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
Hollywood
Tuesday
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
Sunday
What’s up with Jim Carrey?
After showing the world how interesting an actor he can be, he has retreated deep into an unchallenging comfort zone
Friday
You’re wrong: James Gunn’s Superman looks great
A lot of the trailer does look visually outstanding
Thursday
Karolyn Grimes looks back on her role as Zuzu in It’s a Wonderful Life
Life wasn’t always wonderful for her, but she has a gripping Hollywood tale to tell
Tuesday
This feels like an interim year for the Golden Globes
A quirky throat-clearer before something more straightforwardly commercial happens next year
Thursday
Drea de Matteo’s Italian-American Christmas
We invite everybody over that doesn’t have a place to go
Memories of David Niven
I recall nothing of our lunch conversation, which has evaporated after fifty years. But I do have a clear memory of the icon of cinema
Wednesday
The winners and losers of the 2024 election
The sheer number of outside individuals, movements and institutions involved in the GOP’s sweeping night is astounding
Thursday
Michael Richards’s memoir is heavier on introspection than laughs
Entrances and Exits shows the Seinfeld actor’s clever, energetic, dissatisfied, self-critical mind at work
Monday
The decline of Tim Burton
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a dismally confused hotchpotch that aims for a curious mixture of comedy
Wednesday
Megalopolis and the strange art of negative marketing
Marketeers have made up bad reviews for major works and used them to promote a new film
Wednesday
Vince Vaughn on why Hollywood doesn’t make comedies
Plus: Trans Miss Maryland gets a disappointing finish
Monday
Glen Powell is your new favorite movie star
Twisters represents his latest assault on the box office and America’s affections alike
Thursday
How long has Hollywood been out of ideas?
What’s changed in recent years isn’t the instinct to take safe bets on already popular content — it’s that those bets are no longer paying off
Monday
What does the future hold for Alec Baldwin?
He is now a free man and able to resume a career that has undergone some spectacular highs and lows over the past few decades
Friday
RIP Donald Sutherland, a Hollywood master
He was an actor who, even in the weakest films he appeared in, brought class and dignity
Tuesday
Trump’s crush on Debra Messing
‘She came up to me with her beautiful red hair’
