A fourth season of True Detective is in the works at HBO, with Barry Jenkins set to produce the latest installment of the beloved, Emmy-nominated anthology series. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Tigers Are Not Afraid filmmaker Issa López has been tapped to write and direct the first episode of …
Read More »Bill Maher Slams the GOP, the ACLU, MTV, and Tucker Carlson on 'Real Time'
Bill Maher slammed the GOP, the ACLU, MTV, Tucker Carlson and Playboy magazine in a Real Time segment Friday that took aim at how companies change their brand but keep their name. Maher opened his nine-minute “New Rule: Stand By Your Brand” by decrying how TLC, a.k.a. The Learning Channel, …
Read More »He Was Just Another 'Euphoria' Fan. Then the Show Used His Face
Alexander Burchardt doesn’t look anything like Michael Hutchence. Yes, he’s handsome like the INXS singer, and has a similarly defined jawline, but the resemblance stops there. But through happenstance and Hollywood magic, the 29-year-old web developer from Copenhagen recently became an unlikely stand-in for Hutchence in the second season for …
Read More »'X': Two Grindhouse Staples — Horror and Porn — Combined Into One Neo-Exploitation Classic
Bloody. Brutal. Grungier than a big-city back alley and more guts-strewn than a slaughterhouse. This is how you like your slasher-flick horror, and trust us when we say Ti West has your back. Part of a young, hungry generation of horror auteurs weaned on the grindhouse canon, he’s dabbled in …
Read More »'Lupin' Robbers Charged With Pulling Off Elaborate Heist of Show About Elaborate Heist Puller
In one of the wildest cases of life imitating art, seven people in France have been charged with robbing the set of the Netflix heist series, Lupin, the French news agency AFP reports. The robbery took place Feb. 25 while Lupin was filming in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. Somesuspects …
Read More »'Deep Water': Erotic Thriller Spells Deep Trouble for Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas
The return of a master of the genre, they said. Maybe the erotic thriller isn’t dead after all, they said. Never mind that the release of the Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas thriller Deep Water— director Adrian Lyne’s first movie since Unfaithful 20 years ago —was repeatedly delayed. This …
Read More »William Hurt Ex Recounts Abuse She Endured, 'Brutal Remnants' Following His Death
A former girlfriend of William Hurt, who died Sunday at the age of 71, recounted the alleged physical abuse she endured while dating the actor in a guest column for Variety. Like actress Marlee Matlin — who accused Hurt of abuse in a memoir — Donna Kaz also penned a …
Read More »'The Torch': Buddy Guy Gives a Lesson on How to Play the Blues — and Keep the Music Alive
That moldy-peaches cliché “they don’t make ‘em like they used to” has rarely applied to anyone as much as Buddy Guy. As his former protégé Joe Bonamassa says in The Torch, a new doc about Guy, the now-85-year-old blues guitarist and singer is “the last man standing.” He really is: …
Read More »Kamala Khan Gets Her Superhero Origin Story in New 'Ms. Marvel' Trailer
Superhero-obsessed Kamala Khan winds up with some superpowers of her own in the new trailer for Ms. Marvel, the next Marvel Studios series arriving on Disney+ on June 8. The trailer for the new series offers a glimpse at Kamala’s Ms. Marvel origin story, as the Muslim American teen from …
Read More »'Roma' Actress Yalitza Aparicio to Star in Apple TV's First All-Spanish Show
Yalitza Aparicio is heading to the small screen thanks to the first all-Spanish-language series on Apple TV+. The Mexican actress, who starred as the beloved Cleo in Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, takes a lead role in Familia de Medianoche. The series is based on the documentary Midnight Family,according toVariety. The cast …
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