Is it safe to be conservative in Hollywood?
Gina Carano’s settlement with Disney may have big consequences
Hollywood
Tuesday
Saturday
The strange life of Lindsay Lohan
The Freaky Friday star has lived more in one life than most people could in ten
Monday
The boorishness of Ellen DeGeneres
She didn’t flee oppression; she fled embarrassment
Tuesday
Inside Texas’s bold takeover of the American film industry
The Lone Star State is coming for the big, bright jewel of cultural capital
Monday
The resistible rise of Pedro Pascal
Why is it so hard to warm to him?
Wednesday
What’s the matter with Los Angeles?
How ‘the better city’ has gone from bad to worse
Friday
Kevin Spacey’s #MeToo revenge
It’s easy to forget just how oppressive the #MeToo moment was
Monday
Foreign governments have themselves to blame for Trump’s movie tariffs
His critique of other countries’ hypocrisy hits the mark
The problem with Trump’s plan to make American movies great again
Ideology and practicality have, once again, run up against one another
Wednesday
The genius of Gene Hackman
He was the greatest character actor of the past half-century
Wednesday
Val Kilmer should be more appreciated in death than he was in life
He had a remarkable career in American film, and one that can be seen more clearly now
Thursday
Gene Hackman was never, ever bad, whatever the role
He was an actor without sentiment, but with enormous amounts of fierce compassion
Tuesday
The 2025 Oscars is the hardest to predict in a long time
It’s anyone’s guess which movie will win
Monday
The hits and misses of the Super Bowl trailers
A promising Marvel movie?
Monday
The shockingly earnest anti-comeback of Tom Green
Tom Green Country is honest and goodhearted
Emilia Pérez and the Oscars double blind
Unless something changes unexpectedly over the next few weeks, the Academy is likely to shun the film, or face existential ridicule
Tuesday
Flight Risk proves Mel Gibson is still too toxic for mainstream audiences
The Oscar-winning director’s name was nowhere to be seen on the movie’s trailer
Friday
Cher should stick to what she knows best
Her memoir suggests that the icon doesn’t know what makes her compelling
Why we dramatize history — and why we should stop
The melding of truth and fiction is both culturally limiting and the kind of dangerous terrain which breeds conspiracy theories and fake news
Sunday
The best film, TV and music of 2024
Spectator writers on their culture picks of the year
