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Surprise! Tom Cruise Loves Paramount Again Back in December, there were reports that Tom Cruise was not a huge fan of David Ellison, which would explain why everyone's favorite Space Jesus started setting up shop at Warner Bros. the year before. Welp, there have been some... Read more...

Surprise! Tom Cruise Loves Paramount Again

Quentin Tarantino Can't Believe One Artist Would Dare Attack Another Back in December, Quentin Tarantino kicked off a still simmering news cycle after he randomly attacked Paul Dano during an episode of Brett Easton Ellis' podcast. Here's what he said verbatim: "[Dano] is weak sauce, man. He is the weak... Read more...

Quentin Tarantino Can't Believe One Artist Would Dare Attack Another

True Crime, It Girls, and a Lost Classic: Pajiba March 2026 Book Recommendations Superpost! The Girl on the Velvet Swing by Simon Baatz View this post on Instagram A post shared by Melissa Hope (@mrosedb) In 1906, Harry Kendall Thaw, an heir to a railroad empire, shot and killed Stanford White, a prominent architect,... Read more...

True Crime, It Girls, and a Lost Classic: Pajiba March 2026 Book Recommendations Superpost!

The Sherlock Holmes Canon Is Mostly Made Up Anyway, So 'Young Sherlock' Might As Well Have Fun With It There's so little backstory on Sherlock Holmes in the Arthur Conan Doyle canon that adaptations have a ton of freedom to invent their own mythology. Doyle never said that Sherlock had a sister, for instance, but he didn't say he... Read more...

The Sherlock Holmes Canon Is Mostly Made Up Anyway, So 'Young Sherlock' Might As Well Have Fun With It

Alan Ritchson Is Very Good at Playing One Guy

'Paradise' Season 2: What's the Deal with the Mailman, Gary? I cannot believe I wrote an entire piece just one week ago about how Dan Fogelman has created a dystopian drama where bad people aren't necessarily around every corner, about how there is good in the world, and that humanity... Read more...

'Paradise' Season 2: What's the Deal with the Mailman, Gary?

Corey Feldman Says No Hard Feelings Over Rob Reiner Oscars Tribute Snub Stand By Me was a monumental movie in my childhood. While my parents certainly had loose guardrails in terms of what my brothers and I could and could not watch, the coming-of-age film felt special. It seemed like something that... Read more...

Corey Feldman Says No Hard Feelings Over Rob Reiner Oscars Tribute Snub

Schwarzenegger To Return to Iconic Role With ‘Mission Impossible’ Director It feels like Arnold Schwarzenegger has had several "returns" in his career. He had taken most of a decade off to be the Governor of California, something that feels almost abstract at this point. Then, he started dipping his toe... Read more...

Schwarzenegger To Return to Iconic Role With ‘Mission Impossible’ Director

Jack White Would Like the Swifties to Leave Him Alone There are many reasons I would hate to be famous. One of them is that I'd be terrified of giving a totally mundane response to an interview and having it blow up because of a clickbait headline and the collective... Read more...

Jack White Would Like the Swifties to Leave Him Alone

Zooey Deschanel Really Does Not Care for Crumbl Cookies I am the father of twins who are bright, funny, and still very much eighth-grade girls. That means they like to frequent Starbucks, and once every few months, they and their friends insist on visiting Crumbl because there's a new... Read more...

Zooey Deschanel Really Does Not Care for Crumbl Cookies

Donald Glover Is Yoshi When Donald Glover took over the iconic role of Lando Calrissian, fans of the multi-hyphenate star knew it was only a matter of time until he took on an even more timeless character: The little green dinosaur that lets Mario... Read more...

Donald Glover Is Yoshi

Seth MacFarlane's AI Bill Clinton in 'Ted' Season 2 Is All Risk No Reward First things first: Dustin is 100% correct. Ted Season 2 is stubbornly good. Once again, the show is surprisingly delightful from start to finish, and Alanna Ubach continues to be the MVP. It's comedy comfort food if your idea of... Read more...

Seth MacFarlane's AI Bill Clinton in 'Ted' Season 2 Is All Risk No Reward

Why Timothee Chalamet's Comments on Ballet and Opera Angered So Many People Oh, Timmy. You were bound to stick your foot in your mouth at some point. Last week, an interview that Timothee Chalamet did a month prior with Matthew McConaughey went viral over some comments the actor made about ballet and... Read more...

Why Timothee Chalamet's Comments on Ballet and Opera Angered So Many People

Steve Carell and Bill Lawrence Are a Natural Pairing in HBO Max's 'The Rooster' Rooster is among five Bill Lawrence-produced shows that will air this year (along with Shrinking, the Scrubs revival, another season of Ted Lasso, and a second Bad Monkey season). This one pairs Lawrence with his longtime producing partner Matt Tarses... Read more...

Steve Carell and Bill Lawrence Are a Natural Pairing in HBO Max's 'The Rooster'

Seth MacFarlane's 'Ted' Remains Genuinely, Stubbornly Good Like the original Ted movie, the first season of Ted, the Peacock television series, benefited greatly from lowered expectations. It succeeded largely because it wildly overshot those expectations and delivered an immensely funny and surprisingly heartfelt season of television. The... Read more...

Seth MacFarlane's 'Ted' Remains Genuinely, Stubbornly Good

Ashley Padilla and Ryan Gosling Can’t Keep It Together in New ‘SNL' Breaking isn't just about Shabba Doo and Boogaloo Shrimp (nailed it). It also describes what happens when an actor can't keep their shiz together when filming or performing in a scene, sketch, or what have you. They start to laugh,... Read more...

