So you got that master’s degree in English literature and you’re ready to embark on your career as a children’s author? Forget it, Shakespeare. No matter how entertaining your prose, publishers have no interest in […]
Perhaps we shouldn’t be looking for logical consistency in a show that featured coconut radios, grenade-wielding gorillas and ghosts that turn out to be Russian spies in disguise. But one unexplained moment in Gilligan’s Island has […]
Ideally, as an actor, you want to disappear into a role, but there are some traits and mannerisms that simply can’t be erased. For example, if you’re left-handed, every character you play is going to be left-handed, […]
Listen, we all have off days at work. Whether you’re an Oscar-winning actor or a mediocre-at-best barista, some turnouts are just going to be better than others. Maybe you’ve been hungover for a month or just stopped […]
“Where do we do it — here or in the bedroom?” Don’t Miss That’s the question a young, well-oiled Arnold Schwarzenegger asks a robe-clad Lucille Ball during their first on-screen meeting, a borderline horny scene that he says […]
If you go visit that weird guy who lives next door and has his own arsenal, you can come away with enough sharp objects that you can slice up anyone you see. Alternatively, you can […]
It’s easy to forget, here in the ham-fisted blockbuster days, that screenwriters can be pretty clever. After all, most of them didn’t get into screenwriting to specify exactly how this superhero should wink into the camera — […]
Today, it’s easier than ever to eat food from around the world. If a dish a good enough, it seems like it’s bound to find a market eventually and get eaten everywhere. But that takes […]
Count musician Elle King among the people who have no time for Rob Schneider. In a teaser TikTok for Bunnie XO’s Dumb Blonde podcast, King accused her comic father of yapping out of his butt — and not […]
Larry David remembers the day he first met stand-up comic Michael Keaton. “I met him standing in line at Catch a Rising Star in 1974. Isn’t that something?” David said in an Esquire profile of Keaton. “Then I saw him […]
It seems like the realm of movie stars is roped off to everyone except 12 people all named Chris and/or Jennifer, which is bizarre because there are so many amazing actors out there. We’ve all flipped to some […]
As an actor, getting typecast is a double-edged sword: On one hand, it means you’re so good at something that people want to keep seeing you do it over and over, and your future is secure as […]
Chad Daniels, whose comedy special Empty Nester recently dropped on Netflix, names some usual suspects among his influences, including Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor. But in an interview this week with radio station i95 in Brookfield, Connecticut, Daniels […]
Ricky Gervais is a self-proclaimed Simpsons superfan. “When I got into comedy in about 1999, I remember thinking that I would love to get a joke on The Simpsons,” he once told The Independent. “It had already been my favorite program […]
No matter how much praise we heap upon indie films starring nobodies (or nobody, in the case of the truly avant garde), star power is still key to selling a movie. Like, if you can get Tom Hanks, […]
Either Andy Cohen was actually curious about Saturday Night Live celebrity hosts, or he really wanted to get some mileage out of his awful “Show and SN-Tell” pun. No matter his intention, he decided to play […]
Don’t Miss For fans of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and all of their subsequent bogus journeys, this week represented the best of times and the worst of times. The best of times: The film’s stars, Keanu Reeves […]
For the first few decades of Saturday Night Live, breaking out on the show was a ticket to movie stardom for comics like John Belushi, Eddie Murphy, Mike Myers and Will Ferrell. In the 2000s, the […]
There are very few things more difficult in comedy than ending a sketch in a way that’s both satisfying and hilarious. When a Monty Python sketch would go on too long with no obvious ending in […]
People like to pretend that there’s a science to filmmaking, that if you press the right combination of buttons on a camera, a good movie falls out, but it’s not that simple. One person’s favorite movie […]