Bernie Sanders has always had his finger on the pulse of young America, whether he’s podcasting, talking about Cardi B, or standing in the vicinity of someone in a fur-suit doing a Kamehameha to Jack Skellington, and now the 77-year-old senator from Vermont is looking to capitalize on his youthful energy for the…

Fast And Furious 9 just started filming, and the whole cast is very eager to show everyone how much fun they’re having. /Film gathered together some social media posts from the cast and director Justin Lin, and it’s very clear that nobody misses having recent co-star Dwayne Johnson around at all. A few years ago,…

One must adapt when something goes wrong. For director Max Siedentopf, that meant starring in his own music video. Siedentopf was hired to direct the video for Sigrid’s “Mine Right Now,” but, as the Norwegian singer clarifies in a message before the music starts, delayed flights forced her to miss the shoot. In lieu…

Exactly two months to the day from when we reported that The Office would be staying on Netflix until “at least” 2021, NBCUniversal has announced that The Office will actually be dumping Netflix just like how Jim dumped Karen—off-camera and in between seasons, so Rashida Jones can go off and make Parks And Recreation. …

The Plagiarists, a no-budget, lo-fi comedy of millennial manners and neuroses, is one of those movies a critic hates to spoil. Suffice it to say that some of its misdirections are more obvious than others—beginning, very literally, with the fact that its credited director, one Peter Parlow, appears to be about as real…

We can probably thank Marvel’s influence for Spider-Man: Homecoming being so good, and though it’s too early to say if the sequel Far From Home will also be good, we do know that the series is still having some trouble with its posters. Homecoming had that ugly pile of people, with its two Iron Mans, two Spider-Mans,…

The Lynchsplaining podcast turned the heads of owls and interdimensional entities yesterday when it paired stills from David Lynch’s enigmatic Twin Peaks with mind-numbing tweets from @dril, patron saint of the internet. The result was nearly as good as a brie and butter sandwich.

In an Instagram post (via Okayplayer), Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard announced that she’s going to release her first solo album later this year, explaining in a surprisingly lengthy essay—for an Instagram post—that each song was meant as a way to “confront something” within or “beyond” her. To that end, she decided…

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Opening with a shot of its title character (Daisy Ridley) floating in a brook, presumably drowned (as announced by Gertrude in Act IV, Scene VII), Ophelia then has her address us in voice-over narration, speaking words that have lately become dreaded cliché: “You may think you know my story.” Well, only because it’s…

Haley Lu Richardson is one of the most promising young talents in Hollywood, with star-making turns in The Edge Of Seventeen, Split, and last year’s Support The Girls. On the red carpet for the MTV Movie & TV Awards, we spoke with Richardson about her favorite roles, and why everyone needs to see her Sundance hit, Col…

In 1973, Johnny Carson was the undisputed King Of Late Night. After the evening news, most people watched Carson chat with a comedian like Don Rickles or Rich Little before enjoying their last cigarette and scotch of the day and calling it a night. So even though this is a little-known slice of 1970s history, it’s not…

The recent release of Godzilla: King of the Monsters and the introduction of a whole new “monsterverse” has got this medievalist thinking a lot about the creatures that are coming to define our time, and their origins both as kaiju monsters developed in the 1950s and ‘60s by Japan’s Toho Studio and their far older…

Boy, Danny Boyle’s just full of surprises lately. Just yesterday, we reported on the Yesterday director’s comments about a possible, “properly good” 28 Days Later sequel from the original film’s writer, Annihilation director Alex Garland. Now, he’s shared with The Independent another bit of Garland-adjacent news, this…

The forthcoming short-form streaming service Quibi is really determined to make the best use of its billion-dollar startup budget by securing some of the highest profile directors and celebrities for its initial round of content. Aside from a nice infusion of cash, the Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman-created…