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Eddie Izzard Dresses Down the Dark Lord
I was lucky enough to watch an early performance of Eddie Izzard’s “Death Star Canteen” at Chicago’s Royal George Theatre on March 26, 2000. My mom got the tickets for my 26th birthday, and by then, I’d been performing stand-up for two years. Izzard’s bit, “Death Star Canteen,” shattered all of m... More »
HBO Max and Paramount+ Are Combining … Eventually
David Ellison is wasting no time setting his suddenly much larger media company’s streaming agenda. The nepo CEO’s combined Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery Skydance has officially
Dancing With the Stars Recap: Heartbreaker
Silly me; here I thought that, although I am still reeling from last week’s tragic elimination of Taylor Hanson and Britt Stewart, I’d be able to begin the healing process with another round of dances set to the iconic songs of Mariah Carey. Things started out so well! There was Mariah Carey intr... More »
Artificial Is a Better Social Network Sequel Than The Social Reckoning
Artificial is a movie of funny walks. That’s the main thing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had to say about the film — which was directed by Luca Guadagnino and just premiered at the New York Film Festival — in his r... More »
How Funny Can Artificial’s AI Doomerism Be?
Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial premiered at New York Film Festival last night and left many people wondering, Just how funny can a movie about both the terrible capacity of generative AI and the ... More »
Ted Lasso Season-Finale Recap: A Bunch of Changes
“Being Alive,” the final episode of Ted Lasso’s (once unlikely) fourth season, plays like the show’s creative team had two options to choose from when deciding how to end this chapter of the story. Option A would be a plot-heavy installment that brought the season’s ongoing story lines t... More »
Slow Horses Recap: Was That My Bowie Period?
Frank Harkness is not a great person. A great person would not spend his time trying to “clean up” an assassination by murdering the victim’s orphaned son who had the misfortune of witnessing the event. But as a mercenary, Harkness has a cold logic that’s comprehensible and relatively straightfor... More »
The Social Reckoning Might Be Aaron Sorkin Overload
The Social Reckoning’s biggest mistake probably lies in its positioning as a sequel to The Social Network, David Fincher’s masterful 2010 drama about the early days of Facebook. It’s never a good idea to follow up a masterpiece with a modest revisit of a similar subject. But tha... More »
The AI Agents Begging Editors to Keep Them Alive
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The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Moskito Nets
As the ladies get off of their (commercial) flight and take a speedboat to Moskito Island, we intentionally get The White Lotus vibes with a group of squabbling besties approaching the staff on the dock, waving until their arms ache like they just got the second dose of the gonorrhea vac... More »
Eva Marie Saint, Oscar Winner, Dead at 102
Actress Eva Marie Saint died at the age of 102, the New York Times
How Connor Wood Is Winning Everyone Over on Dancing With the Stars
Every year, Dancing With the Stars gets a handful of unexpected breakouts — rising stars whom audiences may not have known at first but have come to love. And who better to embody the spirit of a long-lost friend whom I onc... More »
Tyra Banks Is Resurrecting Modelland
Tookie de la Crème, you will always be famous. Tyra Banks confirms she’s rereleasing her novel Modelland for its 15th anniversary, thanks to a resurgence on TikTok. The book’s been out of print for yea... More »
Christy Carlson Romano Drops Her Perfect-Girl Façade in New Memoir
At 16, Christy Carlson Romano was living the dream of every girl born in the late ’90s. Simultaneously starring in Disney Channel’s Even Stevens as Ren Stevens, voicing Kim Possible, and playing Captain Jennifer Stone in the
Can Amazon Fix a Broken Emmys?
This story was published September 17. On October 6, Amazon announced a six-year deal to host the Emmys on Prime Video. More »
Carrie Is Afraid of Carrie
As Carrie’s creator, showrunner, and writer, Mike Flanagan expands his role as the Stephen King whisperer. In the past decade, he adapted many of the Maine writer’s novels
Jessica Chastain Is Still Passionate About The Savant
More than a year after Apple TV postponed the release of Jessica Chastain’s crime thriller The Savant, the star revisited why the show is still so important to her. In her
Lanterns Said ‘Timshel’
Through a coincidence of the TV calendar, two very different series land on the same closing question about human nature.
It’s Time to Predict the Super Bowl Halftime Show Performer
This time last year, we already knew that Bad Bunny was going to play the Super Bowl halftime show. He was announced on September 29. The year prior, Ro... More »
The Deal Is Done
It’s been a long, bumpy ride since it was first reported in mid-September of last year that nepo-CEO David Ellison was planning to
The Best Movies of the Year So Far
Vulture’s critics are tracking the highlights of this year in film, from blockbuster adaptations to low-budget originals and everything in between. Check back each month for the latest additions, which are noted with an arrow. Movies are organized chronologically by their U.S. theatrical-prem... More »
The Mesmerizing A Statement Hits Like a Brick to the Head
Tom McCarthy’s A Statement isn’t a hard film to describe, but it is a hard film to describe effectively. Premiering at the New York Film Festival, the movie is based on a real two-day conference about climate change that happened in 1980 and was later recounted in Nathaniel Rich... More »
A Spooky Guide to All the New Horror Streaming in October
The pumpkin-spice flavors are back, the leaves are changing, and the MLB playoffs have begun. It’s October. That also means scary movies and specials all over streaming. This year is lighter in quantity compared to past Octobers, but it has some high-profile offerings, including new projects from... More »
Cinematrix No. 925: October 7, 2026
Can you name a Steven Yeun movie that ends with a vowel?
The Swan Plastic Surgeon Says Documentary ‘Mischaracterized’ Him
The Swan was a reality series that ran for two seasons beginning in 2004. It followed a group of women, called “ugly ducklings”, as they went through multiple plastic surgeries, fitness and diet routines, and makeovers to become beautiful swans who would compete against each other in a b... More »
Kylie Jenner’s New Show Is Basically Pretty Little Liars for Brides
Got a secret, can you keep it? Kylie Jenner is following in her big sister Kim Kardashian’s footsteps and trying out acting. There’s plenty of ro... More »
Below Deck Mediterranean Season-Finale Recap: Checks and Balances
At the beginning of the season, I wrote that Nathan’s biggest challenge in his second term as a bosun was to be a less frazzled, more confident leader. Well, he got too confident.... More »
Robert Kelker-Kelly, Soap Opera Star, Dead at 62
Robert Kelker-Kelly, Days of Our Lives and General Hospital star, died at age 62, TMZ confirms. The... More »
The Satellite-Radio Drama Tearing Comedians Apart
Radio isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of Sebastian Maniscalco. As he is one of the most physical comedians in the business, his act does not lend itself particularly well to an audio-only medium. Despite this, back in April, Maniscalco expanded his comedy footprint when h... More »
Let’s Talk About the Last Dab in Verity
Of the many, many questions I was left with upon finishing Verity, the biggest one was why did the movie end with Verity Crawford’s
Slayyyter’s Breakout Album Gets an Evil Twin
Slayyyter has had as good a year as any pop girl could dream of. Her album Wor$t Girl in America was critically acclaimed, her festival performances
What’s So Funny ’Bout Elvis Costello Being Stephen Colbert’s Bandleader?
I mean, this guy doesn’t ever want to go to Chelsea, but he didn’t say anything about the Theater District. Add this as another dice roll for the remedial late-night chaos theory: Elvis Costello was al... More »
Isaac Slade Enters the Fray That Is Ed Sheeran’s Tour
Following Macklemore’s exit from Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour, the British headliner has found himself in the middle of a whirlwind, both literally and figuratively. Sheeran performed his first post-scandal show in Philadelphia on September 19 without a supporting act and then had his next two performa... More »
‘Everybody Gets Slaphappy and Feels Insane’
The process of filming Primetime, fittingly for a director who cut his teeth on documentaries, involved all the expected chaos of a narrative-film shoot with more than a little r... More »
Michael Douglas Knows How to Do a Memoir
Michael Douglas is an octogenarian, Hollywood royalty, and the son of Spartacus himself, Kirk Douglas, which means that he’s seen Hollywood memoirs come and go. It also means that he knows w... More »
With Behemoth!, Pedro Pascal Gets the Movie He Deserves
Is there a more prolifically misused major star today than Pedro Pascal? He’s here, he’s there, he’s everywhere — he was in three major films last year, five the year before, and that’s not even counting his TV work or just his general ubiquity in the Zeitgeist — and yet he so rarely gets a part ... More »
Sam Altman Is Going to Try to Play Artificial Cool
If you are an exorbitantly wealthy tech CEO who happens to have a movie coming out about you this fall, there are lots of different ways you can act. You can be Elon Musk and post, uh, Twitter poems about it. You can be Mark Zuckerbe... More »
A New Clown Comes to Town
The woman in The Woman on the Edge may not recognize herself when she looks in the mirror, but she can explain everything there is to know about Apollo 13 — both the 1970 space mission and 1995 film — with perfect clarity. Slathered in sparkles and drifting about the stage on her tippy t... More »
Digger Is Officially the Flop of the Year
It caps off a calamitous box-office year for Warner Bros., just as Skydance is set to take over the studio Tuesday.
