Jesse Pinkman is back in El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, which Netflix released on Friday. I already published my spoiler-free thoughts on the film, and now it’s time to go old-school recapping, like I did for every episode of Breaking Bad, with full spoilers for El Camino coming up …
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Sid Haig, a towering character actor with a shiver-inducing grimace, died Saturday at age 80. His wife, Susan L. Oberg, reported his death on Instagram but did not mention a cause of death, though she did write, “This came as a shock to all of us.” Haig is best known …
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On September 27th, 2018, most of America was frozen in front of a TV screen, watching Christine Blasey Ford testify at the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh. Voice shaking, she apologized preemptively (and, later, repeatedly, over hours of questioning) for gaps in her recollection of the assault she …
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One of the many reminders of the often discounted greatness of Linda Ronstadt arrives about 30 minutes into Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s documentary Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice. We see the biggest female rock star of the time (1976) in a studio with her band, filming what’s …
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In his monologue on The Late Show Wednesday night, Stephen Colbert addressed Watergate – no, not that Watergate. He was referring to the latest act of lunacy by President Trump who, when presenting on Hurricane Dorian this week, showed up a map that appeared to have been altered with Sharpie. …
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The trailer for writer-director Greta Gerwig‘s adaptation of Little Women arrived on Tuesday, featuring the film’s star-studded cast. It opens in theaters this Christmas. Based on the 19th century novel by Louisa May Alcott, Little Women stars Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh and Eliza Scanlen as four teenaged girls living with …
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In an upcoming episode of AMC’s The Terror: Infamy, Yamato-san, an elderly immigrant played by George Takei, lists all the men who have vanished since he and many of his friends and neighbors of Japanese ancestry were taken to a prison camp in the wake of the attack on Pearl …
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This post contains full spoilers for Years and Years, which aired its finale tonight on HBO. Years and Years, a limited series imagining the next 15 years of life in an increasingly dystopian vision of England and the entire world, finished airing in the UK a few days before it …
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On a hot August night in 1969, four murderous members of Charles Manson’s cult “family” invaded the Los Angeles home of pregnant actress Sharon Tate. Her husband, director Roman Polanski, was in Europe on business. What happened next made headlines and, for better or worse, history. You might not remember …
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Luca Guadagnino has cast Chloë Sevigny, Alice Braga and Kid Cudi in an upcoming HBO drama series, the Hollywood Reporter wrote on Thursday. Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name, A Bigger Splash, 2018’s Suspiria) will pen the script and serve as the showrunner on We Are Who We Are, a coming-of-age story …
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