This month: Elisabeth Moss is a rocker on the brink of a breakdown; Robert Pattinson plunges into deep space: Andrew Garfield takes a tour of the old, weird L.A.; and Terry Gilliam finally unveils a pet project that’s literally been decades in the making. And there are also teen-singer dramas, …
Read More »Trailers of the Week: 'Dark Phoenix,' 'Fosse/Verdon,' D.J. Idris Elba
What dropped trailer-wise over the past week, you ask? How about action-filled clips for both a cult-superhero reboot and the upcoming redo of the most famous all-powerful-mutant-run-amuck tale of them all? We also get sneak peeks at FX‘s upcoming bio-series about Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, and Netflix’s D.J. Idris …
Read More »'Leaving Neverland': Controversial Michael Jackson Doc Will Leave You Shellshocked
(This piece originally ran on January 25th, as part of our 2019 Sundance Film Festival coverage.) There was no gaggle of protestors outside the Egyptian Theater in Park City, Utah early Friday morning, despite news reports that the Sundance Film Festival had been told to brace for a massive disruption …
Read More »Out to Lunch With Desus and Mero, Comedy's Bronx Bombers
Desus Nice and the Kid Mero have just sat down for lunch at an upscale Manhattan bistro when they notice the birdlike gentleman in the slate-blue sweater a few tables over. Desus sees him first: “Is that John Oliver?” It certainly looks a lot like the star of HBO’s Last …
Read More »'Leaving Neverland' Director Dan Reed Talks Michael Jackson Allegations, #MeToo
The blistering 236-minute film Leaving Neverland, which airs on HBO this March, levels damning accusations that the ebulliently childlike and phenomenally talented Michael Jackson was a serial pedophile. In 1993, 13-year-old Jordan Chandler brought charges of sexual abuse against Jackson that ended in a reported $10 million cash settlement. A …
Read More »'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' Season 4: Farewell to the Hateable Character We Totally Love
Since it began, the CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has been full of surprises. Somehow, the musical romantic comedy has been able to churn out — via co-creator and star Rachel Bloom and fellow songwriters Adam Schlesinger and Jack Dolgen — two to three clever and catchy song parodies per episode. And …
Read More »The Trouble With Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp isn’t here yet. Still, his presence is all around the 10,500-square-foot rented mansion at 16 Bishopswood Road in London’s Highgate neighborhood. He is here in the busy hands of Russell, his personal chef working up the Peking duck. He is here in the stogie-size joint left by the …
Read More »'Blockers': Meet the Woman Behind the Female 'Superbad'
Kay Cannon is ticking off names, one finger at a time. “There’s Amy Heckerling,” she says, mentioning the Fast Times at Ridgemont High director, “and Tamra Davis … Nora Ephron did at least one … and the two women behind theBridget Jones‘ movies, I can’t remember their names.” After some …
Read More »'Wormwood': Errol Morris on Truth, Justice and C.I.A Murder Cover-Ups
On November 28th, 1953, a military scientist named Frank Olson died after falling out the window of his New York hotel room. Did he jump … or was he pushed? That question has consumed the life of his son, Eric. And it’s now the focus of Wormwood, the new four-hour-plus …
Read More »'My Friend Dahmer': From Graphic Novel to Chilling New Film
In 2013, filmmaker Marc Meyers took a trip to Bath, Ohio, to visit the suburb where serial killer Jeffery Dahmer spent his formative years. Several months earlier, Meyers had optioned the graphic novel My Friend Dahmer – a memoir by cartoonist Derf Backderf about his brief but intense high-school friendship …
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