Alejandro G. Iñárritu Stands by Digger
After both the critical lashing and the box-office beatdown that Digger has received, director Alejandro G. Iñárritu is ready to defend his movie. “I think defini... More »
The Best TV of the Year So Far
Vulture’s critics are tracking the year’s TV highlights across the streaming and broadcast spectrums, from breakout hits to underseen gems and everything in between. Check back each month for new additions, which are noted with an arrow; series are organized chronologically by 2026 premiere d... More »
Barbara Kingsolver Has a Grudge Against the Coastal Elites
A certain ingenuousness, an earnest impatience with the world’s many injustices, is a hallmark of Barbara Kingsolver’s novels. Her most effective characters are children or young adults, people who may credibly experience a simplistic moral awakening. The Poisonwood Bible, the 1998 book ... More »
The Barrister Puzzle
26-Down, Four Letters: Site of a game of riddles in “The Hobbit”
The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip Season-Finale Recap: Making Nice
It’s appropriate that this finale should start off in the back of a Sprinter van, where so much Real Housewives drama begins. Luann feels like the whole cast is “bullying” her because they just told her that she’s been obnoxious and that she was not as disrespected, “in my own town!” as ... More »
‘Kramer/Fauci’ Walks Out of the Archives and Into Our Heads
My colleague Helen Shaw has made the point that theater critics, covering an ephemeral form, bear the “exciting burden” of “not just writing the report, but … writing the record.” T... More »
Deep in an Irony Spiral, Slam Frank Struggles to Show Its Center
Your reaction to the musical satire Slam Frank will depend a lot on the “now” you think we live in at the moment you see it. The show’s subject matter, Anne Frank and her family’s attempt to hide from the Nazis, belongs to the 1930s and 40s; but through a slippery and intentionally frust... More »
Rapper Lucki Suffers Injury at ComplexCon
There was an altercation in the parking lot of ComplexCon Saturday, October 3. Rappers Lucki and Playboi Carti were seen in videos posted to social media, though the cause of the fight and its participants remain unclea... More »
Lanterns Season-Finale Recap: In Brightest Day
Lanterns has come to a close, and we can only hope the folks left at the Frankensteined Paramount-Warner Bros. — the newly-formed Skydance — greenlight a second season. The mo... More »
Still Stoking the Class Struggle: O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape
Nine years ago, the British director Richard Jones brought a production of Eugene O’Neill’s lurid, wild 1922 play The Hairy Ape to the
Digger’s Grave Is Dug
Audience didn’t dig Digger. The film debuted with $8 million domestic at the box office, against a reported budget of $125 million. It’s the latest blow for the now-deposed Warner B... More »
The Daily Wire’s Pro-ICE Movie Got Shut Down for Being Disruptive
My petard, it’s hoisting me! Who could have foreseen such a consequence to my actions? The Daily Wire’s “thriller” allegedly inspired by the killing of Renee Good has been ordered to cease fi... More »
Saturday Night Live Recap: Dakota Johnson’s 3rd Time Isn’t a Charm
Boy, season 52 isn’t off to the most promising start, is it? Last week’s episode was pretty bad, but this one is even more disappointing in some ways. Jalen Brunson is an athlete, not an actor, so the bar for him was low; Dakota Johnson is a three-time host. In theory, this episode should’ve felt... More »
The Complete History of Dakota Johnson: Agent of Chaos
Dakota Johnson, queen of all nepo babies, is incapable of being boring. No matter what she’s stuck promoting, Johnson brings such a specific and chaotic energy to press appearances that the world reshapes a... More »
Taylor Swift Is Not Dakota Johnson’s Therapist
Dakota Johnson was visited by her director last night on Saturday Night Live. No, not Michael Showalter, her “Pati... More »
Cinematrix No. 922: October 4, 2026
Can you name an Oscar-nominated Elia or Zoe Kazan movie?
So That’s What Dakota Johnson and Colin Farrell Were Fighting About
In a way, George of the Jungle is patient zero. A behind-the-scenes featurette for Taylor Swift
Zach Bryan Wore a Free Palestine Shirt at Gillette Stadium Concert
Musicians aren’t done with Robert Kraft. Country singer and U.S. Navy veteran Zach Bryan wore a “Free Palestine” shirt at his Gillette Stadium show Friday night. Members of his band also wore similar shirts in support... More »
NAZA Is Selling Out Theaters. Can It Influence The Hague?
At a sold-out screening at IFC Center, the audience sat silent until the last credit rolled on NAZA, the documentary in which two dozen Israeli military personnel admit to commit... More »
Is Digger the Most Annoying Movie of the Year?
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Cinematrix No. 921: October 3, 2026
Can you name a Dakota Fanning movie released between 1990 and 2010?
Alison Hammond Hospitalized After On-Air Health Event
British TV presenter Alison Hammond is getting her heart checked after having to leave This Morning mid-broadcast. Hammond, who Americans know best as co-host of The Great British Baking Show, was pr... More »
‘It’s Going to Be a Disaster’
What insiders are saying about David Ellison’s decision to fire Warner Bros. studio heads Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy ahead of the Paramount merger.
Where Does Tom Cruise’s Oscar Campaign Go From Here?
Ahead of its release, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s climate-change satire Digger appeared to be exactly the kind of movie Tom Cruise’s fans hoped he would one day return to: an original... More »
Can You Believe It? Tilda Swinton’s Memoir Will Be Unconventional
Tilda Swinton has announced her debut memoir, and it’s going to be a little freaky. In related news, what’s with all these forks found in the kitchen? Material Evidence will eschew traditional lin... More »
Disney’s B-Team Comes to Netflix
In the years before Disney finally committed to building Disney+, its premiere franchises like the Marvel Cinematic Universe would stream on Netflix, garnering massive audiences. Then, in
Miranda Lambert Says She Never Punched Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger
This is how you remind me that Nickelback exists? Miranda Lambert finally debunked a long-standing rumor that s... More »
Why Do Good Ideas Scare Us?
David Byrne started working on his new book, Sleeping Beauties: Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up, after he came across a 2004 paper about how scientific research that ha... More »
7 New Books to Read This October
Every month, Emma Alpern and Jasmine Vojdani recommend new fiction and nonfiction books. You should read as many of them as possible. See their picks... More »
Bassam Tariq Felt Like a ‘Failure’ After Blade — Until He Made Something Better
Tariq was supposed to direct Mahershala Ali in a Marvel movie. That fell apart, so they made the singular Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother instead.
9 New Comedy Specials You Should Definitely Watch (When You Have a Moment)
In 2006, when the company was still mailing DVD rentals, Netflix produced a stand-up special for a pre–The Hangover Zach Galifianakis called Live at the Purple Onion. It was more structurally and tonally ambitious than most specials at the time, and Galifianakis was less well kn... More »
What Tom and Roman Morello Watch (and Listen to) Together
It took the COVID lockdown to get Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave’s Tom Morello to teach his son how to play guitar. Even then, after working through “Stairway to Heaven” together three or four notes at a time, Roman Morello says he wasn’t all that aware of what his dad did for a living. More »
Act Natural, Ringo Is Back in Queens
Much has been written about Ringo Starr’s natural razzmatazz and the outrageous broccoli consumption he undergoes to keep himself fit to tour. But have fans looking to see the current iteration of the 86-year-old’s ... More »
The 11 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend
An American epic and an epic actor are set to hit our small and silver screens, respectively, this weekend. Zoe Kazan tackles John Steinbeck’s beloved East of Eden more than 60 year... More »
Let’s Dig In to Digger
Spoilers — a lot of them! — follow for Digger, released in theaters on October 2. More »
Romy Mars Flexes Her Famous Family on a Filmmaker Ex
If you’re an aspiring filmmaker, maybe avoid breaking the heart of a Coppola. In her latest song, “Rage,” Romy Mars flexes her iconic family on an ex that’s being rude to her post-breakup. “Now you’re in film school stud... More »
I Love Watching Celebs Explain Stuff to Jake Shane
Therapuss has become the No. 1 place for celebrities to explain concepts and ideas that may or may not make sense to a willing audience of one.
Billie Lourd’s Australian Accent Won Late Night This Week
Jimmy Kimmel Live! went to Brooklyn for its homecoming week. The mayor and two-fifths of the Strike Force Five showed up as well as
Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy Dig Their Way Out of Skydance
As Paramount and Warner Bros. combine under wise overlord David Ellison, the vision for the company is becoming clearer.
The Great British Baking Show Recap: The Cookie Crumbles
There are two things I noticed when the bakers first approached the tent this episode. The first is that Molly is wearing a parka and a winter hat. Guys, they film this in summer. This is how English people dress after Memorial Day (or as we generically call it here, “May Bank H... More »
Good-bye to Para Bros., Warnermount, and Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery
David Ellison, son king of Hollywood and keeper of a stacked to-do list, h... More »
Every Anne Hathaway Movie, Ranked
This list was first published on May 6 and now includes all five of her films released in 2026. Her latest, Verity, is out today. More »
Luca Guadagnino Saw This Coming
Luca Guadagnino picks me up in Turin to head north to Ivrea. The old industrial town was once the bustling hub of Olivetti, a family-owned company best known for its typewriters, its electronic calculators, and some of the first personal... More »
War Series-Premiere Recap: The Tipping Point
In her study of literary Victorian marriages, Parallel Lives, the critic Phyllis Rose wrote that compared with the permanently binding Victorian marriage contract, “our easy recourse to divorce seems –– to adopt Robert Frost’s image –– like playing tennis without the net.” If access to d... More »
Yes, It’s Tough to Be a Playwright: creation stories
If there’s one trend in contemporary playwriting that’s really starting to drain me, it’s the Look How Hard This Is for Me to Write plays. There’s been a steady crop of them since COVID, and sure, no wonder: It’s rough out there. Politically, spiritually, institutionally, financially, environment... More »
Fast & Furious Will See You Again on Television
A new show all about family is coming to Peacock. A Fast & Furious television series has been greenlit by the streamer. Sons of Anarchy’s Mike Daniels and Shades of Blue’s Wolfe Co... More »
The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Blasts From the Past
We might as well start at the end, because it’s the moment I’ve been waiting for over the last three months — a cavalcade of The Real Housewives of Orange County alums descending on the hippie house of Elizabeth Vargas, a one-season wonder who has become much more iconic since getting fi... More »
East of Eden Series-Finale Recap: A Good Life
Here we are, at the harrowing, anguishing, soul-squeezing end of East of Eden. How to even begin this recap? How to talk about an episode that takes us to the brink of oblivion — Cal, what the hell, man? — but then dares to ask us whether we have the capacity to forgive? More »
Netflix Hosts Amelia Dimoldenberg’s Final Season of Chicken Shop Date
Amelia Dimoldenberg’s Chicken Shop Date is streaming its final season on Netflix, in addition to airing on You... More »
East of Eden Recap: Hungry People
As someone who is forever thinking about the excellence of Tony Gilroy’s Andor, three words from that series kept running through my head while watching this penultimate episode of East of Eden:
Ayad Akhtar’s Campus Problem
Diagnosis is the campus novel’s reigning temptation. The university offers the novelist a prefabricated sociology: different generations, classes, ideologies, and institutions conveniently compressed in vitro, in seminar rooms, where everyone can be assigned a representative grievance before bein... More »
Nicolas Cage Calls the MCU a ‘Well-Funded and Glorified WWE’
Do not bite the hand that feeds you, or maybe do if you have radioactive spider venom. Nicolas Cage has some fighting words for prestigious actors who want in on the
East of Eden’s Ambition Wins Out
Netflix’s miniseries is the sort of sweeping intergenerational saga contemporary TV rarely attempts and even more rarely achieves.
