‘The Bachelor’ Finale: Did Grant Find Love With Litia or Juliana?

SPOILER ALERT: The following recap contains spoilers for the finale of “The Bachelorette” Season 29. Nights like this don’t come around too often… That lyric, from the chorus of “The Bachelor” star Grant Ellis’ hip-hop single “Party Girl,” also applies to Monday night’s finale. Throughout Season

Colleen Hoover’s ‘Verity’ With Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson Sets May 2026 Theatrical Release

Amazon MGM Studios’ film adaptation of the Colleen Hoover-penned psychological thriller “Verity” will be released wide in theaters on May 15, 2026. Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, Josh Hartnett, Ismael Cruz Cordóva and Brady Wagner star in the movie from director Michael Showalter. The current script

‘The Last of Us’ Star Pedro Pascal on the Season 2 Time Jump and Why It’s Hard to ‘Separate What the Characters Are Going Through’

In the upcoming second season of “The Last of Us,” the brotherly bond between Pedro Pascal’s Joel and Gabriel Luna’s Tommy continues to be a significant relationship that grounds the characters amidst the surrounding apocalyptic horror. During a press conference moderated by Variety‘s Jazz Tangcay

Judge Dismisses Five Charges Against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ in $30 Million Sexual Assault Lawsuit

A judge has granted and denied charges brought against Sean “Diddy” Combs in a $30 million lawsuit from former producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones alleging sexual assault. Jones initially filed his suit against Combs in New York in Feb. 2024, stating that Combs made unwanted

‘Winter in Sokcho’ Review: A Small Town Woman Fixates on a Visiting Artist in Koya Kamura’s Thoughtful Adaptation

Seeing oneself through someone else’s eyes can be illuminating, but it can also be quite intoxicating — especially when said eyes belong to an artist eager to look at everything around him as fodder for his own artmaking. Koya Kamura’s “Winter in Sokcho” (an adaptation

Theo Kingma, Former HFPA President, Dies at 58

Theo Kingma, former Hollywood Foreign Press Association president, died March 21 in his Los Angeles home. He was 58. Kingma’s death was confirmed to Variety by Kingma’s publicist. While a cause of death was not given, the obituary wrote that “he passed away unexpectedly.” Vera

‘October 8’ Review: A Searing Look at the Eruption of Antisemitism on College Campuses and Social Media

Propounding one specific pro-Israel, American Jewish point-of-view, the independently financed social-issue documentary “October 8” charts and laments the alarming increase in antisemitism — particularly on university campuses and in social media — following the Oct. 7 Hamas incursion into Israel that resulted in over 1,200

‘No Other Land’ Co-Director Hamdan Ballal Beaten and Attacked, Says Yuval Abraham: ‘No Sign of Him Since’ 

Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning Israel-Palestine documentary “No Other Land,” is reportedly missing after being attacked, according to a series of posts on X from co-director Yuval Abraham. “A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co-director of our film ‘No Other Land,’” Abraham