Ashley Padilla and Ryan Gosling Can’t Keep It Together in New ‘SNL'

Pixar Head Pete Docter's Explanation for Cutting LGBTQ+ Content From 'Elio' Is Very Stupid The Wall Street Journal profiled Pete Docter last week, the current head of Pixar and director of Up and Inside Out. It's a piece that paints a portrait of a major Hollywood studio in a period of intense flux, and... Read more...

Pixar Head Pete Docter's Explanation for Cutting LGBTQ+ Content From 'Elio' Is Very Stupid

Box Office Report: Hop Down the Aisle With The Bride! It's early March. The dump seasons are over. We're not quite into the big blockbuster territory yet, but you can see the studios dipping their toes into the cold waters. Pixar has had a spotty run lately, but their latest... Read more...

Box Office Report: Hop Down the Aisle With The Bride!

Welp, 'Pluribus' Season 2 Is Definitely Going To Be a While When Pluribus dropped its bombshell season finale back in December, the immediate question became, "Dear God, when are we getting more of this?" If you're familiar with Vince Gilligan's work, you knew the answer would probably be "not anytime soon!"... Read more...

Welp, 'Pluribus' Season 2 Is Definitely Going To Be a While

Ryan Gosling Proves Why He Is One of the Best on 'SNL' Cold Open -- If a political cold open is necessary, I suppose Colin Jost's Pete Hegseth reciting Papa Roach lyrics and doing keg stands and Ashley Padilla's Kristi Noem send-off is the best case scenario. It's better than James Austin... Read more...

Ryan Gosling Proves Why He Is One of the Best on 'SNL'

Kristi Noem’s Firing Was Sweet Jell-O Shot Catnip to Meghan McCain Meghan McCain didn't waste a second firing up the "Not Like Other Girls" machine following the news of Kristi Noem's ouster. There was blood in the water, and MY FATHER was ready to feast. I'd say more, but my therapist... Read more...

Kristi Noem’s Firing Was Sweet Jell-O Shot Catnip to Meghan McCain

Review: Jessie Buckley Makes an Exquisite Corpse Out of 'The Bride!' Something old, something new, something borrowed, something black and bruised blue--Maggie Gyllenhaal's exclamatory The Bride! is doing the herky-jerky Thriller dance into theaters this weekend with an entire wedding party's worth of party gifts tucked into its silken, tattered stockings.... Read more...

Review: Jessie Buckley Makes an Exquisite Corpse Out of 'The Bride!'

Did ‘Norbit’ Really Stop Eddie Murphy From Winning an Oscar? This week sees the release of The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal's reimagining of The Bride of Frankenstein that blends together classic Hollywood, musicals, heist flicks, and Hot Topic hauls. Reviews have been decidedly mixed, with some loving Gyllenhaal's messy ambition while... Read more...

Did ‘Norbit’ Really Stop Eddie Murphy From Winning an Oscar?

How Worried Should We Be for Dr. Robby on 'The Pitt'? We're now nine episodes into the second season of The Pitt and, so far, it has remained fairly routine -- save for the system going down -- at least relative to the chaos that built toward the end of last... Read more...

How Worried Should We Be for Dr. Robby on 'The Pitt'?

Terrible 'The Amazing Race' Couple Sues 'The Amazing Race' for Portraying Them as Terrible One of the most trafficked posts we've ever had on this site was about a married Amazing Race couple named Jonathan and Ava, and the emotional terror that Jonathan subjected Ava to on the show. Most of that traffic almost... Read more...

Terrible 'The Amazing Race' Couple Sues 'The Amazing Race' for Portraying Them as Terrible

It Sounds Like Tracy Morgan Was a Blast on the ‘Reggie Dinkins’ Set I always liked Bobby Moynihan when he was on Saturday Night Live. He fit that show pretty perfectly. I've also enjoyed seeing him at any other time since then. He appeared on one of my favorite episodes of How Did... Read more...

It Sounds Like Tracy Morgan Was a Blast on the ‘Reggie Dinkins’ Set

Christina Applegate Was Offered an ‘Offensive’ Salary for ‘Anchorman' My small town was not ready for Anchorman. The Will Ferrell vehicle may have hit the country (or at least teenagers) by storm, but I distinctly remember a local morning radio DJ playing a clip from the movie and lamenting... Read more...

Christina Applegate Was Offered an ‘Offensive’ Salary for ‘Anchorman'

Timothee Chalamet Got Cringe About Opera and Ballet Marty Supreme star Timothée Chalamet is still, on paper, the frontrunner for Best Actor at this year's Oscars. But his path to gold, which many predicted would be a sure-fire guarantee several weeks ago, now has another major contender in... Read more...

Timothee Chalamet Got Cringe About Opera and Ballet

Ben Affleck's What Company Just Got Bought by Netflix? Now that it has some spare change lying around, Netflix has decided to scoop up Ben Affleck's -- *puts on readers, squints, moves paper back and forth* -- AI company. Oh? Not only that, but Benny Boy is now a... Read more...

Ben Affleck's What Company Just Got Bought by Netflix?

Everything You Need to Know About Jason Bateman’s Character In ‘DTF: St. Louis’ You Learn in the First 30 Seconds of the Show Clark Forrest (Jason Bateman) says goodbye to his kids, high-fives his wife, then pedals away on his recumbent bike, past a billboard of himself as the weatherman for the local news station. That's the very first thing you see in... Read more...

Everything You Need to Know About Jason Bateman’s Character In ‘DTF: St. Louis’ You Learn in the First 30 Seconds of the Show