August 5, 2025

  Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images (Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis, Jamie McCarthy), Dia Dipasupil/FilmMagic Over 2,000 members of the Writers Guild of America, both East and West, signed an open letter responding to the “escalating attacks on independent media by the Trump Administration.” Signees included Spike Lee, John Waters, Ilana Glazer (Broad City), Celine Song …

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  Photo: Netflix Of all the Stranger Things kids, it was Finn Wolfhard who correctly guessed what a Stranger Things spinoff would look like, according to the Duffer brothers. “Nobody — not Netflix, not any of the producers, not any of the directors, not any of the actors — nobody else has figured out what …

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  Photo: Valeria Ferraro/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gett Francis Ford Coppola was admitted to a hospital in Rome, after attending a screening of Megalopolis at the Magna Gracie Film Festival. But relax! It was for scheduled heart surgery. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the director is “resting nicely” after a scheduled heart procedure with Dr. Andrea …

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  Photo: FX The Alien franchise has gotten about as complicated as a Weyland-Yutani org chart. There are the core movies, the Prometheus side quests, and last year’s Alien: Romulus spinoff reboot. Don’t even get us started on the vs. Predator of it all. Now here comes Noah Hawley’s prestige drama set in the Alien-verse, …

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  Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Warner Bros./Everett Collection, Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images Once upon a time in Hollywood, Leonardo DiCaprio might be the savior of Heat 2. Michael Mann’s long-gestating sequel to his 1995 classic Heat has hit a funding roadblock, Matthew Belloni reports at Puck, and as a friend to male auteurs …

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  Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images (Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis, Hulton Archive) KJ Apa has done it all: He fought a bear, survived polyamory, and went to war all in the same series. There’s no better acting school than a CW teen drama. Now, he’s going to be channeling beloved American icon James Stewart in …

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  Photo: Universal Pictures “I know people would rather have someone watch them than blow them up,” William Radford (Ice Cube) explains to his son in the new Amazon Prime adaptation of War of the Worlds. Adapted — kind of — from H.G. Wells’s novel, Rich Lee’s screen-life movie is a sci-fi action-adventure Amazon commercial …

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  Photo: Jacob Moscovitch/New York Magazine What’s the first song that made you cry? The first song you wrote? The last song of your own you listened to? These questions and more make up “Music History,” a series that gives artists an opportunity to go deep. In this edition, you’ll learn about Hayley Williams, who …

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  Photo: Hulu Is Hank Hill old? He’s always been something of an old man in spirit, but “Any Given Hill-Day” acknowledges the fact that his corporeal form is starting to catch up with that spirit. Given that King of the Hill has always played it pretty loose with chronology and characters’ ages — its …

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  Photo: Hulu Have you been distracted while watching this season wondering When is Kahn going to show up? I admit I haven’t really. Yes, his absence has been semi-conspicuous given that it was confirmed Kahn would be returning to this revival with a new voice actor, Ronny Chieng, and because Minh has already appeared …

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