Review
Why Was Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway’s New Movie Buried?
Mothers’ Instinct is a perfectly solid domestic thriller with two Oscar-winning movie stars that barely got a North American release.
By Richard Lawson
The Dude Abides
The Dude Is Voting for Kamala Harris
Jeff Bridges, star of The Big Lebowski, hopped on the “White Dudes for Harris" fundraiser call and pledged his support for the Democratic Nominee: "I’m white, I’m a dude, and I’m for Harris.”
By Chris Murphy
Same Actor, Different Mask
Robert Downey Jr. Returns to The Avengers, But Not as Iron Man
The Iron Man star will play iconic villain Doctor Doom in Marvel's next two Avengers movies.
By Eve Batey
Knight and Day
Tom Cruise Attends Secret Induction Ceremony to France's Legion of Honor
The Mission Impossible star's ceremonial event with France's culture minister took place just hours before the Paris Olympics kick-off.
By Eve Batey
excerpt
The Offer Leonard Nimoy Couldn’t Refuse: “How’d You Like to Have a Great Death Scene?”
The actor hoped he was done with Star Trek. An excerpt from The Future Was Now digs into the chaos and controversy of The Wrath of Khan.
By Chris Nashawaty
First Look
Reintroducing Humphrey Bogart: The Untold Stories of a Hollywood Icon’s Volatile Private Life
The Casablanca star’s career was shaped by his relationships with women, from his distant mother to the love of his life, Lauren Bacall. Those stories come to the forefront in a new documentary, Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes.
By David Canfield
my darling young one
Watch Timothée Chalamet Sing as Bob Dylan in First A Complete Unknown Trailer
The actor previously revealed that he worked with Austin Butler’s Elvis team to morph into the famed folk singer.
By Savannah Walsh
Review
Deadpool & Wolverine Finds the Fun in Corporate Compliance
In his new film, the Marvel world’s resident bad-boy makes nice with his new corporate overlords.
By Richard Lawson
What Is Cinema?
Lee Isaac Chung’s Childhood Trauma Drew Him to Twisters
In the next installment of Vanity Fair’s What Is Cinema? series, director Lee Isaac Chung breaks down his inspirations for Twisters.
By Eve Batey
Get Happy
Joker: Folie à Deux Gets More Musical in Latest Trailer
The sequel to Joker, featuring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, finds the villainous clown and Harley Quinn making musical mayhem all over Gotham City.
By Chris Murphy
Is Twister Responsible for Getting Fleetwood Mac Back Together?
As Twisters rules the box office, we look back at how a song from the original film’s soundtrack may have brought the Rumours lineup together again.
By Fred Sahai
EXCLUSIVE
When You’re 23 and Spielberg Calls: The Wild Origin Story of Jon M. Chu
In an excerpt from his new memoir, the director of Crazy Rich Asians and Wicked remembers the shock and awe.
By Jon M. Chu with Jeremy McCarter
Open Your Heart
How Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman Won Over Madonna
The Deadpool & Wolverine stars did what it took to talk the Material Girl into letting them use one of her most iconic songs.
By Eve Batey
How Real Tornados Tormented the Making of Twisters
Lee Isaac Chung, director of the Twister sequel, wanted to shoot in Oklahoma during storm season: “I was very naive.”
By Anthony Breznican
awards insider first look
Amy Adams Hears the Call of the Wild in Nightbitch
“When people ask me what the movie is about, I’m like, ‘It’s about motherhood and rage,’” says director Marielle Heller in this exclusive first look. “And you either get that or you don’t.”
By Hillary Busis
Review
Influencer Romance Goes to Dizzying Extremes in Skywalkers: A Love Story
A new Netflix documentary explores the risks and rewards of death-defying clickbait.
By Richard Lawson
these are their stories
The 32 Best True-Crime Documentaries to Binge Right Now
From murders to cults to miscarriages of justice, the best true-crime documentaries have it all. Your next watch is waiting.
By Matthew Jacobs
Matching Each Other’s Freak
Meet the Death-Defying Couple Who Fell in Love While Climbing Skyscrapers
Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus’s risky romance is the subject of Netflix documentary Skywalkers: A Love Story, previewed exclusively below.
By Savannah Walsh
exclusive
Rosemary’s Baby Prequel Apartment 7A Aims to Raise Hell: A First Look
Julia Garner and Dianne Wiest star in this follow-up to the 1968 thriller, centering a side character’s nightmarish untold story.
By Anthony Breznican
Bill & Nicole & Tom & Alice
Nicole Kidman Says Stanley Kubrick “Was Mining” Her Marriage to Tom Cruise for Eyes Wide Shut
In an interview with the LA Times, Kidman reveals that Kubrick asked “a lot of questions” over the two years she worked on his final film with her ex-husband: “There were ideas he was interested in.”
By Chris Murphy
Alec Baldwin's Involuntary Manslaughter Case Has Been Dismissed
The prosecution's mishandling of evidence led the judge to halt the actor's trial in the Rust movie shooting that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
By Anthony Breznican