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'Parasite' director Bong Joon Ho will head the jury at the 78th Venice Film Festival in September.
Cardi B has scored her first leading role in a movie. The hip-hop icon is set to star in Paramount’s upcoming film “Assisted Living.” “Assisted Living” is being described as a “raucous comedy” with…
Consider the upcoming fourth quarter the last one on which the media sector will get a pass from Wall Street.ย While Disney has shown in the last few quarters that investors are willing to forgive…
Just for Variety | Olivia Cooke admits she didn't know much about "Game of Thrones" before auditioning for the prequel series "House of the Dragon," but now she's obsessed after binging the show.
Season 2 of The CW's "Batwoman" has Ruby Rose pass the torch to Javicia Leslie, but Kate Kane is still an overwhelming presence.
The two driving forces behind "30 Rock" have taken an intriguing premise and a setting rich with possibility, and made a wince of a sitcom.
In a Martin Scorsese-directed documentary series, the New York City social fixture Fran Lebowitz talks, and talks.
PBS Masterpiece's new "All Creatures Great and Small," starring Samuel West and Diana Rigg, makes smart adjustments to the franchise.
In Doug Liman's up-to-the-minute pandemic drama, a London couple finds plotting a heist is the best way to keep from going COVID-19 crazy.
Liam Neeson saves a Mexican boy from cartel slaughter in one of those bonding-with-a-kid movies that's mostly boilerplate.
Jodie Foster plays a lawyer determined to defend a suspected terrorist subjected to "special" interrogation techniques at Guantanamo.
Sam Pollard's film vividly captures how the FBI used the great Civil Rights leader's private life to try to destroy him.
Eminem stays within his comfort zone, for better and for worse, on "Music to Be Murdered By – Side B," his second album release in 2020.
Paul McCartney returns to the idea of a true solo album with "McCartney III," a quarantine record where DIY randomness is part of the charm.
Taylor Swift's "Evermore" is an even more boldly acoustic and subdued companion piece to "Folklore" — and it's no sloppy seconds.
Shawn Mendes can't sound much bigger than he does on "Wonder" without going full Adele, so what might come next is wide open.
Ben Ashenden and Alex Owen's riotous West End comedy "The Comeback" is a triumph, but London theater closures stopped it in its tracks.
Starring "Hamilton's" Michael Balogun and performed on the eve of England's second lockdown, the play is sure to be seen again.
This smart revival of Jason Robert Brown's musical plays in a London theater cleverly redesigned for COVID-era safety.
Kristin Scott Thomas and Rochenda Sandall headline two Alan Bennett monologues, which even under social distance pack a punch.
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