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This week: Scientology? The Jan. 6 insurrection? Michael Jordan’s son? It’s a veritable Mad Libs of search terms and scandal, so perhaps...
There was a wackadoo of an international incident this week. It was an event so shattering that adults around the globe were immediately reduced to...
Alex Garland’s Civil War is a cinematic lightning rod in a historic thunderstorm—and the tempest, in this case, is “being alive in America...
It is a rare, affirming experience when you are watching a TV series or film and see yourself reflected back at you. I realized this last week that...
With Civil War , Alex Garland made a film intended to provoke audiences into thinking about the state of the country. So naturally, I’m terrified....
William Shatner has spent a lifetime “boldly going” where maybe not no man, but few have gone before. The phrase—“to boldly go where no man...
There has not been a second that’s passed this week that I have not been thinking about Jill Zarin’s appearance on Below Deck . Well, there was...
Netflix knows how to get my attention. In its announcement that the series White Collar, which ran from 2009 to 2014 on USA, is now available on...
It’s a little wild how all pop culture writing about Beyoncé inevitably escalates into laughable hyperbole. I have no interest in contributing to...
It’s been a busy spring TV season already, with some of the funniest comedies of the year ( Girls5eva ), best reality shows ( Top Chef ), best...
It’s the time of the year when each week there are seemingly two dozen new TV series or seasons dropping. DVRs are short-circuiting. Bank accounts...
Christmas; the only day where it’s actually spring weather in New York City; being asked out on a date: There are certain things that happen once a...
There are simply not enough people talking about Lori Loughlin on the most recent episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm . Once in a while I’m reminded of...
There’s a question that’s at the top of mind for the entire world. It’s a wonder the global economy hasn’t completely shut down. The effort it...
“How about that Diane is nuts? Can we start with that?” The first voice you hear in the new documentary Diane Warren: Relentless is unmistakable....
NGORONGORO CRATER, Tanzania—Of the scene’s many horrors, it’s the sound that haunts the most. The Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania, by day, can...
There may be no greater endorsement for a piece of entertainment than Donald Trump logging onto Truth Social and trashing it. So consider Jimmy...
This week This is a rare year for the Oscars. Not only are the nominees—this never happens—actually good, but every detail we’ve heard about...
Even the Marcia fucking Brady of the Upper East Side gets gray hair. At least that’s what I’m saying to comfort myself upon learning that Cruel...
Being obsessed with award shows is strange, because it often involves complaining about and even hating award shows. Common gripes include: voters...
This week was set up to be a huge bummer. You mean to tell me that, in the hellscape that is the year 2024, there was going to be an extra day? And...
Elsbeth, the new procedural premiering Thursday night on CBS, is the second official spinoff of the Emmy-winning legal drama The Good Wife . It...
There are certain dates that are heavily associated with individual people. Presidents’ Day, of course, is tied to George Washington and Abraham...
Barbra Streisand was presented with the lifetime achievement honor at the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards. It’s an appropriate year for such a...
This week: Get Ready to Cry Award seasons are strange. There are movies that are nominated for everything, then swiftly forgotten once the last...
I didn’t expect anyone to find a way to make a new Ariana Grande bop that samples Madonna’s “Vogue,” with a music video that references Paula...
There’s a reason that Jennifer Lopez said that “everybody thought [she] was crazy” for making her $20 million musical fantasia/”cinematic...
The biggest television phenomenon of the last year is a series that went off air nearly four years ago—and, let’s be honest, wasn’t that popular...
Things turned more thorny when rosy when The Bachelor producers appeared on the Unscripted Storytellers panel at Saturday’s Television Critics...
This week: “Excitement” is a foreign feeling for me these days. It seems so preposterous that I imagine it would be akin to what it’s like to...
Charge your Life Alert bracelets and tune your hearing aids, because the forthcoming news is akin to having your age come swinging toward you like a...
As much as I love so-called “prestige TV,” there is no programming more magical than when a broadcast drama series cannonballs into the waters of...
When the cast and creative team behind ABC’s hit comedy series Not Dead Yet walked to their seats for their press conference for Television...
The Way Home is the Hallmark Channel’s first new original series in seven years, and, when its first season premiered last year, marked a major...
It’s been 13 years since The Walking Dead first arrived on AMC like a sonic boom, kicking off a horror universe that has since spawned five...
Laura Dern does an excellent Kristen Wiig impression. The Oscar winner channeled the Saturday Night Live alum at the Television Critics Association...
There’s no dismissing the entertainment value of the Real Housewives franchises, whether it’s delighting in the cast’s feuds, Pulitzer-worthy...
What is it about the Peacock competition series The Traitors that has made the show so popular, outside of the fact that it is the greatest reality...
PARK CITY, Utah—The sex in Sebastian happens early. Then it happens often. We first meet a young man in his early twenties—thin, but fit and very...
This week: Another trip to the Sundance Film Festival is over for The Daily Beast’s Obsessed. That means I’ve taken the same photo I’ve taken...
It was around the time when people were blaming eugenics on the Barbie Oscar snubs that I feared we may have lost the plot. Every year Oscar...
NGORONGORO CRATER, Tanzania—Scaling the walls of Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater is among the few terrestrial experiences we have that feel akin to...
PARK CITY, Utah—The reason that I am able to type this—and therefore you are able to read it—is because of a woman named Mavis Beacon. Thanks to...
PARK CITY, Utah—Will Ferrell and his dear friend Harper Steele began working at Saturday Night Live the same season, nearly 30 years ago. Ferrell...
PARK CITY, Utah—This year’s Sundance Film Festival hosted films that brought the likes of Kristen Stewart, Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, Steven...
PARK CITY, Utah—There’s been a Sasquatch sighting in Park City. That actually happened: Someone dressed head to toe in a (quite impressive)...
PARK CITY, Utah—If Tom Cruise ever retires from action movies, I know a 94-year-old actress more than capable of taking his place. In what will...
I am a twin (fun fact about me!). When we were in late elementary/early middle school, my brother and I became obsessed with stats. We watched...
This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beast’s Obsessed, written by editor Kevin Fallon. There’s something incredibly cool...
Mainstream films are rarely as ambitious as Origin . Written and directed by Ava DuVernay, it is based on Isabel Wilkerson’s 2020 book Caste: The...