Sparkles are having a major moment at the 2024 Academy Awards as Anya Taylor-Joy, Zendaya and more showed up in dazzling outfits.
At the Oscars after party, Beyoncé bared a lot of skin with a hot sheer dress trend other celebrities like Megan Fox and Zoë Kravitz have rocked prior.
Are you ready for Raya and the Last Dragon? Well, hold on tight because Disney has just released the teaser trailer for the new movie and it looks so, so good. The latest feature-length animated marvel from Walt Disney Animation Studios isn’t set to debut until March 2021, but hopefully, this first trailer will hold you over for a few more months. [caption id="attachment_924107" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Disney[/caption] Raya and the Last Dragon tells the story of the titular Raya (Kelly Marie Tran), a warrior who sets out to defend her homeland against …
Regina King is one of the best actors working today, and now she has stepped behind the camera for her directorial debut One Night in Miami…, and shown she can also knock directing out of the park as well. What makes One Night such an auspicious debut is that it wrestles with questions you can tell have been on King’s mind. King, who won an Oscar in 2019 for her work in If Beale Street Could Talk, has been acting since the mid-80s and been in a collection of classic films including Boyz in the Hood, Friday, Jerry …
After The Muppet Show, which ended its run in 1981 after 5 seasons, 150 episodes and countless guest stars, Jim Henson’s gaggle of charming characters (and the ceaselessly talented puppeteers behind them) made their way to movie theaters, animation, theme parks, the internet, and (several times) back to television, always experimenting but always trying to recapture the essential magic that made the original Muppet Show such a phenomenon (as evidenced by the amount of vaudevillian, “let’s put on a show” plotlines many of these projects centered around). But in recent years, it has been even harder for the …
In an era of prestige television, Netflix’s The Crown towers over the competition. One of the most expensive shows on television, it comes right up to the line of being a parody of prestige TV with its lavish production values and serious drama without ever toppling over. The first two seasons explored the beginning of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign as she struggled between her personal desires and the cold, harsh duty of the crown. Season three begins in the mid-1960s with a new cast to play slightly older roles. The older actors add a new dimension as …
Writer-director Lorene Scafaria has gone above and beyond with Hustlers. The movie could have been a winner in a sense, just by leaning heavily on the most simplistic description of the true story - “strippers seek revenge” - but instead, Scafaria fully embraces the cinematic appeal of the scenario while also challenging viewers to read between the lines and really understand the characters’ motivations. That makes Hustlers the complete package, a highly entertaining crowd pleaser with compelling subtext. Based on Jessica Pressler’s article “The Hustlers at Scores,” the movie centers on Constance Wu’s Destiny. In an effort to make …