Breast in show! One designer courted controversy at Paris Fashion Week with a revealing show that left audience members and online observers in shock. Duran Lantink debuted his fall 2025 “Duranimal” collection at the Palais de Tokyo room on Sunday — opening and closing the event with gender-bending tops that made the models appear as if … Read more
The Amazing Kreskin, the beloved mentalist who found fame on television, died Tuesday at 89. The only thing the Amazing Kreskin cared about was performing for all of you, it brought so much joy to his life,” his family said on social media. “The family asks you respect their privacy during this difficult time. “As … Read more
Horror feels good in a place like this. You’d be forgiven for wondering whether recent reports of audiences fleeing a new wave of horror movies— often due to fainting or vomiting — are among the latest indications of a movie business in peril. Earlier this month, the distributor for “Terrifer 3,” the latest installment of … Read more
Prepared to be terrified — again. The “Terrifier” horror film franchise that is scaring viewers into vomiting at the cinema with its latest iteration is being turned into a video game. “Terrifier: The ARTcade Game” is described as a “retro-inspired, pixel-art beat-’em-up” that is based on Damien Leone’s horror-slasher series about the sadistic Art the … Read more
“Joker: Folie à Deux” is the No. 1 movie at the box office, but it might not be destined for a happy ending. In a turn of events that only Arthur Fleck would find funny, the follow-up to Todd Phillips’ 2019 origin story about the Batman villain opened in theaters nationwide this weekend to a … Read more
Kris Kristofferson, the vibrant, trailblazing country music hitmaker who wowed audiences in the 1976 remake of “A Star Is Born,” died on Saturday at the age of 88. The star was surrounded by his family, but no cause of death was given, Variety reported Sunday. Just one month before his death, the Golden Globe winner … Read more
HBO star Matt Smith has hit out at sensitive modern audiences that have become reliant on “trigger warnings” before TV shows and movies. While recently speaking with the Times, the House of the Dragon actor, 41, claimed that giving viewers “trigger warnings” has left TV shows “dumbed down.” “Too much policing of stories and being afraid to bring … Read more
Something you never hear when a biopic of a musician is announced? “I’m so excited to see that!” No other movie genre inspires such a collective exasperation from the public while still getting made by Hollywood en masse. Nevertheless, in an attempt to get free-spending millennials to give a fig about them, plans for a … Read more
Oh, to have the self-confidence of Kevin Costner. There are few actors in the final chapter of their career who would turn down a consistent $1 million-an-episode payday to pursue the vagaries of the Wild West. Yet there are few actors who are as single-minded as Costner. For the 69-year old star and director, who … Read more
The sequence is emblematic of a significant shift in how Asian languages are featured in American film and TV. Just a few years ago, when his Korean dark comedy “Parasite” won the 2020 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, the writer and director Bong Joon Ho ribbed Americans for their aversion to “the one-inch-tall … Read more
Dabney Coleman, an award-winning television and movie actor best known for his over-the-top portrayals of garrulous, egomaniacal characters, died on Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 92. His daughter Quincy Coleman confirmed the death in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter on Friday. No cause was cited. Mr. Coleman was equally … Read more
Ed Mintz, a mathematician who created an exit polling system for films called CinemaScore, which asks people leaving theaters on opening nights to grade the movies they have just seen — a precursor of the website Rotten Tomatoes, which aggregates and scores critics’ opinions — died on Feb. 6 in Las Vegas. He was 83. … Read more
One wonders if anything would be different if 21st century sports TV execs discovered that we’re not nearly as stupid as they figure we must be. In the second quarter of Saturday’s Ravens-Texans playoff game, Houston’s Steven Sims returned a punt 67 yards for a TD. But when he reached the 10, he suddenly placed … Read more
Hollywood’s movie factories run on conventional wisdom — entrenched notions, based on experience, about what types of films are likely to pop at the global box office. This year, audiences turned many of those so-called rules on their heads. Superheroes have long been seen as the most reliable way to fill seats. But characters like … Read more
A disturbing blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment from a recent Disney teen film is getting attention on social media, with those who’ve spotted it labelling it “horrendous.” The Disney teen rom-com Prom Pact was first released in March this year, but one short clip from the movie is spreading online this week. The scene shows a cheering crowd at a … Read more
“Real Time” host Bill Maher took a swipe at Stephen Colbert and his other late-night colleagues for their constant pandering to liberal audiences, insisting they don’t actually have their own “takes” on current events. On Sunday’s installment of his “Club Random” podcast, Maher and fellow comedian Jim Gaffigan speculated about the future of late-night programming, especially with … Read more
Could the plague of movie and TV “universes” finally be coming to a merciful end? My exhausted eyes, ears and mind hope so. And so do audiences who are fed up with the same old repetitive superhero stories and space sagas that have dominated our screens for more than a decade like a North Korean … Read more
HBO Max has just released a reimagined spinoff of the popular, long-running kids show “Scooby-Doo.” Despite the association with the Hanna-Barbera original, it’s being marketed as “adult” and features limbs being severed, one of the main characters going to a strip club with her dad, and two teenage boys making out at their high school. … Read more
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A scene from Disney’s “Toy Story 3” has gone viral after an audio illusion has split viewers who claim to have heard two very different recordings. The video — which was posted Saturday and has since gained nearly 30 million views — shows a clip from the 2010 film where Barbie rips a tied-up Ken’s … Read more