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Dan Harmon Will Produce ‘Bubbles’ Biopic About Michael Jackson’s Chimp
Fresh on the heels of the surreal romance Anomalisa, Dan Harmon is bringing that stop-motion-animation magic to tackle another kind of relationship: the one between Michael Jackson and his pet chimpanzee. As Deadline Hollywood reports, the Community creator recently picked up the screenplay for Bubbles, which tells Jackson’s life story through the eyes of…
Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese Reuniting ‘Taxi Driver’ Cast for 40th Anniversary
Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Jodie Foster and other key members of the 1976 film Taxi Driver will reunite April 21st at the Tribeca Film Festival for a 40th anniversary celebration of the neo-noir classic. Cybill Shepherd and screenwriter Paul Schrader will also take part in the Beacon Theatre festivities, which includes a…
‘Krisha’: How a Home Movie Became an Indie Film Sensation
Krisha Fairchild is the kind of person who shrieks with infectious laughter as she tells you that one of her index fingers was recently bitten off by “a nasty-ass” dog. Of course, she probably wasn’t laughing about it at the time — 40 years after earning her first professional credit,…
Krisha
You’ve probably never encountered a one-woman car-wreck like Krisha (Krisha Fairchild) in a movie before; you may have seen her stirring up trouble at one of your own family gatherings, however, or if you’re particularly unlucky, staring back at you in the mirror. A sixtysomething woman with a hippy-dippy look…
The Divergent Series: Allegiant
If you’re not mad as hell, so mad that you’re not gonna take it anymore, then you damn well ought to be. The Divergent Series: Allegiant is another one of those cynical Hollywood cash grabs that takes the third book in bestselling juvie-lit trilogy (see Twilight and The Hunger Games)…
How ‘Midnight Special’ Proves You Can Make Science Fiction for Adults
It started with a single mental image: Two men in a car, driving down dark Southern backroads in the middle of the night, with no lights on. “I couldn’t get it out of my head,” writer-director Jeff Nichols says, squinting as the sunlight pours through the picture window in his…
Watch Epic, Action-Packed New ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Trailer
Death, destruction, hot mutant-on-mutant action: the final trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse promises that Marvel’s most famous Homo superior superheroes will be in for some blockbuster-sized battles. Expanding on the footage that we saw last December, this new glimpse at Bryan Singer’s fifth X-Men film showcases a much larger scale than…
My Golden Days
Yes, it’s in French with English subtitles. Don’t worry. Nothing gets lost in translation as this coming-of-age tale brims over with humor, heartbreak and ravishing romance. Arnaud Desplechin’s My Golden Days is a prequel of sorts to the writer-director’s 1996 bout of swirling eroticism, My Sex Life, or … How…
Midnight Special
You’re going to hear people talking shit about Jeff Nichols’ unforgettable and unclassifiable Midnight Special. The alien element will bring lazy comparisons to other cinematic close encounters; John Carpenter’s Starman resonates most in theme and careful pacing. But Nichols is his own man. And in this spellbinding sci-fi chase movie,…
George Takei Blasts Academy’s ‘Patronizing’ Response to Oscars Controversy
George Takei has slammed the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ response to a letter protesting two sketches shown during this year’s Oscars that were considered derogatory to Asians. Speaking to the New York Times, Takei said of the Academy’s “patronizing” statement, “It was a bland, corporate response.” In a statement…
Hacker Pleads Guilty to Stealing Celebrity Nude Photos
The hacker who infiltrated the iCloud accounts of Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Gabrielle Union and dozens of other female celebrities — leading a massive leak of nude photographs — has pleaded guilty to charges of felony computer hacking, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Ryan Collins faces up to five years in…
Ang Lee, Sandra Oh, George Takei Protest Asian Jokes at Oscars
Director Ang Lee, actress Sandra Oh and Star Trek star George Takei are among 25 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Asian descent who have signed a letter protesting two derogatory skits about Asians that aired during the Oscars, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Host Chris…
