Warning: Spoilers ahead for the Sunday night season finale of American Idol. American Idol has a new winner. Jamal Roberts was voted as the Season 23 finale by fans of the ABC singing competition. Host Ryan Seacrest said there were 26 million votes cast, which broke a record and was twice as many as for last … Read more
John Oliver didn’t disappoint his corporate overlords on Sunday night by addressing the recent HBO Max name reversal — the latest in a series of changes for the streaming service. During his main segment on Last Week Tonight, which was about President Trump’s often antagonistic relationship with the press, Oliver referred the current administration’s decision … Read more
There’s a beguiling dichotomy in Kristen Stewart’s accomplished first feature as writer-director — between the dreamlike haze and fragmentation of memory and the raw wound of trauma so vivid it will always be with you. Adapted from the influential 2011 memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water is challenging material, an unflinching account of … Read more
Note: This episode contains spoilers for The Last of Us season two episode six. Pedro Pascal‘s return to HBO’s The Last of Us in a flashback-filled episode packed an emotional wallop, filling in several blanks in Joel and Ellie’s (Bella Ramsey) tumultuous relationship. Starting with a look at Joel’s abused childhood, a series of sequences … Read more
Mariska Hargitay has revealed a long-held family secret: the truth about her biological father. The actress, whose mother was Jayne Mansfield, had believed for years that her father was Mickey Hargitay, the Hungarian bodybuilding champion who became an actor. He married Mansfield in 1956. When Mariska was only 3, she and her mother were involved … Read more
After debuting last week at Cannes, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is continuing its journey around the world, premiering in New York on Sunday night. The eighth film in the Mission: Impossible franchise, The Final Reckoning is being billed as the last go-around for Tom Cruise‘s Ethan Hunt; Cruise confirmed as such on the … Read more
About eight hours by direct flight from the seen-and-be-seen restaurants and red carpets of Hollywood is a resort on a remote speck of a private island. It was there that Barack Obama wrote his post-White House memoirs, where Kim Kardashian threw her controversial pandemic-era 40th birthday bash (to the tune of $1 million) and where … Read more
French distributor Memento has acquired the distribution rights to the star-studded upcoming film The Entertainment System Is Down from director Ruben Östlund (Triangle of Sadness, The Square) for France. The darkly satirical movie is set on a long-haul flight between England and Australia where the entertainment system fails, and passengers are forced to face the horror of being … Read more
The Who and their drummer Zak Starkey have seemingly parted ways… again. After initially announcing their separation last month, only to bring Starkey back days later, The Who’s guitarist-songwriter, Pete Townshend, shared on Instagram Sunday that the son of The Beatles’ drummer Ringo Starr has split from the band for a second time. “After many years of great … Read more
An inspired streak of absurdism runs through The Secret Agent (O Agente Secreto) connected to an urban legend about a “hairy leg” that moves autonomously, causing trouble in the northeastern Brazilian capital of Recife in 1977, when the country remained under military dictatorship. The leg turns up or is mentioned various times — being pulled … Read more