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fromwww.npr.org
2 days ago

Blake Lively's sexual harassment claims against Justin Baldoni tossed out but robust case remains

Blake Lively's sexual harassment claims against Justin Baldoni were dismissed, but retaliation claims remain for jury consideration.
Film
fromSFGATE
4 days ago

The controversy around Zendaya's new film explained

The film 'The Drama' transitions from a romantic comedy to a dark narrative with a shocking revelation about a character's past involvement in a school shooting.
#james-cameron
Independent films
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
6 days ago

Titanic and Avatar director James Cameron explains why bees are his latest fixation

James Cameron's documentary, Secrets of the Bees, reveals the complex behaviors and society of honeybees, challenging common perceptions of their intelligence.
Law
fromVulture
1 week ago

FKA Twigs Is Taking a STAND Against Shia LaBeouf

FKA Twigs is challenging an NDA from Shia LaBeouf under California's STAND Act, claiming it violates her rights as a survivor.
Independent films
fromAnOther
1 week ago

Letitia Wright Heads to Hawaii in Prada's Re-Nylon Documentary

Prada's Re-Nylon series documentary highlights Hawaii's ecosystems and promotes ocean education through its Sea Beyond initiative.
Film
fromwww.businessinsider.com
1 week ago

Laura Dern, 59, says getting older changed what she finds 'sexy'

Aging has empowered Laura Dern to embrace her identity and sexuality, challenging Hollywood's narrow portrayal of beauty and vulnerability.
#oscars
fromABC7 Los Angeles
1 month ago
Film

Kate Hudson, Timothee Chalamet, Elle Fanning among Oscars Nominees Luncheon attendees

The 98th Oscars Nominees Luncheon gathered 230 nominees from 29 countries, with record 76 women nominated and international representation across all 24 categories.
fromFilmmaker Magazine
2 months ago
Film

How Politics Affects the Oscars, and Vice Versa

Oscar campaigns and awards frequently intersect with real-world politics, making film recognition politically charged amid social and geopolitical crises.
Television
fromVulture
2 weeks ago

Ashley Nicole Black Was Proud to Bat Leadoff at the Oscars

Comedian Ashley Nicole Black appeared first on the Oscars telecast in a cold open sketch with host Conan O'Brien, where she played a makeup artist preparing him in drag.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

The Oscars red carpet was in a skip. Then a woman took it home for her flat. What else could be repurposed?

The Oscars red carpet is often discarded after use, raising concerns about waste and prompting discussions on sustainability in event planning.
Media industry
fromVulture
2 weeks ago

Jane Fonda Accepts No Merger

Jane Fonda wore a 'Block the Merger' pin at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party to oppose Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros., citing concerns about job losses, price increases, and political control of media.
#2026-oscars
Fashion & style
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Cherry on the top: Jessie Buckley pulled off a stunning double Oscar win for herself and Chanel

Jessie Buckley won the best actress Oscar and dominated the red carpet with a strategically designed Chanel gown that communicated emotional depth and referenced Oscar history.
Humor
fromVulture
3 weeks ago

Elle Fanning's OnlyFans Comedy Is Coming for the Emmys

David E. Kelley's OnlyFans comedy series follows Elle Fanning as an optimistic college freshman who becomes a content creator to support herself and her unplanned child.
SF parents
fromABC7 Los Angeles
3 weeks ago

Oscars 2026: Filmmaker says Oscar-nominated 'All the Empty Rooms' has chance to change the world

School shootings leave families with empty rooms and lasting grief, prompting documentary efforts to combat public numbness toward gun violence.
fromVulture
3 weeks ago

Kylie Jenner Is Ready to Be a Comedy Star

I've actually gotten a few scripts, nothing that I feel is right yet, but I 100 percent want to do more. I really like comedy. I think I'm good at it.
Miscellaneous
fromIrish Independent
2 weeks ago

Oscars 2026 in pictures: Stars on the red carpet at the 98th Academy Awards

For Hollywood's biggest night, celebrities pay as much attention to their red-carpet attire as their speeches. It's a night to leave a mark not just on Hollywood but on best-dressed lists and even make fashion history.
Fashion & style
#academy-awards
fromKqed
3 weeks ago
Film

How to Watch the 2026 Oscars: From Streaming to Bay Area Watch Parties | KQED

Film
fromThe Atlantic
2 weeks ago

The Academy Awards Corrected a Long Overdue Omission

The Academy Awards presented its first-ever casting award to Cassandra Kulukundis, recognizing casting directors' critical role in film production after decades of Oscar oversight.
fromKqed
3 weeks ago
Film

How to Watch the 2026 Oscars: From Streaming to Bay Area Watch Parties | KQED

Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Reader Q&A: Catherine Shoard answers your questions on the 2026 Oscars