Harrison Ford, Steven Spielberg Set for Fifth ‘Indiana Jones’ Movie
Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg will reunite for a fifth Indiana Jones movie, set to arrive in theaters July 19th, 2019, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film follows 2008’s attempted reboot, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which found Ford teaming up with Shia LaBeouf, who played…
Watch Magical First Trailer for Tim Burton’s ‘Miss Peregrine’
20th Century Fox has just dropped the first trailer for Tim Burton’s latest down-the-rabbit-hole fantasy, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. Adapted from Ransom Riggs’ 2011 novel of the same name, the film tells the story of a 16-year-old boy named Jacob Portman (Hugo’s Asa Butterfield) whose morbid curiosity is piqued…
Watch Demented Redband Trailer For Seth Rogen’s ‘Sausage Party’
Murder, mayhem, and cartoon food dropping f-bombs — these are just a few of the things you’ll see in the the redband trailer for Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s Sausage Party, an (extremely) R-rated animated comedy about supermarket items who learn the terrifying truth about what humans are buying them for. The…
Johnny Depp: Donald Trump Is a Brat
During a recent appearance at Arizona State University, Johnny Depp spoke candidly about his disdain for Donald Trump. The actor had previously imitated the frontrunner for the GOP’s presidential nomination in a Funny or Die film. Depp was part of a Q&A at ASU where he discussed his role in the…
9 Things We Learned from Repentant Drone Operators
In “The Untold Casualties of the Drone War,” Rolling Stone profiled four former members of the drone program who publicly criticized America’s use of unmanned aircraft strikes in an open letter to President Barack Obama. “This administration and its predecessors have built a drone program that is one of the most devastating driving forces…
How ’10 Cloverfield Lane’ Redefines Movie Franchises
Well, it worked. The typically secretive J.J. Abrams made no attempt to hide how nervous he was about the daring and experimental launch of his latest project — “I don’t know if this is going to work,” he admitted to Rolling Stone — but the impresario’s fears were ultimately unfounded. Despite…
Don Cheadle: Why I Had to Make My Miles Davis Biopic
There’s a reason that, in an age when everyone from Hank Williams to the Notorious B.I.G. has been blessed with a biopic, a musical giant like Miles Davis had long eluded big-screen treatment. For starters, the idea of trying to do justice to the jazz legend’s multifaceted career with a…
Hello, My Name Is Doris
Watching Sally Field is one of the pleasures of going to the movies. From Norma Rae to Lincoln, Field has always used the camera lens to make direct communication with a character and an audience. Hello, My Name is Doris doesn’t often give her the material she deserves. But even…
Watch Tom Hanks’ Hopeful, Humorous ‘A Hologram for the King’ Trailer
Tom Hanks is starring in A Hologram for the King, the film adaptation of Dave Eggers’ acclaimed 2012 novel. In its first trailer, Hanks’ character, the struggling businessman Alan Clay, finds himself at a crossroads while living his American life a la Talking Heads’ disillusionment anthem, “Once in a Lifetime.” He…
Watch Hilarious Redband Trailer for Lonely Island Comedy ‘Popstar’
The Lonely Island is returning to theaters this summer with their first movie since 2007’s Hot Rod, and the trailer for the comedy trio’s new feature promises a no-holds-barred music mockumentary that does for Justin Bieber what Walk Hard did for Johnny Cash. Starring Andy Samberg as a pop sensation…
The Brothers Grimsby
If you hide inside an elephant’s vagina, the boy elephant who’s fucking her is likely to splooge all over you. For that and other bits of carnal comic knowledge, thank Sacha Baron Cohen. The Cambridge-educated creator of Ali G, Borat and Brüno has never ducked bodily fluids. Not if they’re…
Watch Spider-Man Swing Into ‘Captain America: Civil War’ Trailer
Captain America and Iron Man clash once more in the tense, thrilling new trailer for the latest addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America: Civil War. The clip establishes the stakes of the latest Marvel blockbuster, in which Steve Rogers/Captain America (Chris Evans) leads a crew of Avengers not pleased with new government regulations being…
10 Cloverfield Lane
Talk about a sneak attack: 10 Cloverfield Lane seems to have come out of nowhere. You might notice that the production company Bad Robot has been keeping the movie under wraps (they shot it under the title Valencia). The reason? The better to shock you senseless with, my dears. And here…
