Early in the documentary It Was All a Dream, the veteran music journalist and filmmaker dream hampton (stylized in lowercase as an homage to the scholar bell hooks), moseys around the offices of The Source magazine, filming her colleagues. The hip hop periodical was, in its early days, a wellspring for understanding the nascent genre. …
Matthew Lewis is “not in any rush” to return to the Wizarding World amid the Harry Potter TV series currently in development. The actor, who played Neville Longbottom throughout all eight Harry Potter films in the franchise, recently talked with People magazine about the idea of reprising his character for the Max reboot. “The reason I got …
The roles were reversed on the latest episode of Real Time, with Martin Short‘s legendary character Jiminy Glick coming out of retirement to ask Bill Maher the tough questions. Typically, the host will interview his guests one-on-one at the beginning of the show, but on Friday, Maher decided to become the interviewee to talk about …
This week’s TV’s Top 5 podcast represented the 264th episode of The Hollywood Reporter‘s TV podcast and, in all likelihood, the last. Listen to hosts Lesley Goldberg and Daniel Fienberg explain: If this is, indeed, the last TV’s Top 5 episode, here are 5 highlight episodes from the podcast’s five-year run. ‘TV’s Top 5’ Podcast: …
Queer Eye has proven to clean up quite nicely, with the unscripted television franchise having collected 12 Emmy wins from 38 total nominations. It landed its first Emmy for its debut season after initially launching as Queer Eye for the Straight Guy on Bravo during the summer of 2003. Focusing on five gay men known …
Inside Out 2 is showing no signs of slowing down as it heads into its second weekend. Among other record-setting feats, the Pixar film is passing up Dune: Part Two to become the top-grossing film of 2024 at the domestic box office with more than $283 million in ticket sales through Friday, only its eighth …
Season three of Max’s Hacks begins with a suspended camera pan above the Las Vegas Strip that guides viewers inside Caesars Palace, where it follows a familiar figure through the casino for a gag of a reveal. Captured in one take, the shot, which the show’s director of photography Adam Bricker calls “kind of badass,” …
To say that The Big Bend is set in the American desert is technically true but also a wild understatement. The stark and unsettling beauty of West Texas, with its cliffs and canyons and ghost towns, isn’t mere backdrop to this well-observed drama; it infuses the movie on a molecular level. Brett Wagner’s atmospheric feature …
Chatting with Jane Lynch about The Weakest Link, I set myself up for a dose of the biting humor that keeps audiences tuned in to the NBC game show week after week, when I ask an unfortunately cliché question. “Is there any celebrity guest you’re dying to have on the show?” I quiz. “Not dying …
Mike Faist was planning to take a prolonged breather after an exhausting shoot on Challengers, but then those intentions fell by the wayside once Jeff Nichols called about The Bikeriders. The Take Shelter and Mud filmmaker made Faist an offer that was simply too tempting to pass up. He’d not only get to work a …