Photo: Universal Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection Spoilers ahead for the plot and ending of The Woman in the Yard. There are two reasons why the meme of Jamie Lee Curtis saying “trauma” took off. First, because she said it funny — has the word ever been pronounced “trow-ma”? And second, because it captured …
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Photo: Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images “Look, I’m not an economist,” RuPaul intoned in a January 23 TikTok, looking directly at the camera. “But I do know that your best defense against financial ruin is a side ponytail.” The video now has 10 million views and 1.3 million likes, and it has since been …
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Earl Gibson III/Penske Media via Getty Images, MGM/Everett Collection In a departure that’s surely shaken and stirred up chatter around Hollywood, the head of Amazon MGM Studios Jennifer Salke is leaving the company. In a letter sent to employees Thursday afternoon, Amazon exec Mike Hopkins broke the news, saying, “Jen will …
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Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Chelsea Guglielmino/FilmMagic, Amy Sussman/WireImage/Getty Images Over 600 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences signed an open letter criticizing the Academy’s “lack of support” for No Other Land director Hamdan Ballal on March 27 following his detainment by Israeli authorities. “As artists we depend on our ability to …
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Photo: Virginia Sherwood/Peacock Don’t have Peacock yet? Sign up here This Month’s Highlight Law & Order Organized Crime season 5 It’s been five seasons of Organized Crime and that’s still not enough time to come to terms with the fact that Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) and Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) can’t be in the …
Photo: Max “Look, we’re polarizing, man,” Logan Paul says in reference to himself and his content creator, podcaster, and boxer brother Jake Paul on Good Morning America. “It’s either ‘I’m rocking with those guys, I see the hustle, I respect it,’ or ‘screw them.’” The Paul brothers know they’re controversial: their new show, Paul …
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Photo: Dan Smith/Amazon MGM Studios/Everett Collection Within the hallowed annals of Stathamology — within the multibillion-dollar-grossing, karate-kicking, larynx-crushing filmic oeuvre of Jason Statham — Eddie J. Fernandez may be Hollywood’s foremost expert. The veteran stunt performer/martial artist/actor/action choreographer’s career spans some 300 movies, including Jurassic World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, No Country for …
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Photo: Courtesy of Vivo Film/Shellac Sud/Cinema Defacto This review was originally published on October 9, 2024 out of the New York Film Festival. We are recirculating it now timed to Grand Tour’s theatrical release. Like an epic poem told through a multitude of voices, Miguel Gomes’s Grand Tour is a movie of unorthodox sweep …
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Photo: Amazon Studios/Everett Collection Holland, Michigan, is a real town, though you’d be forgiven for assuming it’s a fictional creation when watching Holland, a baffling thriller starring Nicole Kidman that’s now streaming on Amazon Prime. Director Mimi Cave shoots the place like it’s a highly specialized area of Epcot Center, a recreation of a …
Photo: Liane Hentscher/HBO Don’t have Max yet? Sign up here. This Month’s Highlight The Last of Us season 2 Whether you’ve played the games or not, you surely get the feeling that nothing good lasts in The Last of Us. Joel (Pedro Pascal) may have saved Ellie (Bella Ramsey) in season one, but surely, …
