Flanagan wrote the screenplay for the 2019 Stephen King movie “Doctor Sleep,” which is appropriate, since this seven-episode project feels like a King miniseries, for good and ill. Good, because the scary buildup draws the audience in, and bad, because the finish is — as is frequently true of King-derived works — a significant letdown. […]
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At my darkest point during the lockdown portion of the pandemic, I was awake until past 3 a.m. on most days watching old episodes of “The Great British Bake Off,” wondering if I’d wake up my husband if I snuck into the kitchen and started baking a cake. (No, Netflix, I’m not calling it “The […]
Garson died on Sept. 21 of pancreatic cancer. “It’s been unbearable,” she wrote in a tribute shared on Instagram. “Sometimes silence is a statement. Of the gravity. The anguish. The magnitude of the loss of a 30+ year friendship.” Parker continued: “A real friendship that allowed for secrets, adventure, a shared professional family, truth, concerts, […]
Critics of the drama, based on the real life “Black Mafia Family” crime syndicate, have argued the show glamorizes drug-trafficking and money laundering. “The lifestyle choices are always going to give you more danger,” 50 Cent told CNN in a recent interview. “It’s going to give you entertainment and energy. If those lifestyle choices weren’t […]
His death was deemed to be accidental in nature, a spokesperson for the office said in a statement on Friday. Williams was found dead in his New York City apartment earlier this month. In a 2017 interview with the New York Times, Williams addressed his struggles with substance abuse. “Addiction doesn’t go away,” he said. […]
The sweeping nature of the narrative has invited comparisons to other adaptations of literary epics, among them “Dune” and “Game of Thrones.” Yet “Foundation,” for better and mostly worse, feels very much like its own unique challenge, and doesn’t in this form conjure the sort of characters that the latter did to draw viewers, providing […]
In a New York Times obituary published Thursday, his family wrote that the 57-year-old actor, whose legal name was William Garson Paszamant, died at his home in Los Angeles. “The cause was pancreatic cancer,” the obituary reads. Best known for his role Stanford Blatch in the “Sex and the City” series, the obituary also paid […]
Garson, who played Parker’s character’s gay best friend Stanford Blatch in the “Sex and the City” series, died this week. He was 57. On his Instagram account, Noth, who played Mr. Big on the show, posted a photo of Parker and Garson in character with a caption reading “Willie,” along with a heart and a […]
Remaking a 2018 Danish movie, “The Guilty” is a taut, remarkably spare thriller that casts Gyllenhaal as a 911 dispatcher, taking a series of disparate calls — and one particularly significant one involving an imperiled woman — while clearly struggling with a separate personal crisis. What’s happening? About all we know is that Gyllenhaal’s Joe […]
The “Voice” coach and superstar singer unveiled her new single on Thursday, a tune called “Christmas Isn’t Canceled (Just You).” The defiant song finds Clarkson singing about a woman who won’t let her ex ruin her Christmastime, her New Year or anything else for that matter. Call it holiday independent spirit. “When Christmas Comes Around…” […]