Hip-hop’s most notorious mogul, Suge Knight, offers an unparalleled look at his tumultuous life and career in the gripping new trailer for the documentary, American Dream/American Knightmare. The film premieres December 21st on Showtime at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT. Training Day filmmaker Antoine Fuqua directed the doc, which is centered around …
Read More »Netflix Cancels 'Daredevil' in Another Blow to Marvel's Streaming Shows
Netflix said it would not renew Daredevil for a fourth season. The show’s cancellation marks the third consecutive cancellation for a Marvel show, following similar announcements for both Iron Fist and Luke Cage in October. Showrunner Erik Oleson had pitched a fourth season of Daredevil to Netflix executives roughly two …
Read More »Watch Ice T State His Case Against Coffee, Bagels on 'Fallon'
Earlier in November, Ice T’s tweet admitting he’d never eaten a bagel went viral. So on Wednesday’s Tonight Show, the rapper-actor explained how the whole ordeal started. An episode ofLaw & Order: Special Victims Unitrequired him to eat a bagel so he pretended to eat one for the show. On …
Read More »Bernardo Bertolucci, 'Last Tango in Paris' Director, Dead at 77
Bernardo Bertolucci, the Oscar-winning filmmaker and auteur behind Last Tango in Paris and The Last Emperor, died Monday at the age of 77. The director’s publicist confirmed to Variety that Bertolucci died at his home in Rome following a brief battle with cancer. The Cannes Film Festival tweeted Monday, “Farewell …
Read More »Conan O'Brien Preps New Podcast 'Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend'
Conan O’Brien will launch a new weekly podcast, Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, November 19th with an episode featuring Will Ferrell. The show is centered around the conceit that, after decades of interviewing people on late-night television, O’Brien has never made a real friend and he’s hoping a podcast will …
Read More »'The Front Runner' Review: Rewind to the Moment That Politics Went Tabloid
When was it exactly that politics went tabloid? Try 1988, when Gary Hart (Hugh Jackman), a married Democratic senator from Colorado, thought the media buzz about his alleged affair with model Donna Rice (Sara Paxton) could escape scrutiny as he ran for the White House. The press turned a blind …
Read More »'The Romanoffs' Recap: A Man's Reputation
A review of this week’s The Romanoffs, “Bright and High Circle,” coming up just as soon as I think like a bus driver… “Bright and High Circle” is an astoundingly bad episode of television. Just focusing on it as a dramatic narrative, the characters feel thin and wholly subservient to …
Read More »Beastie Boys Reveal Time When MCA Stage-Crashed Aerosmith on 'Fallon'
The Beastie Boys‘ Mike “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz spoke about their new memoir, the time Adam “MCA” Yauch stage-crashed an Aerosmith and Run-D.M.C. show, the art of making mixtapes and more on The Tonight Show Wednesday. During the interview, Ad-Rock told two wild stories about the late …
Read More »'The Nutcracker and the Four Realms' Review: Tchaikovsky Is Rolling In His Grave
Slow torture for kids and grownups alike, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms gives a bad name to the very concept of family entertainment. What went wrong? Where to begin?!? On the surface, this Disney debacle seems like a no-brainer for the holidays: It’s an 1816 gothic fairytale by E.T.A. …
Read More »Watch Natalie Portman Play Pop Iconoclast in Mesmerizing 'Vox Lux' Trailer
Natalie Portman plays an eccentric pop star navigating the comeback trail in the mesmerizing new trailer for Vox Lux. The film will open in New York and Los Angeles December 7th, with a wider release scheduled for December 14th. The Brady Corbet-directed film tells the story of Celeste, a young …
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