A review of this week’s WandaVision, “Breaking the Fourth Wall,” coming up just as soon as I show you this mole on my back… Every Marvel project arrives shrouded in some degree of mystery, and that shroud was particularly foggy when it came to WandaVision. We didn’t even know until …
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You never know what’s going to happen with an audition,” actor Ted Levine remembers of the first time he portrayed Jame Gumb, The Silence of the Lambsvillain also known as “Buffalo Bill.” “I just pulled something out. It was scary. It felt kind of magical.” “I read with the three …
Read More »La Pfeiffer Is a Widow on the Verge in 'French Exit'
Azazel Jacobs’ likably odd French Exit is headlined by the sharpest Michelle Pfeiffer we’ve seen in years, in a role so handsomely form-fitted to her talent, style, and attitude, it’s as if the movie had been written with that distinctive curl of her mouth, that magnetic chill of hers directly …
Read More »'Coming 2 America': Eddie Murphy Returns to Queens in New Trailer
Amazon Studios has shared the second trailer for the much-anticipated Coming 2 America, the sequel to the 1988 Eddie Murphy comedy that premieres on the streaming service of March 5th. Building off the first trailer that premiered in December, the new preview brings the action first to Queens and then …
Read More »'Firefly Lane': Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke Are Best Friends Forever
On the surface, the story and theoretical appeal of Netflix’s new drama Firefly Lane seem clear. It is a decades-spanning tale of female friendship, meant to inspire laughter and lunges for the tissue box in equal measure, as it follow two women who both envy and complete each other. And …
Read More »Late-Night Hosts Bid a Not-So Fond Farewell to Trump on His Final Full Day in Office
Late-night hosts across the board marked President Donald Trump’s final full day in office by recapping the insanity of the past four years and trying to parse what Trump’s legacy may be. On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert opened by recounting some of the “highlights of [Trump’s] lowlights”: There was …
Read More »'The Marksman' Review: Cowboys vs. Cartels, Liam Neeson-Style
In The Marksman, Liam Neeson plays Jim Hanson, a former Marine living in Naco, Arizona, within spitting distance of a border fence. This means that he can phone local authorities when he sees a new crew of “I.A.’s” making their way into the country, on the one hand, and offer …
Read More »'Film and TV Industry Essentials': Rolling Stone, IndieWire, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Program
Last year, Rolling Stone joined forces with IndieWire, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and online-education platform Yellowbrick to launch “Film and TV Industry Essentials,” an online certificate program that covers multiple, interlacing careers in the film and television industry. Contributors include filmmakers such as Judd Apatow and …
Read More »'Soul' Review: Life, and How to Live It
What is “soul”? Is it that feeling you get when you tap into the flow between emotion and expression, the spiritual and the physical? Is it something personal percolating within you, waiting to be unleashed? Is it the essence of humanity in a nutshell? Defining the concept is like aiming …
Read More »Jeremy Bulloch, Boba Fett Actor in Original 'Star Wars' Trilogy, Dead at 75
Jeremy Bulloch, the British actor who played the role of bounty hunter Boba Fett in the original Star Wars trilogy, died Thursday at the age of 75. Bulloch’s family wrote on the actor’s website, “Jeremy died peacefully on 17th December 2020 following health complications, including several years living with Parkinson’s …
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