Since the first time Carrie Preston stepped into the shoes of quirky attorney Elsbeth Tascioni in The Good Wife and its spin-off The Good Fight — a role she won an Emmy for in 2016 — she has brought a smile to viewers' faces with her character's unusual approach to problem-solving. With Preston finally…

At the heart of Sean Baker's film Anora is Mikey Madison. Having seen her work in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Scream, Baker cast her as Ani, a young woman working as a dancer in a New York strip joint and living in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach neighborhood. When Ani impulsively marries a rich but…

Over the past 20 years, screenwriter Peter Straughan has become British cinema's go-to guy for adaptations. That might sound like a back-handed compliment, but his protean talent makes it hard to pinpoint what exactly constitutes a typical project for the UK-based writer: is it Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy…

It's Amy Ryan who opens the action in Wolfs, Apple Original Films’ George Clooney-Brad Pitt reunion that sees those longtime co-stars go head-to-head as rival criminal underworld 'fixers'. In an extraordinary scene that spanned some 30 pages of script and took several weeks to shoot, Ryan stars in Jon…

Writer-director Megan Park's upcoming film, My Old Ass, is something of a departure from her first feature The Fallout — the 2021 Jenna Ortega starrer that followed the survivors of a school shooting —although both films expertly center on a teenage point of view. Bought at Sundance for $15M by…

In Seeking Mavis Beacon, filmmakers Jazmin Jones and Olivia McKayla Ross aim to track down one of the most iconic figures in multicultural education and internet history. With over 10 million copies sold, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, a 1987 program made by The Software Toolworks, becomes the subject of…

Tell Me Lies fans rejoice! Season 2 will premiere on Hulu September 4th. Created and executive produced by Meaghan Oppenheimer and based on the novel by Carola Lovering, the show follows Baird college student Lucy Albright (Grace Van Patten) and her highly dysfunctional romance with master…

With his Emmy-nominated Netflix special The Old Man and the Pool, Mike Birbiglia digs deep into our sense of mortality and meaning, while literally lying on stage in true confessional comedic style and going out with a 'bang'. Birbiglia has honed his career out of deep honesty and the importance of…

On FX's hit comedy-drama series The Bear, Lionel Boyce plays Marcus Brooks, a humble pastry chef trying to balance the hardships within his life with the hectic environment of the restaurant. While Season 2 maintains the fast-paced, high-adrenaline storylines that the series is known for, the first few…

When Tom Hollander took on the role of Truman Capote in Season 2 of Ryan Murphy's Anthology Series, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, it wasn't the first time he'd contemplated playing the famously acerbic New York writer—some years ago he had auditioned for a different version of the role. Now, in portraying…

As Agnes van Rhijn in The Gilded Age, Christine Baranski embodies a New York matriarch bound by stringent class division and societal contest—something the show's creator Julian Fellowes so famously explored within the British aristocracy in Downton Abbey. Baranski conveys both generations of painful…

When Nikki Glaser took to the stage to join in The Greatest Roast of All Time: Tom Brady, she made headlines with her close-to-the-bone whip-smart jokes. Then, just days later, she broke viewing records with her comedy special Someday You'll Die, which has now earned her an Emmy nomination. Now she has a…