Eye in the Sky
It’s a setup for a moral debate on drone warfare. That Eye in the Sky is nowhere near that dry and academic is a tribute to director Gavin Hood (Tsotsi), who uses a tight script, by Guy Hibbert, to hold us in a vise and keep squeezing. The suspense is…
City of Gold
So far, Jonathan Gold is the only food critic to win a Pulitzer Prize. Nothing in Laura Gabbert’s admiring documentary City of Gold can quite match Gold’s tasty prose, occasionally heard here in whispery-soft voiceover. But there’s a surprise on the menu. That’s Los Angeles itself. For as Gold, in…
Watch ‘Star Wars’ Droid BB-8 Jam With Reggie Watts on ‘Corden’
Reggie Watts is such a master improviser, he can turn droid bloops into funk loops. James Corden’s Late Late Show bandleader brought out his “muse,” Star Wars: The Force Awakens droid BB-8, for an intergalactic jam during Tuesday’s show. “I’ve been working very closely with this muse,” Watts says in the clip, teasing their jam…
The Program
A careening crash course on the most publicly disgraced athlete since O.J. Simpson, Stephen Frears’ Lance Armstrong biopic is the rare film of its kind that doesn’t spare even a sprinkle of sympathy for its subject. A more compelling movie may have explored the reasons behind the champion cyclist’s behavior,…
’10 Cloverfield Lane’: How J.J. Abrams Made a Secret Sequel
“I don’t know if this is going to work.” Barely five weeks have passed since Star Wars: The Force Awakens became the highest-grossing film in domestic box office history — which hasn’t stopped J.J. Abrams from being so excited about his next project that he impulsively snagged a coach ticket on…
Creative Control
Shot in a widescreen black-and-white that entices as it chills, Creative Control sees a future that’s almost here — you know, a place where where communication is mostly digital. Director and co-writer Benjamin Dickinson (First Winter) is a protean talent. The dude also stars as David, an ad exec at…
Filmmaker Lilly Wachowski, Formerly Andy, Comes Out as Transgender
Filmmaker Lilly Wachowski, formerly Andy, has come out as a transgender woman in a periodically funny, often moving note published via Chicago’s LGBTQ paper, Windy City Times. The statement recounts the events that prompted her decision to come out, and also touches on the numerous issues facing many in the transgender community, including a lack of support networks…
Sacha Baron Cohen Explains Departure From Freddie Mercury Biopic
Sacha Baron Cohen told Howard Stern he dropped out of the long-in-the-works Freddie Mercury biopic over disagreements with Queen over how the film would portray the more salacious aspects of the late singer’s life. “There are amazing stories about Freddie Mercury,” Cohen said on The Howard Stern Show Tuesday. “The guy was wild. I mean he…
‘Kurt and Courtney’ Director Preps Whitney Houston Documentary
Filmmaker Nick Broomfield — known for controversial documentaries like Kurt and Courtney and Biggie and Tupac — is helming a new film about Whitney Houston for BBC Two. Per the network, Whitney “goes in search of the forces that made and then destroyed the singer who has been described as having one of…
Billie Joe Armstrong, ‘Ghostbusters’ Doc Highlight Tribeca 2016
A punk comedy starring Green Day’s frontman, docs on everything from Ghostbusters superfans to Scientology to soccer star Pelé, and an adaptation of a Dave Eggers’ book starring Tom Hanks highlight the remainder of the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival’s lineup. Lee Kirk’s comedy Geezer stars Green Day singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong…
‘Star Wars,’ ‘Deadpool’ Lead 2016 MTV Movie Awards Nominations
Star Wars: The Force Awakens may not have won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects, but it’s getting another shot at winning some major hardware. MTV announced the nominees for the 2016 MTV Movie Awards, and the latest installment of the beloved space saga blasted ahead of the field with…
Sacha Baron Cohen on Trump, Gross-Out Gags and His Shocking New Comedy
If Donald Trump didn’t exist, Sacha Baron Cohen would have had to invent him. Not since the halcyon days of Borat and Brüno has anyone so effectively goaded Americans into revealing the anger and ignorance that burbles just beneath the surface. The frighteningly popular presidential candidate leading a rally in…
‘Deadpool’: Watch Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes Fight Footage
