Coming on to direct the sequel of an Oscar-winning animated feature is a daunting prospect, but luckily Kelsey Mann had producer Mark Nielsen to help with Inside Out 2. Having worked as an associate producer […]
“Robin Williams and Whoopi Goldberg head to the U.S. Senate” sounds like the premise of a wacky comedy, but it’s a thing that actually happened back in 1990. Williams and Goldberg testified before the Senate Labor […]
Looking back at the first season of The Simpsons, it’s hard to believe that it would go on to be one of the most important shows in TV history. The voices sound off, the animation is […]
Listen, we know we’re not the smartest of cookies. If we were, we’d be contributing to society instead of mocking The Bachelor. Have we incurred at least one bruise in the course of performing basic daily functions […]
It may seem pretty pointless to criticize the integrity of The Garfield Movie considering that it’s arguably just colorful garbage engineered to distract children for 100 minutes. But upon closer inspection, there seems to be something […]
Today, Alien 3 (Alien Cubed?) is just another crappy Alien movie, among several crappy Alien movies. After all, this is a franchise that would go on to feature scenes of clones playing basketball and float conspiracy theories that Jesus was a ripped 8-foot […]
Imagine, if you will, that you decide to take a break from your heathen lifestyle and visit an art museum. You pass through different wings, and most of them make sense. Your ego is growing […]
For the second year in a row, the L’Oeil d’or prize – the top award for documentary at the Cannes Film Festival – is being shared by two films. The award announced on the Croisette […]
EXCLUSIVE: Following his massive victory against Tyson Fury to become the newly crowned Undisputed World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Oleksandr Usyk has found his next opponent on the big screen as he is set to join […]
Game, set, and match for Tudor Giurgiu, Cristian Pascariu, and Tudor D. Popescu, who co-direct Nasty, a pleasingly hagiographic portrait of Romanian tennis icon Ilie Năstase. What fun tennis must have been in the 1970s, […]
Katy Perry has nothing but compliments for one of her pop star contemporaries. The “American Idol” judge heaped praise on the recent winner of the singing show, Abi Carter, and compared her to none other […]
Chloe Fineman is taking responsibility for that Sydney Sweeney Hooters sketch. The “Saturday Night Live” cast member — who’s known for her stellar impressions — was on Wednesday’s episode of Dana Carvey and David Spade’s […]
It has been a big week for beloved musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the 1964 Palme d’Or and went on to international acclaim and five Oscar nominations […]
The cinematic adaptation of It Ends With Us is set to bloom later this summer, and the trailer for the Sony Pictures film, directed by Justin Baldoni and adapted from Colleen Hoover’s best-selling novel, racked up a record […]
Pop culture historian Tony Hawk just couldn’t figure something out as he figuratively skateboarded past Bob Odenkirk on his Hawk Vs. Wolf podcast. Odenkirk’s early career was stuffed with Second City, Saturday Night Live, The Ben Stiller Show and Mr. Show. “You’re […]
All kids agree: The original Lion King was a gas. That’s mostly thanks to the hilarious antics of meerkat Timon and his flatulent warthog buddy Pumbaa. But the two characters — and their delightful farts — […]
From Whitney Houston to Elvis, there is no shortage of iconic singers who inspire sweeping films that dramatize their life stories. No matter the genre, cinematic features have captured the careers of the King of […]
The “Karma” singer celebrated her 21st birthday on May 19, and — like the juxtaposition of her evolving personas — it appeared to be pure chaotic fun. Axelle / FilmMagic, Aliah Anderson / WireImage Share […]
Anita Gou is no stranger to the festival circuit. Her L.A.-based Kindred Spirit banner saw a raft of its first projects debut at Sundance (think Lulu Wang’s Mandarin-language comedy The Farewell, which made $23M worldwide, Shia […]
Making a single well-crafted, standalone movie seems to be both impossible and an abject failure these days. Everything must set up a potential franchise because asking Hollywood executives to take a risk on an original idea is […]