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One of the more surprising announcements to come from this year’s Sundance Film Festival was that HBO purchased A24’s Native Son, a reimagining of Richard Wright’s 1940 book. Visual artist Rashid Johnson was at the helm for his first film, and it stars Ashton Sanders (of Moonlight fame), as well as Margaret Qualley (The Leftovers), KiKi Layne (If Beale Street Could Talk), […]

February has been hell month: with the Super Bowl, the Grammys, and All-Star Weekend touching down on subsequent Sunday evenings, it’s been a miracle that we’ve been able to keep up with this season of True Detective. As February comes to a close, we have one more night of appointment television to consume: the 91st Academy […]

Anderson .Paak hit The Tonight Show for double duty as a performer and guest Thursday. In addition to bringing his Oxnard highlight “Trippy” (sans J. Cole) to the stage, .Paak joined one of the Jimmys on the couch for a quick discussion on his recent Grammy win and some teasing of what’s next. When he found […]

TMZ has obtained a snippet of the Drop the Mic episode with Jussie Smollett, which was pulled in response to his recent arrest for allegedly filing a false police report. The clip features Smollett calling his opponent Orange Is the New Black actress Danielle Brooks “the worst orange person since Donald Trump.” Click here to check it […]

Netflix had an unlikely hit with the gothic horror/treatise on lingering effects of familial trauma bait-and-switch The Haunting of Hill House. That’s not the sort of thing you let stand alone in the age of binge television, so the network just announced that Haunting is set for the fate of all good horror TV of […]

Every good movie has a villain, some antagonist trying to keep our heroes from achieving greatness (or just, you know, surviving). Some movie villains are tame, less “pure vessel of evil” and more “annoying nuisance or obstacle.” But plenty of movie villains are straight out of a nightmare, the serial killers and monsters who only appear […]

Empire star Jussie Smollett is in the custody of Chicago police. Smollett turned himself in early Thursday and is now under arrest on a Class 4 felony charge for falsifying a police report, according to the Hollywood Reporter.  “Jussie [Smollett] is under arrest and in custody of detectives,” CPD spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi announced Thursday morning, adding that a […]

Kim Kardashian has officially unfollowed Tristan Thompson and Jordyn Woods on Instagram, just days after the two allegedly hooked up behind Khloé Kardashian‘s back. On Tuesday, it was reported Khloé had ended her relationship with Thompson after he was seen at a house party making out with Woods, the 21-year-old who is best friends with Khloé’s sister Kylie Jenner. No one […]

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse writers Rodney Rothman and Phil Lord knew exactly how they wanted the opening scene with the film’s young hero Miles Morales to unfold. “We had this idea that if he sang a song that was out of his register, it would make the audience laugh,” Rothman and Lord recall in an […]

Jussie Smollett has reportedly staved off a grand jury investigation after he agreeing to speak with authorities about his alleged assault in January. TMZ says brothers Ola and Abel Osundairo, accused of helping Smollett stage the attack, were in a Chicago courthouse Tuesday ready to testify for the grand jury. But shortly before the Osundairos took the stand, Smollett […]