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Actor Julia Garner is Hollywood’s Secret ‘Weapon’
Actor Julia Garner (Ozark) has built a career out of shapeshifting. This summer, the Emmy-winning performer lands on the silver (surfer) screen with …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
David Mamet Exits Stage Left
David Mamet is one of the most celebrated American playwrights of the last century: Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Speed-the-Plow, American Buffalo, a…
8 months ago
Director Celine Song on ‘Materialists’ (Death, Sex & Money)
Long before Celine Song was nominated for an Academy Award for her feature directorial debut, Past Lives, she was a struggling playwright in New York…
8 months ago
Actor Patricia Clarkson (‘Sharp Objects’) Goes Her Own Way
After nearly four decades of working in Hollywood, actor Patricia Clarkson (The Station Agent, Pieces of April) says her portrayal of women’s rights …
8 months, 1 week ago
Play It Again: Joaquin Phoenix
“I wanted to be good, but I completely burned up the morning,” said Joaquin Phoenix on day 1 of Eddington. “Ari and I stayed on set when everyone lef…
8 months, 1 week ago
Director Ari Aster (‘Eddington’) Has Made an American Western for 2025
“Eddington is a film about a bunch of people who know that something is wrong,” says writer-director Ari Aster. “It’s just that nobody can agree on w…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Lena Dunham is Never ‘Too Much’
Writer/director Lena Dunham is the voice of my generation. Or at the very least, a voice of a generation. Her new show, Too Much, is now available to…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
How ‘Big and Beautiful’ is Trump’s Bill? (with Jamelle Bouie of NYT)
From the opinion pages of The New York Times to his popular TikTok feed, Jamelle Bouie is a leading voice in American politics.
This week, Bouie help…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Actor Ebon Moss-Bachrach Returns to ‘The Bear’
To celebrate the fourth season of The Bear, we return to our conversation with Emmy-winning actor Ebon Moss-Bachrach.
At the top, we dive into the ma…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Comedian Jerrod Carmichael is Creating His Own Truman Show
In just under a decade, Jerrod Carmichael has had a remarkably varied career. On the heels of his latest HBO special, we return to our conversation w…
9 months, 1 week ago