Ruth Bader Ginsburg — the Notorious RBG to those who cheer her 25 years of defiantly independent thinking on the Supreme Court — sure as hell deserves a biopic. At 85, the jurist is such a cultural icon that she’s portrayed by Kate McKinnon on SNL as a ball of …
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Our first real glimpse of the fourth Men in Black film comes in the form of a new trailer for Men In Black: International, which stars Chris Hemsworth, Liam Neeson and Tessa Thompson as the sunglasses-wearing defenders of the galaxy. In the clip, Thompson and Hemsworth, reuniting after co-starring in …
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Sebastián Silva’s scathing, scorched-earth take on bro culture,code-switching and how best buddies double as bitter underminers kicks off with a mistake. Two guys are pushing their car down an upstate New York road, shooting the shit. One of them is waiting for his friends to come along and get them, …
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“The jungle is eternal,” purrs a panther — the second most charismatic black panther to hit screens in 2018, for those of you keeping count — to his “little brother,” a boy with limpid eyes and long back hair. This large, nurturing feline is referring to the home that provides …
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Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of Nickelodeon’s long-running hit cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants, died Monday after a battle with ALS, Variety reports. He was 57. Hillenburg revealed his ALS diagnosis last year. In a statement, Nickelodeon confirmed his death, saying, “Steve imbued SpongeBob SquarePants with a unique sense of humor and innocence …
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Matt Damon, Jason Momoa and Claire Foy will host Saturday Night Live’s final three episodes of 2018, NBC announced. Foy, who stars opposite Ryan Gosling’s Neil Armstrong in Damien Chazelle’s biopic drama First Man, will appear during the show’s return episode on December 1st – which follows a Thanksgiving break. …
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There are heist movies — and then there are heist movies directed by Steve McQueen, the incomparable artist behind 12 Years a Slave. Is the Oscar-winner slumming? Hardly. In Widows, about four Chicago women out to finish a robbery that their dead husbands barely started, the filmmaker brings everything he …
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One of President Trump’s key campaign promises was to “drain the swamp” of government corruption and bureaucracy – but as John Oliver argued on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, he’s instead “drained the phrase of its original meaning.” The comedian spotlighted several of the key “swamp creatures” from Trump’s cabinet, including …
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Sacha Baron Cohen revived his Borat character on Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday for a segment that featured the Kazakhstani journalist interviewing unsuspecting voters and meddling with the midterm elections. While canvassing a neighborhood, Borat learns that women can vote and discusses the Trump administration’s border separation policy. “We hear the …
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In the build-up to Tuesday’s midterm election, President Trump has used immigration as a key talking point. He’s repeatedly demonized the Central American immigrant caravan, stating in a recent press conference that “[doesn’t] want them in our country” — and he’s even threatened to end birthright citizenship and send 15,000 …
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