Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater is rightly celebrated for plays in which actors get in one another’s faces from the start and then keep hissing, driving, flaying — the kind of plays that, on the big screen, put the feeb in febrile, not because real human beings don’t act that way but because Actors Acting do. What a happy surprise that two of Steppenwolf playwright Tracey Letts’s early works — Bug and now Killer Joe, his breakthrough — have been turned into knockout films, both directed by William Friedkin, who’s more potent than ever at 76. Read More...
First daughters have been carrying out the duties of "first lady" ever since the term was coined. And they've been doing it with style.Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesIvanka Trump walks on stage at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio on July 21, 2016.
Melania Trump kept quiet for most of the 2016 presidential campaign, preferring to cede the spotlight to Donald’s daughter, Ivanka. Ivanka helped her father appeal to women, discussed policy propositions with the media, and attended high profile meetings while her husband, Jared Kushner, was given the title of senior adviser to the president. Read More...
Blue Beetle is a reluctant hero in a brand-new trailer for the upcoming DC movie! We are about a month away from meeting the new superhero DC. The movie sees Xolo Maridueña as Jamie Reyes aka the Blue Beetle and tells the tale of a student-turned-superhero when Jamie is chosen by the mysterious alien Scarab. Warner Bros has released a new trailer for its next offering which is one of the final DC films to hit theaters before James Gunn’s Gods and Monsters timeline kicks off the DCU. Read More...