It is a truth too infrequently acknowledged that Jennifer Lopez is one of our most talented living performers. Lopez’s status as a multi-hyphenate means she often gets discussed as a generic “celebrity” in a way that undermines her genuine talent as both a musical entertainer and, especially, an actor. Although Lopez…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres, or occasionally our own inscrutable whims. This week, as the galaxy’s most popular smuggler returns to the big screen in Solo: A Star Wars Story, we’re taking a look at some of our favorite movies about charismatic crooks and cons. 

Sure, it’s an embarrassment of riches, but the minds behind this particular episode of Will & Grace could have used a little restraint. For the usual 22-minute episode, we get an A-plot and a B-plot, with the foursome of Will, Grace, Jack, and Karen divided in a variety of different ways. This week, each one of our…

Bad acting is sometimes more memorable than good acting. Everyone remembers The Room, but nobody remembers, like, Lions For Lambs. A new video from Looper collects some of Hollywood’s most legendarily terrible performances, with examples running the gamut from teen dreck (Twilight) to prestige indies (Dazed and…

Proving that even seemingly bottomless supplies of charisma have their limits, Jennifer Lopez is being sued for failing to make hoverboards look sufficiently cool. Sidekick Group, a company that manufactures last year’s second-most accidentally explosive consumer trend, is taking J.Lo to court for failing in her…

Operating on the general theory that says that if you’ve got Jennifer Lopez on contract, you might as well keep her, NBC has announced that it’s renewing Shades Of Blue for a third season. The show, which had its second-season premiere earlier this month, stars Lopez and Ray Liotta as corrupt cops attempting to dodge…

What’s the story, morning glory? What’s the word, hummingbird? Why, it’s that Jennifer Lopez is going to give the old NBC live musical thing a whirl, starring in Bye Bye Birdie in 2017. She’ll play Rosie Alvarez, a role occupied in the original Broadway production by Chita Rivera and on screen by Janet Leigh. …

Variety is reporting that Jennifer Lopez has signed up to star in a film about notorious drug lord Griselda Blanco, otherwise known as “The Cocaine Godmother,” for HBO. Blanco—who helped pioneer the Miami cocaine trade in the ’70s and ’80s, and whose drug network brought in $80 million a month at its height—died in…

There is never, ever any slowing down for Jennifer Lopez. NBC just renewed Shades Of Blue, and she continues to executive produce Freeform’s The Fosters. She also has a Las Vegas residency and occasionally links up with Lin-Manuel Miranda to collaborate on a last-minute new single. She’s unstoppable. She’s everywhere…

Over the holiday weekend, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jennifer Lopez teased their new anthem, the proceeds of which will benefit the Hispanic Federation’s Proyecto Somos Orlando. The song, titled “Love Make The World Go Round,” features the Hamilton star/creator rapping, while Lopez reliably provides the hook. In a preview…

In 100 Episodes, we examine the shows that made it to that number, considering both how they advanced and reflected the medium and what contributed to their popularity. This entry covers American Idol, which ran for 15 seasons and over 550 episodes between 2002 and tonight’s series finale.

In arguably the most inspired moment in the short—and yet substantial—history of The Late Late Show’s Carpool Karaoke segment, host James Corden asks Adele a series of leading questions about her relationship with rap music.

Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club is Nathan Rabin’s ongoing exploration of books involving show business, with a special emphasis on the very bad and the very sleazy.

Confirming that we all do, in fact, still kind of like Jennifer Lopez—at least, enough to not begrudge her a simple life, busting perps and looking great—NBC has renewed her cop show Shades Of Blue for a second season. The police corruption-focused series—which also stars Ray Liotta and Drea De Matteo—just finished…

Jennifer Lopez signals the type of part she’s playing by her hair. If she’s rocking the long flowing mane, then she’s Jenny Diva Pop Queen who defies anyone to comment on her age with every catsuit she dons. When she goes for the sensible bob, it’s time for serious Jennifer, who is most likely about to find herself,…

Last week, Selena Quintanilla’s official Facebook page announced that the “Queen of Tejano music,” who was murdered at a motel in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1995, will be resurrected in the form of a voice synthesizer, or vocaloid, that will release new “Selena” music and videos. And now Jennifer Lopez is planning to …

Jennifer Lopez proved she could excel at thriller trash with The Boy Next Door, and now she’s teaming up with Universal Pictures once again. This time, J. Lo has signed up for a relatively less terrifying comedy pitch currently titled Mothers I’d Like To…, an idea we assume is not at all associated with MILF Island.…

DreamWorks Animation has established such a distinctive (and distinctively pandering) brand that its creative successes are defined principally by the degree to which they do not resemble a typical DreamWorks cartoon. By that metric, Home seems, at first, like their best feature since The Croods. Though it opens with…