You would think it would have been the moment that Shauna took a bite of Jackie’s ear. Or when the teen ensemble devoured poor Jackie in a gory cannibalism feast. Or perhaps, the harrowing birth episode when Shauna lost her baby out in the wilderness. But there is something still to come in Yellowjackets season three that made Lauren Ambrose …
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Sabrina Carpenter and Paul Simon kicked off Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary special with a touching duet. The Grammy winners introduced each other before they opened the NBC broadcast by performing Simon & Garfunkel’s “Homeward Bound.” Simon pointed out that he performed the same track on SNL in 1976 with George Harrison, while Carpenter joked that neither she nor her …
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The Chosen is getting a streaming home in the United States. As part of a wide-ranging deal with series creator Dallas Jenkins’ 5&2 Studios, Amazon’s Prime Video will become the exclusive U.S. streaming home to the series about the life of Jesus. Amazon MGM Studios will also distribute theatrical releases for key installments of the show’s final two seasons and …
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Julianne Moore has weighed in on the reported ban of her semi-autobiographical children’s book, Freckleface Strawberry. The book — about a young girl who dislikes but comes to accept her freckles, acknowledging that they reflect the differences among people — is reportedly one of the titles that the Department of Defense Education Activity has identified for “further review,” causing it …
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[This essay contains spoilers for Captain America: Brave New World.] Captain America: Brave New World has drawn a divided response from critics and general audiences. And given how divided America is right now, and the questions concerning what the American Dream even means today, it’s both fitting and frustrating. While the film certainly has its share of structural and technical …
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The establishing scenes of Islands feel like something out of a James M. Cain novel — a wily noir, in this case drenched in subtropical heat and blinding sunshine. A tennis coach hiding out from life while working at a Canary Islands luxury hotel falls under the spell of a beautiful married guest who seems oddly familiar, with a douchey …
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The BAFTA Film Awards shared the love on Sunday evening, with Vatican drama Conclave picking up four wins, including for best film and outstanding British film, the same number of honors as Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, which earned the best director and best actor awards for Corbet and Adrien Brody, respectively. Meanwhile, Mikey Madison received the best leading actress BAFTA for …
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Jeff Goldblum brought his special touch to the BAFTA Film Awards ceremony’s In Memoriam segment in London on Sunday, performing “As Time Goes By” on the piano while the names and faces of beloved industry figures who died over the past year were shown on a screen. The actor, who played The Wizard of Oz in the BAFTA-nominated Jon M. …
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The fires that ravaged Los Angeles County earlier this year have supercharged calls to bring more production back to Southern California after a period of notable decline. Much of this advocacy has played out on social media and in the press. On Instagram industry figures like cinematographer and director Rachel Morrison (Mudbound) and star Vin Diesel (Fast & Furious) have …
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U.S. President Donald Trump got a bit of a roasting during the BAFTA Film Awards ceremony in London on Sunday, courtesy of host David Tennant. The Scottish star (Doctor Who, Inside Man) during his opening monologue mentioned The Brutalist, lauding it as “as film of incredible architecture, the boldest architecture in film this year” with the exception of the hairdo of …
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