Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres, or occasionally our own inscrutable whims. This week: A new adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull has us thinking back on stellar movies made from stage plays.
Harvey Weinstein is under investigation by prosecutors in New York, Los Angeles, and London for his alleged sex crimes, but he still may never face criminal charges for sexual assault, let alone sexual harassment. But one woman who says that her career was derailed by the disgraced producer is hitting him where it…
Many of Hollywood’s most influential women have declared that time’s up for the serial abusers in their industry (and elsewhere), announcing an ambitious new anti-harassment initiative, per The New York Times.
Having apparently decided, against all odds, that this is the hill he wants to die on, multiply accused alleged sexual harasser and assaulter Harvey Weinstein has doubled down on his assertions that he never tried to have any women blacklisted from his films. After responding yesterday to claims from Peter Jackson and…
Lord Of The Rings director Peter Jackson broke his silence on his experience working with Harvey Weinstein this week in an interview with New Zealand news magazine Stuff, saying that Weinstein and his brother Bob blacklisted two of the actresses who have since gone public with harassment accusations against Harvey.…
Earlier this week, we joked that Donald Trump, while pleased with making the shortlist for Time’s Person Of The Year, would probably be taken aback at being in the company of the Dreamers, Colin Kaepernick, and maybe the only other person in the world as volatile as he is. Given the president’s history, he probably…
Four days after the New York Times published an investigation into sexual harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein, the Miramax and Weinstein Company co-founder was fired from his post, despite having already taken an indefinite leave of absence. In the time since the report—which had several on-the-record…
Having already exercised legal pressure against The New York Times—to the tune of a potential 7-figure lawsuit— over a piece it ran today, collecting decades-worth of stories from women who say he sexually harassed them over the years, Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has now gone on the verbal offensive as well.…
Epix’s strategy for scripted TV seems pretty simple: get a few big names—Nick Nolte, say, or The Hobbit and Hannibal’s Richard Armitage—in front of the camera, make sure everything looks “prestige-y” in terms for the camerawork and the lighting, and get to work. To that end, the network’s Berlin Station has added…
Today, people have flocked to the streets all around the country (and the world) to stand for women’s rights and to protest Donald Trump, Mike Pence, and every other sexist, racist, xenophobic creep who thinks they’ve just woken up in a world under their control. The Women’s March On Washington was the day’s main…
We’ve (mostly) resigned ourselves to the fact that any updates on Showtime’s Twin Peaks revival series will be of the casting-announcement variety, which to date have included the return of several original residents—Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern, Sheryl Lee, and Sherilyn Fenn, among others—as well as new arrivals like …
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: It’s the final week of the year, so we’re dispensing with themes and just recommending some movies we love.
Every novelist must dream of having some say in how their work is adapted. But beyond the occasional case of handling screenwriting duties themselves—or the much less common case of being a writer with the clout of, say, J.K. Rowling—most of them relinquish control once the process of making their book into a movie…
The 2016 class of Hollywood’s Walk Of Fame honorees was announced today, Variety reports. It’s a wide swath of folks chosen seemingly at random, with the radio voice of the Los Angeles Clippers, Ralph Lawler, being the lone radio inductee for 2016. Live theater/live performance inductees include Kevin Hart, Angélica…
Dolphin Tale 2 is kind of infuriating, mostly because it tries to so hard to be innocuous. Kids like animals, what’s wrong with that? Nothing. A dolphin beat the odds and now inspires veterans and disabled children with her story of hope? That’s great. And when that same very special dolphin loses her best friend and…