Michael McDonald Has a Secret Doobie Son
And with that, they can sail off into the sunset together. Michael McDonald has been reunited with his secret son 58 years after putting him up for adoption, a milestone that tends to happen to rock stars every so often. KCT... More »
Casey Bloys and the To-Do List From Hell
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Jena Malone Answers Every Question We Have About Donnie Darko
Scratch any elder millennial and you’ll find a Donnie Darko fan. Richard Kelly’s 2001 film, a box-office failure at the time, was fast-tracked to cult status thanks to rentals and revival screenings, leaving an indeli... More »
East of Eden Recap: Thou Mayest
Jafar Panahi’s 2000 film The Circle follows a number of women throughout a day in Iran. Characters include a trio who broke out of prison and a woman worried about how her son-in-law ... More »
Anne Hathaway Deserves a Better End to Her Big Year Than Verity
I left Verity with so many questions and no idea who I’d even direct them to if given the opportunity. Should it be best-selling author Colleen Hoover, who wrote the 2018 novel on which the movie is based — a lurid thriller about, as it happens, a best-selling author as well as the ghost... More »
Clarissa Lets Sophie Okonedo Have Her Day
As far as I’m concerned, there’s nothing Sophie Okonedo can’t do. The onetime Tony winner and bajillion-time Oscar-, Emmy-, and Olivier-nominated actor is among the most skilled performers of her generation, the kind whose appearance in a TV show or movie makes your whole body relax in real time.... More »
East of Eden Recap: Almost by Happenstance
If you know anything about John Steinbeck’s novels — if you’ve read Of Mice and Men or The Grapes of Wrath or In Dubious Battle — you’re aware of his skepticism of people in power, his yearning for solidarity with others who want better for the working class, and his de... More »
Jocelyn Bioh Goes Back to School Girls
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Lil Nas X Returns, Minus the Trolling
Who is Lil Nas X when he’s not trolling? The pop star made a career out of songs that were both catchy and funny, with tracks like “Old Town Road” and music videos like the gay, Satan-sexual “
War Knows Exactly What It Is
In several scenes in the HBO-Sky drama War, as a high-profile divorce escalates in both nastiness and total billable hours, one shrewd longtime attorney (played by a British TV and theater star you’re always happy to see; in this case, Nina Sosanya) will describe the strategy behind the ... More »
Celebrate Christmas on Broadway With Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin
A Real Housewives star may not be the most natural fit for a story about how money should not be the sole focus of life, but Lisa Rinna isn’t on Housewives anymore, so she’ll be fine. Broadway stars Andrew Rannells (
East of Eden Recap: The Story of Mankind
Adam Trask doesn’t listen. What Cathy does isn’t right: ignoring and rejecting her sons, shooting Adam, abandoning them all. But Adam doesn’t listen. Cathy didn’t want to go to California. She doesn’t want to live in Salinas Valley. She has no intention of being a mother. If this were a ... More »
Ella Langley Contends With Her Viral Success
Over the past six months, Ella Langley has gone from country-music famous to being a household name. That difference means n... More »
East of Eden Recap: A Girl Like That
“Just needed a little authority.” These are the words that turn Cathy Ames into a murderess, and they’re also at the core of East of Eden. Do we need authority, and if so, what kind? The violence Cathy’s father doles out is meant to punish her for her presumed role in the suicid... More »
When Cameron Winter and Paul Thomas Anderson Made a Movie
This past December, one of New York’s buzziest acts took over Carnegie Hall: Cameron Winter, the front man of Geese. Winter, a confident musician whose world-weariness suggests the experience of a much older artist, put on a spectacle of raw emotion that capped off a breakout year for himself and... More »
Where Did Tony Soprano Get His Crosswords? The Gridspotters Know
Fan of games where you can show off how smart you are? Play the Vulture Movies Fantasy League! Tomorrow is the last day to draft a roster from the full list of 2026 movies — after Friday you’ll only be able to choose from films that haven’t yet been released. Draft a team
Publishers Hit the AI Jackpot
When Anthropic said it would pay $1.5 billion to resolve the class-action lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic, it was agreeing to the largest U.S. copyright settlement of all time. Each copyrighted title will be allotted $3,000, mostly split 50-50 between authors and publishers, with the... More »
East of Eden Series-Premiere Recap: Meet the Trasks
Hello! TV critic Roxana Hadadi here. I’ll be recapping East of Eden for you. It’s a change in format and tone from my usual Top Chef and Project Runway
Survivor Recap: The Layup
Sometimes, Survivor rules. This week’s episode is one of the wackiest, most ridiculous, most fun episodes of TV I’ve seen in a long time. There are about a million moving parts, and everybody involved is an outsized character. It’s a true stunner: A mildly bewildering soap opera with her... More »
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: Toothbrush It Off
It’s early days, but I think Ashley Quai (not to be confused with RHORI’s Ashley I.) will be a strong addition to this cast, which she already has multiple organic connections to. It’s because of those organic,... More »
Danny Boyle Wants Jack O’Connell to Play James Bond
The name’s Cook. James Cook.
Tommy Lee Jones Has a Civil War ’Stache in The Lowdown Season 2
Lee Raybon is back, and this time? He has daddy issues. Tommy Lee Jones has signed on for season 2 of The Lowdown, playing the estr... More »
Billy Joel’s Brain Disorder ‘Sounds a Lot Worse Than It Actually Is’
Billy Joel has the old man’s car. He’s got a jazz guitar. He’s got normal pressure hydrocephalus, but don’t worry. It’s not as bad as it sounds. “I know people are worried about me because they read that I have a brai... More »
Pete Davidson Is Cool With His Famous Exes
He’s complimentary of both Kim Kardashian and Ariana Grande and even has empathy for Kanye West.
Ariana Madix Is Developing a Futuristic Housewives Parody With Seth MacFarlane
Phew! With the Ted prequel series off the air, Seth MacFarlane briefly didn’t have more TV shows than there are stars in the sky. But he’s so back: There’s a Ted cartoon debu... More »
Sophia Bush and Ashlyn Harris Have Been Secretly Married for Over a Year
After going public with their whirlwind romance in 2024, Sophia Bush and Ashlyn Harris revealed to Vogue that t... More »
Vulture Writers Show How (or How Not) to Draft Your Movies Fantasy League Team
The art of crafting a Movies Fantasy League team is often a solitary activity — monklike, precise, and taxing. The mental math it takes to predict awards-season moments comes with a lot of cursing at commissioner Joe Reid for his ever-cruel pri... More »
Dancing With the Stars Recap: Rock the Boat, Baby
It’s “Yacht Rock Night” on Dancing With the Stars this week, and that’s great news for multiple reasons. First, yacht rock is the soundtrack to my summers, so I’m already locked in. Second, only the smooth sounds of yacht rock have the power to pull everyone out of that distressing funk ... More »
Bronwyn Newport Gets Undressed
“I’m trying to consolidate everything.” Bronwyn Newport, 41, is standing barefoot outside of her unit at the Extra Space Storage facility in Millcreek, Utah, a suburb ten minutes from Salt Lake City. Wearing a Moschino coat made up of hundreds of plastic flowers, she surveys the racks of ruffles,... More »
Love Is Blind: Boston Edition Looks Wicked Dramatic
Is everybody ready to pahk the pod in Hahvahd Yahd? It’s time for Love Is Blind Season 11: Boston. The upcoming season of the blind-dating show features a group of Bostonians that are really ready for love. The trailer promises fasc... More »
Gardening Is Audra McDonald’s Anti-Anxiety Medication
The Maria Bamford Questionnaire is a series of 25 questions designed by the beloved comedian to unearth surprising truths about its respondents. In this edition, you’ll learn about Audra McDonald, the Tony-, Emmy-, an... More »
Slow Horses Recap: A Bullet Named Poirot
The first two episodes of the current season were about as dark and sobering as Slow Horses has gotten in its six-season run. Grim developments arise surrounding the death of River’s father figure and the reemergence of his malevolent actual father, Catherine potentially falling back off... More »
Theatrical Performancemaxxing at Degenerates
Else and Emma Rose Went’s production is a super-intense dive into the darkness of the incel life.
The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Pump Up the Jam
Two scenes in this episode made me feel like I was right back in the New York of my dreams, where at any moment I could run into Parker Posey on East 9th Street, order a dollar slice, or see a rat that had just become a father to a family of six and was having the best day of his life. The first ... More »
Paramount Streaming Chief Cindy Holland Steps Down
For some time now, the smart money in Hollywood has said that the soon-to-be-combined Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery wasn’t big enough for both HBO/HBO Max chief Casey Bloys and Paramount st... More »
Former American Idol Contestant Convicted of Murdering His Wife
Former season 12 American Idol contestant and Ohio pastor Caleb Flynn has been convicted of murdering his wife, CNN reports. He was found guilty of all nine charges on September 29, including aggravated murder, murd... More »
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County Is Already Full of Drama
Can the Mormon Wives of Orange County give the brand a reality-show do-over? The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives franchise is multiplying and replenishing Hulu with a new spinof... More »
Sylvester Stallone Thinks I Play Rocky Is ‘Jumping the Gun’
After he wrote and starred in perhaps the most iconic sports-film franchise of all time, you’d think Sylvester Stallone would have some say in a movie about his life, especially one being made while he’s still... More »
The One About Matthew Perry Is a Celebration of Life
A documentary about the life of Friends star Matthew Perry could take many forms. Since the actor’s death from an overdose in 2023
Spike Lee Will Co-host the Ultimate Brooklyn Watch Party
A New York cinephile has no great shortage of fabulous film programming to choose from, but there’s a difference, maybe, in programming and a watch party. The former invokes capital-T Themes; the latter invokes your friend trying to figure out how their Blu-ray player works, a playful casualness ... More »
The Summer Pop Charts Were a Slog. Can Adéla Save Us All?
A new Prima donna is aiming to dominate the pop charts: Adéla, the first Slovakian to be on the “Billboard Hot 100,” is gaining popularity at a rapid pace. Two of the top five songs on Spotify’s “Global Hot 100” are hers, and they’re both inescapable on TikTok and across social media. On... More »
The Romantasy Puzzle
6-Down, Five Letters: A totally important designer, according to Cher Horowitz
Cinematrix No. 917: September 29, 2026
Can you name a Whoopi Goldberg movie released between 1985 and 2005?
