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'Gold' Review: Matthew McConaughey Shines in Twisted-Up Tale of American Greed
11 hours ago
Matthew McConaughey dives into his role as mad-dog prospector Kenny Wells like a starving man sitting down to a feast. As a movie, Gold is slim pickings. But McConaughey keeps you riveted. Based loosely on a 1990's gold-mining scandal involving John Felderhof, who partnered with a Filipino geologist Michael de Guzman to mine a mineral fortune in the Indonesian jungles, the movie changes names and dates and messes with the facts at will. Why? Director Steve Gaghan (Syriana) and screenwriters Patrick Massett and John Zinman (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider) apparently »
Michael Mann on Political New 'Ali' Cut: 'He Was a Symbol of Resistance'
13 hours ago
When Muhammad Ali passed away on June 4th, 2016, those who knew him, admired him, fought him and loved him attested to his singular skill as a boxer, his fleet footwork and his way with words (especially of the trash-talking variety). What was often emphasized the most in these tributes, however, was how Ali was as much a political firebrand as a gamechanging pugilist – both the 20th century's consummate athlete and a social activist willing to sacrifice his career by standing up for what he believed. This was the heavyweight champion »
Univision, Netflix 'El Chapo' Series Sets April Premiere
14 hours ago
A new scripted series about the life of the notorious drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán will premiere on Univision in April.
Univision's Story House production company and Netflix developed the drama. "This series pulls back the curtain on one of the most captivating criminals of our time by combining the world-class reporting and insights from Univision News' investigative team with an outstanding team of talented storytellers and producers," said Camila Jiménez Villa, president and chief content officer at Fusion Media Group, which oversees Univision Story House.
Netflix and Univision announced El Chapo last May, »
Shia Labeouf Charged With Assault, Harassment Violation
16 hours ago
Update: Shia Labeouf was charged with misdemeanor assault and a harassment violation after a fight occurred at his anti-Trump art piece in Queens, according to New York Police Department spokesman Sgt. Thomas Antonetti via CNN. The 30-year-old actor was arrested and released on Thursday, according to Det. Christopher Pisano.
According to police, the fight occurred around 12:30 a.m. at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens. A "shouting match" reportedly broke out between two groups and Labeouf allegedly ripped off the scarf of a 25-year-old man, scratching him the process, »
How Mary Tyler Moore Changed the Female TV Hero
17 hours ago
The top three rated American shows of the 1969-1970 television season were, in order, Laugh-In, a ribald comedy show in which women were basically bikini-wearing furniture, and Gunsmoke and Bonanza, two cowboy shows in which tumbleweeds outnumbered female characters. Into this less-than-encouraging landscape, The Mary Tyler Moore Show was dropped into the CBS Saturday night line-up in September 1970 as if from a great height. Here was an utterly new character, defined in the pilot episode by her spunkiness. She was neither wife nor mother, sister nor daughter – she was the »
Dick Van Dyke on Mary Tyler Moore: 'She Was Just the Best'
17 hours ago
Dick Van Dyke paid tribute to Mary Tyler Moore, who died this week at age 80, in an interview on Wednesday with The Hollywood Reporter. "I got to be on hand and watch her grow into the talent she became," the 91-year-old actor recalled. "She was just the best."
Van Dyke remembered Moore as a quick study and a natural comedian. Moore was cast as Laura Petrie, the wife of Van Dyke's character Rob on The Dick Van Dyke Show, when she was just 23 years old. "I don’t know what »
Watch Samantha Bee Celebrate Women's March With Viral 'Quiet' Choir
18 hours ago
Samantha Bee celebrated the massive Women's Marches that followed President Trump's inauguration with a performance from the viral #ICantKeepQuiet choir.
Prior to the performance, Bee giddily recapped Trump's obsession with his tiny inauguration, the "Fox News-approved talking point" that the marches only took place in coastal cities and offered a blunt answer to conservative confusion over why the protests were held in the first place.
