103 stories 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…
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'…
"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 in A …
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 "Shallow…
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 majestic sc…
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 atmo…
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 mi…
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 Robert …
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 conten…
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 new Billboar…
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 Thems …
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…
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, while…
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 …
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…
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 i…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
