, who will once again serve as the show’s host, announced the upcoming pivot while at the Televerse 2025 conference in Los Angeles. “The money will mean more to them,” Cumming said, informing attendees that the …
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