Actor Jonathan Majors, who last month was found guilty of assaulting and harassing his ex-girlfriend, spoke to the media for the first time since his conviction in the domestic violence trial.
In an interview with ABC News, parts of which aired on ABC’s Good Morning America on Monday, Majors denied that he caused any physical harm to his ex, Grace Jabbari, saying he was “rec…
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It’s an age-old question: If you could choose who would play you in a movie, who would you pick? Michael Ausiello, author of Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies, got to make this choice for the adaptation of his memoir, and he went with Jim Parsons. Ausiello tells TIME that the choice dates back about five years when he asked the actor and producer known for The Big Bang Theory and…
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There are some hard ethical questions in the writing of crime fiction.
For me, the most difficult one is how to portray violence.
For one thing, should you depict it all?
And if so, how do you do it with some sense of morality?
I wrestle with this issue all the time. It’s a fine line to walk. On the one hand I don’t want to sanitize violence—I don&rsquo…
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Warning: Spoilers for the series finale of Succession follow.
Succession has ended. Tom Wambsgams is the CEO of Waystar Royco. Kendall is alone, without his children or siblings to comfort him, on a bench staring out at the Hudson River. Roman is getting a drink. Shiv has officially taken on the role of Lady Mac…
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It’s time to return to the Grishaverse and once again face the darkness of the Shadow Fold.
After a nearly two-year-long hiatus, the second season of Shadow and Bone hits Netflix on March 16. All eight episodes of the new season will drop at once, with the premiere picking up shortly after the events of the season 1 finale.
While the show’s first season was base…
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Warning: This post contains spoilers for episode 4 of True Detective: Night Country.
After the third episode of True Detective: Night Country ended with Navarro (Kali Reis) having a vision of a zombie-like version of surviving Tsalal scientist Anders Lund (Þorsteinn Bachmann) delivering a message from her late mother before flatlining at the ho…
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It’s fitting that a biopic of a musician who sang about love would come out on Valentine’s Day. Bob Marley: One Love, hitting theaters Feb. 14, shows how Marley (played by Kingsley Ben-Adir) and his reggae band The Wailers sought to use music to unite a divided country during the Cold War.
One Love takes place from 1976 to 1978 during a period of fierce political di…
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Global K-Pop sensation BTS closed out Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month today with its first visit to the White House. The group joined press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre at a briefing—an event that’s part of the Biden Administration’s response to combating Asian hate crimes in the U.S. “It’s not wrong to be different,” one of the group&rsquo…
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Marvel is still breaking records at the box office: last year’s Spider-Man: No Way Home had the second-highest grossing opening weekend ever, despite debuting during the Omicron surge in December 2021.
But it’s getting hard to keep up with everything that’s going on—and I’m not just talking about keeping track of multiple Spider-Men. Now, to understa…
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Striking Hollywood screenwriters reached a tentative new labor agreement with studios including Walt Disney Co. and Netflix Inc., settling one of two walkouts that have shut down film and TV production.
The Writers Guild of America, which represents more than 11,500 Hollywood scribes, said Sunday it reached the deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers, the studi…
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