Philip J. Silvera is one of Hollywood’s premiere stunt choreographers, having worked on major projects for film (Iron Man 3), television (Daredevil) and video games (Star Wars: The Old Republic). But his latest gig, coordinating the elaborate fight sequences in Marvel box-office smash Deadpool, turned out to be one of…
Nina Simone’s Daughter Defends Zoe Saldana, Slams Biopic
Lisa Simone Kelly, the daughter of Nina Simone, has defended Zoe Saldana following the backlash stemming from the actress’ appearance in the long-delayed, controversial biopic Nina. However, Simone Kelly, like many members of the Simone family, remained critical of the biopic itself. “It’s unfortunate that Zoe Saldana is being attacked so…
Tony Dyson, Creator of ‘Star Wars” R2-D2, Dead at 68
Tony Dyson, a special effects supervisor and robotics expert who built the iconic R2-D2 droid for the Star Wars franchise, was found dead on the Maltese island of Gozo where he lived. He was 68. An autopsy is being carried out to determine exact cause of death, but investigators said foul play…
London Has Fallen
There should be a term — maybe even a prison term — for hacks who keep making the same junk movie over and over again. How about sucker punchers? Let me illustrate. In 2013’s Olympus Has Fallen, a North Korean paramilitary block invades the White House to capture the President…
Graham Nash: ‘Bernie Sanders Is One of Us’
Even though Hillary Clinton won big over Democratic opponent Bernie Sanders on Super Tuesday, rock legend Graham Nash is encouraging Americans to keep Feeling the Bern. “I want to tell you something about Bernie Sanders. As far as I’m concerned, his campaign has always been about ordinary people, ordinary Americans trying to make…
10 Commandments of Turning ‘Hamilton’ Into a Movie Musical
Hamilton — the Broadway sensation that’s added a long-overdue splash of color to the Great White Way, revitalized America’s origin story, and revolutionized musical theater in the process — is going to be a movie. That’s not a fact, but it’s inevitable: Broadway and Hollywood are becoming more symbiotic by the…
‘Star Wars’ Goes EDM: How Beatmakers Turned Iconic Sound Effects Into Music
The sound design crafted by Ben Burtt and his team for the Star Wars saga is just as iconic and evocative as John Williams’ soaring fanfare. Burtt’s work — spanning from 1977’s A New Hope on through 2015’s multi-billion dollar smash The Force Awakens — is as instantly recognizable as…
The Wave
When you think of disaster movies, you picture the all-star extravaganzas of the 1970s, when a who’s-who of famous faces fought to survive four-alarm fires, flash floods, killer-bee swarms, etc. — essentially a big-screen Love Boat episode with catastrophe sauce drizzled over it. Or you imagine the steroidal post-digital versions…
Morgan Freeman Adds Dramatic Spin to Justin Bieber’s ‘Love Yourself’
There aren’t many voices that are quite as soothing as Morgan Freeman’s. Couple that reassuring tone with Freeman’s reading of lyrics from Justin Bieber’s “Love Yourself” and it gives the tune an interesting, funny interpretation, which was likely not the singer, Ed Sheeran and Benjamin Levin’s original intention for the kiss-off…
Nina Simone Estate Slams Biopic Star Zoe Saldana
The estate of Nina Simone took umbrage with a quote tweeted by actress Zoe Saldana, who will portray the late singer in a controversial, upcoming biopic. Saldana has faced immense criticism over her casting in Nina due to her lack of both singing experience and resemblance to the singer and civil rights activist. She…
‘Force Awakens’ Digital, DVD Release Dates and Bonus Footage Unveiled
Star Wars: The Force Awakens will be available digitally on April 1st, while the special Blu-ray and DVD editions will arrive on April 5th. The DVD and Blu-ray releases will come with a bevy of bonus features, including deleted scenes and a documentary chronicling the making of The Force Awakens that will include interviews with the…
25 Movies We Can’t Wait to See at SXSW 2016
Austin, Texas, is known for a lot of things: breakfast tacos, extraordinary live music, the miraculous disease-curing magical goo that the locals call “queso.” But for film fanatics, the appeal of the Lone Star State’s bastion of wonderful weirdness can be boiled down to one specific thing: the SXSW Film…
Zootopia
The last thing you’d expect from a new Disney animated marshmallow is balls. But, hot damn, Zootopia comes ready to party hard. This baby has attitude, a potent feminist streak, a tough take on racism, and a cinema-centric plot that references The Godfather, Chinatown and L.A. Confidential. The kids, paying…
