UPDATE (8/6):Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Janelle Monáe’s time-travel thriller Antebellum is coming to on-demand on September 18th. “While the theatrical experience will always be the heart of our business, we are thrilled that we are able to seize the opportunity to match… [this] urgent and immediate film with a …
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Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston took to social media Thursday to tell fans that he has contracted — and survived — COVID-19. He also took the opportunity to urge those who may be tiring of lockdown protocols to be patient and vigilant. “About now you’re probably feeling a little tied …
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Grant Imahara, an electrical engineer best known as part of the build team on the long-running Discovery series MythBusters, died Monday, The New York Times reports. He was 49. A representative for Discovery confirmed Imahara’s death, with the cause believed to be a brain aneurysm. No other details were available. …
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Kelly Preston, the actress best known for her role as the fiancée of Tom Cruise’s character in Jerry Maguire, died Sunday. She was 57. The actress’s husband, John Travolta, shared the news on InstagramMonday. “It is with a very heavy heart that I inform you that my beautiful wife Kelly …
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Jon Stewart returned to The Daily Show to discuss COVID-19 deniers, his new movie Irresistible and what makes him hopeful for America’s political future in an interview with Trevor Noah Thursday. The interview started with Stewart touching on two topics of the day: the debate over tearing down Confederate statues …
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For starters, it’s no Harry Potter. But when Aretmis Fowl debuts on Disney + on June 12th, you’ll wonder why this fussed-over and broken film version of Irish author Eoin Colfer’s young-adult bestseller — about a 12-year-old criminal mastermind — had to be this dramatically inert and emotionally barren. Colfer …
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Aimlessness, tragedy, grief, trauma, depression, mental illness, thoughts of suicide — all these things figure in The King of Staten Island. It’s a comedy because, well, laughs (along with some weed) can help you get through life. That life belongs to Pete Davidson, the youngest (he’s 26) and quirkiest current …
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John Malkovich appears in our latest installment of The First Time, timed to the May 29th premiere of the new Greg Daniels/Steve Carell series Space Force, in which hestars alongside Carell. The legendarily droll actor discusses his first Zoom happy hour, his first time singing folk gospel, teaching himself to …
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“I do think as you get older, it’s inevitable that you repeat yourself,” says Rob Brydon. “This is the fourth time we’ve been on one of these jaunts.” His dining companion Steve Coogan, who’s been digging lustily into a plate of braised lamb, shakes his head. “Originality is overrated. Everything’s …
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There’s an old folk tale I heard a lot back in Hebrew school. In the little village of Chelm, a poor farmer goes to see the rabbi to complain that his house is far too small to accommodate himself, his wife, and their children. The rabbi tells the farmer to …
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