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December 23, 2024As impossible a task as doubling one of the 20th century’s most distinctive figures might be, Timothée Chalamet largely measures up to it in James Mangold’s A...
December 20, 2024On their journey to the fabled land of Milele, the motley band of animal adventurers at the heart of Mufasa: The Lion King must cross what legend describes as the deepest...
August 13, 2024House of the Dragon is the most expensive show on HBO, and its Season 2 finale drew nearly 9 million viewers on Sunday night, but the season hadn’t even ended before the...
June 26, 2024When Emma Stone won her first Academy Award, for La La Land in 2017, she took the stage with an open mouth and a sideways glance that seemed to say, Can you even believe this? But...
June 10, 2024The press has been attempting to crown Glen Powell the next big thing—Hollywood’s new leading man, the latest addition to the A-list—for years, but he’s never...
June 4, 2024Over the long weekend, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos got a bit of a roasting for telling the New York Times’ Lulu Garcia-Navarro that Barbie and Oppenheimer, whose combined...
April 29, 2024When I was a teenager, I made a cassette tape of songs I wanted to listen to but didn’t want to admit I owned. Recording off the radio or borrowing albums from friends, I...
April 17, 2024I’ve never heard gunshots like the ones in Civil War. Or, rather, I’ve never heard them in a movie. If you’ve ever been to a firing range, or just lived in a city...
February 29, 2024In January, Robert De Niro made Academy Awards history by becoming the actor with the longest span between his first and most recent nominations—49 years since winning...
February 13, 2024As former Daily Show host Trevor Noah accepted an Emmy for his final season, the correspondent Roy Wood Jr. emphatically mouthed a silent plea from the stage: “Hire a host....
February 9, 2024On the morning the Oscar nominations were announced, the excited cries of newly crowned nominees were drowned out by a chorus of disappointed Barbie fans. Sure, the film had racked...
February 1, 2024The most streamed TV show of 2023 wasn’t a cult classic or a critical darling. It was Suits, the glossy legal drama that has become a runaway hit on Netflix. The USA...
January 9, 2024For years, the Golden Globes were the tipsy cousin of awards shows. You’d see them for a few hours once a year, they’d get a little too drunk and a little too loud, but...
