Whats Going on With Robert De Niros Wild Workplace-Misconduct Case?

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  10 minutes  |  2040 words  |  Janel Helmers

Robert De Niro and his former assistant Graham Chase Robinson are facing off in Manhattan federal court over dueling misconduct claims. Robinson claims that the Taxi Driver actor subjected her to “years of gender discrimination and harassment,” while his counterclaim alleges financial misconduct, including misuse of company frequent-flier miles. These competing allegations of gender-based and financial wrongdoing were argued before jurors over a two-week period. The trial proceedings proved quite dishy. [Read More]

Who the Jessica Jones Characters Are in the Comics and How They Connect to the Marvel Universe

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1179 words  |  Elina Uphoff

via GIPHY Marvel’s Jessica Jones introduces the titular character into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, along with Luke Cage, who’ll have his own series next year. But as always with comic-book film and television adaptations, there are plenty of other heroes and villains hiding in plain sight on Jessica Jones. There are also characters with wildly different backstories than the ones we see onscreen, starting with our heroine, Jessica, who actually tried out the masked-avenger thing in the comics before she ultimately became a private investigator … [Read More]

Who Will Score the Palme dOr at Cannes 2024?

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  440 words  |  Elina Uphoff

Barbie’s mastermind Greta Gerwig has been bopping around this year’s Cannes Film Festival as the jury president, leading the charge on which movie would be crowned the Palme d’Or this evening. Francis Ford Coppola’s fever dream Megalopolis, Yorgos Lanthimos’s twisted Kinds of Kindness, and the Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice were among the 22 contenders for the coveted award but the honor was bestowed upon Sean Baker’s Anora. [Read More]

Why Does Every Teen in Every Movie Want to Go to Yale?

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  10 minutes  |  1984 words  |  Elina Uphoff

This piece originally ran in 2019, when Beanie Feldstein’s character in Booksmart wanted to attend Yale. Now it is 2022 and Drea Torres, played by Camila Mendes, is also a Yale hopeful in Do Revenge, so we are republishing it. One of the very first things we learn about Molly, Beanie Feldstein’s character in Booksmart, is that she loves Yale. She’s starting her last day of high school with a morning meditation — “Stand atop the mountain of your success and look down at everyone who’s ever doubted you” — and there, in the top left corner of the shot, hangs a blue Yale University pennant. [Read More]

Why Fans Clapped During Outlanders Spanking Scene

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  820 words  |  Zora Stowers

Claire and Jamie in Outlander. When audience members cheer during a screening, it’s generally viewed by the show’s creators as a victory. But when this happened during the “spanking scene” at the Outlander premiere in New York last week, it gave executive producer Ron D. Moore pause. “It was like, ‘I’m not sure that’s the reaction I really want them to have. What does that mean?!” he told Vulture afterward. [Read More]

Why Jamie Lee Curtis Should Absolutely Brag About Halloweens Opening Weekend

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  852 words  |  Zora Stowers

The new Halloweencleaned house at the box office this weekend. With a domestic haul of $77.5 million, it notched both the second-highest opening for an R-rated horror movie of all time (one suspects that pesky It from 2017 will never be beat), as well as the second-highest opening for an October release of all time, sitting just behind the recent record setter, Venom. Even taking into account what was surely a hefty marketing price tag, it’s another very worthwhile investment for Universal and Blumhouse, which co-financed the reportedly $10 million picture with Miramax. [Read More]

Wii Sports Finally Made It to the Video Game Hall of Fame

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  260 words  |  Janel Helmers

Gamers pictured circa 2008. Wii did it, y’all. On Thursday, New York’s Strong National Museum of Play announced that Wii Sports has officially entered the World Video Game Hall of Fame, which recognizes games that have “enjoyed popularity over a sustained period and have exerted influence on the video game industry or on popular culture and society in general.” Fellow 2023 inductees include The Last of Us, Computer Space, and, in a win for gamer girls, Barbie Fashion Designer. [Read More]

Will & Grace Recap: Oldies But Goodies

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1100 words  |  Janel Helmers

Will and Grace Who’s Your Daddy Season 9 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Will and Grace Who’s Your Daddy Season 9 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Now this is the Will & Grace revival I’ve been waiting to see! [Read More]

Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler: The Ultimate Comedy Team

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1725 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Other than a mere year of overlap on Saturday Night Live(which produced one of the greatest sketches of all time, “Short Shorts for the USA”) and mostly isolated screen time in the no-one-knows-what-it-means-but-it’s-provocative Blades of Glory, Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler have never performed together in a proper two-hander. Which is no laughing matter when you really think about it. How have these two towering titans of comedy never been given the proper court to volley their signature humor and acerbic wit back and forth before? [Read More]

Will The Simpsons Movie Be Aw-Diddly-Awful or Awe-Diddly-Awesome?

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1152 words  |  Janel Helmers

Courtesy of 20th Century Fox The Simpsons Movie comes out tonight at midnight, and longtime fans of the TV show are responding in very different ways. Some are overcome with excitement for a big-screen version of the show they’ve loved so long. And some are huddled in fear that the show they once loved will cap off its recent downhill slide with an embarrassing piece of B-movie junk. Ben Wasserstein and Dan Kois fight it out, IM style. [Read More]