The first full-length trailer forKajillionaire — the latest bizarre comedy from Miranda July — is here. The film earned rave reviews when it premiered at Sundance earlier this year, and it’s scheduled to arrive in theaters on September 18th. Kajillionaire stars Evan Rachel Wood as Old Dolio, a 26-year-old outcast …
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The 72 annual Emmy awards dropped their nominations in a very 2020 way this morning: four people talking over each other on Zoom and with plenty of surprises. Unlike most years, there were some honestly unexpected choices made by the Academy, including Best Series nods for The Mandalorian and What …
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The great thing about Jeff Bridges is that he is the Dude — just with a social conscience and a mystical tilt. “’Shut the fuck up, Donny,’” that could be a koan, Bridges told me during our recent video chat. “Or, ‘Well, that’s just like your opinion man.’ That’s another …
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Netflix has released the official trailer for its upcoming documentary on the storied Puerto Rican astrologer, Walter Mercado, Mucho Mucho Amor, set to premiere July 8th. For decades, Mercado was one of the most celebrated figures on Spanish-language television — an extravagant, endlessly positive, gender non-conforming sage who dispensed horoscopes, …
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The characters in Aviva, writer-director Boaz Yakin’s experimental self-chronicle-meets-Carnal Knowledge update, have a lot of sex. They copulate passionately in suburban teenage bedrooms and expensive downtown lofts, furtively in the backrooms of bars and against nightclub walls, in versions both vanilla and 50-gray-shaded, positions both missionary and magnificently gymnastic, in …
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The weirdest series in the DC Comics stable of TV shows returns later this month with the season season of Doom Patrol, which will jump to HBO Max for Season 2. The preview reintroduces the offbeat superhero team — Robotman (Brendan Fraser), Negative Man (Matt Bomer), Elasti-Woman (April Bowlby), Jane …
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The new 30 for 30 documentary Be Water opens up with a black-and-white screen test of its subject, martial arts legend Bruce Lee, from the mid-Sixties. Lee silently follows instructions to turn his head to different angles, before the off-screen director says, “Now the camera will pull back,” and invites …
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F Is for Family, Season Four The animated comedy’s new season promises plenty of Lamaze classes, brawls on the hockey rink, and a lifetime’s worth of family resentment. As Frank Murphy (voiced by Bill Burr) prepares for the birth of his fourth child, he’s confronted by the return of his …
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Fred Willard, the prolific and beloved comic actor and master of the mockumentary genre who stood out in ensemble comedies like Best in Show, For Your Consideration and This Is Spinal Tap, died Friday at the age of 86. Willard’s rep Glenn Schwartz confirmed his death toRolling Stone,adding that the …
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On Monday night, Billy Joel was one of the few faces lingering in the otherwise largely deserted Times Square. His face appeared high in the sky, beamed onto 12 giant digital billboards in the famously chaotic midtown Manhattan neighborhood. It simultaneously beamed into TVs and internet livestreams as part of …
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