Late in the first season of the Netflix animated comedy “Mating Season,” the protagonists — beta bear Josh (Zach Woods), randy raccoon Ray (Nick Kroll), Sapphic fox Penelope (Sabrina Jalees) and single deer Fawn (June Diane Raphael) — gather on the couch to watch “MiceFlix.” (Is the concept even a feeble attempt at a pun? No! […]
Sompot Chidgasornpongse spent more than two decades as assistant director to Apichatpong Weerasethakul, working on films including “Tropical Malady,” “Syndromes and a Century,” “Cemetery of Splendour” and “Memoria.” Now he is at Cannes with a feature of his own: “9 Temples to Heaven,” an ensemble drama about a Thai family’s one-day pilgrimage to nine temples, […]
“My Dearest Stranger,” the Chinese crime-mystery romance series that has accumulated more than 270 million views on Youku since its February premiere, has closed distribution agreements covering Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Macao, along with a worldwide airline rights deal. Handled internationally by Hishow Entertainment, the series ranked No. 1 across multiple daily charts during […]
The final “Late Show” episode ever tried to just be a normal “Late Show” episode, until it couldn’t. Host Stephen Colbert — in an impossible position since his firing was announced last July, nearly a year before his final episode was to air — creditably did a full-jokes monologue, and then kept telling jokes at […]
The group of lads at the center of Clio Barnard’s “I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning” dance their way through addiction, housing precarity, class tensions and good old romantic betrayal. In theory, the British director’s fifth feature — premiered in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes — is a film of big, bubbling emotions and anti-capitalist rage. […]
Hamaguchi Ryusuke watched the standing ovation after the Cannes premiere of “All of a Sudden” with a degree of caution. He is not, he says, someone who takes ovations entirely at face value. “I also know that a standing ovation is kind of a tradition here,” he tells Variety. “I don’t know how seriously I’m […]
Paul McCartney, a surprise guest on the final episode of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” provided a poignant capper to the series by being given the ceremonial honor of turning out the lights in the Ed Sullivan Theater, a location with which he has plenty of history. The final number had McCartney and Colbert […]
Search the Ed Sullivan Theater on Google Maps and the address will auto-correct to: The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Broadway, New York, NY. For 33 years, CBS’ flagship late-night talk show has been synonymous with the historic performing arts venue (that’s more than a decade before Google Maps first debuted on BlackBerry devices). But […]
Antonio Aakeel, whose turn as Hassan Ahmed in Apple TV+’s “Slow Horses” brought him international recognition, has wrapped his first short film as a director. “Lessons in Pretending,” which Aakeel also wrote and stars in, is a darkly comic drama examining fame, shame and the performance of public redemption. The film follows Arun Khan, a […]
At a time when laws change daily to restrict women’s bodily autonomy, protect men from accountability and reinstate antiquated values that benefit a few at the expense of the many, sexual politics can feel more regressive than ever. But as uneven a playing field as women may face against men in their lives, relationships and […]
Although Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt are close collaborators, they allegedly had one moment where they disagreed while filming 2019’s “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood.” The anecdote comes via co-star Bruce Dern, who spoke with People while celebrating a new documentary about him debuting at Cannes Film Festival named “Dernsie.” A “Dernsie” is the […]
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the Season 5 finale of CBS’ “Ghosts,” streaming on Paramount+ as of May 22. Is that it for Pete? The fan favorite “Ghosts” character vanished — seemingly for good — at the end of Thursday’s two-part Season 5 finale, and star Richie Moriarty is wondering the same thing. Moriarty, […]