How to Watcha-Watcha Shakira’s Live Concert
This time, it’s for livestreaming. After a summer of “Dai Dai” at the World Cup, Shakira is kicking off October with one more incredible live performance. She’s sharing her final show with the ... More »
Beauty Is Unbecoming: Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls
Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play isn’t a musical, but about two-thirds of the way through, there’s a sing-off that’s both a gleeful showstopper and a wry metatheatrical treat. The students of the Aburi Girls Boarding School in central Ghana have gathered to pe... More »
Below Deck Mediterranean Recap: Heated Rivalry
Gen was so close. She was so close to having a trajectory that showed an increase in maturity over time, but the preview of the finale — in which she throws a glass of something (tequila soda?) at Luke on the crew’s final night out — suggests she’ll walk away having completed a ... More »
Jay-Z Files a Second Appeal to Extortion Case
Jay-Z, legal name Shawn Carter, has filed an appeal to the state of California to reconsider an extortion case against Texas attorney Tony Buzbee.
Teresa Giudice Talks About Her Daughter’s ‘Incredibly Difficult’ Arrest
Teresa Giudice is addressing her daughter’s arrest in New Jersey for the first time. Milania Giudice was arrested and charged with... More »
The VMAs Just Scored Its Biggest Ratings in Over a Decade
Somebody get Madonna her own CBS crime procedural: Madge’s star-packed opening number at Sunday’s Video Music Awards was seen by more than 15 million viewers, helping boost the full two-hour telecast to its best ratings in over a decade, according to preliminary Nielsen numbers. Boosted by its le... More »
Stevie Wonder Still Holds the Key to Our Joy
Historians will look back and declare this the week of “encores.” Between the debut of Taylor Swift’s latest deluxe album, Life of a Showgirl: The Encore, and the box-office-dominating
La Bola Negra Introduces Itself
You’ve seen The Odyssey, now get ready for the other sweeping epic that’s set to dominate Oscars discourse this year:
Pearl Jam Fell in Love With the Drummer
More than a year after Matt Cameron quit Pearl Jam due to what he later described as “having some issues with three-hour shows and constant touring,” a new mollusk has opened wide with his replacement, and, no,... More »
The Alaska Puzzle
26-Across, Five Letters: “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married” app
Cinematrix No. 916: September 28, 2026
Can you name a Robert Pattinson movie with a one- or two-word title?
The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of the 2026 MTV VMAs
When Madonna used her speech (one of them) to complain about Sabrina Carpenter’s team taking too long to reply, we could all relate to her impatience given that we too were just left waiting and w... More »
Taylor Swift’s ‘Patient Zero’ Music Video Is a Fun Thriller
A round of applause is in order for the showgirl’s big return. On Friday, Taylor Swift released The Life of a S... More »
Taylor Swift Does It for the Fans
Taylor Swift, the recipient of the MTV VMAs’ first ever Artist Director Honors, might be one of the most highly accomplished and hardest-working pop acts in the world, but she turned her inaugural award moment — one of the rare prizes not dictated by fan votes — into an extended “thank y... More »
Lanterns Recap: In Blackest Night
After a quiet episode focused on Hal Jordan’s passing, Lanterns’s penultimate chapter deepens the mystery in surprising and wrenching ways. At this point, the answer to who killed Earth’s former prot... More »
The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip Recap: This Is the Countess Speaking
It’s still Halloween in New York, and we’ve got unfinished business to circle back to. I was horrified by Jessel shading Dorinda’s costume last week, not just because it was disrespectful to a legend, but because it felt like she was trying to embarrass her. Nobody should be allowed to embarrass ... More »
Madonna Slid Into Sabrina Carpenter’s DMs
Her self-proclaimed impatient ways paid off when the duo won Best Collab at the MTV VMAs.
The 2026 MTV Video Music Awards Winners
The 2026 MTV Video Music Awards are back tonight, and this year, they’re celebrating new categories and familiar faces with three-time award winner Snoop Dogg as the evening’s MC. Madonna leads in nomina... More »
This Makes About As Much Sense As ‘Hootie Frutti’
They’re calling it the best music video featuring a Newton’s cradle since “Only” by Nine Inch Nails. Musical guests Katseye cameoed in a sketch on last night’s
Saturday Night Live Season-Premiere Recap: Jalen Brunson Was SNL’s Team Player
Knicks point guard Jalen Brunson was a major reason that this summer in Mamdanistan felt like magic, thanks to leading the Knicks to their
SNL U.K. Has Not Let Up on Ed Sheeran
Saturday Night Live U.K. remains steadfastly atop Ed Sheernan’s neck. Last Saturday, “Weekend Update” went to town on the story of Sheeran capitulating... More »
Cinematrix No. 915: September 27, 2026
Can you name a Rachel McAdams movie with a title that begins with A-M?
Ina Garten Won’t Change Her Life Story for a Biopic
If you were itching for a movie about what Ina Garten’s life was like working at the White House, or how she transitioned into the home-cook extraordinaire she is, you might need to keep scratching. Garten told
Taylor Swift Is Losing Us
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Cinematrix No. 914: September 26, 2026
Can you name a Jennifer Garner movie that made $100 million?
We’re in Club Hell
This piece contains spoilers for the first three episodes of American Horror Story’s 13th season, which premiered September 24. More »
Major Social-Media Platforms Reportedly Rejected Ads for Musk
There’s always skywriting. According to The Hollywood Reporter, most of the major social media platforms have rejected the Musk trailer as ... More »
What’s Going on With Dolly Parton’s Estate?
It’s only been a month since Dolly Parton’s death following a brief battle with cancer, and both the nation and the world mourned her passing. Parton touched u... More »
Tom Holland Has His Dance Partners for Fred Astaire Biopic
Everything Tom Holland does in the upcoming Fred Astaire biopic, Sabrina Carpenter will have to do backward... More »
Chris Hansen Can’t Stop Talking About Primetime
Being a figure who gets the fictional Hollywood treatment is always an unnerving prospect, especially in an era when it’s increasingly uncommon for a subject to have no say in shaping their own portrayal. Especially when Robert Pattinson, who’s in the running to be the freakiest male actor of our... More »
Chris Hansen Finally Saw Primetime
Well, he didn’t take the compliment. Chris Hansen has finally taken a seat for
9 Oscar Campaigns We’d Love to See This Season
In the Oscars-season calendar, late September is a time for taking stock. Most of the big contenders have now premiered at one venue or another, and soon the studios will take their films on the road, sending them off to regional festivals like Mill Valley and Middleburg to see how they play in t... More »
Nor’easter? More Like No Weekend Plans
Sorry to the entire East Coast, but your weekend has been canceled. Meteorologists are predicting severe weather from Boston to the Outer Banks.
Taylor Swift Needs to Let the Showgirl Era Go
Adding more songs to an album with a deluxe rerelease months later can either refuel the project’s commercial potential or weigh it down with leftovers once deemed inessential. Not everyone scores their “Super Bass” or “Hips Don’t Lie,” the post-album single that outshines the preceding hit parad... More »
NAZA Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
“Believe me, I’m sparing you a lot of things,” one of the anonymous Israeli soldiers says at the end of the first trailer for NAZA, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s
Edgy Mary Poppins May Be Imminent
Supercalifragalisticexpiali-edgy. Producer Tom Winchester is developing a Mary Poppins TV show, per Deadline. Disney, the company that made the original
It’s a Big Week for the Number 13
American Horror Story season 13 premiered last night, a highly anticipated season given the number’s superstitious history and the return of series favorites like Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, and Eva... More »
The 16 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend
No one seems to be having a better run this year than Robert Pattinson. (Okay, maybe Anne Hathaway and Zendaya?) After The Drama and The Odyssey comes Primetime, in which he plays Chris Hansen, and his performance is so expressive the trailers alone have inspired a barr... More »
Is Zack Snyder in Directors’ Jail?
His latest film was intended to reestablish his cinematic bona fides. Instead, it was roasted by critics and still doesn’t have distribution.
No One But Robert Pattinson Could Have Done Primetime
The actor’s unhinged performance as Chris Hansen, host of the mid-2000s reality hit To Catch a Predator, is a stunning demonstration of his range.
This Week in Late Night: Seth Is Back!
It was another week of transcendent music booking and staging from The Tonight Show. We had Brandon Flowers in one of John ... More »
Does the Sanctity of a Limited Series Emmy Mean Nothing?
On September 14, Matthew Rhys made Emmys history twice, becoming the first person to win two awards for leading roles during the same ceremony and the first performer to win in all three leading cat... More »
Brandi Glanville Got a Perforated Eardrum and Crooked Boob on Special Forces
Former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville did not have an easy time on the Fox show Special Forces. The show puts celebrities through a continual barrage of physical tasks and chal... More »
Three Weeks In, Dudamel Is Killing It
The Dudamera at the New York Philharmonic hurtled into its third week with a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 that, for all its brassy thrills and crash-bang climaxes, nurtured a refined soul. As I’ve noted, Gustavo ... More »
5 Big Awards-Season Story Lines to Follow During the New York Film Festival
The 64th New York Film Festival kicks off on Friday with the North American premiere of James Gray’s Paper Tiger. It’s the third time that the native of Flushing, Queens, who has set almost all of his ... More »
What Mark Duplass Watches (and Plays) With His Daughters
“I thought, ‘I’m going to keep this sacred and it’s going to be like our church. I can make them watch Tarkovsky,’ but that definitely didn’t happen.
SNL Hires Two New Writers for Season 52
Now that the Saturday Night Live writing staff is officially losing sleep in preparation for season 52’s big premiere this weekend hosted by Jalen Brunson, it’s only right that we find o... More »
Did a Harvard Professor Influence the Unabomber?
In 1959, Ted Kaczynski, then a 16-year-old undergraduate at Harvard, participated in a series of psychological experiments that asked gifted young men to debate their philosophies and values with other students. What they weren’t told is that an older graduate student had been trained to systemat... More »
Avengers: Endgame Now Has More Robert Downey Jr
The rereleased movie will come with four new minutes, aiming to smooth the transition between Endgame and Doomsday.
