Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuarón examines the entwined stories of working and middle class families in Seventies Mexico in the new trailer for his upcoming film, Roma. Like the first trailer for Roma, the new one doesn’t offer much in the way of distinct plot points, though it does create a …
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Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali), an African-American classical-trained pianist on a jazz-trio tour in a part of 1960’s America that’s not prepared to embrace integration. In his search for a chauffeur, Don makes the curious choice of Frank Anthony Vallelonga, a.k.a. Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen), a loudmouth Italian cliché temporarily …
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Samantha Bee broke down the good and the bad from the midterm elections, as well as the new kind of chaos that’s already begun to grip President Trump’s administration on Full Frontal Wednesday. Bee opened her show with the deluge of news that’s already overwhelmed the election results, such as …
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Actress Claire Foy discusses her lifelong love of Bruce Springsteen, throwing back pints of white wine in college and her mortifying first performances as an actress in the latest installment of “The First Time.” Foy recalls a handful of early music memories, including her childhood love of Nineties British pop …
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Rolling Stone cover star Zoe Kravitz talks about being starstruck by the Spice Girls at the VMAs, smoking weed when she was 14 and how she’s often embarrassed by her ultra-cool parents, Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet, in this installment of “The First Time.” Despite having two famous parents, Kravitz admitted …
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Sunday afternoon in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and the neighborhood is being its Williamsburgiest self. Outside a gentrified coffee shop under the grimy elevated J-M-Z tracks, a jaywalking Hasidic man darts into the street, making a dude with dreadlocks in an SUV pump his brakes. Inside the cafe, three white twenty-somethings are …
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The history of movies is littered with absolutely god-awful adaptations of great novels — and whether you consider Martin Amis’s 1990 book London Fields a “great novel” or simple one of the author’s stronger works is a matter to be settled between you and your respective deity. But the lauded …
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Jimmy Fallon spoofed Donald Trump’s attempt to sway voters before the midterms elections with outtakes from a fake campaign ad, featuring the late-night host impersonating the president. “Voting in this erection is very impotent,” Fallon’s Trump said on The Tonight Show. “I’ve been very busy on the campaign trail. Last …
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Paul Greengrass was stuck. It was early 2016, and he’d been exploring a possible project about the migration of refugees coming through Lampedusa, the Italian island that had become a landing point for many seeking asylum in Europe — as well as the site of numerous incidents involving sinking boats …
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Here’s the thing about Bad Times at the El Royale: When it’s good, it’s very, very good — and when it’s bad, this retro whatsit is a whole lot of awful. Punishingly long at 2 hours and 21 minutes, the movie is still crammed with enough depraved delights to make …
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