First ‘Ghostbusters’ Trailer Finds Paranormal Retaking New York
The uproarious first trailer for Ghostbusters, the reboot of the beloved comedy series that now boasts an all-female paranormal-hunting crew, has arrived. As evidenced by the preview, the reboot promises creepy ghosts, retooled proton weapons and plenty of ectoplasm. The film takes place 30 years after the original Ghostbusters team saved…
David Byrne Concert Doc Leads 2016 Tribeca Film Fest Lineup
Robert De Niro’s Tribeca Film Festival, originally cobbled together as a way of helping New York City get back on its feet after 9/11, has slowly grown into one of the film world’s most diverse and expansive annual events. On Thursday, the fest revealed 51 of the 101 features that…
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
WTF is comedy diva Tina Fey doing in Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, a film based on Kim Barker’s memoir about covering the war beat as The Chicago Tribune’s South Asia bureau chief from 2004 to 2009? Barker called her book The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It’s an…
See FIDLAR Reenact Iconic Film Scenes in Hilarious #MatineeMonday Supercut
When garage-rock outfit FIDLAR was gearing up to release 2015’s Too, Ryan Baxley – brother-in-law of singer Zac Carper, director of the group’s music videos and unofficial fifth band member – came up with the idea. He called it “#MatineeMonday”: a weekly series of one-to-15-second-long Instagram videos of the bandmates reenacting scenes from…
Knight of Cups
Beautiful people wander the byways and beaches of Los Angeles, mumbling to themselves while searching for meaning in random encounters, erotic and mystical. No surprise that Knight of Cups is the work of Terrence Malick, a cinema poet whose recent work has shifted from dreamy (The Tree of Life) to…
Watch Adorable New Trailer for Pixar’s ‘Finding Dory’
The forgetful fish who swam away with Finding Nemo back in 2003 is getting a movie of her own this summer, and a new trailer for the upcoming Pixar sequel puts her front and center. A regal blue tang with a famously bad memory, Dory (once again voiced by Ellen…
See Zoe Saldana Channel Nina Simone in Fiery ‘Nina’ Trailer
Zoe Saldana has faced immense criticism over her casting as music legend Nina Simone in the upcoming biopic Nina. But now fans can have a more informed opinion by watching the film’s debut trailer, via Today. Nina follows Simone through her iconic career, focusing on a period of isolation while living in…
Neil Young Talks Filmmaking, New ‘Human Highway’ Restoration
Neil Young is an artist forever looking in two directions. He’s currently focused on the future with his new band Promise of the Real, and also surveying his legacy as musician and filmmaker. It was the latter that brought Young to the Regal Theater in downtown Los Angeles for Monday’s screening of Human…
10 Best Movies and TV Shows To Stream in March
March can be a real bummer when it comes to keeping yourself entertained — good new movies are few and far between, sweeps week is still a few months away, and Hamilton tickets are only getting more expensive. Lucky for us, the new crop of streaming titles is an embarrassment of…
Oscars Ratings Dip to Lowest Mark in Eight Years
Chris Rock’s much anticipated, take-no-prisoners opening monologue, a Lady Gaga performance and the near-certainty of Leonardo DiCaprio’s first Oscar win weren’t enough to boost the Academy Awards’ television ratings as the ceremony witnessed its lowest viewership in eight years. With only 34.3 million viewers, the 88th annual Academy Awards were the…
Aaron Rodgers Clears Up the Great Oscars Girl Scout Cookie Controversy
Sunday night’s Oscars telecast left us with several unanswered questions – like “Who is the guy who won Best Supporting Actor?” or “How is this show four hours long?” – but thankfully, we can now close the book on one great mystery: “Why did Aaron Rodgers buy Savannah Smiles?” For those…
Oscars 2016: 20 Best, Worst and WTF Moments
It was another night of self-congratulating stars, passionate speeches being interrupted by play-’em-off music (“Ride of the Valkyries”? Really???), and several genuine upsets (Rylance over Stallone; Spotlight over The Revenant) — as well as a scorching Oscars monologue that will go down as one for the ages. There were inspirational…
Read Chris Rock’s Hilarious Oscars 2016 Opening Monologue
