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Stream On This Week: Taskmaster Returns, a Very Clever Sailor Moon Spoof, and an Anniversary Remembered
Here are the best movies and TV shows to stream the weekend of September 11th. Stream On This Week: Taskmaster Return...
Iconic Spider-Man Character Officially Joins the X-Men
An iconic Spider-Man character who has yet to appear in live-action is officially joining the X-Men 47 years later.
Italian Director Tommaso Usberti’s Toxic Masculinity Drama ‘Before the War’ Scores Top Venice Critics’ Week Prize
Paris-based Italian director Tommaso Usberti’s romance “Before the War,” a reflection on racism and toxic masculinity...
‘The Legend of Korra’ Officially Continues With a New Sequel
Avatar Korra officially returns in the new WebToon comic sequel release, Turf Wars, by Michael Dante DiMartino.
Ella Rubin, Sarah Sherman, Marcello Hernandez and More Rock Out at Chanel’s NYFW Party
Chanel brought springtime bloom to New York Fashion Week. The luxury fashion house celebrated the launch of their new...
New James Bond Movie: First Draft of the Script Is Done, Says Steven Knight
With so much of the frenzied James Bond interest centered on who might be taking over from Daniel Craig as 007, somet...
Nashville Airport Renaming for Dolly Parton Moves Forward
The Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority voted unanimously to begin the process days after her first posthumous s...
Harry Potter Officially Makes a Historic Change Ahead of HBO’s New Series
Harry Potter is preparing for its HBO debut, and the upcoming series is bringing a major change to the franchise's fi...
How Stunt Expert and ‘Runner’ Director Scott Waugh Pulled Off Explosive Set Pieces With Alan Ritchson: ‘Find the Heart’ and Create ‘A Beautiful Spectacle’
Scott Waugh thinks about big set pieces differently than other filmmakers. Waugh began his career as a stunt performe...
Never Mind the IP, Here’s How Original Ideas Dominated This Year’s Emmy Races
As we head into Emmy week and celebrate this season’s bounty of top-notch televised entertainment, can we put to bed ...
‘One Minute to Midnight’ Review: A Stellar Cast Deliver Interesting but Overly Preachy Disquisitions on the Changing Nature of Male-Female Relations
Nicolas Pariser makes solid, philosophically absorbed films — like “The Great Game” and “Alice and the Mayor” — that ...
10 Movie Trilogies That Peak With Their First Chapter
From the comedy chaos of The Naked Gun to the fantasy allure of Pirates of the Caribbean, these famous trilogies all ...
Alexandra Pechman‘s TIFF Drama ‘Magazine’ Takes a Nostalgic Look at New York’s Last Gasp Before the Digital Age
Alexandra Pechman dipped into her own story for “Magazine,” a coming-of-age tale set in the early 2010s in a New York...
“Don’t Look Back in Anger” Turns Old Tension Into New Joy
In 2009, when Oasis broke up at Rock en Seine in Paris, I was there. In the throes of swine flu, I clutched a box of ...
Steven Wilson Announces New Album, Unleashes Single “Requiem for a Village”: Stream
The new album features narration by David Tennant written by XTC's Andy Partridge. Steven Wilson Announces New Album,...
20 Years Later, ’Death Note’s Most Chilling Scene Is Still Impossible To Forget
Death Note delivered its most chilling moment when Light manipulated and killed Naomi Misora, destroying any claim th...
‘SNL U.K.’ Cast on Wanting ‘Bigger Swings and Some Sex Sketches’ in Season 2, Bloody Backstage Mishaps and if Jack Shep’s Princess Diana Will Return
“SNL U.K.” returns to screens on Sep 12 for season 2, Sky’s high-profile U.S. import splashing down into Britain’s na...
Puerto Rican Trans Rapper Villano Antillano Opens Up About Leaving Her “Deeply Misogynistic” Home Island
The artist became the first trans and nonbinary artist to enter Spotify’s Global Top 50 following her breakout collab...
‘A Bit of Light’ Review: A Life-Affirming Drama About a Suicidal Iranian Doctor
Although its story unspools on the precipice of the U.S.-Iran war, Ali Asgari’s gentle family drama “A Bit of Light” ...
How Variety Covered 9/11 Attack and Its Aftermath 25 Years Ago
On Sept. 11, 2001, after the deadliest terrorist attack on the U.S. in history, Variety reporters and editors swung i...