The sinister glamorization of narcos
Drug trafficking and use is often glorified and trivialized in pop culture, but even feminists who protest this portrayal ignore how their own drug use fuels human trafficking and the arms trade
Drug trafficking and use is often glorified and trivialized in pop culture, but even feminists who protest this portrayal ignore how their own drug use fuels human trafficking and the arms trade
Ending up behind bars can ruin an actor’s career or turn them into a legend. We look at how this has played in nine notable cases, from Felicity Huffman to Mark Wahlberg
The exclusion of Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie from their presumed award categories has sparked accusations of sexism in the Academy — a controversy reminiscent of the scandal 18 years ago surrounding a celebrated film featuring two gay cowboys
The star of ‘Oppenheimer’ is one of those actors who is allergic to Hollywood. He tries to live far away, pose as little as possible, promote his films just enough and focus on projects that he believes in
Todd Haynes’ award-winning film runs every chance of netting Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman an Oscar, thanks to a story that Americans remember like it was yesterday: a couple that was forged in abuse
‘Barbie’ fans find it unfair that five actresses who aren’t the star of the pink blockbuster have been nominated for Oscars
Disgruntled reviewers have set out to destroy Issa López’s latest version of the series on review-aggregation websites. They have already made victims of ‘The Little Mermaid’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ and are now targeting the Jodie Foster series in which, according to some, there are too few men
Kim Basinger, now 70, was one of the most desired actresses during an era in Hollywood when the first sign of wrinkles could end a woman’s career
The 56-year-old Briton confirms with ‘The Beekeeper’ that he is a true, authentic action hero who gives viewers what they want: beautifully choreographed violence and little dialogue
A newly released documentary joins the several products trying to capitalize on the curiosity surrounding the young woman who became a celebrity after being imprisoned for the murder of her mother
The message of Amazon’s black comedy is you can only enter the lives of the idle rich by stepping over corpses
The ‘Dawson’s Creek’ star is still an enigma: after a promising start that included working with Hollywood’s most renowned directors, the most talked-about marriage of its time altered her plans
‘Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God’ is an HBO documentary about the sect that ended with the discovery of a blue corpse in 2021. The film delves into the paranoid fantasies of the cult’s followers, many of whom had harsh lives and felt forgotten by the system
I suspect that with this anodyne offering David Fincher is attempting revenge on Netflix for canceling ‘Mindhunter’
456 contestants from around the globe are vying for the biggest prize ever awarded on TV, $4.56 million. The secret of Netflix’s new reality show is that everything is “bigger” but at no point does it seem to matter if it is better
Some occurred decades ago, while others just happened this year, but all of them were questioned. Years later, some screenwriters and producers have expressed their regrets
As the streaming platforms bring about a rebirth of the holiday romance genre, the must-see film of the season faces endless criticism that its creators handle by claiming that the characters are not perfect; just human
In the 1950s a woman wasn’t allowed to be a scientist. There are still jobs where a female presence is greeted with suspicion: some as absurd as saving the world in a pair of tights
The digital realm makes it harder to pretend that someone you used to love does not exist. Still, people try
Bart’s dad won’t strangle him anymore in the long-running animated series because we now live in the age of the Flanders family
The actor, who has just released the film ‘Hypnotic,’ continues to face the paradox of being an interesting director, an average performer and an absolutely fascinating media star
Sevigny, who led an erratic life and never wanted to be famous, has been an indie muse, a model, an Oscar nominee and the protagonist of extreme on-screen experiments. She has survived it all. Today, she’s triumphed again, with ‘Poker Face’
Supposedly serious media are trying to analyze the overwhelming interest in the singer and football player’s relationship. But it’s no big mystery: sometimes it’s just nice to see happy people
On October 31, 1993, the most promising movie star of the 1990s died in one of the fashionable clubs in Los Angeles, leaving a legacy that remains alive 30 years later
The winner of two Oscars, Lange sees the awards environment as corrupted. An iconic actress — who gained new recognition late in her career by starring in ‘American Horror Story’ — she has often expressed her frustrations with an industry in which sexist and ageist prejudices persist
The British performer, who rose to fame through iconic films such as ‘Schindler’s List’ and ‘The English Patient,’ returns to the big screen with ‘The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar’
Bonnie Tyler’s hit ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ has just reached one billion views on YouTube, 40 years after its release, which is no mean feat for a music video that doesn’t exactly have a plot