All 53 DreamWorks Animation Movies, Ranked
This list was originally published on January 31, 2025. We’ve since republished it to include new DreamWorks movies, like Forgotten Island. More »
Dark Matter Recap: Remembrance of Jasons Past
The thing about the Jason-pocalypse that ended the first season of Dark Matter is that all the Jasons who converged in Jason No. 1’s world, having each embarked on a multidimensional odyssey to get back home, are good and worthy men. They have not stolen another person’s life, like Jason... More »
Outlander: Blood of My Blood Recap: Choosing Sides
Would you look at that? Our oft-anguished Henry finally, mercifully catches a break. Ever since we met him, that man has been suffering, so it’s nice to have something work out for once. More »
The Best Holiday Gift Is a Gilded Age Christmas Album
Never has the phrase “Christmas came early” been so apropos. HBO’s coziest show, The Gilded Age, is finally putting its Broadway-trained cast to use and releasing a Christmas album, Voices of the Gilded Age: The Christmas Album... More »
The Great British Baking Show Season-Premiere Recap: Here Comes the Judge
It’s so fittingly Bake Off, sorry, I mean Baking Show, that Prue Leith’s final duty as judge is to star in a somewhat corny Doctor Who–inspired introduction. For those who missed the joke, the British institution Doctor Who, or in this case Doctor Prue... More »
The Wizard of Rock Would Like a Word
Todd Rundgren’s Midas touch is that everything he works on turns into Technicolor. It’s been like this his whole life — as a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and the recipient of 30 Rock’s best joke. For six dec... More »
So, Who’s ‘Patient Zero’ in Taylor Swift’s New Song?
A showgirl never takes a break, and after an almost yearlong encore, Taylor Swift is returning to the stage with a deluxe edition of The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore. When she first announ... More »
Jimmy Kimmel Live! Is Bringing a Few Friends to Brooklyn
Jimmy Kimmel Live! is back in Brooklyn next week. Yes, they’re going to New York while
Survivor Season-Premiere Recap: Opening the Open Era
Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Open Era of Survivor. This week, for the premiere of season 51, Jeff Probst introduced the world to the newest iteration of the show, and it was a little bit stupid. I thoroughly enjoyed the episode (check the star rating), but it should be noted that... More »
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Recap: Mountains and Molehills
Sometimes when I’m so comfortable with an established group of women, especially a group that’s been with us for so long, a new cast member appearing on my screen without warning feels like walking in on a home intruder. Who are you and what are you doing in my house? But given that RHOSLC
The Girls (Disney CEOs Named Bob) Are Fighting
The New York Times has obtained a copy of former Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Chapek’s memoir, and he is dishing. In his upcoming book, Behind the Castle Walls: My Thirty Years at ... More »
Checking In on the DCU’s 10-Year Plan
In 2022, James Gunn and Peter Safran were named co–biggest boys of DC Studios. Shortly thereafter, the pair announced that they had an
Did Taylor Lautner and Taylor Lautner Name Their Baby Taylor Lautner?
The Taylors Lautner welcomed their first child on September 16. For those who haven’t been keeping up with every former Twilight Saga actor, Taylor Lautner married Taylor Dome
Disney’s Latest Sequel Is Another Price Hike
We know Disney loves a sequel, and that feeling clearly isn’t limited to its franchises. A number of Disney+ and Hulu subscribers should brace themselves for yet another price hike. New subscribers will see the price... More »
Pack It Up, Beach Grandpa
Off the Florida Keys, there’s a place called Retiring With Dignity. The Beach Boys have suddenly canceled their September tour dates one day before the first of these shows was set to occur, casting further doubt over front man Mike Love’s health. Rolling Stone was the first to
What Resident Evil Owes to Home Alone
Zach Cregger has said that he wanted his Resident Evil movie to be about an average guy put in extraordinary circumstances — extraordinarily bad circumstances, to be exact. But... More »
Miley Plays It Safe
Miley Cyrus, who’s going by just Miley these days, has never seemed more at peace with herself. Her tenth album, Bass Persuades, is seemingly by design an exercise in main... More »
The Met’s Macbeth Is a Bubbly, Boiling Cauldron of Operatic Fun
I wonder if the nimble and inventive director Louisa Proske really meant for her new production of Verdi’s Macbeth, which opened the Metropolitan Opera season on Tuesday night, to be quite as much fun as it is. In a program note, she describes herself as a 13-year-old theater kid, obsess... More »
Harvey Weinstein Sentenced to 15 Years for a Felony Sex Crime in New York
On September 23, Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 15 years in prison for a felony sex crime in the State of New York, thus ending the saga of his East Coast trials... More »
Don’t Overthink Brothers
Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson’s deeply meta brodown is far more pedestrian than its premise suggests.
Tension and Release: The Holes and America, Who Hurt You?
There’s a thrill you can feel among an audience, akin to the moment when gravity takes over at the top of a roller coaster, when a playwright lets you all in on the big hook. Max Wolf Friedlich should know, since he has started to specialize in plays built around ideas that grab you, and then sta... More »
Dancing With the Stars Recap: The Art of Letting Go
Hey, maybe we chalk this one up to a good old-fashioned sophomore slump. After a really promising premiere week, uh, what the hell happened? With very few exceptions from our 14 remaining couples, everyone seemed extremely off their game to the point where, at times, it got hard to watch. And I’m... More »
The You Can See Everything Trailer Is No Lie
Nathan Fielder has taken on airline crashes, his fear of intimacy, and a man who drinks his grandson’s pee, but Elizabeth Holmes might be his most formidable opponent subject yet. His upcoming documentary,
Taylor Swift Gives Us an Encore
Thank you, Taylor Swift, for putting us out of our mystery-induced misery sooner than later: “Patient Zero,” her forthcoming single announced yesterday, is not a harbinger of a new era but, in fact, an extensi... More »
Oh, That’s Why Mary Beth Barone and Joe Alwyn Were Together
Moving forward, when you see Mary Beth Barone photographed with a hot guy, it’s safe to assume it’s a work thing. Comedian and
Slow Horses Recap: Fumbling in the Dark
Last week’s season-six premiere of Slow Horses focused on the funeral of a major character, David Cartwright, whose tenure at MI5 was important enough to still rattle with ghosts and skeletons from the past. Meanwhile, a pair of assassins coolly dispatched two former Slough House agents ... More »
Ted Lasso Recap: Chelsea or Bust
Beware of montage sequences charting runaway success because they usually mean things are about to take a turn for the worse. Even so, it looks virtually impossible for the Lady Greyhounds’ fortunes to take a downturn in the opening moments of “Follow the Anger.” It turns out the positivity depic... More »
The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Jam Don’t Shake
New taglines just dropped, and I have to take my hat off (I’m not wearing a hat) to Hailey Glassman, whose line — “When they go low, I get high” — is an instant classic. Conscise, witty, building on a well-recognized phrase, and immediately showing us the character that she wants to create. I wou... More »
Robert Eggers’s Next Tragedy Is Romeo and Juliet
What’s scarier than teenage love? Practically nothing, and Robert Eggers is up for the challenge that is teens from feuding families.
Wait, How Many Mormon Wives Are Left Exactly?
Nowadays it’s way easier to keep up with the Kardashians than the cast of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. Ever since Taylor Frankie Paul’s season of The Bachelorette got canceled this past March, all hell has broken loose in Utah among the women of MomTok. The cast, who had be... More »
The Folly of Youth Meets the Permanence of Ruin in La Gradiva
Perhaps this is my own midwestern upbringing speaking, but when I was in high school, we were lucky if we got to take a day trip to the state of Wisconsin. That alone makes the mere premise of Marine Atlan’s debut feature, La Gradiva
Adam Driver and Miles Teller Are Bros in Over Their Heads
Miles Teller and Adam Driver appear to have successfully replicated a near- universal sibling dynamic in their new film, Paper Tiger: One sibling (oftentimes the older) gets a bright idea and persuades the other (the younger) to join the cause. Eventually, that once-bright idea dims and ... More »
Taylor Swift Had No Patient(s) to Drop ‘Patient Zero’
The signs were there if you knew to look: an ominous Emmys cameo complete with maybe Easter eggs, a third page appearing beneath the letter on her site, and all the O’s in Swi... More »
We’re ‘Choosin’ Texas’ Over ‘Christmas’ (For Now)
Happy solstice to you and yours: Ella Langley spring has turned into Ella Langley summer has turned into Ella Langley fall. The 27-year-old country star’s hit single
Hayden Panettiere’s Cause of Death Confirmed
Hayden Panettiere’s cause of death was a toxic combination of drugs, the Greenville County Coroner’s Office said in a statement. The actress died from a mix of the opioid fentanyl with prescripti... More »
Christina Applegate Won’t Let a ‘Cloudy Day’ Get to Her
Christina Applegate is back home and prioritizing self-confidence in the latest update on her ongoing battle with multiple sclerosis. She shared an Instagram video of herself yesterday, the first since her recent four-month hospitalization,
Chuck Klosterman Begs to Differ
What if everything we understood about mainstream American music exploded from a single identifiable Big Bang moment and, setting aside other juicy potential candidates for it, that moment was Beatlemania? Or what if things had gone … another way? More »
JAŸ-Z in 8 Is a Frustrating Must-See
A paradox at the heart of hip-hop journalism is that rappers love to talk about themselves but often recoil at the prospect of being questioned. They’re exquisite storytellers by trade and unflappable folk heroes in their own yarns, whether by force of actual world-beating luck or through narrati... More »
Clavicular Has Been Charged With Rape in Massachusetts
The 20-year-old “looksmaxxer” known as Clavicular (a.k.a. Braden Peters) was charged with rape in Massachusetts, according to The Bulwark. He was additionally charged with drugging... More »
Stephen Morris on Joy Division and New Order’s Most Legendary Music
It’s kind of a miracle that we’re getting a new Joy Division release in 2026. No, it’s not because there’s two factions of the band, one side of which has been a lot angrier than the other over the past decad... More »
Min Jin Lee’s Model Minorities
In the celebrated 2017 novel Pachinko, Min Jin Lee’s multigenerational saga about a Korean family who emigrate to imperial Japan, a pastor meets with a young couple, the Baeks, on the eve of their departure. He urges them to represent their race well. “Be perfect, child,” he tells the Ba... More »
The Goo Goo Ga Ga Puzzle
7-Across, Eight Letters: Moniker for Stefani Germanotta’s infant child
Cinematrix No. 910: September 22, 2026
Can you name a Daniel Craig movie that begins with A-O?