"Our executive branch is in the hands of a septuagenarian size queen and a corn-fed fertility cultist who calls his wife 'mother,'" Bee cracked. »
Jay Z at Sundance: New 'Kalief Browder' Series Will 'Save a Lot of Lives'
19 hours ago
Jay Z was at the Sundance Film Festival this week promoting an upcoming six-part docuseries, Time: The Kalief Browder Story, which he produced. "I believe this young man, his story, will save a lot of lives," Jay Z told the Associated Press on Wednesday.
The Kalief Browder Story, slated to debut in March on Spike TV, focuses on a 16-year-old boy held at Rikers Island for three years without trial after being accused of stealing a backpack. Two of those years were spent in solitary confinement. Browder was eventually released and later committed suicide. »
Hail Mary: Why Mary Tyler Moore Was the Greatest
25 January 2017 3:15 PM, PST
The most unforgettable moment from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, out of dozens of contenders: Mary sits at the bar with her newsroom co-workers, drinking their sorrows away. They've had a grim day – her cranky boss Lou Grant just attended his ex-wife's wedding, while he's still reeling from the divorce, so the others tagged along for moral support. Pompous anchorman Ted Baxter tries to lighten the mood with a knock-knock joke. Lou growls, "Ted, this better be a pretty funny knock-knock joke. I lost a wife today." It's a godawful joke. »
Mary Tyler Moore: America's Sweetheart Goes All the Way
25 January 2017 12:41 PM, PST
This story originally appeared as the cover story in Issue 330, November 13th, 1980.
It's eight o'clock and everyone's here... well, almost everyone. There's Carl Reiner, and there's Gavin MacLeod, and there's Betty White and Allen Ludden. They're all here, in this awkward white screening room up four flights of stairs and down a winding hallway deep in the bowels of Paramount Studios. It's a hybrid crowd – TV people and movie people, performers and people from behind the scenes, chorus girls and choreographers, even a few who are just regular people with »
Mary Tyler Moore Dead at 80
25 January 2017 12:18 PM, PST
Mary Tyler Moore, the Emmy-winning sitcom star and Oscar-nominated actress best known for her role in The Mary Tyler Moore Show and the 1980 movie Ordinary People, died on Wednesday in Connecticut. Moore's publicist, Mara Buxbaum, confirmed the star's death to the Associated Press. "Today, beloved icon Mary Tyler Moore passed away at the age of 80 in the company of friends and her loving husband of over 33 years, Dr. S. Robert Levine," Buxbaum said in a statement. The cause of death was cardiopulmonary arrest due to pneumonia, according to The New York Times. »
Read Dan Aykroyd's Moving, Funny Tribute to Carrie Fisher
25 January 2017 8:51 AM, PST
Dan Aykroyd remembered Carrie Fisher as "one of the most brilliant and hilarious minds of our eon" in a tribute that appeared in the March issue of Empire. "I grew up as a simple Catholic kid ... so you can imagine how much of a privilege and honor it was for me to have known this one-off, broke-the-mold woman as a great friend," he wrote.
Much of his eulogy focused on amusing memories from the period when he and Fisher were romantically involved. "[S]he gave me a Donald Roller Wilson oil »
Watch Mike Myers, Jimmy Fallon Stage Goofy Canada v. U.S. Dance-Off
25 January 2017 6:50 AM, PST
Mike Myers and Jimmy Fallon staged a wacky dance-off on 'The Tonight Show,' with each representing their home countries (Canada and the United States, respectively). But there was a twist. The comedians took turns rolling a massive dice with crazy names they had to improvise dances around.
Myers rolled the name "Perpetual Motion," which he interpreted with an Austin Powers-like flair of swinging Sixties hand gestures. Fallon rolled, "Which Pocket Did I Put My Keys In?," and did a rhythmic version of a security pat-down.
