If you want to watch the No. 1 show in late night, you’re going to have to get premium cable. Podcasting duo turned up-and-coming late-night hosts Desus Nice and The Kid Mero are once again moving up in the world, ending their late-night Viceland series in favor, presumably, of the fancier sets and more expensive…
Earlier this morning, we reported on a first-person account from actress and cosplay luminary Chloe Dykstra in which she recounted a painful period in her life: An emotionally and sexually abusive relationship with an unnamed podcaster-turned-CEO. And although Dykstra takes pains not to say his name in the post, it’s…
Variety reports that Comedy Central has canceled The Opposition, comedian Jordan Klepper’s attempt to emulate fellow Daily Show alum Stephen Colbert by pretending to be an unhinged conspiracy theorist on TV four nights a week, after just one season. It seems the public appetite for that particular flavor of late-night…
Actress and professional cosplayer Chloe Dykstra has published a lengthy autobiographical essay on her Medium account, in which she accuses an unnamed ex-boyfriend of sexually and emotionally abusing her throughout the entire tenure of their long-term relationship. In the post, Dykstra says she’s not “intending to…
Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres, or occasionally our own inscrutable whims. With the remake of the blaxploitation classic Super Fly opening in theaters this week, we’re looking back on the genre’s 1970s heyday.
Prince’s archives are the stuff of legend, but what about Mitch Hedberg’s? We’ll soon find out, as in a guest column in today’s The Hollywood Reporter, Hedberg’s widow, Lynn Shawcroft, reveals that she’s spent the last eight months diligently digitizing a huge archive of unreleased material from the late comedy…
It’s bad enough knowing that your male colleagues are probably making more money than you for doing the exact same work. But if you’re a successful pop-rock band, and you’ve got an agent whose entire job is getting you gigs and negotiating your pay for them, and you’re still making a fraction of what the guys are…
The trailer for Disney’s latest entry into its “if it ain’t broke, remake it” series of live-action redos, Dumbo, dropped earlier this morning, revealing the sad-faced lil’ guy whose tragic tale of maternal love will make viewers reach for their hankies come next March. It also reveals how much of an influence…
[Note: Spoilers for Wonder Woman—which came out last summer, and is currently streaming on HBO Go/Now as well as available for digital rental—within.]
The original Super Fly (1972) is a film best remembered for its soulful soundtrack, its peacocking style, and its ostentatious displays of ’70s wealth, all cornerstones of a particularly flashy breed of hip-hop music video. And the best parts of the SuperFly remake resemble one of those videos, utilizing Director X.’s…
New York City has been taking the death of chef-turned-television personality Anthony Bourdain especially hard: After all, he was one of their own, the son of a New York Times staff editor and a Columbia classical music executive who spent 20 years working his way up from a line cook to an executive chef at…
Alec Baldwin and Donald Trump are apparently more alike than either of them would like to admit. That’s our takeaway from a new interview Baldwin gave to The Howard Stern Show, over the course of which he goes from jokingly bragging that “Hands down, I would win” in a presidential race against Donald Trump to actually…
In recent years, mental health advocates have been pushing for a small, but significant, change in the way we report on suicide: “Do not write ‘committed suicide’— the term is ‘died by suicide,’” organizations like the WHO suggest. That signals a shift away from the stigma that taking one’s own life is a hurtful,…
In what’s become an annual ritual, last weekend a buzzy horror title from A24 debuted in theaters to solid box office and divided audiences. It’s a pattern that began with The Witch in February 2016, which was praised by critics in early reviews, received a “C-” CinemaScore from audiences, and yet still scored a …
The antipathy between Robert De Niro and Donald Trump is one of the more enjoyable non-hip-hop-related celebrity beefs of our time. It’s a war of words that has given us such hits as De Niro calling Trump “jerkoff-in-chief” at the National Board of Review awards, as well as this response to De Niro banning Trump from…
Spoiler Space offers thoughts on, and a place to discuss, the plot points we can’t reveal in our official reviews. Fair warning: Major plot points for Hereditary are revealed below.
I love monsters of all sorts, but some of my favorites are the traditional monsters from Japanese folklore collectively referred to as yōkai. These creatures vary wildly in size and temperament from anthropomorphized household objects like karakasa—a lost umbrella with one eye and a long, floppy tongue that hops…
