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British star Patricia Routledge, best known for her role as social climber Hyacinth Bucket in sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, has died. She was 96. “We are deeply saddened to confirm the passing of Dame Patricia Routledge, who died peacefully in her sleep this morning surrounded by love,” said Routledge’s agent in a statement given to…
Adam Driver and Anne Hathaway are set to star in Alone at Dawn, a war drama that Ron Howard is directing for Amazon MGM. The feature project falls under Amazon MGM’s recently renewed first-look film deal with Brian Grazer and Howard’s Imagine Entertainment, which is one of the production entities backing the film. Alone at…
On a Monday night in Nashville, a live band’s belting out “Sweet Child O’ Mine” at Jon Bon Jovi’s Nashville, while one block down, you’ll be hard-pressed to hear yourself speak on the raging roof of Kid Rock’s Big Ass Honky Tonk. “They keep their windows wide open so all of Broadway hears them,” gripes…
Taylor Swift is opening up about her engagement to Travis Kelce. While doing a press tour amid the release of her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, Swift has openly discussed her engagement to the Kansas City Chiefs tight end and offered details on her engagement ring that has caught attention for its sizable…
At a time when so many major Hollywood distributors are avoiding political stories for fear of offending or provoking, the new documentary Orwell: 2+2=5 is refreshingly direct. The director, Raoul Peck, intersperses readings of 1984 and Animal Farm author George Orwell’s writing about authoritarianism with footage of President Donald Trump and his supporters. Where the…
Few filmmakers have mined their own life as ruthlessly, or as artfully, as Noah Baumbach. The angst and anxiety he felt as a child watching his parents’ marriage collapse became the raw material for his 2005 breakout The Squid and the Whale. His own divorce from actress Jennifer Jason Leigh informed his Oscar-winning Marriage Story…
At age 89, Shiguéhiko Hasumi, the critic and theorist long regarded as Japan’s greatest living film scholar, is finally making what amounts to his U.S. debut. Later this month, New York’s Japan Society will present Shiguéhiko Hasumi: Another History of the Movie in America and Japan (Oct. 9–18), a hand-curated screening series timed to the…
A new report on book bans in U.S. schools finds Stephen King as the author most likely to be censored and the country divided between states actively restricting works and those attempting to limit or eliminate bans. PEN America’s “Banned in the USA,” released Wednesday, tracks more than 6,800 instances of books being temporarily or…
Taylor Swift is back. The superstar released her 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, on Friday, ending a nearly two-month wait after she first revealed the project on Travis and Jason Kelce’s New Heights podcast back in August. The album, which includes one guest feature from fellow pop star Sabrina Carpenter, marks Swift’s first…
Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli are taking some time apart from their marriage. The actress and fashion designer, who share daughters Olivia JadeGiannulli and Isabella Rose Giannulli, have been married for nearly 28 years after they tied the knot in November 1997. “They are living apart and taking a break from their marriage. There are…
