In 2005, a San Jose woman found a human finger in her Wendy’s chili. Well, she claimed to. When it was discovered that she planted the finger in the bowl herself for financial gain, she was sentenced to nine years in prison for the scam that cost the fast-food chain millions. Edd Benda and Stephen…
Pluribus creator Vince Gilligan once pondered that the extras who make up the hive mind on the dystopian future show should be naked. In addition, he regaled that a top Sony TV executive wasn’t a fan early on of his multi-Emmy winning Breaking Bad, which the studio ultimately produced. Such stories were part of a…
Jamie Lee Curtis didn’t know she was about to take on three more “Halloween” movies when she said yes to David Gordon Green’s 2018 film, the sequel to her 1978 film. During a SXSW panel titled, “If Not Now, When, if Not Me, Who? Pivoting and Manifesting,” Curtis opened up about filmmaking and her career…
Another weekend and it’s another dust-up between Donald Trump and Gavin Newsom — this time about media censorship or control, depending on who you ask. As the former Apprentice host’s sycophantic FCC chair threatens outlets over their Iran War coverage, a golfing Trump took to his Truth Social feed Saturday to brag about how he…
The hit Zooey Deschanel comedy series The New Girl signed off close to eight years ago, with cast reuniting for a 2020 voting PSA and also a small assembly at the Actors Awards last year, but what about a real reunion in the streaming era where revivals thrive? Jake Johnson who played Nick, the better-half…
While many action films before have featured strong leading women, director Vicky Jewson takes on the genre through a darkly comedic, emotionally wrought female lens in Pretty Lethal, which premiered tonight at SXSW. In the Kate Freund-penned film, five young ballerinas and their coach head to a showcase in Budapest, only to get stranded in…
Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedwick, along with their kids, Sosie Bacon and Travis Bacon, took meta to a whole new level on Friday night at SXSW Festival with the debut of “Family Movie.” With the proud mother and father taking on roles as both co-directors and actors in the project, the family affair received massive applause…
AUSTIN, Texas — One of the most anticipated events at this year’s SXSW Film & TV Festival wasn’t a movie at all, but a speaking appearance by director Steven Spielberg. The talk, a live taping of the podcast “The Big Picture” lead by co-host Sean Fennessey, covered many aspects of the Hollywood legend’s career, with a through…
The evils of late-stage capitalism have been addressed at every film festival ever in recent years, but hardly ever in the midnight strand. This ingenious horror-comedy anthology achieves the almost unthinkable; while it delivers the requisite laughs and shocks — never an easy balance to strike, even at the best of times — Grind is…
As the romantic comedy continues to make a comeback, Wishful Thinking adds some magical chaos to the genre. Marking writer/director Graham Parkes feature debut at SXSW, the film stars Lewis Pullman and Maya Hawke as Charlie and Julia, a Portland, Oregon couple whose relationship is riddled with emotional highs and lows as they struggle to…