Below Deck Mediterranean Recap: Playing According to Type
With only one more charter left to go, this is a good time to take a temperature check of our crew and see how far we’ve come from charter No. 1. When we started, Joe and Nathan were havin... More »
Hollywood Reacts to Paramount-WB Lawsuit Settlement
On September 21, Paramount reached a settlement with the twelve states that sued to block the merger with Warner Bros. from happening. Some guilds, like the Directors Guild of America, celebrated the ver... More »
Channing Tatum Is Not Running a Burner Account on Instagram
Channing Tatum has played many roles, but he refuses to play one: an anonymous Instagram account writing snarky comments on
Game Changer Recap: Talent, Shown
Game Changer season eight has been all about escalation, with the producers focusing on audacious ideas, technically complicated setups, and
TFP to Be MIA on SLOMW
Taylor Frankie Paul is leaving Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, she revealed today on Instagram. The reality sta... More »
A Police-Chase Livestreamer Mourns a Police-Chase Legend
A dual tragedy occurred on the evening of September 15 in Chatsworth, a suburban neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. First, a speeding SUV
Looks Like the Paramount–Warner Bros. Deal Will Go Through After All
After a shaky summer for the Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger — including a 12-state lawsuit spearheaded by th... More »
Presley Gerber, Son of Cindy Crawford, Dead at 27
Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber’s son, Presley Gerber, is dead at 27. “The family is asking for privacy during this very difficult and painful time,” the family said in a statement to People. Gerber, like his ... More »
12 TIFF Performances You’ll Hear About This Awards Season
The Toronto International Film Festival comes at the end of the three-fest September pileup that marks the official start of award season. While
CNN, MS Now, and Politico Sue the Trump Administration
In response to President Trump’s September 18 banning of CNN, MS Now, and Politico from the White House grounds, the th... More »
The Comedians You Should and Will Know of 2026
It’s tougher than ever to track who’s going to make it in the comedy industry and how they’ll get there. SNL is still functioning after 50 years, and there’s a
Get Caught Up in The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth
There’s a strange kind of Hollywood math going on this fall surrounding The Social Network. The spiritual sequel to that movie is
How Much Did I Love The Invention of Love?
When Tom Stoppard died last year, my heart ached in all the ways a heart does when a great light — and one that has helped to illuminate your own particular path — goes out. The only consolation was that ... More »
Resident Evil’s Ending Is the Right Kind of Cruel
This post discusses the ending of Resident Evil. If you consider that a spoiler and care about such things, stop reading now. More »
It’s Always Been Personal for James Gray
Ever since 1994’s Little Odessa, James Gray has been chronicling the lives of New York’s outer-borough residents in films that crossbreed autobiography with genre. The director insists that he doesn’t think of these as crime films. To him, movies like The Yards (2000) and We... More »
The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip Recap: Forged in the Fire of Housewives
Most viewers come to The Real Housewives for the drama, but we stay for the sisterhood. And on the heels of RHOSLC’s emotionally poignant premiere, Housewives sentimentality is reaching an apex. Tonight’s UGT rides this high, showing us that at the center of it all, Hou... More »
New Found Glory Guitarist Chad Gilbert Dies at 45
Chad Gilbert, lead guitarist for New Found Glory, died Sunday at the age of 45. A cause of death has not been disclosed, but Gilbert had been diagnosed with liver cancer in 2021, and shared his brain cancer diagnosis six months ago. “On the morning of September 20th, Chad Everett Gilbert passed a... More »
Lioness Finale Recap: Engage and Destroy
Lioness has always been a mess of contradictory political signifiers and anachronistic pop-cultural touchpoints, amounting to a 20th-century-style espionage adventure wrapped in 21st-century military-industrial dystopia. Taylor Sheridan doing his best John Milius since
Apple TV Finally Releasing The Savant in 2027
A year after getting pulled from its schedule, Apple TV is letting The Savant out of witness protection. The show, which stars Jessica Chastain as an investigator who infiltrates online hate gr... More »
Resident Evil Made a Killing at the Box Office
Sorry to Milla Jovovich, but Austin Abrams is our new Final Girl. Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil
Ed Sheeran Addresses Macklemore, Censorship, and Gaza at Philly Show
After a week of both sides-ing too close to the sun, Ed Sheeran apologized to his fans. “I’ve had to make difficult decisions. And I am making mistakes. And I’m so so sorry,” he said. ... More »
Cinematrix No. 908: September 20, 2026
Can you name a Jackie Chan movie with a number in the title?
Is Zara Larsson Still Performing in Abu Dhabi?
Zara Larsson says she’s pulling out of her scheduled performance at the after-race concerts for the F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in December. The “Midnight Sun” singer
Trump Bans CNN, MS Now, Politico From the White House
On Saturday, September 19, President Trump fulfilled his promise to deny CNN, MSNOW, and Politico access to the White House. The New York Times reports that journalists from these outlets had their... More »
The 12 Must-See Movies on Prime Video This Month
Prime Video continues to be one of the most baffling streaming services, from dull originals like Reacher to a revolving catalogue of films that never saw the light of an actual movie theater. Buried in its are some honest-to-God masterpieces, but they require people to get out their dig... More »
Outlander: Blood of My Blood Season-Premiere Recap: Back to the Future
Well, well, well, there’s nothing like kicking off a fresh season of television by informing us that everything our beloved characters went through last season was basically all for naught and all of the plans made for even remotely happy endings have been, best case, wildly derailed, worst case,... More »
Gerrit Graham, Phantom of the Paradise’s Beef, Dies at 77
Gerrit Graham, who left an indelible mark on cult cinema as glam rock shill Beef in Phantom of the Paradise, has died. He was 77. According to Variety, he was sufferi... More »
Every TV Show Canceled in 2026 So Far
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, pickup order to lack of renewal. Here we bid farewell to the canceled shows of 2026. This post will serve as living tribute to the TV we’re going to miss in 2027. Spider-Noir was the first show to fall during fall, while the dog days of summer came for D... More »
The Cast and Crew of Spring Awakening Remember Duncan Sheik
Duncan Sheik, singer of “Barely Breathing” and composer of the sea change musical Spring Awakening, died this week at the age of 56. Spring Awakening made stars of its cast of teen unk... More »
How Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story Compares to Real Life
In the fourth installment of their true-crime anthology series, Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, co-creators Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan skirt the usual problem. In previous seasons depicting ... More »
When Can You See Naza in Theaters?
The documentary interviewing 24 Israeli intelligence officers is being self-distributed ahead of nationwide release.
World War Z Is Back From the Dead
World War Z 2? It’s alllliiiiiivvveeeee. Deadline reported that Brad Pitt is reanimating the corpse of his 2013 hit
Critics Love Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil Variant
Has Zach Cregger cracked the video-game-movie code? That seems to be the critical consensus. People are loving his new addition to the Resident Evil film canon. The trick? Keeping it simple. “It... More »
Maybe No More Monster
In the spirit of wanting the TV industry to continue to employ human beings instead of reassigning their jobs to AI clankers, I will say this about Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story: Kudos to this franchise for keeping practical special-effects artisans employed to produce all the blood, ... More »
The 12 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend
We’ve got the two genders this weekend: Barbie in the Nutcracker and Resident Evil. The more elite personalities will enjoy both. Both are fantastic, both are fun, and both have rats. But aside from those two stellar picks, there’s another season of the Emmy favorite Slow Ho... More »
Which Future Oscar Contender Will Get Christened at TIFF?
The Toronto Film Festival may currently lag well behind Venice and Telluride when it comes to prestigious world premieres, but it can still lay claim for its top prize having a far more tangible impact on the impending Oscars season. Sure, Venice’s Golden Lion has an air of European class, but ov... More »
Tom Cruise Parachutes Into Softball City
For two seconds, it was looking dire for Tom Cruise. He garbled his way through a GQ cover story, talking himself in circles
The Craziest Things Reacher Uses As a Weapon, Ranked
Amazon Prime’s Reacher is an anti-authoritarian’s authoritarian fantasy. Jack Reacher is a big guy who fights exclusively on behalf of the little guy; through sheer brute force, he evens the score and ... More »
The Traitors Season-5 Contestants Are So Famous
Remember the first season of The Traitors, when they had to fill out half the cast with normies? Well, the cast of the upcoming season of The Traitors now has Emmy and Tony winner Kristin Chenoweth,
Resident Evil Gives an NPC His Time to Shine
Bryan (Austin Abrams), the medical courier at the center of the new Resident Evil movie, has an unfortunate habit of announcing his presence by calling out “Hello?” whenever he walks into a forbidding new space. At first, this reflex is reasonable. It’s what someone might do when they, s... More »
A Fully Shaved Stephen Colbert Won Late Night This Week
First and foremost, let’s bestow hella flowers on our dearest pal Guillermo for being the personality hire on Dancing With the Stars. Despite having
Troye Sivan Is Obsessed With Madonna Right Now, Too
For gay people and fabulous straight people across the land, summer 2026 was all about Madonna. For one, everybody and their cool friend listened to Bandsplain’s Madonna series, plus Madge herself released h... More »
Duncan Sheik, Rocker and Spring Awakening Composer, Dead at 56
Duncan Sheik, the ’90s rock breakout and musical-theater composer, is dead at 56, the New York Times confirmed with his mother on September 18. He died of organ failure while ho... More »
A Coming-of-Age Show for 50-Somethings
Sharon Horgan’s Youth begins with a montage of remarkable women over the age of 50. Across footage of Maya Angelou, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Jane Goodall, Diana Nyad, Margaret Atwood, and Yoko Ono, a voice intones, “No decade moves faster than 50 to 60. You have to make every single second o... More »
Dark Matter Recap: The Wrong Door
One of the lingering flaws with Dark Matter from the beginning is that it hasn’t quite known what to do with Jennifer Connelly, which is a problem because she’s the most famous and accomplished actor in the cast and surely deserves better. Yet the mechanics of the plot have neutralized C... More »
How Drive — and Almost Dying — Changed Nicolas Winding Refn
Fifteen years ago, Nicolas Winding Refn released the Ryan Gosling–starring Drive, and everything changed forever. At least for him. For starters, Drive’s dreamy and unabashed aestheticism represented a break from the rougher, more visceral films on which Winding Refn had built h... More »
The History of Concrete Is John Wilson, Supersized
This review originally ran on January 23, 2026 out of the Sundance Film Festival. We are recirculating it now timed to The History of Concrete’s theatrical release. More »
The World Is a Better Place When Rob Lowe Pokes Fun at Himself
This review originally ran on January 31, 2026 out of the Sundance Film Festival. We are recirculating it now timed to The Musical’s theatrical release. More »
Gustavo Dudamel, Old Pro
The word that has been glued to Gustavo Dudamel since his teens, when he led Venezuela’s national youth symphony, is excitement. He has always had an uncanny ability to get pulses racing and hurtle audiences inexorably into standing ovations. He was 26 and barely conversational in Englis... More »
Chekhov and the Chaebol: A Korean Cherry Orchard at the Armory
Around the halfway point of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, Petya Trofimov — eternal grad student, moral purist, and former tutor to the once wealthy family whose diminution sits at the heart of the play — makes a speech. It’s the outburst of a frustrated idealist, a tirade delivered by so... More »
Ms. Rachel Matches Macklemore’s $1 Million Donation to Palestinian Relief
“We have a moral obligation to use our privilege and platforms to protect children and human rights.”