Guardian film critics discuss their predictions and opinions on 98th Academy Awards contenders, inviting reader questions and debate about nominees and categories.
Independent films
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Arco review Natalie Portman and Mark Ruffalo lead rainbow-hued eco animation

An animated film features expressive character design and emotional depth but relies on derivative plot elements, appealing primarily to younger audiences through vibrant visual style.
SF LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
4 weeks ago

Queer actress Sophia Bush lauded for comments on white allyship: "She's f**king awesome" - LGBTQ Nation

Sophia Bush advocates for white allyship by urging white people to support Black communities with the same enthusiasm they show for Black culture.
Film
fromJezebel
2 weeks ago

Leonardo DiCaprio Broke the Curse

Leonardo DiCaprio attended the Oscars with his 27-year-old girlfriend Vittoria Ceretti, marking their first major public appearance together after over three years of dating.
Music production
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Fame is the worst thing for us as human beings': Naomi Scott on scream queens, Disney princesses and finding her own voice

Naomi Scott redirected her career from acting to music after a quarter-life crisis at 27, releasing her debut album F.I.G. as a return to her first creative love.
Independent films
fromFortune
2 weeks ago

Meet Autumn Durald Arkapaw, the cinematographer behind 'Sinners' who shattered a major glass ceiling in Hollywood | Fortune

Autumn Durald Arkapaw became the first Black woman nominated and won Best Cinematography at the 98th Academy Awards, breaking a nearly 100-year barrier with only three prior female nominees in the category's history.
Miscellaneous
fromFast Company
1 month ago

Oscars race heats up as 'Sinners' takes top prize at SAG Actor Awards

"Sinners" won best ensemble at the SAG Awards, disrupting "One Battle After Another's" awards-season dominance and significantly strengthening its Oscar prospects.
Film
fromVulture
2 weeks ago

The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of the 2026 Oscars

This year's Oscars ceremony successfully celebrated film through thoughtful hosting, diverse award winners, and production quality that prioritized respect for cinema over self-importance.
fromVulture
1 month ago

Sinners' Jayme Lawson Says BAFTAs Were Exploitative, Not Inclusive

Institutionally, we still don't understand what inclusion means. Just because you invite someone into a space, but you don't provide the necessary resources to keep them and everyone else in that room safe by them being there, that's not inclusivity. That's exploitation. That man's disability got exploited that night, and it led to multiple offenses.
Media industry
Film
fromABC7 Los Angeles
3 weeks ago

Women in Film honors Oscar nominees, stresses need for progress

Women in Film celebrated Oscar nominees at Bette Davis's home, advancing gender equity advocacy in Hollywood while highlighting women's achievements across filmmaking roles.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

I'm wearing the tree fibre undies right now!' An audience with the organisers of the Oscar goodie bags

Hollywood this week has been gripped by a discreet yet intense gifting frenzy, as rooms in luxury hotels and spas are requisitioned as gifting suites for the A-listers upon whom hugely expensive items will be pressed in the hope that these starfluencers will mention them on their Instagram feed.
Film
Independent films
fromThe Independent
1 month ago

Susan Sarandon addresses Hollywood exile in emotional press conference

Susan Sarandon was dropped by her agency in 2023 for publicly supporting Gaza and calling for a ceasefire, effectively excluding her from major Hollywood productions.
fromFilmmaker Magazine
3 weeks ago

"Fungi Dictated the Structure of the Movie": Otilia Portillo Padua on Daughters of the Forest

While they both possess a wealth of ancestral knowledge about mushrooms, Lis and Juli hope to distinguish themselves within academia. But there is no tension between homeopathy and science here. Instead, the women understand that by enmeshing themselves in a "legitimate" field of study, they can better achieve recognition for the strides their communities have consistently made in the study of mycology.
Film
Film
fromVulture
3 weeks ago

The Oscars Needs Sinners

Sinners' unprecedented awards success transformed it into a symbol of Black progress, with its wins and losses interpreted as measures of racial representation and industry equity rather than artistic merit alone.
Film
fromABC7 New York
3 weeks ago

A night for the record books: Films, actors poised to make history at 2026 Oscars

This year's Oscars introduces a new casting category for the first time since 2001, while 'Sinners' breaks the all-time nomination record with 16 nominations and features the most Black nominees from a single film in history.
fromIndieWire
1 month ago

The Politics of Who Is 'Owed' an Oscar

I can't say it feels great and I can't say that it makes me happy. It just makes me feel peculiar. It's just a movie, at the end of the day. It's just supposed to be an action movie about a guy trying to get his daughter back. And, what I see every day, it weighs heavy on my heart for the world.
Independent films
#investigative-journalism
#sydney-sweeney
fromVulture
2 months ago
Fashion & style

Sydney Sweeney Won't Be a Political 'Pawn' Especially When She Has Bras to Sell

fromVulture
2 months ago
Fashion & style

Sydney Sweeney Won't Be a Political 'Pawn' Especially When She Has Bras to Sell

Higher education
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

Anna Kendrick says she was 'really jealous' watching her friends go to college

Anna Kendrick felt insecure about skipping college to pursue acting but later saw it as a blessing to know her career goal early.
fromVulture
2 months ago

Wait, Is Dakota Johnson Dating Role Model?

