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Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Pop Music Was 2018’s Greatest Movie Villain by Nate Jones

Since their respective debuts at the fall festival season, A Star Is Born and Vox Lux have seemed like dark mirrors of each other. A Star Is Born hit theaters first, and as the discussion ab…

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Wednesday, October 10, 2018

I’m Obsessed With That Song About Butts From A Star Is Born by Nate Jones

I once took a class on light and color, where I learned about the receptors in the retina that let us see. There are two kinds, rods and cones. Cones are in charge of seeing color, but they�…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:00AM
Tuesday, October 2, 2018

20 Things Bradley Cooper’s Star Is Born Voice Sounds Like by Nate Jones

“Your voice is everything as an actor,” Bradley Cooper told the New York Times recently, while explaining why he painstakingly took his own down an octave to play an alcoholic musician i…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:00AM
Thursday, September 27, 2018

Here Are the Full Lyrics to A Star Is Born’s ‘Shallow’ by Nate Jones

On the afternoon of Thursday, September 27, 2018, you may have felt a great disturbance, when millions of voices suddenly cried out in jubilation that Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s “Sha…

SOURCE: Vulture at 05:10PM

The Full Version of ‘Shallow’ From A Star Is Born Is Finally Here by Nate Jones

It was the wail heard ’round the world — “HAAA AH AH AH AH, AAAH AAAH, AH AH AH AH HAAA” — and now you get to hear the whole thing. After teasing us with a snippet of Lady Gaga’s…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:55PM
Monday, September 10, 2018

Dave Franco’s Cameo Turns Out to Be Most Polarizing Part of If Beale Street Could Talk by Nate Jones

Barry Jenkins’s If Beale Street Could Talk received a rousing ovation when it premiered at Toronto Sunday night, but I’m curious to see how aspects of it will play outside of a festival …

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:36AM
Friday, September 7, 2018

Everything You Need to Know About the Moment Lady Gaga Goes ‘HAAA AH AH AH AAAH’ in A Star Is Born by Nate Jones

One minute and 46 seconds. As all true cinephiles know, that’s how long you have to wait in the Star Is Born trailer to get to the part when Lady Gaga takes a deep breath, steps up to the …

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:50PM

Chris Pine’s Penis Dazzles Audience at Opening Night of the Toronto Film Festival by Nate Jones

Chris Pine entered Toronto’s Roy Thomson Theater wearing a brown double-breasted jacket, a movie-star tan, and a twinkle in his eye. At first glance, this might have been because his Rober…

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:18AM
Monday, August 27, 2018

One Man Calls A Star Is Born the Greatest Achievement in the History of Cinema by Nate Jones

Will Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born be a camp classic, or just a regular classic? We won’t know until the film premieres at Venice later this week, but in the meantime, we’ll have to …

SOURCE: Vulture at 05:56PM
Thursday, February 1, 2018

Are You Ready for Charlie Puth, Musical Bad Boy? by Nate Jones

If you’re one of the people who did not like Charlie Puth’s first album, Nine Track Mind, you’re not alone. “It has the lowest Metacritic rating … ever?” the singer jokes in a ne…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:53PM
Friday, December 1, 2017

Here’s Cynthia Erivo Covering Taylor Swift’s ‘I Did Something Bad’ by Nate Jones

Are you ready for the first great cover of the Reputation era? Friday afternoon brings this wonderful version of 18th-best Taylor Swift song “I Did Something Bad” from musical theater Th…

SOURCE: Vulture at 04:46PM
Friday, September 15, 2017

How Does the It Movie Compare to Cary Fukunaga’s Script? by Nate Jones

When It hit theaters earlier this month, it arrived with a screenplay credited to Cary Fukunaga, Chase Palmer, and Gary Dauberman. Those first two names are a vestige of an earlier incarnati…

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:18PM
Friday, September 8, 2017

Let’s Cast the Adults for the It Sequel by Nate Jones

As It arrives in theaters today, it will do so having only adapted one half of Stephen King’s novel. The film follows a group of middle-schoolers battling an ancient evil in the 1980s, whi…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:23PM
Sunday, November 27, 2016

Moana Rules the Thanksgiving Box Office, While Rules Don't Apply Is the Biggest Flop of the Year by Nate Jones

The Main StoryWhen it came time to retreat to a movie theater this weekend, America's families followed the traditions set down by their ancestors, flocking to Moana, the latest Disney film …

SOURCE: Vulture at 04:38PM
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Jon Favreau Is Directing a New Lion King, Because the Circle of Remakes Moves Us All by Nate Jones

Naaaaaaaaants ingonyama, bagithi Baba! Disney on Wednesday announced it's reteaming with director Jon Favreau on a "reimagining" of The Lion King, which will include songs from the…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:35AM
Monday, September 26, 2016

On the Set of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk, Where Science Meets Game of Thrones by Nate Jones

