This week, American Idol began the actual business of finding its 15th winner. The departing reality competition kicked off its final Hollywood Week, the post-audition boot camp where contestants are deprived of sleep and forced to work with each other and generally subjected to other horrible conditions. If they stick it out, and keep their energy up through some semifinal rounds, contestants can reach the finals, where they’re guaranteed airtime, glammed-up makeovers, more pointed critiques, and the promise of mugging for a major sponsor or two.
You don’t have to watch The Good Place for long to realize that Tahani Al-Jamil is more than a hot, rich fraud with legs for days. She’s also a relentless name-dropper. But when Princess Diana is your godmother and Beyoncé is your best friend, can you really blame a girl for bragging?
Again and again on The Good Place, Tahani outdid herself with her ability to wedge a famous name into nearly every conversation.
The Lobster; The Batman; Alexander; Miami Vice. This article has been updated with Farrell’s most recent performances, including The Batman and The Banshees of Inisherin.
Colin Farrell is burdened with one of the great faces among modern leading men: pleading eyes that can be romantic one minute, cold as ice the next; a pursed mouth that can speak to his lostness or his anger, depending on the situation.
Shia LeBeouf in Borg/McEnroe. John McEnroe may not be too thrilled about Shia LaBeouf playing him in Borg/McEnroe, the psychological thriller about the greatest tennis rivalry of all time that’s opening the Toronto International Film Festival today. (“Supposedly he’s crazy, so maybe that works,” McEnroe told Vanity Fair, having not seen the movie. “I’ve never talked to him, so I don’t know how he could play me.”) But as LaBeouf talked about the tennis great at the movie’s TIFF press conference, he sounded like a starry-eyed teenager who’d just found his soul mate.
From Dr. Ellie Sattler to Amy Jellicoe. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Columbia Pictures, Lucasfilms Ltd, Netflix, HBO, Universal Pictures, International Spectrafilm and The Samuel Goldwyn Company Long before the public knew her name, a 7-year-old Laura Dern ate ice-cream cones in the background of Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore — 19 cones, to be exact, one for every take. Scorsese was so impressed with her stamina that, according to Dern, he declared, “This girl’s going to be an actress.
In the vast majority of The Late Late Show episodes, host James Corden briefly hands over the interviewing duties to his eccentric bandleader — and right-hand man — Reggie Watts to see if he has a question for any of the guests gracing the show’s comfy couch that evening. “Reggie’s Question,” as it’s now affectionately known, features some of the most bizarrely amusing how-the-hell-did-he-think-that-up musings, not just for the late-night circuit, but for life in general.
Moon Prism Power Syndication! Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal: The Movie joins Netflix this week, so in honor of what’s shaping up to be a proper Sailor Moon summer, let’s take a closer look at one of the most quintessential parts of the magical-girl genre: weaponry.
As a rule of thumb, almost all magical-girl weapons look like adorable wands or feminine accessories and are probably created with the sole purpose of selling merchandise.
Andy Samberg as Jake and Melissa Fumero as Amy. Brooklyn Nine-Nine is finally back! After Fox callously canceled it last spring after five seasons, NBC picked it up almost immediately, and it returns to the air this Thursday. It will likely also mark the return of “name of your sex tape!”
Detective Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg) started poking fun at high-strung fellow cop (and now wife) Amy Santiago back in the first season by turning her accidental double entendres into imaginary sex-tape titles, which quickly evolved into a running gag.
Last week, the Spice Girls reunited for their 13-stop reunion tour, and while any Real Fan will tell you it doesn’t count without Victoria Beckham (it’s like nobody cares about those of us who cosplayed as Posh), it’s still exciting to think that a few select cities will get to revel in a live version of “Spice Up Your Life” (no matter how bad the sound seems to be.)
Spoiler alert: Neither of these is the best one. Related Stories Star Wars and Saturday Night Live’s Long History in 16 Sketches Star Wars: Battlefront Doesn’t Have the Immersion That You’re Looking For Here’s Star Wars With Entirely Different Audio This post was originally published in December 2015, as part of Vulture’s Star Wars Countdown. We first updated it to reflect the lightsabers of The Force Awakens, and now, to celebrate the arrival ofThe Last Jedi, we have updated it again to included the best lightsabers from the recent Star Wars TV series.