Instead of boycotting the 2016 Oscars over its lack of nominee diversity, host Chris Rock delivered on his promise to address the #OscarsSoWhite controversy. The comedian delivered a knock-out punch to the Academy from the beginning with his opening monologue, blasting the “White People’s Choice Awards”: “You realize, if they nominated hosts, I wouldn’t…
Oscars 2016: 10 Things We Learned
The movie world’s own collective revenant finally came to an end on Sunday night as the 88th Academy Awards capped off six long months of speculation, soul-searching and social butterflying. Truth be told, it’s been an unusually compelling Oscar season from start to finish: The lack of a frontrunner kept the pundits on…
How Sam Smith Got It Wrong: 11 Notable Out Oscar Winners
Sam Smith stirred up controversy at the 2016 Oscar ceremony when he took to the stage to accept his award for Best Original Song, along with fellow songwriter Jimmy Napes. The British singer misquoted an interview with Sir Ian McKellen earlier this year in which he stated, “No openly gay man has ever won…
Watch Tracy Morgan, Kimmel Star in Fake ‘Creed’ Sequel ‘Clubber’
Clubber Lang Jr. (Tracy Morgan) aims to avenge his father Mr. T’s defeat against Rocky Balboa in Clubber, a fake Creed sequel trailer that aired Sunday night during Jimmy Kimmel Live!’s post-Oscars show. “I’ve been fighting my whole life,” Morgan says in the intro. “Fighting the people who said I…
John Axford Probably Won MLB’s Oscars Pool
You may know John Axford as Major League Baseball’s facial hair MVP, but the Oakland A’s reliever may also be baseball’s biggest movie buff – one who earned his bachelor’s degree in film at Notre Dame and even presented a documentary at the Hamilton Film Festival in November of 2015. Axford…
Jimmy Kimmel Unmasks Batman, Superman in ‘Dawn of Justice’ Deleted Scene
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice served as the centerpiece of Jimmy Kimmel’s post-Oscars special as Ben Affleck sat down to talk about the upcoming blockbuster and premiere a (fake) deleted scene from the film featuring the late-night host. The scene plays on the movie’s out-of-costume confrontation at an art gallery…
Oscars 2016: Why Chris Rock Should Host This Show Every Damn Year
It’s official: Chris Rock needs to host the Oscars every year. The whole idea of other hosts has been tried, and it has failed, from the soul-withering void that was James Franco to the locust plague they call Seth MacFarlane. Why would you ever not call Rock for this gig? Ellen DeGeneres…
Watch Oscars 2016 Host Chris Rock Quiz Compton Theatergoers
Chris Rock’s monologue wasn’t the only part of Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony that took aim at the #OscarsSoWhite controversy — he also starred in a number of different comedy sketches that mocked the lack of diversity among the nominees. The most memorable of those bits followed Rock to a multiplex…
Dave Grohl Plays Touching ‘Blackbird’ Cover at Oscars 2016
Dave Grohl paid tribute to those in the film industry who have passed away in the last year, playing the Beatles’ “Blackbird” over the “In Memoriam” segment. The Foo Fighter gave a spare, acoustic performance of the song, paying tribute to the likes of Wes Craven, Alan Rickman, Leonard Nimoy, Holly Woodlawn,…
Watch Lady Gaga’s Powerful ”Til It Happens to You’ at Oscars 2016
Lady Gaga gave a powerful performance of “Til It Happens to You” from the documentary on campus rape, The Hunting Ground. Gaga and songwriter Diane Warren are nominated for Best Original Song. Gaga appeared from behind a frame and sitting at a piano. She dramatically delivered the ballad that built up…
Oscars 2016: ‘Spotlight,’ ‘The Revenant,’ ‘Mad Max’ Win Big
Epic storytelling and grand cinematic visions won big during a surprisingly edgy, entertaining and often times political Academy Awards ceremony Sunday night. The producers of the investigative-journalism biopic Spotlight took home the Oscar for Best Picture, while director Alejandro G. Iñárritu and actor Leonard DiCaprio earned honors for their contributions…
10 Outrageous Things Heard on Oscars 2016 Red Carpet
“I can see lots of legs.”-Jacob Tremblay on his “perspective” of the red carpet. “I brought you a gift … my face on a cookie. You can eat me.”-Bryan Cranston handing Ryan Seacrest a customized cookie; the latter promptly drops it on the red carpet. “I’m not allowed in banks any more….
Oscars 2016: Photos From the Red Carpet
From Brie Larson to Saoirse Ronan, the women were stunning on Oscars night. The men didn’t disappoint either in their tailored tuxes, with Sylvester Stallone, Mark Ruffalo, Sam Smith and Weeknd all looking dapper. Here’s what they and the rest of the celebrities were wearing on Hollywood’s biggest night.
