The Real Larry David
A new book on the making of Curb Your Enthusiasm offers rare insight into its creator, from his pre-Seinfeld misery to his lifelong friendship with Richard Lewis
Eva Victor
The Billions actor and comedian is making her directorial debut with Sorry, Baby, starring Naomi Ackie and Lucas Hedges
Mckenna Grace
The 19-year-old actress is making her romance debut as the lead in Regretting You, the latest Colleen Hoover adaptation, starring Allison Williams and Dave Franco
Stand-up Guy
Will Arnett plays a recently divorced comic in a bittersweet film directed by Bradley Cooper and co-starring Laura Dern
Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used to Be
A new biopic about the love affair between Simone Signoret and Yves Montand has the actors’ families declaring it a woke travesty
What’s with Woody?
An open letter
Ronan Day-Lewis
The 27-year-old painter directs his first feature film, Anemone, casting his father, Daniel Day-Lewis, in his first role since retiring in 2017
Succession, Plus Beer and Brutality
Guinness heiress Ivana Lowell on the moment she realized her real-life family drama was made for the screen
The Mirror and the Megaphone
Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt is the first great film about cancel culture
Emily Fairn
With roles opposite Martin Freeman and Willem Dafoe under her belt, the 26-year-old Liverpudlian is now starring in House of Guinness
Downton and Out
With the last of the Downton Abbey movies in theaters, Lily James, Matthew Goode, and other cast members recall working with Maggie Smith and how Downton-mania spread across the pond
Oh, Goodness! Those Guinnesses!
Can a new Netflix series make sense of one of the most cursed families in Europe? First, let’s face facts
Fawlty Reasoning
How has Fawlty Towers, one of the most offbeat, provincial, inappropriate, and heavily excoriated shows of all time, remained popular for 50 years? Nobody quite knows …
The Unlikely Rise and Inevitable Fall of Vice
Once hailed as the “Millennial CNN,” Vice rode hipster shock journalism to a $5.7 billion valuation—before hubris, big business, and the fleeting currency of cool brought it all crashing down
A Lighter Shade of Darren Aronofsky
His movies—Black Swan, The Wrestler, Requiem for a Dream—are notoriously heavy. But the director’s latest, Caught Stealing, is a romp around the East Village of the 1990s
Madness! Mayhem! Megalopolis!
A new documentary about the filming of Francis Ford Coppola’s $120 million fiasco reveals an aloof Adam Driver, an enraged Shia LaBeouf—and a chaos-loving Coppola
The Bard of New England
Screenwriter Ben Shattuck’s old-school Massachusetts hometown inspired a new period romance starring Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor
Kathryn Bigelow Goes Nuclear
The Oscar-winning director is back in her happy place with the nail-biting, anxiety-inducing, apocalyptic political thriller A House of Dynamite
Four Boys. One Fed-Up Country
Now in its 27th season—an animated-series endurance record topped only by The Simpsons—South Park is a tonic for our Trump-ified times
The Zone of Beauty
A stunning new documentary on Karl Lagerfeld reveals how the clothes made the man
The Rules of the Dame
Helen Mirren may have turned 80, but she’s still acting—and aging—gracefully. Just don’t call her feisty
Cooper Hoffman
Four years after Licorice Pizza, Philip Seymour Hoffman’s 22-year-old son is making his science-fiction debut while shooting Luca Guadagnino’s latest film
Star Turn
After decades of character roles, Paul Guilfoyle, a CSI alumnus, plays the lead in a bittersweet film about the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art heist
The Man Behind the Alien Mask
Bolaji Badejo was a six-foot-10-inch Nigerian graphic-design student in London until a chance pub encounter made him Ridley Scott’s most elegant monster
