About halfway into “Forever Your Maternal Animal,” a striking confession appears almost out of nowhere. The two main characters in the film, sisters in their early twenties, are sitting in a mall restaurant when the younger one says she has sex with the spirits who visit her room at night. She’s so detailed in her […]VarietyRead More
Taraji P. Henson appeared on a recent episode of Hoda Kotb’s “Making Space” podcast (via People) and reflected on the moment she realized just how differently male and female actors are treated in Hollywood. The Oscar nominee got her movie breakthrough in John Singleton’s 2001 coming-of-age movie “Baby Boy,” which also happened to mark the…
Amazon MGM has scheduled “I Play Rocky” for a splashy Nov. 20 release following a limited debut on Nov. 13, Variety has confirmed. The premiere comes just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday, one of the busiest times for moviegoing. The 50th anniversary of the original Oscar-winning boxing drama is on Nov. 21. The film…
Peacock has renewed “The Burbs” starring Keke Palmer for Season 2, Variety has learned. The series, which is inspired by the 1989 horror-comedy of the same name, originally debuted on the streamer in February. “We’re so thrilled that audiences loved season one of ‘The ’Burbs,’ and are going to get to spend more time in…
Chris Noth took to Instagram on Wednesday to calm the buzz surrounding a comment he made on an earlier post that appeared to endorse a fan’s take-down of his former “Sex and the City” co-star Sarah Jessica Parker. “My off-the-cuff slightly sarcastic response to a comment on the internet seems to have caused a tempest…
The winter Olympic games are often seen as more of an appendix to their larger summertime counterparts than a tentpole in themselves. But in 2026, the parallels between Milan — which co-hosts the 25th winter Olympics with Cortina d’Ampezzo, a ski town near the Austrian border — and 2024 host city Paris are impossible to ignore. They…
“Daily Show” host Michael Kosta will play a different type of anchor on Tracy Morgan’s “The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins,” premiering on Jan. 18. Kosta will guest star on the upcoming NBC comedy series as Brett Mann, the smug, self-important host of a “SportsCenter”-style show. (Kosta himself was a former professional athlete, and he he hosts the podcast “Tennis…
