Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: 20th Century Studios, Disney, Hollywood Pictures, MGM, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros This list was originally published in 2021 and has been updated to include Ridley Scott’s latest film, Gladiator II. For over 45 years, director Ridley Scott has been opening the frame to visions of peerless grandeur, …
Photo: Marcus Ubungen When Bianca Cline agreed to step in for Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer who died of an accidental gunshot wound on the set of Rust, she suspected she might never work again. Still, after careful consideration, she felt it was the right thing to do. “I hope that the film becomes a …
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Photo: Universal Pictures Apparently, learning how to train an animated one wasn’t enough. How to Train Your Dragon is once again headed to our screens, this time as a live-action film for Universal Pictures. Dean DeBlois, who wrote and directed the HTTYD trilogy in the 2010s, has returned to helm the project. While some …
It’s been five years since Anthony Jeselnik released his last comedy special, 2019’s Fire in the Maternity Ward. There are a number of possible explanations for the prolonged hiatus. There was, of course, a global pandemic in the interim. There is the fact that Jeselnik is an extremely thorough writer who takes extra time …
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Photo: Mike Marsland/WireImage Liam Payne’s loved ones gathered for his funeral, mourning the singer a month after his death. Payne’s One Direction bandmates — Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, and Louis Tomlinson — attended the service, People reported, at a 12th-century church northwest of London. Payne’s girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, attended, as did his …
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Photo: Apple TV+ Halfway through this week’s episode, Paul drops a bit of wisdom that speaks to one of the show’s key themes. “Fucked-up people are good at helping fucked-up people,” he says. “I mean, look at us.” In this instance, the idea applies to two principal characters: Sean, whose military buddy Jorge needs …
Photo: Sinna Nasseri Colin Farrell’s Oz Cobb gets naming rights to the Batman spinoff series The Penguin, but Cristin Milioti’s Sofia Falcone steals the show. As the mob-boss daughter who ascends to the top of her father’s criminal organization after killing most of her family, Milioti injects Sofia’s rise with a feral fervor honed …
Photo: Chance Yeh/Getty Images Yesterday, PBS announced it has acquired a new 90-minute documentary narrated and produced by former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and his wife, former ambassador to the Holy See Callista L. Gingrich. Journey to America: With Newt and Callista Gingrich is written and directed by Kevin Knoblock and bills …
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Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Sony Pictures, A24, Netflix In the past few years, two Irish men have gotten Best Actor Oscar nominations and neither of them were playing Irish characters. For Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy, who won the award, practiced the creator of the atomic bomb’s voice by walking around in circles talking to himself. To …
Photo: Cass Bird It was St. Patrick’s Day weekend 2024, and it was so crowded inside the Gagosian showroom that had taken over Mary Boone’s old gallery on West 24th Street that I could barely see the paintings. Downtown rats, art-school students, several generations of art stars, musicians, Hypebeast editors, collectors, writers, academics, Harold …
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