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David Corenswet will be our new Man of Steel, with The Marvelous Mrs Maisel’s Rachel Brosnahan as his Lois. By Grant Rindner June 27, 2023 David Corenswet attends the premiere of HBO’s We Own This City at The Times Center on April 21, 2022 in New York City.Courtesy of Angela Weiss for Getty Images A

David Corenswet will be our new Man of Steel, with The Marvelous Mrs Maisel’s Rachel Brosnahan as his Lois. By Grant Rindner June 27, 2023 David Corenswet attends the premiere of HBO’s We Own This City at The Times Center on April 21, 2022 in New York City.Courtesy of Angela Weiss for Getty Images A

That’s the provocative question posed in The Anne Frank Gift Shop, a new short film from writer-director Mickey Rapkin. “The jokes will not be for everybody, but even that will spark conversation,” he tells GQ. By Sarah Seltzer June 27, 2023 Photograph by Getty Images Anne Frank is (once again) having a moment, with the

The rapper-turned-filmmaker says of his new series I’m a Virgo airing on Amazon, “In order to get your work out in a big way, you’re going to be dealing with folks that are involved in the extreme exploitation of labor.” By Joseph Bien-Kahn June 26, 2023 Boots Riley visits The IMDb Portrait Studio at Acura

A QR code in Drake’s promo for his book teased a new album, For All the Dogs. By Grant Rindner June 24, 2023 ATLANTA, GA – DECEMBER 9: Rapper Drake performs onstage during “Lil Baby & Friends Birthday Celebration Concert” at State Farm Arena on December 9, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Prince Williams/Wireimage)Prince

Warner Bros. Discovery head David Zaslav recently gutted the management at Turner Classic Movies, a move that prompted Spielberg, Scorsese, and Paul Thomas Anderson to schedule an emergency conference call. By Vince Mancini June 24, 2023 Director Peter Bogdanovich attends the 2017 TCM Classic Film Festival on April 7, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.Courtesy of

Business Is Business is a star-studded affair but don’t expect many bars addressing Gunna or Thug’s current situation. By Grant Rindner June 23, 2023 Young Thug speaks onstage at the 2021 REVOLT Summit at 787 Windsor on November 13, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia.Courtesy of Paras Griffin via Getty Images Last May, Young Thug, Gunna, and

GQ speaks to Millie Judd, who has blown up on TikTok by testing how her boyfriend chooses his shirts. She thinks they’re proof that he’s a “simpleton” when it comes to dressing, but something called “nudge theory” may offer a deeper explanation. By Kate Lindsay June 23, 2023 Photograph: Getty Images; Collage: Gabe Conte When

Jamie Lee Curtis, Bob Odenkirk and John Mulaney show up for a tour de force hour that’s easily the season’s early standout By Esther Zuckerman June 22, 2023 Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri star in The Bear season 2.Courtesy of Chuck Hodes for FX. On a whole, season 2 of The Bear—which just released

Penned by The Weeknd himself, Jocelyn’s comeback single is the latest in a long line of shallow, sugary, wholly undeniable fictional bangers. By Eileen Cartter June 21, 2023 Courtesy of HBO “World Class Sinner/I’m a Freak,” the fictional would-be comeback single for The Idol’s grieving mononymous pop star Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp), plays dozens of times

The end of the premiere episode of Disney+’s new Fury series gives the MCU a much-needed dose of real danger. By William Goodman June 21, 2023 Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) and Nick Fury’s (Samuel L. Jackson) mission in Secret Invasion gets off to a high-stakes start.Courtesy of Des Willie for Marvel __Spoilers for the first

The duo are coming back to TV with another dense book adaptation. Will they be welcomed back? By Grant Rindner June 21, 2023 John Bradley in Netflix’s upcoming series 3 Body Problem, from Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and DB Weiss.Courtesy of Netflix. Since Game of Thrones ended in 2019 with perhaps the biggest

The Clipse reunion vibes of late continue with a new track playing as the brothers walked Pharrell’s runway, in which Pusha appears to diss Jim Jones. By Grant Rindner June 21, 2023 Pusha T and No Malice walk the runway during the Louis Vuitton Menswear Spring/Summer 2024 show in Paris, France, where they debuted a

Eric Vetro is the man Hollywood’s biggest stars call when they need to learn how to sing: Ryan Gosling, Will Ferrell, Austin Butler as Elvis. So what exactly makes Vetro so special? By Gabriella Paiella June 21, 2023 Timothée Chalamet, vocal coach Eric Vetro, and Austin Butler. There will come a time in many young

We talked to the beloved character actor about joining the evangelical HBO comedy and filming Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. By Gabriella Paiella June 20, 2023 Shea Whigham! The man is one of our great character actors. When he shows up on screen—whether in Perry Mason or Boardwalk Empire, Fargo or True Detective—you

The director of Call Me By Your Name promises to bring sexy back with a new comedy about sports—and maybe also threesomes. By Vince Mancini June 20, 2023 Mike Faist, Zendaya and Josh O’Connor are turning the sexy up in tennis in Luca Guadagnino’s new film Challengers.Courtesy of Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures In the last

Twenty years after its divisive release, the auteur’s moody, decidedly non-spectacular comic book film is even more rewarding in the midst of superhero formula and fatigue. By Jake Kring-Schreifels June 20, 2023 Ang Lee’s Hulk.Courtesy of Universal via Everett Collection In the midst of shooting Hulk in June of 2002, writer-producer James Schamus sensed a

Barry Allen kicks off a big multiverse adventure to stop his mother’s murder and exonerate his falsely accused father—but the real culprit is never revealed or even addressed. By William Goodman June 19, 2023 Ezra Miller as The Flash in The Flash.Courtesy of Warner Bros via Everett Collection __Spoilers for __The Flash below** In The

Danny McBride’s third comedy creation with HBO has given us a wealth of beautiful comedic oddballs who are probably too weird to win awards but deserve them anyway. By Vince Mancini June 18, 2023 Adam Devine, Dann McBride and Edi Patterson make up one of the best ensembles on TV in The Righteous Gemstones.Courtesy of

DC didn’t wait for The Flash’s returns to promote its director. Brave and the Bold will be the first Batman film with a Robin since 1997. By Vince Mancini June 16, 2023 The Flash director Andy Muschietti, who directed Michael Keaton (pictured) and Ben Affleck as Batman in the film, will now direct Batman: The