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‘Good God, It Was Fun!’ Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, Dick Van Dyke, and more legends of Broadway reprise their most memorable characters.
The Kinkiest Show on TV The new FX series Dying for Sex stars Michelle Williams as a stage 4 cancer patient on a frantic quest to figure out what turns her on.
How Val Kilmer Saw Val Kilmer “You don’t decide if you’re going to be vulnerable and honest,” the late actor said while discussing his 2021 doc, Val . “You just simply are.”
A Night Out With the Strippers of Sean Baker’s Anora The breakout stars reflect on making it in Hollywood “not in spite of being a sex worker but because of it.”
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Amy Irving Answers Every Question We Have About Crossing Delancey The Jewish rom-com is finally joining the Criterion Collection, and according to Irving, “Peter and I have thought of sequels.”
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‘What Do I Do With This Grief?’ The owner of Laura Palmer’s house has been comforting David Lynch fans for years. She has no plans of stopping.
‘I’d Better Watch Out or I’m Gonna Fall in Love With This Guy’ Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes reflect on 30 years of sharing scenes, frustrations, wine bottles, and hotel-room walls.
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Lindsay Lohan Is Basically a Good Actor Again Netflix’s Our Little Secret is the perfect stepping stone for her to start doing real movies again. I turned it off thinking, She’s ready.
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Some Unsolicited Ideas for Ariana Grande’s Next Movie Nobody is doing it like Ariana in Wicked, and accordingly, we must invent some new projects for her.
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‘We’re All Going to Die, and I Think About It a Lot’ His Three Daughters star Elizabeth Olsen on why she keeps doing movies about grief and dying and why she’s decided, “Marvel, done.”
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The Substance Is Disgusting, Twisted, and Instantly DivisiveThe graphic body-horror film starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley is lighting up debate at Cannes.
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Welcome to New MILF Cinema 2024 is the year of onscreen moms climbing atop a youthful stud and running off into the sunset.
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Was Josh Hartnett a Millennial Gay Stepping-Stone? An Investigation. In Happiest Season , Clea DuVall shouts out to Hartnett, who perhaps unintentionally helped millions* of young women along on their queer journeys.
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Judith Godrèche Breaks Open France’s Moi Aussi Movement at Cannes “They wish I would fall, I’d make a mistake. Once you are someone who is a whistleblower about sexual violence, you need to be perfect.”
Yorgos Lanthimos and Jesse Plemmons Love Their Filmmaking Cult And their new movie Kinds of Kindness, an anthology of abject debasement starring fellow cult members Margaret Qualley and Willem Dafoe.
Emilia Pérez Is the Breakout Movie of Cannes 2024Zoe Saldaña and Karla Sofía Gascón on making the Jacques Audiard film that’s taking this year’s festival by storm.
Franz Rogowski Explains Bird ’s ‘Fantasy of a Naked Man Standing on a Skyscraper’ The actor sat down at Cannes to talk nude spas, fame, and his dreamlike character in Andrea Arnold’s new film.
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Anya Taylor-Joy Says It ‘Doesn’t Make Any Sense How Safe Furiosa Was’ “Every day we all wake up, especially George, with the reality that we could injure or kill somebody,” said the film’s producer at Cannes.
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Greta Gerwig’s Cannes Jury Faces Tense Questions on Opening Day About France’s fledgling Me Too movement, a seasonal-workers’ strike, and the horrific conditions in Gaza.
What’s at Cannes? Furiosa , Francis Ford Coppola, Sebastian Stan As Donald Trump. This year’s Cannes Film Festival is filled with big-name auteurs, big-name stars, and visions of doom.
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‘Making a Movie About Religion Feels Dangerous Right Now’ Ethan and Maya Hawke discuss closet Christians, American sins, and making a film about faith.
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‘It Made Me Believe That Love Wasn’t Real Anymore. And I Puked.’ Swifties on Cornelia Street took the Joe Alwyn breakup news as well as you’d expect.
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Irish Wish Is a Crypto-Fascist, AI-Generated Harbinger of DoomNetflix’s latest Lindsay Lohan vehicle is cluttered with right-wing dog whistles and ChatGPT-like dialogue.
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‘I Thought Oppenheimer Was Mediocre’ What I saw, overheard, and swallowed behind the scenes at the 2024 Oscars.
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‘We Suck. And We Know It. So We Keep Trying.’ Best Actress Oscar Winner Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos explain what makes collaborations like Poor Things work so well.
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An Attempt to Make Sense of the Jennifer Lopez Wedding Industrial-Complex Canon The JLOWICC is a complex universe filled with dead mothers, worried best friends, sad dinners, and machetes.
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The Crying Game How do actors learn to sob on cue? And can I? Oprah’s acting coach, a soap star, a famous clown-class graduate, and others explain.
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Ex-Lovers Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel, Reunited Twenty years after their breakup, the Taste of Things co-stars laugh, argue, and remember why they fell in love.
Emma Stone Has Created One of Cinema’s Most Shamelessly Sexual Characters Her character in Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest movie is her best role yet, one that is primed to earn her another Oscar nomination.
Whither Timothée Chalamet’s Bleu de Chanel Commercial? Like all great mysteries, the case of Martin Scorsese’s conspicuously missing perfume ad begins in ancient Mesopotamia.
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All Your Burning Questions About The Curse , Answered What the hell is this show? Who’s cursed? And what is going on with Benny Safdie’s wig?
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Pedro Almodóvar Can’t Talk About His New Movie (But It Will Be About Death) The director says he is following up his gay-cowboy short with a mysterious film “about two women in a very intimate situation.”
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