Clockwise from top left: Poolman, Woman of the Hour, Knox Goes Away, and Hell of a Summer. How have the SAG and WGA strikes affected this year’s Toronto International Film Festival? In form, not much. The most essential element of TIFF has always been the populace of North America’s fourth-largest city coming out to celebrate cinema, and that was unchanged. In certain respects, things even ran smoother without the actors.

Ian McKellen was reportedly hospitalized after falling off a stage during a June 17 performance. The actor later said in a statement that he needed more recovery time and has withdrawn from the U.K. tour of Player Kings. Say it ain’t so! June 17, 2024: Ian McKellen has been hospitalized after falling off the stage during a performance of Player Kings on the West End in London.

Oh yeah, Ice Cube gave @billmaher the talk he needed to hear pic.twitter.com/i7jYbCtm5P — Tormund XtopHodor, First of His Name (@tommyxtopher) June 10, 2017 Bill Maher opened Friday night’s episode of Real Time by obliquely referencing the controversy surrounding his casual use of the “n-word” from last week. “Thank you for letting a sinner in your midst,” he quipped to his audience, who gave him a standing ovation as chants of “We love you Bill!

Getty Images 1. Ice Cube, “It Takes a Nation”Ice Cube makes no apologies for being “the famous West Coast rapper who act like a anus.” Instead, he puts the president, Clear Channel and Hollywood (as well as the usual collection of wack emcees) on notice. [Some Velvet Blog] 2. Bruce Springsteen, “I’m on Fire (Cousin Cole’s Bad Desire Mix)” You can’t really improve on the Boss’s version, but Cousin Cole keeps his beats out of the way on this remix and stokes the flames of the original nicely.

While Matty Healy was catching heat earlier this year, Ice Spice was chilling. “When I had heard that little podcast or whatever, I was so confused,” she told Variety in a recent interview. “Because I heard ‘chubby Chinese lady’ or some shit like that, and I’m like, ‘Huh? What does that even mean?’ First of all, I’m thick. What do you mean Chinese? What?” This is the rapper’s first time publicly commenting onHealy’s controversial February appearance on The Adam Friedland Show.

After years of reshoots and exposés, The Idol hit HBO. Or Max, or whatever. The first episode saw Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp) weather a nude leak, dance at Tedros Tedros’s (Abel “the Weeknd” Tesfaye) club, and evade questions from Vanity Fair reporter Talia (Hari Nef). The show also stars Hank Azaria and Da’Vine Joy as Jocelyn’s co-managers, Troye Sivan as her creative director, and Rachel Sennott as her assistant.

This review was originally published on September 7, 2023, out of the Venice Film Festival. We are recirculating it with Hit Man now on Netflix. “How many of you really know yourselves?” Philosophy lecturer Gary Johnson (Glen Powell) posits this question to his University of New Orleans class early on in Richard Linklater’s Hit Man. “What if your self is a construction, an illusion … a role you’ve been playing since the day you were born?

Nobody puts Hardy in the corner. Word to the wise: If you ever have the privilege to interview Tom Hardy (or any A-list actor, for the matter) and that interview ends up being unexpectedly canceled, don’t air your strongly worded grievances on a public forum such as Twitter. Yet that’s exactly what Hitfix film critic Drew McWeeny chose to do last week, slamming back at the beautiful British actor for his supposed bad behavior at a recent press junket for The Revenant.

Plumes of white smoke emanated from the dining hall at Sun Valley, indicating that a CEO for Disney has been named. And, wouldja believe it? It’s Bob Iger again. Iger’s contract as CEO of the Walt Disney Company has been extended through the end of 2026, per Deadline. In 2022, Iger said he’d only serve two years and pick a new successor by 2024. Looks like that’s not happening.

“I think celebrities are always a little afraid of looking dumb. You know what I mean?” About 20 years ago, Ike Barinholtz played Alex Trebek in one of his early sketches on MADtv. Now, he’s wiping his competition clean on the actual Alex Trebek Stage. Barinholtz has advanced to the semifinal round of Jeopardy!’s Tournament of Champions, coming out victorious in a thrilling quarterfinal match that aired on March 4.