On a recent Wednesday night, Neil deGrasse Tyson — director of the Hayden Planetarium, advocate for the sciences, sci-fi fact-checker, and seemingly the only person with as many hours…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:25AM
Thursday, September 8, 2016

Bruce Springsteen Plays His Longest U.S. Show Ever — in Philadelphia (Suck It, Jersey!) by Nate Jones

Philadelphia isn't just the birthplace of the Constitution, the setting of Trading Places, and the nearest metropolitan area to the hometown of Taylor Swift. As of this week, it's also the l…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:28AM
Thursday, September 1, 2016

Willy Wonka and Blazing Saddles Heading Back to Theaters After Gene Wilder’s Death by Nate Jones

Just like Purple Rain after the death of Prince, two of Gene Wilder's most popular movies are returning to theaters in the wake of Wilder's death Monday at the age of 83. Deadline reports th…

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:32PM
Thursday, August 25, 2016

Helen Mirren Might Join Disney’s Live-Action Nutcracker by Nate Jones

Helen Mirren is in talks to join Disney's upcoming live-action Nutcracker film, THR reports. If the Fast 8 star signs on, she'd be part of a cast that includes Mackenzie Foy, Keira Knightley…

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:10PM
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Disney’s Live-Action Nutcracker Casts Keira Knightley As Its Sugar Plum Fairy by Nate Jones

Keira Knightley has joined Disney's live-action Nutcracker movie, Variety reports, joining a cast that also includes Interstellar's Mackenzie Foy, ballerina Misty Copeland, an…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:12AM

Nice Guy Daniel Radcliffe Gives the Paparazzi Fantasy-Football Advice by Nate Jones

In nearly every interview he gives, Daniel Radcliffe swears that he is not actually that good of a guy. This is a lie. Daniel Radcliffe is a very good guy, who also happens to be very into f…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:12AM
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Broadway Mogul James M. Nederlander Dead at 94 by Nate Jones

James M. Nederlander, chairman of Broadway's Nederlander Organization, has died at the age of 94, his son James L. Nederlander announced on Tuesday. The elder Nederlander inhe…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:49PM
Thursday, July 21, 2016

Hamilton’s Daveed Diggs Joins Black-ish for ‘Major’ Arc by Nate Jones

After winning a Tony and leaving Hamilton, what will Daveed Diggs do for an encore? A lot of things, but now, also, Black-ish. Variety reports that Diggs will play Johan, brother of Tra…

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:57AM
Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Daveed Diggs Is Leaving Hamilton July 15 by Nate Jones

Every action has an equal opposite reaction: Now that co-stars Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., and Philippa Soo have said goodbye to Hamilton, Daveed Diggs will leave the record-breakin…

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:12PM
Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Loving Trailer: Come for the Soulful Portrait of Interracial Marriage, Stay for Nick Kroll’s Serious Face by Nate Jones

Loving received major Oscar buzz when it played at Cannes earlier this year, and Tuesday brings the first trailer for Jeff Nichols's interracial-marriage period piece. Joel Edgerton and Ruth…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:26PM
Monday, July 11, 2016

After a Relaxing One-Day Vacation, Lin-Manuel Miranda Performs His J.Lo Duet on Today by Nate Jones

After taking a whole 24 hours off to decompress after his final Hamilton performance, a newly shorn Lin-Manuel Miranda stopped by Today Monday morning alongside Jennifer Lopez to perfor…

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:53PM
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Theater Accidentally Plays Horny-Sausage Movie Trailer Before Finding Dory by Nate Jones

Northern California theatergoers taking their small children to see Finding Dory received a rude surprise earlier this month, when the Brenden Concord 14 cineplex mistakenly played…

SOURCE: Vulture at 07:26PM
Friday, June 24, 2016

What Comes Next? Everything We Know About the Future of Hamilton by Nate Jones

After making a bunch of people very rich and winning a whopping 11 Tony Awards, what comes next for Hamilton? This summer marks the end of act one for the smash Broadway hit: Unlike Ale…

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:46PM
Thursday, June 23, 2016

Aaron Sorkin Makes Peace With the Internet, Will Teach Online Screenwriting Course by Nate Jones

If you haven't heard Aaron Sorkin talk about screenwriting, you haven't seen Shakespeare the way it was meant to be played. Accordingly, the West Wing creator, whose relationship with the in…

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:31AM
Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Daniel Radcliffe Reveals the Bizarre Advice He Got From Donald Trump When He Was 11 by Nate Jones

When it comes to weird advice from an older male celebrity, Daniel Radcliffe's Donald Trump story isn't nearly as unsettling as Kenan Thompson's Bill Cosby story. It's still pretty odd, thou…

SOURCE: Vulture at 05:40PM
Thursday, June 16, 2016

Lin-Manuel Miranda Is Officially Leaving Hamilton in July; Will Be Succeeded by Javier Muñoz by Nate Jones

The rumors were true: Lin-Manuel Miranda really is leaving Hamilton next month, the show confirmed in a press release Thursday. The recent Tony winner's last performance in the rol…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:13PM

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