Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Keanu Reeves is everywhere right now. He’s popping up in rom-coms and Toy Story sequels and action movies that are way better than they have any right to be. He’s spouting sage wisdom about the nature of mortality on nightly talk shows. He’s officially the internet’s boyfriend even though he […]
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On the set of Deadwood: The Movie—a new, 110-minute conclusion to the HBO series—the show’s creator, David Milch, read Robert Penn Warren poems to the cast. Warren was Milch’s writing teacher when he was at Yale, and they kept up a correspondence long after. When Warren was dying, he summoned Milch to his side. When […]
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In the opening scene of Booksmart, a winsome comedy about two try-hards who set out to prove they can have fun on the eve of their high school graduation, Molly (Beanie Feldstein) wakes in the flamingo-pink Le Capris apartment complex to a pre-recorded pep talk. “Good morning, winner,” Maya Rudolph’s voice coos. “Visualize the mountain […]
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Barry Jenkins, director of Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk, will be directing and executive producing the upcoming biopic of iconic choreographer Alvin Ailey, Deadline reports. His eponymous theater, founded in 1958 in New York City, introduced modern dance to generations of Black people, and continues to spread his vision today through professional shows, […]
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Most of the time, scary stories for kids aren’t actually supposed to be that scary. Are You Afraid of the Dark? was campy; Goosebumps had suspense and weird body horror but usually came to a neat and tidy ending; and the monsters in Aaahh!!! Real Monsters were actually pretty cute. But Scary Stories to Tell […]
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Poor William H. Macy. He is one of the greatest character actors of his generation, but the man’s been going through a rough patch lately. He’s been stuck doing a TV show that’s been consistently terrible for the past half a decade; his wife, Felicity Huffman, has been indicted as part of that widespread college […]
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When Abdellatif Kechiche screened his latest film, Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo, at Cannes on Thursday, hordes of people stormed out of the theater in disgust. Kechiche is known for making sexually explicit movies—he’s the same director who gave us Blue Is the Warmest Color—but he apparently outdid himself with this one. According to one critic, […]
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