Barry Jenkins Unveils If Beale Street Could Talk Trailer on James Baldwin’s Birthday

Today, on what would’ve been James Baldwin’s 94th birthday, Barry Jenkins has released the first trailer for his Moonlight follow-up, If Beale Street Could Talk. Based on the Baldwin novel of the same name, the movie follows young lovers Fonny (Stephan James) and Tish (Kiki Layne) in 1970s Harlem. Their

More »


Source: Ent News

The Ethical Dilemma of Highbrow True Crime

All week long, Vulture is exploring the many ways true crime has become one of the most dominant genres in popular culture. Alice Bolin is the author of Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession.The “true-crime boom” of the mid- to late 2010s is a strange pop-culture phenomenon, given

More »


Source: Ent News

Watch Jaden Smith Shoot a Scary Skateboard Stunt in This Skate Kitchen Clip

Before you watch this exclusive clip from Crystal Moselle’s Skate Kitchen, I just want to say that the film is a wheels-on-pavement blast where the stakes are never much higher than gaining and retaining the friendship of a group of girls who truly get you. I include that preamble because

More »


Source: Ent News

New on Amazon Prime: August 2018

If you feel a sudden need for a solid whodunit: Agatha Christie’s Ordeal by InnocenceThe latest in a new wave of series adapting the works of one of the most famous mystery novelists in history, Ordeal by Innocence begins, of course, with a murder: A wealthy heiress has died, and

More »


Source: Ent News

Nicole Kidman in Talks for Gretchen Carlson Role in Roger Ailes Movie

Nicole Kidman will star opposite Charlize Theron in Annapurna’s Roger Ailes movie dramatizing the former Fox News chairman’s downfall. Per Variety, Kidman will play Fox & Friends host Gretchen Carlson, who filed a sexual-harassment lawsuit against Ailes, which began his career’s unraveling. Theron will produce and star as Megyn Kelly

More »


Source: Ent News

Chloë Grace Moretz Says Her True Self Is a 4 Non Blondes–Belting ‘Total Dork’

This interview originally ran during the Sundance Film Festival.Chloë Grace Moretz and Sasha Lane spent a lot of time together in the middle of nowhere in upstate New York during the production of Desiree Akhavan’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post. So it’s pretty lucky that they happen to share, in

More »


Source: Ent News

Cool Ass Dank Ass Shit and Our Growing Appetite for Watching People Watch

Five years ago, Bobby McCoy’s Cool Ass Dank Ass Shit would’ve been unwatchable. Not because the alt-comedy climate has changed since then, but because the idea of a three-paned display anchored by a cell-phone screen wouldn’t have been created in the first place.Back in 2013, we still consumed most traditional

More »


Source: Ent News

Comedy’s Holy Grail, Lost Monty Python Scenes, Found in Michael Palin’s Archive

Monty Python is the gift that keeps on giving. Troupe member Michael Palin has given his private archive to the British Library in London, and it contains several cut and never-before-seen scenes from 1975’s Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Palin spoke with the Times of London about the scripts,

More »


Source: Ent News