The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel Live pulled an April Fools’ prank on their viewers and in-studio audience as the two Jimmys hosted each other’s late-night show Friday. The surprise gag was two years in the making, Fallon revealed, as the hosts initially had the idea back …
Read More »Denzel Washington on Will Smith Oscars Slap: 'The Devil Got Ahold of That Circumstance'
Denzel Washington, who huddled with Will Smith moments after the King Richard actor slapped Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars, talked about the incident publicly for the first time Saturday. Speaking to author and bishop T.D. Jakes at a leadership summit, Washington said that he joined Smith in prayer soon …
Read More »'Atlanta' Recap: Socks to Be You
A review of this week’s Atlanta, “The Old Man and the Tree,” coming up just as soon as I make sure Doja Cat isn’t doing the same thing… Late in “The Old Man and the Tree,” Darius gets into a philosophical discussion with one of the few other nonwhite guests …
Read More »'Into the Lion's Den:' Marilyn Monroe Doc Seeks the Truth About Her Death
Marilyn Monroe‘s untimely death in 1962, at the age of 36, shocked the world. A new documentary from Netflix,The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes, hopes to find the answer to the questions surrounding her overdose. The new film, directed by Emma Cooper and executive produced by Chris Smith, …
Read More »Chris Rock Source Disputes Oscars Producer's Claim He Vetoed Will Smith's Ejection
UPDATE (4/1/2022): Chris Rock was never asked if he wanted Will Smith escorted out of the Dolby Theatre on Sunday after the King Richard actor slapped him during an onstage ambush at the 2022 Oscars, a source close to Rock tells Rolling Stone. The source spoke out after Oscars producer …
Read More »A Timeline of Will Smith and Chris Rock's Beef
Chris Rock’s jab at Jada Pinkett Smith at this year’s Oscars wasn’t the first time the comedian has joked about the famous couple. Here, a closer look at their history as both friends and frenemies. Rock jokes about Jada’s activism in the 1990s During a monolgue on hisChris Rock Show …
Read More »'Space Jam 2,' 'Diana: The Musical' the Big Winners at 2022 Razzie Awards
Update 3/31: The organizers of the Razzies announced Thursday that they have rescinded Bruce Willis’ “Worst Performance” Award following news of the actor’s aphasia diagnosis . Willis previously had his own category at the 2022 Golden Raspberry Awards due to his many small roles in a string of straight-to-video action …
Read More »'Apollo 10 1/2': Richard Linklater Takes an Animated Space Trip Down Memory Lane
Nostalgia can be a curse, a poison, a mind-killer far worse than fear. Unless, of course, it’s your subjective nostalgia — then it’s a sentimental journey through the various signposts and miscellaneous debris that have made you the person you are today. Or: it’s nostalgia as filtered through the lens …
Read More »'Slow Horses' Stars Gary Oldman as a Stinker, Failure, Older Spy
Midway through Apple TV+’s new British spy series Slow Horses, veteran intelligence agent Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) studies a dead body at the bottom of the steps to his dingy office. Lamb’s mortified underling Min Harper (Dustin Demri-Burns) insists that he didn’t mean to kill this man. “Of course you …
Read More »'Moon Knight' Is Oscar Isaac's MCU Debut — and Kind of a Mess
Midway through the second episode of Disney+’s new Marvel series Moon Knight, mercenary Marc Spector has a heart-to-heart conversation with museum gift shop clerk Steven Grant. This is complicated by the fact that Marc and Steven are two different personalities — both played by Oscar Isaac — of the same …
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