The comedian’s brilliant new show lets his rants go deeper and hit much harder Any man who can make Right Said Fred politically resonant is clearly doing something right. And John Oliver is such a man. He certainly dreamed up a novel way to trash Syria’s Bashar al-Assad on his HBO show, Last Week Tonight With
READ MOREThe rap on Wes Anderson is that he doesn’t make movies so much as build castles in the air. To Anderson haters, from Bottle Rocket and Rushmore to Fantastic Mr. Fox and Moonrise Kingdom, his films reek of pressed flowers, too stale and studied to feel for. To the rest of us, the 44-year-old Texan is one of the few original stylists
READ MOREThe Oscar-nominated director of ’12 Years a Slave’ is ready to put his anger aside A decade and a half ago, the British filmmaker Steve McQueen took a plane to Grenada, the tiny West Indian island, to visit a beautiful place where something horrible once happened. The place was Caribs’ Leap, a tall cliff overlooking the
READ MOREBryan Cranston prepares for the worst in first clip for Gareth Edwards’ reboot What’s big, green and has Bryan Cranston freaking out way worse than Walter White in a crawl space? Godzilla! The first trailer for the upcoming reboot opens with sprawling shots of the titular monster’s epic tirade of destruction and finds Cranston in
READ MOREActor says he recently pitched himself to the film’s producer He’s left the Scorpions in the dust, done the twist with Uma Thurman and swapped faces with Nicolas Cage. Now, John Travolta is eyeing an epic face off with James Bond. In a new interview with The Telegraph, the 59-year-old actor says he would love to
READ MOREA police raid yielded 350 bags of heroin Four people were arrested Tuesday night in connection with the death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, with three people formally charged Wednesday, according to the New York Times. Robert Vineberg, 57, was charged with felony possession of a controlled substance, with Max Rosenblum and Juliana Luchkiw, both 22
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