Jalen Brunson Trades Dunks for Dun Duns
Jalen Brunson took over New York with the Knicks, and now he’s taking over New York TV.... More »
The Traitors: New Blood Series-Premiere Recap: Who Survives the Night?
Do you feel that? There’s a chill in the air. Fog steals across the moor, and the campy burr of a Scottish bisexual resonates in your ears. The Traitors is back! Now with new blood, b... More »
The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Icky Vicki Feelings
With our gals split up between two cast trips (presumably because people can only spend so much time with Vicki until they qualify for hazard pay), Gina, Tamra, Carmella, and Heather ponder what the other group of women are up to. Well, Vicki’s crew isn’t lounging around a gorgeous bonfire the wa... More »
Andy Cohen Takes Back What He Said About Julia Stiles
Some comments deserve a do-over. Andy Cohen apologized to Julia Stiles during Wednesday night’s Watch What Happens Live for his comments about her moves in Save the Last Da... More »
Jennifer Lopez Is Serving a Concert Movie for Thanksgiving
At her core, Jennifer Lopez will always be the little girl with crazy hair running around the Bronx with no limits and all dreams. We th... More »
Greta Gerwig’s Narnia Movie Looks Like a Trip
Step into the wardrobe and enter Greta Gerwig’s phantasmagorical emporium of glam-rock excess.
Dancing With the Stars Recap: Ladies’ Night
Sisters — have you heard? — are doing it for themselves. And also sometimes with a dance partner. It’s ladies’ night in the ballroom. Just like the fellas did in the season premiere, our eight female celebrities will take to the floor for the first time to show off their stuff and, in some cases,... More »
Dolly Parton Posthumously Accepts Lifetime Achievement Award
Dolly Parton is still the same gracious, kind, and warm presence she was in life. At this year’s Americana Music Honors & Awards, Parton received the Lifetime Achievement Award. Instead of a family member accepting on her behalf... More »
It’s a Great Time for Heist Movies Right Now
They might look different than the ones you’re used to, but movies like The Weight understand the entertainment value of stealing from the rich.
Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bongiovi Welcome Baby Brown Bongiovi No. 2
Something’s in the water — or is it the earth? — because seemingly every celebrity can’t help but announce they have a brand-new baby Virgo. And, I mean, mazel to all! We need more Earth signs out there, and I say this as an Aries. Lady Gaga
When Elephants Visited the Set of Marie Antoinette
Twenty years ago, Andrew Durham was given unprecedented access to the palace of Versailles during the shooting of the film Marie Antoinette, directed by his lifelong friend Sofia Coppola. He captured intimate moments between takes, after hours in the city of Paris, and at the film’s ... More »
Can I Take My Kid to See Resident Evil?
Kids love video games, so almost any movie adapted from one is going to carry some degree of playground and/or internet cachet for the younger audience. How else to explain why my daughter was playing a Five Nights at Freddy’s–themed version of tag during third-grade recess, despite neve... More »
South Park Is South America Now
Ready to go to South America and see some capybaras annoying tweens? South Park aired its season-29 premiere on September 17, reintroducing the audience to a cartoon world with a few changes. Namely, the place and
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Recap: Fractured Fairy Tales
This fourth and penultimate season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has seen the series attempting an unusual number of high-concept episodes, even by the standards of a series that hasn’t been afraid to experiment. So far we’ve had a black-and-white episode, puppets, a drunken bacchanal... More »
Alex Gibney Tells the Story of the Attack on Salman Rushdie
This review was originally published on January 26, 2026 out of the Sundance Film Festival. We are recirculating it now timed to Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie’s theatrical release. More »
We Don’t Get Movies Like The Weight Much Anymore
This review was originally published out of the Sundance Film Festival. We are recirculating it now timed to The Weight’s theatrical release. More »
The Role That Changed Everything
Getting cast as Jesus in Godspell, I recognized that my life would never be the same.
Telematrix No. 169: October 5, 2026
Can you name a Shonda Rhimes or Dick Wolf TV show title that contains a number or punctuation mark?
Psychedelic-Poster Pioneer Peter Max Dies at 88
Psychedelic Pop artist Peter Max has died at the age of 88. Friend and spokesperson Michael Pagnotta confirmed the news, telling
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Premiere Recap: Sisterhood
This season of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City starts off on an incredibly somber note, given the tragic passing of Mary Crosby’s son, Robert Jr. Just three week... More »
Matthew Lillard Knows Scream 7 Was on ‘the Wrong Side of History’
Matthew Lillard isn’t in love with the shape of himself. Reflecting on the current political landscape (and
Madonna Is Turning the 2026 VMAs Into Danceteria
There’s a whole new crop of pop girlies to smooch, so it makes perfect sense that Madonna will be performing at MTV’s Video Music Awards for the first time in 23 years. Just kidding — it’s because she leads the pack this year for nominations. Confessions II earned Mads 11 nods, ahead of ... More »
Macklemore Donates $1 Million to Palestinian Relief
On September 16, two days after Macklemore was dropped from the U.S. leg of Ed Sheeran’s Loop tour after speaking out about the genocide in Gaza, the rapper
Travis Kelce Named As Victim in $35 Million Ponzi Scheme
You’ll never guess the name of the Ponzi scheme Travis Kelce reportedly fell victim to. Siddharth Jawahar was sentenced to 11 years in prison today for wire fraud relating to his investment company Swiftarc Capital ... More »
Get Ready for Three More Seasons of The Trrrrraiiitorrrrsss
The Traitors had another great year at the Emmy Awards winning Outstanding Reality Competition Program and Outstanding Host for a Reality... More »
Prime Video Assembles a Super-Bundle
Prime Video is putting together a team. Streamers are looking to boost their services by joining forces, creating offerings like the cable bundles of yore, and today marks Prime Video’s largest one yet. The Amazon streamer launched a five-servic... More »
Tom Holland Has to Do This Forever Now
That Tom Holland, he just can’t seem to stop making so, so, so, so much money for the people who work in Hollywood. On September 16,
SNL Adds Two New Cast Members for Season 52
Ahead of the season-52 premiere on September 26, the Saturday Night Live cast got some new additions. Following Ego Nwodim’s
Dancing With the Stars Season-Premiere Recap: Back to the Ballroom
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Our favorite sparkle-covered, ambiguously defined reality-competition series has returned to us: Dancing With the Stars is back. And as someone who has been watching this series since season two, I couldn’t be more thrilled to go on this journey ... More »
The Indie-Film World Debates the Future of Acting
On Tuesday night at the Marlton Hotel’s Manhattan restaurant, Chez Nous, I found myself crammed into a back corner talking to Paul Schrader about AI. We were there to celebrate Killer Films’s Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler, who in March... More »
‘This Changes the Game’: Nielsen Is Shaking Up Its Streaming Reports
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Lena Dunham Is a Girls Mom
The final season of Girls ended (spoiler) with Hannah Horvath a mother, attempting and, finally, succeeding to get her son to latch. Nearly ten years later, the show’s mastermind and star, Lena Dunham, has a child of her own. Dunham reveale... More »
Annie Dillard, Author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Dead at 81
Annie Dillard, the author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Holy the Firm, An American Childhood, and many other major works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and theory, died at the age of 81 on September 15 at her home in Massachusetts. Her death was confirmed by her literary... More »
Get the Kleenex Ready for a Live TV Tribute to Dolly Parton
There have been countless tributes to the iconic Dolly Parton in the weeks after her death, all beautiful and heartfelt. But the truest way to honor the gl... More »
The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Jeep Shots
I hate that the first thing I have to do to our returning champion Carole Radziwill is disagree with her, but no, real New Yorkers do not drive. Real rich New Yorkers drive. Most New Yorkers are so poor that they don’t have anywhere to go that the subway, a Lime bike, or their own two fe... More »
Thank God Celebrity Traitors Is Back
The Celebrity Traitors is returning for series two (aka season two), thank god. We were in a drought of treachery and deceit, and a new group of celebrities is here to fill the goblet. In the official BBC trail... More »
Um, What Happened to the Kevin Langue Show Panel?
If you tuned in to The Kevin Langue Show over the weekend, you might have just turned it right off. The YouTube show with over 5 million subscribers (and its own
Andrew Scott’s Best Performance Yet Is in Elsinore
We’re finding the movies at a very Hamlet time in their existence. Last year, Chloé Zhao linked the play’s origins to the loss of a child in her adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet, Mamoru Hosoda conjured up a gender-flipped purgatorial anime riff of it in Scarlet, ... More »
Is Making 300 a ‘Get Out of Fascism Free’ Card?
Zack Snyder insists that making “the gayest movie ever” means he’s on the right side of history.
