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Hollywood is filled with stories of unrealized potential, dashed dreams, and overnight sensations that disappear just as quickly. Screenwriter Larry Karaszewski was obsessed with one such story: The tale of Catherine Burns, who was nominated for an Oscar for her film debut in 1969’s Last Summer. In “Catherine Burns: …

As Manhunt: Deadly Games’ makes painfully clear, the FBI is an imperfect institution. As the show’s two main field agents, Gethin Anthony and Kelly Jenrette set about taking their director’s orders to make an airtight case against Richard Jewell for the Atlanta Olympic bombing only to find out there’s little evidence…

Our reboot-frenzied age of IP, the one that stretched 13 episodes out of Green Eggs And Ham and turned Fantasy Island into a slasher, spawned from a single truth: If you’re going to gamble, it may as well be on a sure thing.

Forget Netflix and Chill. I have a theory: the best pre-snogging activity is a rousing game of Mario Kart.

If you’ve read any novel by Carson McCullers, it’s probably The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, her bestselling 1940 debut, which centers on a loose group of outcasts in a small Georgia mill town. At the heart of the story is the touching relationship between two men who cannot verbally articulate their affection, as both…

As the godawful Bohemian Rhapsody’s reception at last year’s Academy Awards showed, trying to make an actor look like another famous person with bad prosthetics doesn’t necessarily mean that people will take your movie less seriously. That said, when makeup effects work well, as is the case with Charlize Theron’s…

As Tasha Scott famously sang in the film Troop Beverly Hills, it’s cookie time. The start of February marks the start of Girl Scout cookie season, and it’s being marked by the Food Network with the Girl Scout Cookie Championship. It’s not a winner-takes-all sell-off, but rather a competition that pits expert bakers…

How would you feel if you found out that Tom Hanks didn’t like you? What is the psychological toll of being rejected by the world’s nicest man? Actor Connor Ratliff (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) is in a unique position to answer these questions; he was fired by Hanks from the HBO miniseries Band Of Brothers nearly 20…

Did you hear the one about the Force Majeure remake with Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus that screened at this year’s Sundance and was described by our own A.A. Dowd as a “kinder, gentler” take on Ruben Östlund’s famously bone-dry comedy of male ego in collapse? That’s not a joke, we’re actually asking if you’ve…

The Kansas City Chiefs, J. Lo, Shakira, and the newest monstrosity that is Baby Nut may have been the major stars of this Super Bowl weekend, but there was still some noteworthy movement in the box office. Mind you, none of the weekend’s premiering films managed to nab even the first three spots, but one did end …

The year: 2012. The director: Kate Herron, who’s helming all six episodes of Marvel’s Disney+ series Loki (which we got a very brief glimpse of last night). The project: a two-minute comedic musical adaptation of a critically acclaimed independent film. That film: Um, Kill List?

The machinery that keeps influencers running is complex, multifaceted, and, above all else, terrifying. While some internet personalities exist only as forces for good (see: the “cleanfluencers,” that guy in a suit who reviews everything), they’re outweighed by the masses of inexplicably wealthy people who do stuff…

There’s something about the deep South and gritty noir that makes for an intriguing combination, and the upcoming thriller Blood On Her Name is the latest film to take advantage of this happy (if dark and twisted) marriage. Directed by Georgia native Matthew Pope—who co-wrote the film alongside producer Don Thompson—…

When Mr. Peanut died a couple of weeks ago, we were all able to breathe a brief sigh of relief. The terrible mascot has lorded his wealth over us all for decades, strutting around in an ostentatious top hat and monocle, assured that his financial empire would endure any number of the recessions that cause regular…

The terms “undercover investigation” and “crime family” are rarely used in the same sentence as “Big Macs.” But a new six-part docuseries on HBO strings them together to tell a real-life story of lies, fries, and fraud.

“Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.”

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Editing is, by and large, a thankless profession. Film editors work behind the scenes, sculpting massive piles of footage into feature films with pacing and tone and foreshadowing and callbacks. If they’re good at their jobs, you barely notice their work at all, keeping them in the shadows. Not so with Thelma…

“You want to impress people with lies?”
“How else do you impress them?”

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, February 3. All times are Eastern. 

One week into their prolonged journey and the facade is already starting to crumble. Karen may have found new purpose, and Billie and Iris remain steadfast, but most of the crew is already feeling the strain of their new reality. Ryan is downing wine with gusto, Matt has proven himself entirely useless, and poor Rav…

When The Outsider stays close to home—and especially when The Outsider’s Outsider doesn’t merely stay close, but invades—it’s as vivid, unsettling, and thematically rich as anything else on television. How do you identify the line between setting fear aside and ignoring your most primal survival instincts? Can grief…

Leave it to Disney to sneak a big surprise into the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl. Just as we were finishing up the last of the pizza and resigning ourselves to the inevitability of another Tide commercial with Charlie Day, Disney+ rolls in with a short ad featuring teaser clips of all three of its high-profile…

A missing submarine in the Indian Ocean, birds going haywire in Peru, and active alien tech in Hong Kong. Or is it a kidnapped astronaut, a missing travel vlogger, and a suspiciously well-equipped lab on a beach in Madagascar? From its opening moments, it’s clear that something is wrong in “Praxeus,” but this episode…

Last year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show was oddly (though unsurprisingly) anticlimactic, wrapping up a year of high-profile musical acts openly refusing to take the gig out of respect to Colin Kaepernick—who had accused the NFL of conspiring to blacklist him over his famous on-field protests against police brutality and…

Oh, you thought they were gone? You perfect fool. The Minions will never be gone. Even if they have to resurrected with space magic and attached to a big robot arm like Emperor Palpatine, they’ll keep coming back. This time, they’re coming back for Minions: The Rise Of Gru, which looks to finally tie together the …