Dakota Johnson has once again been spotted out with 28-year-old Sally-collecting singer-songwriter Role Model, following weeks of rumors that the pair are dating. In footage from January 14 posted by Deuxmoi, the 36-year-old Materialists star was seen walking with Role Model (whose real name is Tucker Pillsbury) into the Beverly Hills restaurant Marvin. The duo were previously photographed enjoying a candlelit dinner with friends in Los Angeles in December, and a source told Entertainment Tonight that they also rang in 2026 together,
Music
Film
fromEsquire
3 weeks ago

The Best Documentaries of 2026 (So Far)

A 1985 fan-made Star Trek film starring George Takei, lost for 40 years, has resurfaced, documenting early fandom culture before it became a mainstream commercial force.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Academy wars: how did this season's Oscars discourse get so toxic?

The 2025 Oscar season generated viral controversies over celebrities' casual comments about arts and animals, amplified by social media and extended media coverage despite voting already concluding.
Television
fromTODAY.com
2 months ago

Ethan Hawke Reveals the Humbling Moment He Realized Daughter Maya Was Famous

Ethan Hawke feels proud as his daughter Maya's 'Stranger Things' success often eclipses his long-established acting fame.
#kristen-stewart
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 month ago
LGBT

Kristen Stewart calls out those who told her not to come out: "You want me to live a partial life" - LGBTQ Nation

fromLGBTQ Nation
1 month ago
LGBT

Kristen Stewart calls out those who told her not to come out: "You want me to live a partial life" - LGBTQ Nation

Television
fromABC7 Los Angeles
2 months ago

New 'Paradise' trailer shows Shailene Woodley, Sterling K. Brown on the outside

Season two of Paradise reveals dangers outside and inside the bunker as Xavier searches for his wife and secrets threaten bunker safety.
fromConsequence
2 months ago

Billie Eilish Urges "Fellow Celebrities" to "Speak Up" as FINNEAS Slams Right-Wing ICE Supporters

Eilish posted a selfie on Instagram Stories with the caption, "hey my fellow celebrities u gonna speak up? or..." This came after she shared a Reel from her brother, who took direct issue with 2nd Amendment hardliners whose hypocrisy has come to light in the wake of Alex Pretti being killed by ICE agents in Minneapolis.
US politics
Television
fromVulture
1 month ago

You're Telling Me It's Possible to Be More Beautiful Than Rebecca Hall?

The Beauty blends body-horror and satire, depicting a beauty virus that physically heats people, spreads through bodily fluids and sex, and leads to obsession and self-destruction.
Film
fromConsequence
1 month ago

2025's Wildest Horror Performance Might Actually Win an Oscar

Amy Madigan's Oscar nomination for the horror film Weapons marks a rare Academy recognition of acting performances in the horror genre.
fromEsquire
1 month ago

Haley Lu Richardson on Her 'Ponies' Breakout, Battling Emilia Clarke, and New Sundance Movie

I have never felt so much like I was in the right place at the right time, doing exactly what I was supposed to do more,
Television
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Dakota and Elle Fanning, the sisters unhurriedly shaping their own destiny in Hollywood

Despite having been seen hundreds, thousands of times together in photographs, at events and on red carpets, Dakota and Elle Fanning have never shared time on-screen. They're actresses. They're sisters. They're stars who have been nominated for elite awards and who have worked with the best performers and directors in the world.
Film
Film
fromIndieWire
1 month ago

How Every 2026 Best Picture Nominee Will Feature ASL Interpretation Ahead of the Oscars

All 10 Best Picture Oscar nominees will have American Sign Language interpretation for the first time, with eight films debuting ASL overlays through a free Chrome extension on March 2.
Film
fromVulture
1 month ago

Natasha Rothwell Goes Off-Prompter to Condemn ICE at Independent Spirit Awards

Celebrities at the 2026 Film Independent Spirit Awards protested ICE; Natasha Rothwell displayed "Fuck ICE," many wore "ICE OUT" pins, and concerns about ICE killings and detentions were foregrounded.
Film
fromIndieWire
1 month ago

The Spirit Awards No Longer Define Independent Film. And That's the Point

Independent film festivals and awards are losing their coordinating cultural gravity, reducing concentrated attention that previously launched careers, made deals, and decided what mattered.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

An environmental nuclear bomb': documentary examines fight to save Great Salt Lake

