Joel Schumacher, the director, screenwriter and costume designer with a wide-ranging filmography that includes St. Elmo’s Fire, The Lost Boys, several John Grisham movies and two Nineties Batman films, died Monday after a year-long battle with cancer, Variety reports. He was 80. Schumacher’s publicist confirmed the filmmaker’s death, though did …
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Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine “I lived by what was printed by Creemmagazine,” says Metallica’s Kirk Hammett in the documentary teaser’s opening moments. R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe and Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers are among the other featured musicians looking back on the formative magazine. “Most …
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Laverne Cox appears in the new trailer for Disclosure, a Netflix documentary on transgender representation in film and television, out June 19th in celebration of LGBTQ Pride month. Directed by Sam Feder and executive produced by Cox, the trailer opens with the actress observing Hollywood’s influence on trans culture and …
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Hulu is moving the premiere dates of two new shows, Love, Victor and Taste the Nation, away from June 19th (Juneteenth), out of respect for the holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans in the Confederacy. Love, Victor will now premiere two days earlier on June 17th, withTaste the Nation …
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Expect the unexpected from this teasing psychodrama about Shirley Jackson, acclaimed horror author of The Lottery, a short story first published in The New Yorker in 1948 and a literary lightning rod ever since for its depiction of ritualistic violence in contemporary, small-town America. Until her death in 1965, at …
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This piece originally ran as part of 2020 Sundance Film Festival coverage. Even if you didn’t know Drew Dixon’s name, you definitely knew the fruits of her labor. The daughter of Washington, D.C., mayor Sharon Pratt and a Stanford alumna, she was an unabashed music fan. Dixon especially loved hip-hop, …
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Now that it’s one of the most beloved comedies on streaming, across multiple generations, it can be hard to remember that The Officewas not well-received when it debuted on NBC in the spring of 2005. It’s not just that the mockumentary format was relatively new to American TV, but that …
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As much of America continues to self-quarantine, the propensity to go stir crazy increases with each passing day. Celebrities are no different: bored out of their minds while sitting at home indefinitely. Maybe they are ceaselessly launching Instagram Lives just for some human connection. Maybe they’re teasing us with some …
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Irrfan Khan, the Bollywood star who also starred in films like Slumdog Millionaire and Life of Pi, died Wednesday at the age of 53. No cause of death was revealed, but the actor was recently admitted to Mumbai’s Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital due to a colon infection, his reps said. …
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Parks and Recreation will return for a special one-off episode featuring the original cast that will air Thursday, April 30th, at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT on NBC. The episode will help raise money for Feeding America’s COVID-19 Response Fund, which is providing additional assistance to food banks around the country during …
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