Judah Friedlander. You can imagine our surprise when we came face-to-face with Judah Friedlander at the 30 Rock wrap party last night, and he was not wearing his ubiquitous trucker hat. “It’s invisible,” he told us. “Go ahead, touch it.” (We declined.) Does this mean he’s abandoned his signature accessory? No, come on: He gave personalized trucker hats to most of his co-stars as parting gifts. (Except for Grizz and Dot Com.
This story was originally published in 2018 and has been updated to include Harrelson’s most recent work.
In an alternate (and much worse) universe, Woody Harrelson is one of the forgotten ones, like, say, Marc Price, the actor who played Mallory’s dim-witted boyfriend Nick on Family Ties. Harrelson scored the role of a lifetime as the replacement for Coach on Cheers, a show that was already hugely popular and just getting started.
Spoilers follow for the film Everything Everywhere All at Once.
No one in Everything Everywhere All at Once is only who they seem to be. If the multiverse is infinite and limitless, argues the movie from co-directors and co-writers Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (collectively known as the Daniels), then we, as products of that multiverse, are capable of anything and everything, too. The film’s leads embody that idea.
Spoilers for The Way of Water ahead.
If Avatar: The Way of Water taught us anything, it’s that humans are greedy — for eternal life, for revenge, for tulkun brain juice, and for more Avatar movies. After the success of James Cameron’s blockbuster follow-up to his 2009 Best Picture nominee, audiences are clamoring for more of that sweet, sweet Jake Sully voice-over. Thirteen years after the first film, with its by-the-numbers storytelling, The Way of Water has expanded the franchise’s universe and sparked numerous ideas about what future sequels will look like.
You can only appreciate these images on the silver screen. Magic Mike got hot in more ways than one. After fostering an almost-Broadway show, a Las Vegas residency, two films, and a documentary series, the film — loosely inspired by star Channing Tatum’s experiences as a male stripper in Florida — is taking its final show overseas to London. Magic Mike’s Last Dance is the final installment in the film franchise and promises to be the “Super Bowl of stripping” for all those who celebrate balls being thrown around.
On September 12, Philadelphia rapper PnB Rock, whose legal name was Rakim Allen, was robbed and fatally shot at a Roscoe’s House of Chicken ’N Waffles restaurant in Los Angeles. As news of his death surfaced, many of his music-industry colleagues offered heartfelt condolences. Meanwhile, a tense debate over who was to blame spread across social media. On September 28, Los Angeles police announced that two people were arrested on September 27 in relation to the killing.
[In the style of Billie Eilish:] What was this made for? After an awards season that felt like it lasted for eons (with the added 2023 Emmys to make things even crazier), things are finally winding down. Oscar voting closed on February 27, so our winners have been chosen, and the ceremony is finally being held this week. We’re almost free! Ahead of his hosting gig at this year’s early-bird Oscars, Jimmy Kimmel starred in a surprisingly long Barbie-themed ad to promote the awards ceremony.
Whoa. The Weeknd is dark and moody again! On Thursday night, he released a surprise six-song EP, My Dear Melancholy, overflowing with all the Very Serious melodrama we haven’t heard since his mixtape days. Abel has had his heart shattered and he now requests your shoulder to cry on. Sad boy! But there’s just one question: Who hurt him? Oh, who are we kidding, you know it’s Selena Gomez.
Some say this look is giving Dahmer? Gwyneth Paltrow appeared in a Park City, Utah, courtroom on March 21, rocking aviator glasses (an accessory that invited an unfortunate comparison) and a beige turtleneck sweater for day one of her “ski and run” lawsuit. Goop’s head was first sued by Terry Sanderson, a now-76-year-old retired optometrist, in February 2019, who is alleging Paltrow carelessly struck him on the slopes and caused him to suffer physical and mental injuries.
Many of the Furiosa reviews coming out of the Cannes Film Festival will rightly focus on Anya Taylor-Joy’s coal-fire performance, on the film’s labyrinthine action sequences, on its relentless sense of bleak hopelessness, on Chris Hemsworth’s insane fake nose. But I walked away from George Miller’s latest Cannes premiere tonight still thinking about Alyla Browne. Browne plays the extra-young Furiosa to Taylor-Joy’s normal-young Furiosa, and the first hour or so of the two-and-a-half-hour film is entirely hers.