The Great Salt Lake is rapidly shrinking and its disappearance could expose toxic dust, threatening public health, environment and economy of 2.8 million residents.
fromThe Independent
2 months ago

Courtney Love misses Sundance Film Festival premiere of her new documentary

unfortunately [Love's] not able to make it to tonight's screening,
Film
Film
fromSFGATE
2 months ago

Olivia Wilde protests ICE at Sundance premiere

Olivia Wilde and Natalie Portman publicly condemned ICE violence and demanded action during Sundance events.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Chloe Zhao says feminine consciousness' incompatible with current Hollywood model

The US film industry currently fails to support gender-diverse leadership, with female directors comprising a declining share of top-grossing films.
Film
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 months ago

Leonardo DiCaprio shows off real personality' in viral Golden Globes clip

The Independent relies on reader donations to fund accessible, paywall-free on-the-ground journalism; Leonardo DiCaprio was caught in a viral off-air Golden Globes K-pop moment.
#charli-xcx
Film
fromFilmmaker Magazine
2 months ago

"We Can Keep Living in a Glacial World": Sara Dosa on Time and Water

Time and Water is an elegiac documentary portraying receding glaciers through family archival footage, evoking awe and helplessness as ice becomes water.
Film
fromVulture
2 months ago

JLaw Claims She Wasn't 'Pretty Enough' for a Quentin Tarantino Film

Jennifer Lawrence believes perceived lack of physical resemblance and public comments prevented her from being cast as Sharon Tate in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
fromIndependent
2 months ago

Ksenia Samotiy: Why we shouldn't demand political opinions from the likes of Sydney Sweeney

In an age of misinformation, we should be more careful about who we listen to
Film
Film
fromConsequence
2 months ago

Sasha Calle and Catalina Sandino Moreno on The Rip, Moral Panic, and Life-Changing Cash: Podcast

The Rip is a tense, morally ambiguous single-location crime thriller about trust, temptation, and how sudden life-changing money reshapes alliances and motives.
fromLos Angeles Times
2 months ago

Filmmaker who helped crack gay porn actor's gruesome Hollywood killing wins SXSW premiere

I was so disgusted. Like, no, you can't have a murder in this sea of people already dying - that's not right, not fair. We can't let this go.
Film
Film
fromVulture
2 months ago

Amy Redford Remembers Father Robert Redford's Legacy Ahead of Sundance

Amy Redford honors Robert Redford's playful curiosity, stewardship, and legacy of giving forward as Sundance opens in Utah for the first time without him.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Taylor Swift texts show her supporting Blake Lively's takeover of It Ends With Us'

Swift also allegedly offered her status as one of the world's famous entertainers in the world to urge Baldoni, Lively's so-called doofus director, to use a revised version of an early scene in the script that Lively said she helped write, according to Lively's deposition in the case. I'll do anything for you, Swift reportedly said, according to the deposition.
Film
fromThe Independent
2 months ago

Ethan Hawke's vow to Robert Redford at emotional Sundance gala

Filmmakers and actors whose careers were shaped by Robert Redford and the Sundance Institute he founded reflected on his legacy as the godfather of independent cinema at a star-studded gala Friday night during the first Sundance Film Festival since his death. The 2026 festival - its last in Utah, before relocating to Boulder, Colorado - is a love letter to the haven Redford established in the state decades ago for stories that didn't fit into the mainstream.
Film
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 months ago

Jennifer Lawrence shares why on-screen sex scenes are easier' with strangers

Jennifer Lawrence prefers filming intimate scenes with unfamiliar co-stars because it reduces awkwardness and eases her pre-movie anxiety.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 months ago

FilmWatch Weekly: Jodie Foster in 'A Private Life,' plus Oscar nominees 'The Voice of Hind Rajab' and 'Arco,' and more * Oregon ArtsWatch

The most prominent hook to A Private Life, Jodie Foster in a rare French-language role, is probably the least interesting thing about this thoroughly enjoyable thriller for grown-ups that at its best harks back to the stylish, spiky entertainments of Claude Chabrol. Foster plays Dr. Lilian Steiner, an American in Paris working as a psychotherapist. In the film's first few scenes, one of her long-term clients threatens to sue her after one hypnosis session cured the smoking habit that years of talk therapy couldn't,
Film
Film
fromThe Independent
2 months ago

Paris Hilton calls activism 'the most meaningful work of my life'

Paris Hilton is redefining her image as a musician and activist, revealing abuse and campaigning for youth-care reform while releasing an electro-pop album and documentary.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Melissa Leo: Winning an Oscar was not good for me or my career'

She declined an on-screen kiss with Denzel due to a boss‑trainee character dynamic; pottery supplanted knitting, and she seeks diverse, non‑typecast roles including period royalty.
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