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Angela Bassett has paid tribute to the late Tina Turner, whom she portrayed in the 1993 movie What’s Love Got to Do With It?, in the wake of the singer’s death on Wednesday after a long battle with illness. In a statement published in The Hollywood Reporter, Bassett praised Turner’s …

In 1984 a promising director named Joe Dante unleashed Gremlins. It was a horror-comedy that played like a polished-up version of something he might have worked on for his mentor, B-movie king Roger Corman, who shepherded Dante’s first solo feature, Piranha, in 1978. Dante already had The Howling to his …

Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan plays a fairly minor role in the Disney+ family series American Born Chinese. But there may be no more important character to convey what the show is trying to do, and how well it succeeds at most of it. Chinese is a complicated mix of …

One of the more insidious parts of “Scandoval,” the Vanderpump Rules cheating saga that’s scandalized the nation — wherein Tom Sandoval, a terribly insecure former scene kid on the brink of 40 who owns 5% of a bar and fronts a regrettable cover band — carried on an affair with …

For those amongst us still craving more drama and insanity of last week’s blockbuster Vanderpump Rules finale, Ariana Madix delivered the goods during her appearance on the podcast Call Her Daddy. Ariana, understandably so, was more than willing to scorch and salt the earth when discussing her ex Tom Sandoval’s …

When Margot Robbie, who produced and stars in the Barbie movie out this summer, and director Greta Gerwig were casting the movie, they wanted actresses who could exude what they describe as “Barbie energy.” But as Robbie told Vogue in an in-depth, new feature on the making of the film, …

Barely a scene passes in the rarefied world of Succession without mention of money, the dollar amounts typically quite large. Connor Roy torches $100 million in his deluded presidential campaign. The other Roy siblings outmatch their father, Logan, in a bidding war for Pierce Global Media by offering $10 billion. …

Filming on Rust, the upcoming western film starring Alec Baldwin, has wrapped after nearly two full years. Production had initially planned to have the film completed in 21 days, but on the 12th day of shooting, cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot on set and director Joel Souza was injured …

The title might give the game away a little, but that doesn’t lessen the impact of How to Create a Sex Scandal. The new Max docuseries, brisk, brief, and damning, makes a convincing case that an East Texas pedophilia case that sent seven people to prison was in fact a …

Lily-Rose Depp and Sam Levinson defended The Idol at a Cannes press conference following its premiere, pushing back against a recent Rolling Stone report that contained numerous troubling claims about the show’s content and production environment. Back in March, Rolling Stone published an extensive report about the HBO limited series, …