Miles “Pudge” Halter (Charlie Plummer), the teen hero of Hulu’s Looking for Alaska, is obsessed with famous last words, like poet François Rabelais’ declaration, “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” But as he confesses to his new friends at an elite Alabama boarding school, he’s never actually read the …
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Universal Pictures has released a new trailer for Sam Mendes‘ World War I epic 1917, showing off the work of award-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins. The trailer reveals a battalion of young British soldiers fighting in the muddy trenches of the brutal war. Two soldiers, Schofield (George MacKay) and Blake (Dean-Charles …
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An Atlanta man goes from hero to public enemy in an instant in the gripping new trailer for Clint Eastwood‘s upcoming film, Richard Jewell, out December 13th. The film is based on the true story of Richard Jewell, the security guard who discovered a pipe bomb at Centennial Olympic Park …
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The Good Place is back for its fourth and final season. A review of the season premiere, “A Girl From Arizona, Part One,” coming up just as soon as I get my daily dose of Timothy Olyphant… The previous two years of The Good Place opened with an hour-long premiere. …
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Robert De Niro gets swept up in a maelstrom of politics, corruption and organized crime in the new trailer for Martin Scorsese‘s upcoming mob drama, The Irishman. The film premieres at the New York Film Festival tomorrow, September 27th, before hitting theaters November 1st and Netflix November 27th. De Niro …
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When histories are written about the rise of the Streaming Wars and the dawn of Peak TV, Transparent will be a prominent part of the tale. It was Amazon’s first significant original series, the first streaming show to win major awards (for Jeffrey Tambor’s performance in the title role, as …
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Official Secrets is not kinetic cinema. Instead, it dumps a ton of data on audiences in telling the true story of Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), the British whistleblower who leaked classified documents meant to pressure the U.N. Security Council into supporting the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. But even when …
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is billed as the end of “the story of a generation.” On December 20, the ninth part of the storied franchise will end, but Star Wars is far from dying. Instead, the sci-fi epic is merely moving its center of operation to Disney’s new …
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Richard Linklater has already proved himself a master surveyor of the rocky terrain of motherhood — think of the complexity of Patricia Arquette’s Oscar-winning performance in his Boyhood. Adapting Maria Semple’s 2012 wild, reckless bestseller seems like a logical next step on that turbulent maternal highway, given that it told …
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Stephen Colbert addressed President Trump’s “dangerous and completely unfounded” retweet of a conspiracy theory regarding Jeffrey Epstein‘s apparent death by suicide on The Late Show on Monday. He explained that the move proved that Trump could still shock him after all these years. “You know, just when you think he’s …
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