Oscars 2016: The Complete Winners List
Best Supporting Actor:
Mark Rylance, Bridge of SpiesChristian Bale, The Big Short
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
Sylvester Stallone, Creed Best Supporting Actress
Alicia Vikander, The Danish GirlJennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara, Carol
Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs Best CinematographyThe RevenantCarol
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
Sicario
Best Documentary FeatureAmy
Cartel Land
The Look of Silence
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Winter on Fire:…
Watch Sam Smith’s Dapper Oscars 2016 Performance
Sam Smith gave an elegant performance of “Writing’s on the Wall” from Spectre. Smith and co-writer Jimmy Napes are up for Best Original Song and are both first-time Academy Award nominees. In front of a surreal, constantly changing background, a dapper-looking Smith gave a simple, soaring performance of the ballad. After his…
Watch Chris Rock’s Take-No-Prisoners Oscars 2016 Monologue
The 88th Academy Awards were held in Hollywood on Sunday night, and — as promised — host Chris Rock wasted no time in talking about the elephant in the room. “This year things are going to be a little different at the Oscars,” Rock began his blistering monologue, referencing the #OscarsSoWhite…
Watch ‘Black Actors, White Roles’ in Hilarious Oscars 2016 Bit
Chris Rock’s monologue was one of several moments to spotlight the lack of diversity in Hollywood and the Oscars, which led to an Oscars boycott. In a hilarious montage that illustrated how hard it is for black actors to get crucial parts in films, several actors joined Rock to act in scenes belonging mostly…
Watch the Weeknd’s Sexy ‘Earned It’ Performance at Oscars
The Weeknd brought the music video for single “Earned It” from the movie Fifty Shades of Grey to life during his Oscars performance. The song is nominated for Best Original Song at the 88th Academy Awards. Beneath chandeliers and surrounded by candles, the Weeknd gave a nightclub feel to the glitzy show. A…
‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Dominates 2016 Razzies
Fifty Shades of Grey put on a dominating performance at the 36th annual Razzie Awards – the annual pre-Oscars event that celebrates the worst films of the year – as the cinematic adaptation “won” five Golden Raspberry Awards. The film’s stars Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan were named Worst Actress and Worst…
Weekend Rock Question: What Was the Worst Movie of the Last Year?
The 2016 Oscars are just days away, and while many excellent movies and performances didn’t make the cut, there were many duds that were not even close to consideration. Over the year, there were record-breaking box office lows (We Are Your Friends), terrible sequels (Ted 2) and disappointing continuations of…
Gods of Egypt
Some movies are so effing awful they’re hilarious. Gods of Egypt falls short of that lofty goal. Not because it isn’t effing awful — it so is — but because it pretends to be in on the joke. The actors seem to be cracking up behind they’re caked makeup and…
‘Gifted Hands’: Revisiting the Made-for-TV Ben Carson Biopic
At the end of last night’s Republican presidential debate, Dr. Ben Carson was granted one last opportunity to appeal to voters before the Super Tuesday primaries inevitably force him to suspend his undead campaign. The retired neurosurgeon, whose personal charisma could generously be likened to that of a hung-over DMV…
Inside Rock Legend Fats Domino’s World: Crawfish, Cards, Boogie-Woogie
When a friend of Fats Domino’s invited filmmaker Joe Lauro to hang out at Domino’s New Orleans house in the early 2000s, he knew he had to make a film about the rock & roll architect. More than a decade later, Fats Domino and the Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll will…
15 Best Oscars Lineups of All Time
Arguing about the Academy Awards is as much an American passion as watching the movies they honor. This year’s 88th installment is no exception, and for outside-the-multiplex reasons that go beyond whether The Revenant is better than, say, The Big Short. But some years, Oscar gets it very, very right….
