PARIS — PARIS (AP) — Snoop Dogg steps out of a sleek black SUV, his entourage in tow, as a Parisian crowd erupts into chants of “Snoop, Snoop, Snoop!” outside the NBC set. Decked out in a custom-made, Noah Lyles-themed USA sweatsuit, the ultra-smooth entertainer glides past the adoring fans with flashing phone cameras into … Read more
J Lee Thompson is a British director who could maybe do with a bit more auteur respect: here is a double-bill rerelease of two of his early black-and-white films from the 1950s. The Weak and the Wicked (★★★★☆) is a melodrama that came out in 1954 just before his wrenching classic Yield to the Night, … Read more
Miss Teen USA 2023 UmaSofia Srivastava Steps Down Days After Miss USA Relinquishes Title A new pageant queen has been crowned. Alma Cooper of Michigan has been named Miss USA 2024 following the 73rd annual competition in Burbank, Calif., Aug. 4. The 22-year-old is an Army officer and a graduate of the United States Military … Read more
“Do you ever feel that you’re in the wrong place?” asks Adam, the doleful hero of Moin Hussain’s debut film. “Like, if this is the place you were meant to end up?” Adam might conceivably be talking about life in the Sky Peals Green service station, where he works the night shift in a fast-food … Read more
In the opening moments of Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon, a cute little computer-generated creature bearing a passing resemblance to Baby Yoda widens his cute little computer-generated eyes, steels his nerves, and uses his alien physiology to self-immolate, suicide-bombing his enemies into oblivion. Just 10 minutes or so into the movie, this is the point where … Read more
Produced by nature-lover Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way, this is a passable eco-primer for the younger generation, but a limp bit of storytelling about the eponymous junior orangutan (voiced by Amandla Stenberg). Its flower-topknotted hero is a kind of simian Greta Thunberg, bent on using her influencer clout to protect her rainforest home from an evil … Read more
It’s a fact of life: eventually, we all grow up. Our priorities shift; habits molt or harden; the tastes that seemed to define us change. Such maturity, or even just the novelty for new experiences after a period of time, came even for the fiercely shameless and stubbornly chaotic twentysomethings of Broad City, the decade-defining … Read more
The infinite monkey theorem goes: a monkey typing away at a keyboard for an infinite amount of time could, by chance, produce something worth reading – like, to take a joke from The Simpsons, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Churn out enough and treasure will emerge. Apply this idea to Hollywood, and … Read more
Heartbreaking news from Hollywood: Lena Dunham is no longer involved in the forthcoming Polly Pocket movie. Speaking to the New Yorker, Dunham revealed she dropped out of the project because “I don’t think I have that in me.” Clearly, there is a lot to unpack here. The first is, Christ, they’re going to make a … Read more
A love letter to her Greenland home, Ivola Frank’s stirring documentary explores the paradoxes of this beautiful and remote island. According to a groundbreaking study by geologist Minik Rosing, it is where life on Earth began, among the rock formations that have existed for nearly 4bn years. At the same time, the residents of Greenland … Read more
