Dominic West (“The Crown”), John Cleese (“A Fish Called Wanda”) and Portia de Rossi (“Arrested Development”) have joined Jeff Daniels in “The Reception,” Trudie Styler’s ensemble comedy. Beta Cinema is launching international sales on the project at the American Film Market, which kicks off Nov. 10. CAA is representing domestic rights. The cast also includes […]
It was so refreshing to hear Aaron Sorkin admit he was bad at parts of directing after his movie flop. If only others could be as frank By most accounts, Aaron Sorkin’s new film The Social Reckoning , a follow-up to his 2010 smash-hit The Social Network, is a flop. The film critic Mark Kermode’s response to seeing it was that Sorkin, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest living screenwriters, is “not a great director”. It seems that Sorkin agrees. Because Sorkin is very famous, he has had to do the rounds talking about the film in the media, which led to his appearance on the Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast earlier this week , in which he addressed these kinds of criticisms head on. “I’m very worried that the parts of directing that I’m not good at are those parts that you can’t learn,” he said. “In addition to having absorbed none of the science of filmmaking, I have – and this is a problem in a visual medium – I have no visual sensibility at all, it turns out.” Imogen West-Knights is a writer and journalist Continue reading...
Ski mountaineers Jimmy Chin and Jim Morrison are going to great lengths – and heights – to spread the word about the National Geographic documentary Everest: The Other Side. The pair ascended to the top of a 12-story building on the Sunset strip in West Hollywood, CA Friday evening and successfully repelled down the side. […]
Ski mountaineers Jimmy Chin and Jim Morrison are going to great lengths – and heights – to spread the word about the National Geographic documentary Everest: The Other Side. The pair ascended to the top of a 12-story building on the Sunset strip in West Hollywood, CA Friday evening and successfully rappelled down the side. […]
Halloween and Hollywood go hand in hand, especially given that most costumes draw inspiration from entertainment. From iconic movie characters to musicians to pop culture phenomena, the costume references are endless. But celebrities don’t just provide the rest of the world with some of the best costume inspiration; they also give some of the year’s […]
Ye's daughter has been proving that she's talented and talked about some of her skills in a recent interview.
Kim Kardashian's White House meetings, Kanye West coparenting struggles and Kris Jenner's affair are explored in "Citizen Kim" by Jonathan Van Meter.
Thirty-three months after it was announced, the grime legend’s new album is coming out. He explains how skinheads, fatherhood and rap history came to bear on its socially conscious contents ‘I can’t be perfect,” Skepta says, pulling a black Arc’tyrex beanie down over a furrowed brow with both hands. “But I can be conscious.” The self-proclaimed king of grime has always been a serious person, wary of fools and time-wasters. Focus is important to him, perhaps because he’s often multitasking: balancing his music career, his fashion label Mains, film-making and acting (his debut short, Tribal Mark, came out in 2024), his Big Smoke festival and a house music project, Más Tiempo. He coordinates them all from the scruffy but functional studio in London’s West End where we meet. At one point, he picks up a Rubik’s Cube from the cluttered coffee table, and, over the course of five minutes of conversation, solves it. “This album has been winding me up,” he admits, referring to The Fork and Knife, which is out next week, 33 months after it was first announced. “But I think I’ve actually made something here that is what the people want from me.” Continue reading...
Vivian Beaumont theater, New York City Unconvincing performances and an ill-fitting big stage make a retooled version of the classic courtroom drama feel like a missed opportunity Given the current state of the US military brass, it makes some sense that audiences would want to drift back to an older, nobler idea of the armed services, in which bad actors exist but are rooted out by the good guys in uniform. That perhaps explains the Broadway revival of A Few Good Men, Aaron Sorkin’s 1989 courtroom drama about a cocky military attorney defending two young marines who followed an illegal order with fatal results. The play is at once sharp and misty-eyed, critiquing a hallowed institution while reverently imbuing it with a certain dignity – in some ways, it does for the military what Sorkin’s The West Wing did for the Oval Office. A Few Good Men was turned into a hit Oscar-nominated film in 1992, starring a then boyish Tom Cruise in the role of recalcitrant navy lawyer Daniel Kaffee and a frightening Jack Nicholson as Kaffee’s ultimate enemy, Colonel Jessep, the hardliner in command of the US military base at Guantánamo Bay, where a marine has died under troubling circumstances. Directed by Rob Reiner, the film is a clever, old-fashioned crowd pleaser, culminating in a classic trial scene punctuated by the line. “You can’t handle the truth!”, Jessep memorably bellows at Kaffee just before confessing to his misdeeds. Those in search of crackling drama and sentimentality about the military should just watch that film, rather than plunking down a considerable sum of money to see the play in its current form at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont theater. Continue reading...