Amazon Volunteers to Give Awards to Apple TV Now
Amazon’s Prime Video isn’t exactly known for its dominance at the Emmy Awards lately. Although Amazon earned 17 statuettes across its Prime Video and MGM Studios subdivisions, most of those wins were in craft categories and didn’t air on last night’s
The Game of Thrones Stage Play Attempts to Justify the Series Finale
The final season of Game of Thrones forever changed the legacy of what once seemed to be the most popular TV show on the planet. In its concluding episodes, the HBO juggernaut thrust an unearned heel turn on its female lead, rendered its climactic battle so dark viewers couldn’t see it, ... More »
Prosecutors in Nick Reiner Case Will Not Seek Death Penalty
Los Angeles County district attorney Nathan J. Hochman said in a press conference ahead of a hearing on September 15 that prosecutors would not be seeking the death penalty in the double-murder case against Nick Reiner, who has been accuse... More »
Ed Sheeran Distances Himself From the Decision to Remove Macklemore
Ed Sheeran, in the midst of controversy over Macklemore being removed as his tour opener after he spoke out during shows in support of Palestine, has released his first public statement. ... More »
Venice Wrap-Up: Woman Unknown Enters the Oscar Race
We’re just a few weeks out from the start of scoring for this season of the Movies Fantasy League on October 2. If this Venice dispatch helped you lock in your choices, you can submit your roster now. More »
More Like Angine de Pohmygodiminlove
To all of the little girls and boys out there who are practicing their microtonal math rock in papier-mâché costumes and hoping to one day make it big: Never give up on your dreams. Angine de Poitrine, the anonymous duo from Québec who are getting so popular that Google now festoons their search ... More »
Tom Cruise’s Digger Press Tour Kicks Off With a Whole Lot of Nothing
For a guy who insists he’s “not afraid to be afraid” in a new and rare longform interview with GQ, it sure seems like Tom Cruise is afraid to say something — anything — incisive or reflective about his ... More »
Kathleen Hanna’s Day Without ‘Mediocre Male Bands’
There came a moment in Bikini Kill’s set at Daisy Chain Fields — in the middle of the late-August afternoon, scorching hot, and surveying a sweaty audience in the thousands — where Kathleen Hanna felt a profound sense of fellowship, something that the riot grrrl high priestess doesn’t experience ... More »
Oh My God, We Get a New Star-to-Be
The 1977 musical Annie is coming back to Broadway and real theater-heads and Annie freaks know what that means: A new “Star-to-Be.” That character sings the best part in the best song in the show, “N.Y.C.” She doesn’t appear anywhere else, but for about one minute the entire pro... More »
Cynthia Erivo Takes Another Run at Awards Glory with Prima Facie
Cynthia Erivo is a defense attorney named Tessa Ensler in Prima Facie — a young barrister who works in the Old Bailey in London, striding confidently through the century-old halls in sequined sneakers and a legal wig like someone winkingly playacting at being one of the stern bluebloods ... More »
Apple’s Must-See TV
One year ago, Seth Rogen stood on the Emmys stage accepting the Outstanding Comedy Series award and, in the process, set the Emmy record for most wins by a comedy in a single year with 13. I hope Rogen and his The Studio co-creator Evan Goldberg spent a lot of time enjoying that achievem... More »
Cinematrix No. 903: September 15, 2026
Can you name a Sally Field movie with a two- or three-word title?
The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of the 2026 Emmys
How can time feel as if it’s simultaneously rushing and dragging? Theoretical physicists will ponder that question for years to come, but a real-life example of the phenomenon arrived in the form of the 2026 Emmy Awa... More »
Detective Taylor Swift Drops a Few Easter Eggs at the Emmys
After Toy Story 5, you thought we were done with the Taylor Swift easter eggs? Tsk, tsk. You should know better... More »
Broadcast TV Couldn’t Handle John Mulaney’s Manly Jokes
If you need a real dude’s dude, you call John Mulaney. He presented the Emmy Award for Best Lead Actor in a Drama and reminded us that, even though this is a man’s world, The Man can still censor a good joke. “Th... More »
There’s an Oasis Coming to Sin City
Don’t put away your Adidas tracksuit just yet; Oasis is coming back for seconds. Today the Gallagher brothers announced their second tour, Oasis Live ’27, with 38 dates across the U.K., ... More »
Matthew Rhys Is the Mayor of the Emmys
There was a time, during the first three seasons of The Americans, when you could be reasonably outraged at the Emmys for ignoring Matthew Rhys. No longer! He just won two (2) separate Emmy Awards in one night: one for Outstanding L... More »
Mikayla Matthews Is Leaving Secret Lives of Mormon Wives
The cast of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is getting smaller and smaller. Mikayla Ma... More »
Below Deck Mediterranean Recap: A Villain Is Born
Before diving into this week’s episode, an update from Gael and Kayden: Last weekend, Gael posted an Instagram Story thanking the audience for... More »
The Emmys Knows You Only Watch Broadcast TV in Hotel Rooms
This year’s Emmy Awards opening was sponsored by Marriott Hotels, for some reason. Host Mariska Hargitay queened out in Marriott bath robes with Jean Smart, rode a horse, and called Jennife... More »
Jean Smart Pulled It Off
Deborah Vance wishes she had bragging rights like this. Jean Smart won her fifth Emmy Award for Hacks and her eighth overall. After telling all the women t... More »
Good News: Pre-Existing Condition Has Recurred
“You can attend, stay quiet, and just listen,” a facilitator instructs a group for women who have experienced domestic violence at the beginning of Marin Ireland’s Pre-Existing Condition. “Being in the room and listening is just as important as talking.” Played by a warm yet firm Dael Or... More »
Cher Remembers Her ‘Sweet Prince,’ Bob Mackie
Following the death of the sequin king Bob Mackie at 87, Cher took to her favorite social-media platform, X, to remember her lifelong friend. “My dear Bob has gone up to heaven. Knowing him, he’s bringing Sequins, Beads & his sketc... More »
Every Single Thing Happening at the 2026 Emmy Awards
It’s the last hurrah for Hacks, the opposite of a sophomore slump for The Pitt, and one final chance for DTF St. Louis to exact revenge.
The 10 Best Movies We Saw at Venice This Year
For all the talk about this year’s Venice Film Festival being relatively thin on the Oscarbaition front, it ended up providing a rather strong lineup of movies. Some major directors delivere... More »
The 2026 Emmy Winners
The first round of Emmy awarding came and went last weekend with the categories formerly known as the Creative Arts Emmys going to Outstanding Guest Performers like Betty Gilpin for Widow’s Bay ... More »
Imagine Philomena Cunk Talking to Michael Bay
As Lady Gaga once said, “talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show-stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before, unafraid to reference or not reference.” Mother Monster was talking about Ryan Murphy, but she ought to have been talking about Dian... More »
Bob Mackie, the Sultan of Sequins, Dead at 87
Bob Mackie, the creator of many of the most fabulous dresses of the 20th century, is dead at 87. “It is with a heavy heart that we share the news that Mr. Bob Mackie passed away today,” his social-media accounts conf... More »
Ed Sheeran’s Tour Is Hemorrhaging Artists
“A big part of the reason why I wanted to do this tour in the first place is so I could stand up in stadiums like this and say two words that are very near and dear to my heart: Free Palestine,” Macklemore announced at the first MetLife show ... More »
Oprah Is Bringing Ocean Vuong to the Sphere
You know what they say! What happens in Vegas … is briefly gorgeous? Oprah Winfrey is coming to Las Vegas megatheater “the Sphere” with a new show called Oprah Winfrey’s AHA. According to a press ... More »
Cancel Your Date in the Park With George
It looks like Sunday in the Park With George and the West End do not belong together, at least for now. The calamitous run for the intended U.K. revival of Sunday in the Park, which was supposed to be directed by Marianne... More »
Keen Ruffalo’s Inheritance
“It’s a bit absurd,” says Keen Ruffalo, “but I want to try everything.” The actor and star of Amazon Prime’s hit series Sterling Point is enduring a Los Angeles rite of passage — being simultaneously appalled and intoxicated by Erewhon, the city’s prohibitively expensive food-and-wellnes... More »
I Play Rocky Is Endearing, Despite Itself
I could never hate I Play Rocky, no matter how syrupy its tendencies, because I Play Rocky includes a scene in which the main characters meet with director Garrett Brown to check out his new ... More »
The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip Recap: Gag Order
There comes a moment in every vacation when your patience starts to wear thin. Do you hate your friends? Do you hate your family? Do you desperately need a full night’s sleep? As much as I continue to enjoy RHUGT season five as Bravo’s state-sponsored trip down memory lane, I may have re... More »
Gerard Way Teases First New My Chemical Romance Album in 16 Years
Rumors Gerard Way is pregnant? Yeah, he’s pregnant with MCR5. At Saturday’s My Chemical Romance show in San Antonio, Way gestured towards the ban... More »
Don’t Mess About With CMAT’s Fry-Up
More Saturday Night Live U.K. means more Fouracres. Mouracres. For those not in the know, innit though, SNL U.K. does these delightful minisketches, “45 Seconds Wit... More »
Practical Magic 2 Unseats Spider-Man at Top of the Box Office
Spidey and magic just don’t mix. For the first time in six weeks, there’s a new number 1 movie at the box office.
An Old-Fashioned Arthouse Movie Won Best Film at Venice
Accepting her Golden Lion for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival last night, director May el-Toukhy described Woman Unknown as being about “the female body as a battleground.” Tha... More »
Lioness Recap: The Once and Future Senior Case Officer
I wouldn’t call “senior case officer” the sexiest moniker ever adorned by a spy, but you’d think it was the way Lioness throws it around. Oh no, the enemy has compromised a *gasp* senior case officer this, we ain’t turnin’ round till we find our *hold for drama... More »
Cinematrix No. 901: September 13, 2026
Can you name a Samuel L. Jackson movie with a one- to three-word title?
Mahershala Ali Is at His Blade-Trained Best in His New Movie
I can’t decide if Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother is a love letter to Houston, where it’s set, or a poison pen one. In the movie, which was written and directed by Bassam Tariq, the city is portrayed as a hideous, glorious multicultural sprawl of strips malls, McMansions, and bedragg... More »
Misty Green Isn’t the Movie It Thinks It Is
Misty Green, the new movie from Chris Rock, proposes that the only thing less dignified than being an actor who’s never made it is being one who did, but who’s now struggling. That’s the situation its title character, played by Rosalind Eleazar, finds herself in — broke and out of work a... More »
Clarissa Is a Welcome Reset for Ayo Edebiri After a Disappointing Year
Sometimes it takes Virginia Woolf and a trip to Lagos to shake the Ella McCay off your boots. Ayo Edebiri’s magnetic supporting performance in the new film Clarissa — which had its North... More »
Céline Dion Couldn’t Get Through Her Comeback Show Without Crying
There was no dry eye in the audience at the opening night of Céline Dion’s Paris residency, including the star herself. “I had promised myself not to cry,” Dion told the crowd, per
Woman Unknown Wins Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival has come to a close, and a new film has earned the prestigious award of the Golden Lion. Woman U... More »