Telling his rival »
Megan Mullally Talks 'Top Secret' 'Will & Grace' Episode, Show Revival
25 January 2017 5:37 AM, PST
In 2012, in the midst of a North Carolina ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriage in the state, then-Vice President Joe Biden went on Meet the Press to discuss the bill. "I think Will & Grace probably did more to educate the American public than almost anything anybody has ever done," he told host David Gregory. At the time, the show had been off the air for six years, yet remained a cultural landmark for its depiction of openly gay characters to a nationwide audience not yet accustomed to hearing lines like, »
Hacker Sentenced to Nine Months for Stealing Celebrity Nude Photos
24 January 2017 4:58 PM, PST
One of three men convicted of hacking the electronic accounts of celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton, which led to a massive leak of private information and nude photographs, was sentenced to nine months in prison, the Chicago Tribune reports.
Chicago resident Edward Majerczyk pleaded guilty in federal court last year to one count of unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information. Along with prison time, he was ordered to pay $5,700 in restitution to cover half the bill for counseling services obtained by a victim whose photographs were spread online. »
Sundance 2017: Grateful Dead Doc 'Long Strange Trip' Is Heartbreaking Tribute
24 January 2017 11:52 AM, PST
You could argue that most folks – or at least those who'd care enough to nab tickets to a documentary about the Grateful Dead – already know the band's story backwards and forwards. They can tell you that Jerry Garcia started out as a boho banjo player in a jug band, and that he enlisted avant-composer Phil Lesh, fresh-faced folkie Bob Weir, blues aficionado Ron "Pigpen" McKernan and drummer Bill Kreutzmann to form a band. They'll tell you about the acid tests and becoming the San Francisco scene's poster boys. They'll chart »
Watch Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Scorch Trump's Inauguration
24 January 2017 9:30 AM, PST
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog ventured to Washington D.C. for Donald Trump's inauguration, braving the scattered crowds and skewering the "inspiring mass of overweight, over-aged, predominately white humanity" on Conan Monday.
Robert Smigel's cigar-smoking puppet unleashed a flood of vicious burns, offering the crowd extra tickets to sit in the anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim sections. "I have a lot in common with Trump, actually – the only difference is the hand up my ass isn't Vladimir Putin's," he said.
Elsewhere, Triumph handed out alternative "Make America Great Again" hats with fresh slogans like, »
2017 Oscars: Breaking Down 13 Major Snubs
24 January 2017 9:03 AM, PST
Awards obsessives spend months speculating, tracking patterns, tuning in to the yay-or-nay buzz, consulting and re-consulting our tea leaves – but at the end of the day, nobody knows anything except the person holding that little envelope. Months of prognostication were upended this morning when the nominations for the 89th annual Academy Awards were finally announced (the telecast runs Sunday, February 26th), sending the internet into a tizzy of insta-analysis over the shocks, surprises ... and of course, the snubs.
With 2016 yielding a bumper crop of excellent films and performances, some perfectly »
2017 Oscars: 5 Things We Learned From the Academy Awards Nominations
24 January 2017 6:57 AM, PST
To quote American statesman Ron Swanson, "Awards are stupid, but they'd be less stupid if they went to the right person." The Oscars are far from a referendum on a movie's worth, and are much more reflective of the climate of Hollywood opinion than the actual quality of the nominees. But in that respect, we can still learn a lot about how the people making movies see themselves by looking at the big picture of Best Picture.
Anyone who's been playing armchair industry-insider over the past few weeks got a »
Oscars 2017: Sting, Timberlake, 'La La Land,' 'Moana' Vie for Best Song
24 January 2017 6:29 AM, PST
When the Oscars announced the 2017 nominations on Tuesday, La La Land garnered 14 nominations, matching the record held by James Cameron's 1990s juggernaut Titanic. Two of those 14 went to Justin Hurwitz's music in the Best Original Song category. But Hurwitz will be competing with heavy hitters, with the other nominees either voiced or written by proven pop stars: Alessia Cara, who recorded a Lin-Manuel Miranda composition, "How Far I'll Go," for Moana; Sting, who co-wrote "The Empty Chair" with J. Ralph for Jim: The James Foley Story; and Justin Timberlake, »
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