No one was expecting Nadav Lapid to hold back in his first feature since the events of October 7, 2023: The Israeli filmmaker has long been cinema’s most vigorously expressive and outspoken critic of government policy in his birth country, with films like 2019’s “Synonyms”
Just when you think coming-of-age animated series “Big Mouth” on Netflix couldn’t be any raunchier, co-creator and star Nick Kroll reveals the time that he and his cohorts realized they probably went too far. “Maury [Kroll] was allowed to have sex with the decapitated skull
French President Emmanuel Macron wasn’t kidding when he told Variety the country would fight to get “Emily in Paris” back to France after the hit Netflix show’s Roman escapade. Netflix boss Ted Sarandos was one of the few top U.S. players invited by Macron to
Forget Cannes. Some of the most high-wattage star power this week has been on the Madison Square Garden sidelines. Since the NBA Playoffs kicked off earlier this month, celebrities such as Timothee Chalamet, Ben Stiller and Spike Lee have made MSG their home to cheer
Kelly Reichardt’s latest film “The Mastermind,” starring Josh O’Connor as an art thief on the run, earned a 5.5-minute standing ovation at its Cannes premiere on Friday night. Reichardt’s subdued, ‘70s-set movie was essentially a one-man show for O’Connor, with him appearing in nearly every
The Cannes Film Festival’s second-most prestigious competition, Un Certain Regard, is typically dominated by newer, less heralded names in world cinema. But there’s more star power than usual at stake in this year’s awards ceremony, as pundits wonder whether one of the three debut features
“The Wheel of Time” has been canceled after three seasons at Amazon Prime Video. The fantasy series, based on the book series of the same name by Robert Jordan, starred Rosamund Pike, Daniel Henney, Josha Stradowski, Zoë Robins, Madeleine Madden, Marcus Rutherford, Dónal Finn, Ceara
Peak TV may be over, but it’s still Peak FYC for quite a few players both in front of and behind the camera. Because we’re no longer in the era of 22-episode seasons — once the rule, now the exception — the idea of exclusivity