“The Wizard of the Kremlin,” a political thriller starring Jude Law as Vladimir Putin and Paul Dano as his former right-hand man and spin-doctor Vadim Baranov, earned a hugely enthusiastic 10-minute standing ovation at this year’s Venice Film Festival. While the film belonged to Dano, who smiled appreciatively at the applause, it was the star power of Law that gave …
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Of all the panels and Q&As happening during this year’s Telluride Film Festival, probably the most anticipated one featured a visit from rock royalty in the form of an unbilled (but not terribly secret) appearance by Bruce Springsteen in a group discussion following the second-ever screening of the dramatic feature “Springsteen: Deliver Us From Nowhere.” Asked why he said yes …
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Best Dressed Celebrities At Venice Film Festival 2025 1. Heidi Klum in Intimissimi: 2. Ayo Edebiri in Chanel: 3. Emma Stone in Louis Vuitton: 4. Cate Blanchett in Armani Privé*: 5. Andrew Garfield in Dior: 6. Amal Clooney in Jean-Louis Scherrer by Erik Mortensen and George Clooney in Giorgio Armani: 7. Oscar Isaac in Valentino: 9. Jacob Elordi in Bottega …
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Cinderella Castle has gone through several transformations over the past five decades, but Disney is preparing to bring it back to the look that started it all. At Destination D23, Imagineers announced that the castle will soon be repainted in a color palette inspired by its original 1971 design. A Return to the Classic Design The updated palette brings back …
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Father Mother Sister Brother, the latest feature from veteran indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, launched this evening at the Venice Film Festival. Starring are Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Tom Waits, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Charlotte Rampling, Sarah Greene, Indya Moore, Luka Sabbat, and Françoise Lebrun in the story of estranged siblings who reunite after years apart, forced to confront unresolved tensions and …
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Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother finds the director in a minor key, which is sometimes his best key. A triptych built around a series of aggressively unremarkable interactions, it feels like a film that the director might have made while waiting to make a different, bigger film. It takes place in three different cities, and at times feels like …
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Syko Stu paid quite a heavy price when Raja Jackson attacked him in the ring recently. The pro wrestler, whose real name is Stuart Smith, is finally home from the hospital, and his injuries were detailed in an Instagram post Sunday afternoon. “Stuart has been released from the hospital and is now home resting. He sustained a serious head injury …
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Park Chan-wook’s superpower is his ability to sell us on behavior that would not withstand any kind of scrutiny in other films. Park’s characters do things we might deem irrational or implausible or downright nonsensical in most contexts, but he somehow convinces us, thumbing his nose at realism and leaning into craziness. He can pull this off because he’s an …
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Snoop Dogg is responding to the backlash he’s received after he criticized the LGBTQ representation in Disney‘s 2022 animated movie Lightyear. The Grammy-winning rapper and hip-hop icon recently wrote in the comments of a Hollywood Unlocked Instagram post, which featured Ts Madison calling him out, “I was just caught off guard and had no answer for my grandsons.” “All my gay friends [know] what’s up, they …
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By Colin McGuire, ProWrestling.net Staffer (@McGMondays) WWE Clash in ParisParis, France at Paris La Défense ArenaStreamed live August 31, 2025 live on Peacock Michael Cole welcomed everyone into the show as images of Paris were shown. Fans inside the arena held up colored paper that combined to form one big France flag. Jey Uso, CM Punk, LA Knight, The Vision, …
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