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Japanese arthouse favorite Hirokazu Koreeda returns to his wheelhouse to marvelous effect with Look Back, an aching drama about growing up and making art, featuring a pair of stunning performances from child actors. The film is the Palme d’Or winner’s 18th feature and second this year, following Sheep in the Box, a speculative drama about a grieving couple who take in an AI-powered android replica of their deceased son. That film was unusual for Koreeda both in its sci-fi subject matter and in the frosty reception it received from many Cannes critics. Look Back, which premiered in competition at the…
In 2006, O.J. Simpson starred in a hidden-camera prank show along the lines of Punk’d, hoping it would kickstart a career comeback. It was called Juiced. That fever dream-sounding couple of sentences actually describes a real thing. Juiced, however, never really saw the light of day —at least not in the way its creator intended. A leak of the show’s details led to outrage from the families of murder victims Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman and the public, derailing a planned DVD release. Juiced was briefly available via video on demand, but a decade after being acquitted of killing…
Elizabeth Holmes would like you to know that she has never lied. Not just about Theranos — about anything ever, she insists, her startlingly large eyes shining with conviction. She’s only been misunderstood because she thinks so differently, or misrepresented by outside parties pushing their own cynical agenda. You Can See Everything, a new documentary about the billionaire turned convicted fraudster, is ostensibly her attempt to change all that. In the spirit of radical transparency, she intends to finally get her real story out there, once and for all. You Can See Everything The Bottom Line Smart, funny and full…
Hot off its Venice Film Festival premiere, Robert Pattinson‘s Primetime is set to take on the BFI London Film Festival next month. The Oct. 7-18 event has unveiled even more additions to its starry, jam-packed lineup, including the U.K. premiere of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall, the Oscar winner’s intimate recording of the Geese frontman’s solo piano performance at the legendary New York concert hall. The previously announced Artificial, starring Andrew Garfield and directed by Luca Guadagnino, is getting a Gala premiere with talent expected to attend. The movie chronicles the consequential days leading up to the…
Yup, you’re getting screwed. The cost to simply watch new TV shows is up — way up — with streaming services delivering one wearisome price shock after another that rival the worst of the cable and satellite price hikes of yesteryear. Since 2022, streaming prices have risen more than three times as much as inflation (which is also too high). Behold some not-so-fun facts: · The price of Apple TV has tripled. The streamer launched at just $4.99 in 2019. It’s jumped 200 percent despite having the thinnest library — in terms of quantity, at least — of the major…
Ifyou watch reality TV, Ciara Miller has been almost impossible to avoid lately. If you don’t watch reality TV, allow us to introduce the woman who apparently has been cast on all of it. There’s Summer House, the Bravo series she joined in 2021. Last year came Peacock’s The Traitors. This summer, she flew to Fiji to co-host Love Island USA: Aftersun. And on Sept. 15, having apparently exhausted the available supply of reality shows on NBCUniversal, she’ll turn up on ABC for season 35 of Dancing With the Stars. “The last couple months from Love Island to Summer House…
The story of Accent Aigu Entertainment, the Canadian production company behind 2026’s global TV breakout Heated Rivalry, began with a love story — between two dogs. Jacob Tierney was directing and showrunning on Letterkenny, the cult comedy he co-created with Jared Keeso, which aired on Crave in Canada and Hulu in the U.S. Brendan Brady had been brought on as a line producer. Both Tierney and Brady had dogs: Graham, a Lab/hound mutt, and Murphy, a black Labradoodle. “Murphy’s a boy. Graham is a girl. I know that’s confusing, but that’s crucial,” says Tierney. “We brought them together, and our…
Night 2 of the Creative Arts Emmys on Sunday included the high-profile guest acting in a comedy and drama series categories and the limited series supporting actor and actress awards. Creative Arts weekend — taking place ahead of the PrimetimeEmmys on Sept. 14 — saw more than 100 awards handed out over two days, mostly for below-the-line categories. Statues presented on Sunday include honors for costumes, editing, sound and cinematography, while Saturday’s show centered mostly on variety programming, reality and documentary/nonfiction. This also marks the first year that major acting prizes were included, as the limited series supporting actor and…
David Harbour became a first-time Emmy winner on Night 2 of the 2026 Creative Arts Emmys. The DTF St. Louis star won for best supporting actor in a limited or anthology series or movie for his portrayal of Floyd Smernitch in the HBO dark comedy created by Steven Conrad. “I can’t believe that you’ve embraced our show so much, this beautiful, vulnerable, weird show that I love so much,” Harbour said in his acceptance speech. “In terms of my fellow nominees, it was not a fair fight. I got to play Floyd Smernitch, who is an incredibly written character by…
If Carl Sagan‘s landmark PBS docuseries Cosmos offered a pleasingly populist point of entry for viewers curious about our place in the universe, a gateway to more rigorous exploration, Nanette Burstein’s Carl Sagan: We Are Made of Star Stuff offers a pleasingly populist point of entry for audiences curious about Carl Sagan, leaving more rigorous exploration for the individual viewer. The 98-minute National Geographic film, which boasts Sagan’s widow Ann Druyan and Seth MacFarlane, the man behind Fox’s more recent Cosmos update, as producers, promises and delivers no intellectual rigor. It’s light, fast-moving and looks back at a time when…