Watch Seth Rogen, Clooney, Emily Blunt Read Mean Tweets on ‘Kimmel’
Jimmy Kimmel Live! revived its celebrity-crushing “Mean Tweets” series on Thursday, letting random Internet trolls get their three seconds of fame in the “Movie Edition.” A variety of A-list stars – from Seth Rogen to Emily Blunt – read mean-spirited and insulting tweets they’ve received. Their hurt feelings is our hilarity. The…
The Official Oscars 2016 Drinking Game Rules
This Sunday, millions of viewers will tune in to watch the 88th annual Academy Awards on ABC, and bask in the sight of Chris Rock skewering Hollywood’s diversity problem, a lilywhite audience laughing while nodding sagely, and beaucoup celebrities thanking God, their agent and their team. We at Rolling Stone,…
Offbeat Oscars: 10 Outside-the-Box Best Picture Winners
The Academy Awards have a well-earned reputation for playing it safe when it comes to picking their Best Picture winners, but there’s no denying that they’ve become a bit less predictable in recent years. Diversifying the kinds of movies they champion (if, frustratingly, not the kinds of people in them),…
Trans Oscar Nominee Anohni on Why She’s Boycotting Academy Awards
The Academy Awards have just erased the silver lining of an awards season that has been rightfully dominated by stories of omission and institutional injustice. Lost in the justifiable furor over #OscarsSoWhite is the fact that a transgender person has received an Academy Award nomination for the first time since songwriter Angela…
20 Stars Who’ve Never Won Oscars
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences may have their origins in self-congratulatory PR (and, if you dig deeper, union-busting) but, by and large, it does a reasonably good job of providing a signal boost for quality films. Brooklyn isn’t going to win anything this year — but more…
Only Yesterday
What we have here is an animation miracle so subtle that it doesn’t fully hit you till you take it home and into your dreams. Isao Takahata’s Only Yesterday, from Studio Ghibli — the company founded by Takahata’s partner in virtuosity Hayao Miyazaki — created a box-office sensation in Japan…
Jessica Chastain, Queen Latifah Form Female-Empowerment Production Company
With the Oscars just around the corner this Sunday and the lack of diversity discussion surrounding the event, a recent study has revealed that through the past 10 years, women represent 19-percent of non-acting nominations. That news makes the formation of We Do It Together production company seem all the more timely. According…
Best Actress Oscar-Winners Since 2000, Ranked Worst to Best
Unless Carol’s Cate Blanchett or Joy’s Jennifer Lawrence wins the Best Actress Oscar Sunday night — either scenario seems unlikely — we will have our 16th different woman take home the Academy Award this century. Unlike the Best Actor champs of the past 15 years, where Sean Penn and Daniel…
Best Actor Oscar-Winners Since 2000, Ranked Worst to Best
On Sunday night, five men will square off at the Academy Awards for Best Actor — only one of them, The Danish Girl’s Eddie Redmayne, having won the Oscar before. This century has seen a wide variety of performers claim this particular prize, everyone from French comic actors to veteran…
Triple 9
Dirty cops. The Russian mob. Superhero masks. Severed heads. A heist gone bloody wrong. Those are just a few of the elements that go into making Triple 9 a crime caper like no other. It helps that the ringmaster of all this whup-ass is John Hillcoat, the Aussie director who…
New York Venue Death by Audio Eulogized in ‘Goodnight Brooklyn’ Trailer
When underground Brooklyn music venue Death By Audio shuttered in November 2014, its demise signaled the end of an era for Williamsburg’s music scene. The space had played an instrumental role in launching bands like A Place to Bury Strangers and Dirty on Purpose and left a hole that may never…
‘Creed’ Director Ryan Coogler Schedules Flint Benefit on Oscar Night
Creed director Ryan Coogler and Selma filmmaker Ava DuVernay will appear at a free benefit helping those affected by the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, scheduled to take place February 28th, hours before the Academy Awards, Buzzfeed reports. Comedian Hannibal Buress will host the #JusticeForFlint event, which is being presented by Coogler’s activist collective, Blackout for Human…
Songwriter Diane Warren on Oscar Chances and Why She Loves Lady Gaga
On Sunday, Diane Warren will be up for her eighth Oscar nomination for her powerful collaboration with Lady Gaga, “Til It Happens to You.” The simple, raw ballad soundtracks director Kirby Dick’s documentary, titled The Hunting Ground, that explores rape on college campuses in the United States. For Warren, this could be…
20 Greatest ‘Best Song’ Oscar Performances
A prepubescent King of Pop, singing a love song to a rat; a Southern rap trio, paying tribute to the trials and tribulations of being in “the game”; a Canadian chart-topping superstar crooning hard enough to shatter glass chandeliers; a Portland, Oregon indie troubadour gently singing his way through an…
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