Magnolia Pictures In his nearly 50 years as film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert had a reputation for being lucid, passionate, and, when a film happened to rub him the…
Jake Lloyd Sam Levi/WireImage Jake Lloyd, best known for playing a young Anakin Skywalker in 1999’s Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace, offered an update on his schizophrenia diagnosis. In an interview with Clayton Sandell published via Substack…
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Paramount A fun piece of trivia, culled from Larry Nemecek’s invaluable sourcebook “The Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion”: the character of…
Ariana Grande Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Ariana Grande thanked two special “friends” while accepting her first major award of the year. “Thank you guys so much,” the 31-year-old Wicked star told the crowd at the 2025 Palm Springs International Film Festival on Friday,…
CBS One of the funniest running gags in “How I Met Your Mother” is how Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris) always roots for the bad guys in movies and shows. He thinks…
Blake Lively Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images Before Blake Lively filed a lawsuit against her It Ends With Us costar and director Justin Baldoni, alleging sexual harassment, retaliation and more, the actress opened up about the vital importance of intimacy coordinators. “I…
Jeff Baena wrote and directed a slate of indie TV shows and films ahead of his sudden death in January 2025. “[Directing is] all I ever want to do; it felt really comfortable and fun,” Baena told Seensome in 2014,…
Josh Gad had to put on a show for a comedy legend … revealing he ran Mel Brooks through the recent “Star Wars” sequels while pitching a “Spaceballs” sequel. The actor told the story on a recent episode of the…
Aubrey Plaza and Jeff Baena Valerie Macon/Getty Images Aubrey Plaza briefly gushed over her marriage to husband Jeff Baena three months before his sudden and unexpected death. “I would stay away [from dating actors],” Plaza, 40 quipped during a September…
Summer House returns on Wednesday, February 12 on Bravo. The trailer released in December promised yelling, summer romances, and a heated exchange between exes Carl Radke and Lindsay Hubbard. What more could you ask for? While I’m excited about the…
