HBO’s 2015 documentary series The Jinx famously ended with subject—and murder suspect—Robert Durst walking into a bathroom while still wearing a mic and seemingly confessing to the murders he had been accused of by saying, “What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.” It was a shocking twist, even though the…
Prison Mike on The Office taught everyone how scary life can be on the inside, but it sounds like things might not be quite so harrowing for Martin Shkreli, the extremely hateable “Pharma Bro” who recently got seven years in prison for defrauding investors. The internet had a little schadenfreude party after Shkreli…
Back in March, Sherlock star Martin Freeman suggested that the show’s fans had loved it too much, with their expectations eventually becoming so high that it became “kind of impossible” for Freeman to have any fun making the show. Combined with the poor reception of the show’s fourth season, and it all basically…
David Fincher’s World War Z was a fairly big hit, but Fincher, Paramount, and original star Brad Pitt have had a surprisingly difficult time getting a sequel off the ground.For one thing, the original came out in 2013—which is like 12 Marvel movies ago, if that’s how you keep track of time—and the sequel burned…
Recently, Netflix has found itself in a bit off a tiff with the Cannes Film Festival over its general refusal to screen its original movies in theaters, with Beatrice Welles stepping in to try and calm the hostilities (because Netflix is releasing a long-lost film made by her father, Orson Welles, and it was supposed…
Japanese company Sanrio is best known for creating the iconically adorable Hello Kitty and her similarly adorable friends like Badtz-Maru and My Melody, all of which have been merchandised into oblivion with little dolls, toys, and games that are primarily targeted to kids who like cute animals. Aggretsuko, Sanrio’s…
Last January, we reported that Syriana director Stephen Gaghan had signed on to direct The Division, an adaptation of the Ubisoft video game about special military operatives sent in to a plague-ravaged Manhattan to execute gang members and troll other human players with high-tech gadgets and various different-colored…
At Home With Amy Sedaris, TruTV’s weird mash-up of variety shows, cooking shows and talk shows, was an absolute delight in its first season near the end of last year, and the network announced this week that it will be heading back to Sedaris’ house for another season. That comes from a press release, which says the…
Dwayne Johnson is a pretty tough dude who has no problem punching his way through stuff like the Fast And Furious movies and Rampage, but he may have met his match in Jesse Plemons, a guy who also seems to be in everything and also has a knack for effortlessly tearing shit up—like when he killed a guy in Friday Night…
This week, Kanye West announced that a recent string of galaxy brain tweets he posted were actually a philosophy book that he’s writing “in real time,” but it turns out that he actually has some more traditional creative outputs in the works as well. Today, in another series of tweets, West revealed that he’s putting…
We learned last year that Michelle Pfeiffer would be joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Ant-Man And The Wasp as Janet Van Dyne, the long-lost wife of Michael Douglas’ Hank Pym, but there’s a chance we might be seeing her even sooner than that. Speaking with The Guardian, longtime MCU featured player Sebastian…
Prince was a prolific artist, so much so that Warner Bros. and Universal got into a bit of a feud over which company would get to control the contents of his vault of unreleased recordings, but Prince’s estate is now looking to get all of his stuff organized by hiring a dedicated “archives supervisor” at Paisley Park.…
We still don’t know a ton about the show, but Netflix has now released some teaser images from Maniac, a new black comedy series created by True Detective and Beasts Of No Nation director Cary Fukunaga. The show is based on a Norwegian show of the same name, and The Hollywood Reporter explains that it’s about “two…
According to Deadline, the horror masters at Blumhouse have picked up the rights to “Worst Roommate Ever,” a harrowing New York Magazine article about exactly what it says in the title. Surprisingly, Blumhouse is planning to make film and TV adaptations of the story, with the movie version most likely being a…
As initially teased way back in 2016, it looks like Homeland will really be coming to an end after one more season. That’s according to star Claire Danes, who would know better than anyone, as she recently appeared on Howard Stern’s Sirius XM show and confirmed that the show’s eighth season will be its last. Danes…
Senator Bernie Sanders is an effortlessly cool dude who is always right about everything, at least far as half of Reddit is concerned (the other half worships a different political idol), and today he once again played to his coolest supporters by hopping on Twitter and saying that he agrees with Cardi B about the…
MoviePass has always seemed like it’s too good to be true, partly because paying the flat rate to see as many movies as you want is a surprisingly good deal and partly because the companies that make movies and run theaters absolutely hate it, but a Variety report suggests that MoviePass might not have much time left…
Over the last week, Kanye West has come roaring back into the public eye, first with an announcement that he’s writing a philosophy book called Break The Simulation that partly involves the weird artificiality of taking photographs and then with some proper brain-blowing tweets about how “some people have to work…
This summer marks the 20th anniversary of seminal hip-hop album The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill, and Lauryn Hill is marking the occasion with a special anniversary tour dedicated to the album. Hill will be performing Miseducation in full, and each stop on the tour will feature “special guest performers” that haven’t…
