There wasn’t a photo available of the glasses in question, but they make their debut later in this scene. One of the most affecting scenes in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood — a movie with specious title punctuation and a surprise, twist-y ending — comes about halfway through, when Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate just happens to pass by a movie theater. For maybe the first time, she sees her name big and bold and on a movie theater marquee: Sharon Tate in The Wrecking Crew.
Nascar. Basketball. Ice Skating. Soccer. The never-ending battle for hearts of the American public. Will Ferrell has dominated every sport he’s set his mind to, so of course it was only a matter of time before he took on football. Ferrell joins Wahlberg in Warner Bros’ Turkey Bowl, which stars The Other Guys duo as “guys from football-obsessed towns who lead rival teams in an annual tackle football game for bragging and trash-talking rights.
Kristen Bell and Ted Danson might be the marquee names of The Good Place, but for many viewers, the breakout star of the afterlife comedy is William Jackson Harper, who portrays anxious, indecisive philosophy professor Chidi Anagonye. Vulture caught up with Jackson, who’s also currently starring in Zoe Kazan’s off-Broadway play After the Blast, to ask him about what makes Chidi so relatable, the appeal of dystopian stories, and how it feels to act with hundreds of needles in your face.
The French Dispatch crew explains how it pulled off the movie’s quietly impossible tracking shot. The story behind all those right angles. Photo: Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures The story behind all those right angles. Photo: Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures “If I didn’t tell you what I did, you’d never know what I did.”
It could be the motto of a legendary stage magician, but it’s actually a quote from Wes Anderson’s key grip, Sanjay Sami.
It’s always tricky to remember where things stand as you head in to see another installment in a movie trilogy, and this is especially true of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, which requires viewers to keeping track of what happened in the original Hobbit book, the previous Hobbit movie, the Lord of the Rings films, and the LOTR appendices. So while this could have been a simple affair, it might feel like you need to be a wizard of Middle-earth to remember what’s already happened, who all these characters are, and why these folks are on a quest in the first place — and what’s that Arkenstone thing again?
If you’re like us, you already know that Veronica Mars turned 10 earlier this week. You also likely binge-watched all three seasons of the Rob Thomas teen-detective show leading up to the Kickstarter-funded film sequel that arrived in theaters this past March. But even if you remember all of the details of the goings-on in the town of Neptune — the names of each and every mean girl, the 09er frat boys, the PCHer gang members, and the wide array of special guest-stars who roll into town for a quick visit (Paris Hilton, Kevin Smith, Aaron Paul, Joss Whedon, and Kristin Cavallari, to name but a few) — it’s never not going to be fun to revisit the series about a young detective (Kristen Bell) who understands more about the dark side of human nature than any teenage girl ever should.
Yellowstone. 1883. 1923. In the past five years, Taylor Sheridan has given us three series about the Duttons, a dynastic family scrambling, always scrambling, to save Montana’s biggest cattle ranch from men who fancy the land for dollar signs but don’t know how to love it. And the Duttons — man, they love it: The purple vistas, the early mornings, the long rides, the doomed romance of living a dying way of life.
“The road,” as comedians call the act of performing a stretch of shows outside their home city, is often mythologized for its mundanity. It’s defined less by sex, drugs, and rock and roll and more by walking around a small town looking for something to eat that’s not a chain and something to do that’s not naked-tweeting in your hotel room. It is, however, part of the job, and often necessary for a stand-up trying to refine his or her act.
Birth in Battle (2022) The work of Hilary Harkness makes me think of early Renaissance paintings with their dazzling detail, lyrical line, delicate parts, and highly keyed local color. The sense that you are seeing everything at once. Except the subject matter is a bit different. In 2001, when she was 29, she was attacked for a show that included paintings with hundreds of teeny, almost naked women pegging each other, lithe ladies loading torpedoes on a cutaway submarine, and female sailors lounging in their underwear.
How The Crown re-created the images of Diana’s final days within the constraints of taste, decency, and copyright. Photo: API/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images; NETFLIX The first four episodes of The Crown’s final season may as well be called The Di Summer Collection. Most of the action parts ways with the Thames in favor of the sunnier Mediterranean Sea during the summer of 1997, with Diana (Elizabeth Debecki) and Dodi Fayed (Khalid Abdalla) kindling a romance that culminates in their tragic deaths in Paris after being chased through a tunnel by the paparazzi.