Новости за 18.12.2022

A24’s release of Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale had a strong holdover its second weekend out, grossing $168.5k on the same six screens in NYC and LA where it opened its first frame to the biggest per theater average of the year – beating the distributor’s March release of Everything Everywhere All At Once. This weekend’s […]

Kate Andersen Brower’s Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of An Icon is billed as the first-ever authorized biography of the legendary actress, as her family and estate gave her access to Taylor’s private letters, photos and diaries. What Brower found was new insight into Taylor’s later-in-life emergence as an influential activist, using her star […]

Controversial Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz says she has been suspended from Twitter upon order of its owner, Elon Musk. Lorenz made the claim in a Substack post, adding that she did not and has not violated Twitter’s terms of service. On Substack, Lorenz claimed she only had three tweets live on her account at […]

From Bergen to Malta, Liverpool, New York and Halifax: Norwegian merchant seamen Alfred (Kristoffer Joner) and Sigbjorn (Pal Sverre Hagen) sometimes seem to be competing for screen time with datelines in Gunnar Vikene’s epic War Sailor, Norway’s Oscar submission. Sprawling, packed with anecdote and surging from one dramatic peak to the next, War Sailor sets […]

Lionel Messi’s Argentina beat France to clinch the World Cup title in a lively game at the Lusail Stadium in Qatar Sunday evening. The South American side beat the holders 4 – 2 on penalties. Argentina is the first country from outside Europe to lift the trophy since Brazil, 20 years ago in Japan. It’s […]

Philip Yung delivers an ambitious decade-spanning true crime thriller with Where The Wind Blows, Hong Kong’s entry for the International Feature Oscar. Previously known as Theory of Ambitions, it’s a technically impressive feat with an equally impressive cast lead by Aaron Kwok and Tony Leung Chiu-wai. Fast-paced and dense with detail, it challenges the audience to […]

In the year 2525. No, that’s the lyric of a cheesy pop song about, as it were, Armageddon Time. It’s 2028, a much closer reckoning, that should be on the mind of everyone who depends on the shiny, mixed up business of film awards for diversion or a living. The smart people who run the […]

SPOILER ALERT! This story contains details from the first episode of 1923, which dropped at midnight on Paramount+. 1883 star Isabel May is back as Elsa Dutton — but in voice-over form only — in 1923, Taylor Sheridan’s newest Yellowstone prequel that provides more of a backstory on how the Duttons came to amass so […]

Cecily Strong got an Elvis goodbye on Saturday when host Austin Butler — who was later joined by the rest of the SNL cast — ended the show with a performance of “Blue Christmas.” Even Kenan Thompson had a solo during the bittersweet number for Strong, who is leaving Saturday Night Live after 11 seasons on the […]

Cecily Strong got emotional on her last day on Saturday Night Live. The actor made an appearance on the “Weekend Update” segment as her character Cathy Anne also bid farewell as she was going to prison. “Actually, I’m a little emo tonight because the truth is, I’m here to say goodbye,” Strong’s Cathy Anne said […]

Count on Jennifer Coolidge to bring down the house — even when it doesn’t involve the actual Jennifer Coolidge. In what was arguably the best skit of the night during SNL‘s Christmas show, Chloe Fineman dressed up in her finest gold lamé to impersonate the beloved White Lotus actress in a skit called “Jennifer Coolidge is […]

SNL couldn’t get through its Austin Butler-hosted Christmas show without at least one skit about Elvis Presley — but the star of the Baz Luhrmann biopic wasn’t the one donning the bejeweled blue spandex. It was Sarah Sherman, who sent up The King by pretending he was Jewish. Butler, in contrast, portrayed a googly-eyed bubbie […]

Austin Butler gave viewers a range of emotions during his monologue as host of Saturday Night Live. The actor took the stage on the NBC sketch show for the first time and addressed his evolving voice in recent years. Since portraying Elvis Presly in the Elvis biopic, many fans have questioned his deeper voice which […]

James Austin Johnson returned as Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live as the show chose the obvious topic for its cold open: The former president’s real-life hawking of $99 digital trading cards. SNL didn’t have to stray too far from the truth for its satire, not just of Trump grifting for money, but of the […]

Cecily Strong is leaving Saturday Night Live after 11 seasons on the show. A post on social media from the official Instagram account for the sketch show confirmed Strong’s exit. “We’ll miss you, Cecily,” read a cue card shared while the caption of the post said, “Tonight we send off one of the best to […]

Ncuti Gatwa is set to be the Fifteenth Doctor on Doctor Who and his first look as the character has been revealed on social media. The Sex Education star was seen in a couple of pictures shared by Doctor Who’s official Twitter account. In the photos, Gatwa is seen wearing a fluffy orange sweater and […]

Camille Meyer, formerly known as Camille Grammer, is mourning the loss of her mother Maureen Wilson Donatacci. The former star of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills confirmed the news on social media that her mother had died of cancer at the age of 75. “My mom gained her angel wings today. She was a […]

In an interview with The Mail on Sunday, Britney Spears’s father Jamie – the subject of much scorn from the #FreeBritney movement – is speaking out for the first time in a decade. The 70-year-old defended his conduct during his daughter’s long conservatorship, musing at one point on whether she’d be alive without that intervention. […]

Earlier this year James Corden announced he was leaving The Late Late Show in the spring of 2023. The late-night show host is now opening up about his plans for the end of his CBS program. During an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the late-night host asked Corden what he was going […]

If you took the Indianapolis Colts and the 3.5 point spread, you had to be feeling pretty good at halftime, being up 33-0. Unfortunately for Colts fans, there’s also a second half in games. That’s when the Minnesota Vikings awoke and clinched the NFC North title Saturday, storming back to victory with the biggest comeback in NFL […]

Iranian authorities have arrested Taraneh Alidoosti, one of the country’s best known actresses, after she expressed solidarity with anti-government demonstrators in a social media post. The BBC, quoting an Iranian state media agency, reported Alidoosti was detained on charges of “spreading falsehoods” about the protest movement that has gripped the country, state media said. In […]