Life in plastic — it’s not so fantastic, according to some Barbie bashers. A new study found that an overwhelming 82% of the 1,000 multi-generational, female case studies think Barbie dolls — which take center stage in a highly anticipated Margot Robbie movie premiering Friday, July 21 — promote unrealistic body expectations to girls and women. … Read more
Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Mike Birbiglia’s got stories. The popular comedian is known for weaving narratives into his act to create moving one-man shows about marriage, fatherhood, aging and everything in between. … Read more
Life in plastic is fantastic, thanks in part to the hefty check Margot Robbie received for her role in Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie.” The Australian bombshell made $12.5 million for the Mattel film, according to a report from Variety, making her one of the highest-paid actresses of 2022. In “Barbie as The Island Princess,” the OG tippy toes, … Read more
Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. In a world with countless “Star Wars” spin-offs, our favorite has to be The Empire Strips Back. Sadly, all good things come to an end. The beloved burlesque … Read more
They’ve got a theory. Several moviegoers have claimed that movie theaters are intentionally sabotaging showings of the controversial film “Sound of Freedom” by either forgetting to dim the lights, or in at least one case, turning off the air conditioning in the theater. The word-of-mouth smash hit, which shocked Hollywood by beating the new “Indiana … Read more
Director Christopher Nolan’s seismic “Oppenheimer” is that rarest of things: a sophisticated and bracing movie that’s made for adults and makes nobody say, “I’ll wait till it’s on streaming.” See it in IMAX on 70-millimeter film — you’ll be very glad you did. Many unbelievable scenes fill the entire screen. movie review Running time: 180 … Read more
Director Christopher Nolan said it was “bittersweet” to see the cast of “Oppenheimer” walkout during the film’s premiere in London last week as the SAG-AFTRA strike rages on. “It was a bittersweet moment,” the Oscar-nominated filmmaker, 52, said on the Today Show Tuesday. “We were all there. “We were very fortunate.” Nolan praised the cast, which … Read more
The packaging of “Barbie” is a lot more fun than the tedious toy inside the box. Ingeniously, a yearlong barrage of Mattel propaganda was foisted upon us and created a resistance-is-futile Summer of Barbie before anybody knew if the movie was any good. There were pop-up cafes, a Forever 21 clothing collaboration and viral Instagram … Read more
Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Jon Lovitz first made his name on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” back in 1985 when his “liar” character Tommy Flanagan broke out in a big way. Now, nearly … Read more
This was one gig he couldn’t Sher-lock down. Robert Downey Jr. revealed to Howard Stern that Kate Winslet couldn’t hold back her contempt over his attempt to pass for an Englishman during an audition for Nancy Meyers’ 2006 film “The Holiday.” At a script reading with other actors hoping to land a part — including … Read more
Actor and wrestler Dylan Postl slammed the upcoming “Wonka” movie for casting Hugh Grant as the Oompa Loompa rather than an actor with dwarfism. Director Paul King used computer-generated imagery to get the visual effects of Grant’s Oompa Loompa just right — but Postl, 37, argues CGI doesn’t need to be used at all. Speaking … Read more
When exclusive photos from the set of Disney’s live-action adaptation of “Snow White” leaked last week, the internet reacted like someone had poisoned their apple. The pictures, published by the Daily Mail, featured Snow White accompanied not by seven little men but by actors of different “genders, ethnicities, and heights.” The Mail headline — “EXCLUSIVE: … Read more
The Hollywood actors’ strike has just got the support of one of its most famous A-listers: Tom Cruise. The “Top Gun: Maverick” star backed SAG-AFTRA during a surprise appearance at a negotiating session between the actors’ union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) via Zoom, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The 61-year-old … Read more
In Greta Gerwig’s much-anticipated “Barbie” movie — which opens in theaters on Friday — “Insecure” actress Issa Rae brings some black power to the iconic doll’s pink world as President Barbie. But it was another African-American woman, Louvenia “Kitty” Black Perkins, who designed the first black Barbie — released in 1980 in a box that … Read more
She’s a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world — literally. Katie Loveday, 18, models many aspects of her life after the famous character — she owns more than 100 Barbie and Bratz dolls, dresses in pink from head-to-toe and decorated her bedroom and even her car in the same color. However, the England-based woman fears … Read more
The Tom Cruise-led “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” was No. 1 at the box office on Friday, raking in $16.55 million, according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo. The action spy flick, which the Post lauded as “summer’s best movie,” was released in select theaters on Monday, with a wider release on Wednesday. “Sound … Read more
Will the real Barbara Millicent Roberts – aka Barbie – please stand up. She’s definitely not the blonde, tall, and very leggy Margot Robbie, 35, who plays the real-life Barbie in the $100 million live-action “Barbie” movie coming to theaters on July 21. Depending on who a Barbie fan believes, however, the genuine, in-the-flesh Barbie … Read more
Actress Mara Wilson, who starred as the titular character in the 1996 film ‘Matilda,’ said she’s “never made enough” money to qualify for Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Radio and Television Artists (SAG-AFTRA) healthcare in recent years. Wilson has joined thousands of actors and entertainers striking in Hollywood with the Writers Guild of America (WGA) … Read more
“Life in plastic — it’s fantastic,” as the ’90s pop classic “Barbie Girl” once hyped. As audiences across the nation ready for a summer of “Barbie” movie mania, one plastic surgeon on Long Island is offering a dream surgery that will transform patients into the legendary pink-loving doll — for the price of $120,000. The … Read more
The premise of “Bird Box,” the 2018 thriller starring Sandra Bullock, was always a downer: A frightening force descends on earth that, if spotted, makes the viewer kill themselves. For some deranged reason everybody watched that movie at Christmas. movie review Running time: 110 minutes. Not rated. On Netflix. Oh, the coal they discovered. “Bird … Read more