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The Pain of Passing April 22, 2025
Mayukh Sen’s scrupulous and moving biography, Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star, considers the Golden Age actress’ ambivalence toward her white and Sinhalese ancestry through a decolonial lens. In 1936, Merle Oberon, the...
The Miami Vice Sequel That Never Was April 21, 2025
Given Hollywood’s current penchant for regurgitation, it’s surprising there haven’t been more Miami Vices since its final episode aired on NBC on May 21, 1989. There was of course the 2006 movie when Colin Farrell stepped into Don Johnson’s sockless ...
A Forgotten Master of Pulp Fiction April 18, 2025
No one much liked the solitary writer Cornell Woolrich, except Hollywood, which devoured many of his noir novels and short stories, with their ingenious plots, solitary losers, and complicated protagonists....
Hollywood At Risk April 17, 2025
The specter of Los Angeles becoming another Detroit, a city built on a specific industry that became a shell of its former self when that business moved out, loomed over a compelling film and TV industry town hall that tackled not only the calamitous...
Will There Ever Be Another “Great Gatsby”? April 16, 2025
Toward the end of his life, F. Scott Fitzgerald, consumed by thoughts of inadequacy and convinced he was a “has-been,” wrote to his editor Max Perkins asking if his old book The Great Gatsby was simply destined to be unpopular. The novel, published i...
Brian Tyree Henry Has Been Doing the Work April 15, 2025
Brian Tyree Henry is accustomed to portraying characters who are shouldering some massive burden. He broke out in Atlanta, in which he played Alfred “Paper Boi” Miles, a drug-dealer-turned-rapper forced to reckon with the dangers of his old life and ...
Run, Algo, Run April 10, 2025
Hollywood made me think that a conference is supposed to be sexy. All across America, I thought, business travelers were wearing suits, ordering room service, and bumping into out-of-town acquaintances who forgot their wedding rings—an undercurrent o...
Hollywood’s Jester April 10, 2025
Seth Rogen is itemizing all the ways in which, when he’s producing a film or TV show, he’s inclined to agonize about his contribution. “Are my notes helping?” he says. “Am I making things worse? Am I actually inspiring the writers to create better th...
Why Aren’t You Listening to Jon Pardi? April 09, 2025
Jon Pardi has made his bones on straight-down-the-middle, old-school country. With his brawny twang, clever (but not afraid to be corny) wordplay, and fiddle-forward arrangements, he’s had six number-one country hits across the past decade—including ...
'Twin Peaks' Turns 35 April 09, 2025
On the morning of January 16, Kyle MacLachlan was working out in his home gym high in the hills above Los Angeles when his wife came to the door and said, “I have some terrible news.” David Lynch, the director who discovered MacLachlan and made him a...
'Snow White' Was the Best Gift Hollywood Could Give Us April 07, 2025
Before it even started generating buzz, Disney’s live-action Snow White was doomed to failure. This was guaranteed by the casting director’s decision to have Gal Gadot portray the Evil Queen while Rachel Zegler serves as the titular character. Not to...
The Devil and Mary Gaitskill April 03, 2025
Among the dozens of stories Mary Gaitskill has published since her 1988 debut Bad Behavior, only one — “Secretary,” a detached BDSM narrative from that collection — has been loosely adapted for the screen. On its face, this fact is not entirely surpr...
How 'Survivor' Unlocks 'The White Lotus' April 03, 2025
Mike White has spent the bulk of his career in Hollywood under the radar, helming underseen critical darlings like HBO’s Enlightened and the indie film Chuck & Buck. But even before creating his own hit in The White Lotus, White made a big splash on ...
The “Snow White” Controversy April 03, 2025
Why has Disney’s new live-action remake of “Snow White” flopped at the box office? Is it because the dull trailer looked A.I.-generated, or because the film’s stars, Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot, appear to have sourced their costumes and makeup from P...
Val Kilmer, an Unclassifiable Heartthrob April 03, 2025
For anyone who grew up watching movies in the 1980s, Val Kilmer, who died Tuesday, was something of an anomaly among the young Hollywood actors whose careers blew up during that decade...
Titus Welliver & the Legacy of ‘Bosch’ April 02, 2025
Titus Welliver believes in fate. Several years ago, when it was decided that internationally known author and novelist Michael Connelly’s LAPD Detective Harry Bosch would be brought to life in a streaming series for Amazon, Welliver felt deep down th...
The Life and Death of Conspiracy Cinema April 01, 2025
Alan J. Pakula’s 1974 film The Parallax View begins with a sleight of hand. The film follows Joe Frady (Warren Beatty) as he investigates a series of mysterious deaths surrounding the assassination of a presidential hopeful, who is murdered in Seattl...
Inside Ben Affleck’s Plan to Remake Hollywood March 26, 2025
From the window of the conference room at Artists Equity, Ben Affleck’s production company, you can see Los Angeles spread out for miles to the south—the ocean to the right, Downtown to the left, birds gently flying over everything in between. It’s a...
TCR Talks with Elizabeth Ellen March 24, 2025
Elizabeth Ellen’s dazzling and darkly funny novel, American Thighs, follows Tatum Grant, a former child actor who steals her daughter’s identity to start her life over as a high school cheerleader. Tatum’s troubled upbringing is the catalyst for her ...
John Mulaney’s Playhouse March 20, 2025
Nine days before the premiere of Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney, Mulaney and the writing staff are gathered around a table in the show’s Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood. It’s mid-afternoon, and the writers are kicking around ideas they imagine ...
Christina Ricci On Hollywood March 12, 2025
A veteran actress and ambitious future ghost, Christina Ricci already has plans to haunt her star on the Walk of Fame. “It’s a really good corner,” Ricci told IndieWire, standing at the intersection between Hollywood and Argyle....
If William Shakespeare Came to Hollywood Today... March 11, 2025
They need somebody like Bill Shakespeare in Hollywood today....
'The Breakfast Club' at 40 March 10, 2025
One of the most important but largely unsung heroes of the Reagan Era was movie-maker John Hughes. A close friend of P. J. O’Rourke, Hughes wrote, directed, and/or produced a whole slew of movies, including Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, ...
'Anora' and the Pain and Power of Being Sexy March 05, 2025
Hollywood has always loved a hooker, so long as she has a heart of gold.The history of prostitutes in film is one in which the prostitute’s depth of character is portrayed as ironic, surprising, even tragic, given her line of work. She’s usually fall...
High Infidelity March 04, 2025
Sunday’s Oscars ceremony was a productive night for The Brutalist, which scooped up the statuettes for cinematography, score, and best actor. Since the film’s release late last year, the deluge of acclaim for Brady Corbet’s epic, three-and-a-half hou...
