FX to Release ‘Adults’ Prequel Episode

FX to Release ‘Adults’ Prequel Episode

FX‘s Adults is getting a prequel. The FX comedy will release, later this summer but prior to the August drop of season two, a standalone episode, titled “Marathon Day,” that will introduce the friend group and provide the origin story for Jack Innanen‘s Paul Baker. The full episode, written by series creators Ben Kronengold and…

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Lilly Wachowski Shares Advice to Her Pre-Transition Self at ‘Bound’ Reunion Screening:  “Start Taking That Estrogen”

Lilly Wachowski Shares Advice to Her Pre-Transition Self at ‘Bound’ Reunion Screening: “Start Taking That Estrogen”

Lilly Wachowski shared the words she would tell herself 30 years ago, before her gender transition, when she was co-writing and directing the 1996 neo-noir classic Bound, which helped launch The Matrix filmmaker’s career. “Well, start taking that estrogen. What are you doing? Come out of the closet!” Wachowski told moderator Julie Klausner and a…

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‘Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders’ Review: An Engrossing if Incohesive Dive Into William Friedkin’s Gay S&M Thriller and Its Surrounding Controversy

‘Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders’ Review: An Engrossing if Incohesive Dive Into William Friedkin’s Gay S&M Thriller and Its Surrounding Controversy

Arguably no major gay-themed film has ever been as polarizing within the queer community as 1980’s Cruising, the gritty William Friedkin crime thriller set against the backdrop of New York’s leather-bar scene. Documentarian Jeffrey Schwarz takes a three-pronged approach to the subject in Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders, examining the real-life homicide that inspired the story, the development…

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Katie Holmes, Meg Ryan and Jodie Foster Support Female Filmmakers at Chanel Tribeca Festival Luncheon

Katie Holmes, Meg Ryan and Jodie Foster Support Female Filmmakers at Chanel Tribeca Festival Luncheon

On Friday, a number of Hollywood’s established and emerging creatives — including Meg Ryan, Jodie Foster, Katie Holmes, Catherine Hardwicke, Myha’la, AnnaSophia Robb and Tommy Dorfman — joined Tribeca Festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal at the Greenwich Hotel to celebrate the Through Her Lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women’s Filmmaker Program as part of an annual luncheon….

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Madonna Brings ‘Confessions II’ to Tribeca Festival: Short Film Features Benedict Cumberbatch, Julia Garner and “Lasers Coming Out of Every Orifice”

Madonna Brings ‘Confessions II’ to Tribeca Festival: Short Film Features Benedict Cumberbatch, Julia Garner and “Lasers Coming Out of Every Orifice”

Fans might have to wait a little longer to see if Julia Garner ends up playing Madonna in a biopic, but they don’t have to wait to see Garner and Madonna collaborate on film. The Ozark and Americans alum has a quick cameo in a club scene in Madonna’s star-studded Confessions II visual album, which…

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Christopher Guest Reveals the “Brutal” Backstage Dog Show Moment That He Couldn’t Include in ‘Best in Show’: “It’s Too Much”

Christopher Guest Reveals the “Brutal” Backstage Dog Show Moment That He Couldn’t Include in ‘Best in Show’: “It’s Too Much”

Despite all of the idiosyncratic behavior displayed by the dog owners in Christopher Guest‘s 2000 satire Best in Show, there was one moment Guest heard of as he was researching the cutthroat world of professional dog shows that he thought was too extreme to include in his film. Specifically, Guest heard that backstage “a person…

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