Latest in Commentary

Truth be told, I'm not crazy about Oscar night. The shoes pinch. Security's a bother. All the red-carpet nattering unnerves me. And watching at home isn't much better. Who really wants to turn on the television at 5 — oops, make that 4 — o'clock on an…

Emma Heming Willis wants the media to do better on reports about her husband and their family life since his condition progressed from aphasia to frontotemporal dementia (FTD). "It's Sunday morning and I'm triggered," she wrote today in an Instagram Story. "I just got click-baited. I'm just…

On the one side, you have an atheist and avowed bachelor. On the other, a psychologist who thinks family and faith are the keys to progress from our current problems. Those polar opposites made for some intense sparring on Friday’s Real Time, as Bill Maher faced off aganst a fiesty Dr. Phil McGraw…

"I despise auditions," Marlon Brando barked as he launched into the audition for his role in The Godfather. It was his idea, I reminded him, so he himself had caused his actors angst, not the studio. (It was, of course, a great audition.) Actors’ angst…

Ray Winstone appeared in Marvel’s Black Widow, which came out in 2021 and which starred Scarlett Johansson as the titular character. It was not fun, he said in this week’s issue of Radio Times, as he revealed his experience playing the film’s villain, Russian general Dreykov. “It was fine until…

How did you like the chocolate factory, Charlie? Instead of the most wonderful place in the whole world, angry customers and event participants from a botched “Wonka World” immersive experience held this weekend in Glasgow, Scotland, are angry and seeking a refund. Today, a cast member from the show…

Tyler Perry has seen demonstrations of what AI can do. While he is astonished, he’s also sounding an alarm. Perry is already voting with his wallet on the subject. His plans for an $800 million expansion of his Atlanta studio are on hold after seeing a demonstration of OpenAI’s text-to-video model…

"Uninspired." "Never catches fire." "Non-memorable." I was sifting through reviews last weekend as the first step in my mission to re-discover the habit of moviegoing. With Barbenheimer finally behind us (well, almost), I decided to see three new movies on successive days – yes, buying tickets and…

There’s an old saying that the back rules the man. Sylvester Stallone knows it, having undergone seven surgeries to fix a back problem that started with wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin and a stunt that went bad. In the second season of The Family Stallone, Stallone talked about his battle with a…

I share my colleague Pete Hammond's fascination with Cord Jefferson's BAFTA win for his screenplay adaptation, American Fiction. It is no small thing for a self-consciously American story to win a very British award against competition as formidable as Christopher Nolan, especially for a debut…

EXCLUSIVE: Dominic Sessa, the 21-year-old rising star, didn't win a Supporting Actor BAFTA Award Sunday night — that went to Oppenheimer's Robert Downey Jr. — but he did pick up his first post-The Holdovers role that will see him starring with Rose Byrne in director Stephanie Laing's drama Tow. This…

After nearly a decade of the BAFTA and Oscars failing to match on their choice for Best Picture (with the exception in 2020, when Covid created an atypical year to say the least), you can probably take it to the bank that this year that streak will be…