Before contemplating the mind-bending Hollywood notion of bikini-clad Hispanic shiksa goddess Cameron Diaz playing a Jewish granddaughter surrounded by elderly Miami shuffleboard mavens in the learn-and-hug comedy In Her Shoes, let us pause to salute the familiar sight of scarf-draped Shirley MacLaine playing a mother — in this case also a grandmother — who’s far from sure that the whole maternal route is for her. MacLaine’s alpha Golden Girl Ella Hirsch may hail, nominally, from a culture of chopped liver, but the character is related to every tough, nonsectarian, drive-your-daughter-crazy bird the actress has played from Terms of Endearment to Bewitched.
It used to be that when an actress took on a role for cred (remember Jessica Lange in ”Country”?), she did all that she could to tone down her glamour. Yet watching Meg Ryan in the swankily dank erotic thriller In the Cut, it’s a challenge, truly, to fixate on anything past her hair. Ryan, cast as a morose English teacher who is scared of everything that attracts her, wears her locks in a severely straight, reddish-brown helmet (think Heidi Klum meets Annie Hall), and her pixie features all but disappear beneath that stylish intellectual mop.
In 2004, when playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes was first paired with Lin-Manuel Miranda to develop the musical In the Heights, they talked of how they both had parents who came from Puerto Rico and built a community on the mainland, through political advocacy and quite literally (Hudes' father is a contractor). But, she tells EW, "Lin and I didn't have any of those skills. So it's like, Well, what are we building?
“Parenting is a heroic act” in the latest TV spot for Pixar’s Incredibles 2, which debuted new footage during Wednesday night’s Olympics coverage on NBC. Writer-director Brad Bird (who also voices the devastatingly fashionable Edna Mode) returns for the sequel, which picks up immediately after the original 2004 film. The new movie centers on Holly Hunter’s Helen (a.k.a. Elastigirl), as she finds herself in the middle of a “campaign to bring Supers back into the spotlight.
There were a few incarnations of Obi-Wan Kenobi before becoming the final product that is now unfurling on screens on Disney+. Originally, the story was conceived as a standalone film in the same vein as Solo: A Star Wars Story, to be directed by Stephen Daldry and written by Hossein Amini. But after Disney+ was launched, the plan shifted in 2019 toward making a series for the new streaming platform, with Deborah Chow announced as the new director.
There's a certain "Hotel California"-ness to most house horror that can get a little exhausting. If they can check out anytime they like, why do these hapless, terrorized characters never leave? (Or for the love of Airbnb, just take a long weekend.) Director David Bruckner's uncanny mood piece The Night House (in theaters Friday) at least gives its heartbroken protagonist, Beth (Rebecca Hall), a compelling reason to stay: The bucolic upstate lake home that most of the movie takes place in was built by her late architect husband, Owen (Evan Jonigkeit).
Potent truths are contained within Amanda Seales‘ Small Doses. We can promise that much about the stand-up comic and Insecure star’s new book, which blends academic intellectualism, black American colloquialisms, and pop culture fanaticism for a one-of-a-kind read. Small Doses, whose title is drawn from the author’s podcast of the same name, marks just the latest project for Seales, who also just announced summer dates for her hit comedy game show, Smart Funny & Black: U Kno The Vibeonics: 101 Tour.
In February of 2015, a year and a half after Breaking Bad drove off into the night, Better Call Saul returned to the scene of the crime—the high-altitude desert of sunbaked, meth-encrusted Albuquerque, N.M.—to unspool the off-kilter origin story of Breaking Bad's unscrupulous lawyer Saul Goodman. A half-decade later, AMC's prequel spin-off has dug out at a nifty niche of its own, captivating fans and capturing Emmy nominations for Outstanding Drama Series (and for Bob Odenkirk) in each of its first four seasons.
David Hornsby’s reaction to being asked to preside over the marriage of his wife, Emily Deschanel, to another man is probably not what you’d expect it to be. One reason is probably because the marriage is going to take place in the world of fiction. Another? He seems to be as big of a fan of Booth (David Boreanaz) and Brennan (Deschanel) as the rest of us! In an exclusive behind the scenes video interview, Hornsby (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) talks about how he jumped at the chance to take part in the long-awaited Bones and Booth wedding, airing Oct.
Warning: This article contains major spoilers from the House of the Dragon season 2 premiere, "A Son for a Son." For more than a year, actors Sam C. Wilson and Mark Stobbart couldn't tell anyone that they landed roles on House of the Dragon season 2. That was by design. Their characters, Blood and Cheese, are involved in one of the most tragic events to befall any character from the world of Game of Thrones, the assassination and beheading of 6-year-old Prince Jaehaerys Targaryen.