Last weekend we were hanging out with a bunch of movie-loving friends who professed no desire to see Observe and Report, Seth Rogen’s mall-cop black comedy. “I just don’t want to see any movie where the main character’s a rapist,” one girl said firmly, which caught us by surprise. It’s true that the movie’s red-band trailer shows him pumping away on an unconscious Anna Faris, but then she stirs and yells, “Did I tell you to stop, motherfucker?

From Don Carlos at the Metropolitan Opera. A ghoulish tyrant, his private grievances magnified to European scale, tries to crush a plucky rebellious outpost of empire. A much younger leader, who first appears as a lightweight with a pretty smile, puts up an unexpected challenge, threatening to bring down the entire superstructure of power. When the opera ends, he seems unlikely to succeed or even survive. A few weeks ago, those elements of Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlos would have seemed like a geopolitical subplot to a love triangle; the fate of 16th-century Flanders matters far less than the tribulations of a Spanish prince in love with his French stepmom.

Eileen is a movie that seems like one thing — until it becomes something else. The film hinges on a huge twist about two-thirds into its run time, as meek, mousy Eileen (Thomasin McKenzie) realizes that her glamorous colleague Rebecca (Anne Hathaway) has invited her over on Christmas Eve under false pretenses. In fact, the dirty kitchen where the two are drinking red wine out of coffee cups isn’t even Rebecca’s.

Not-so-distant cousins. “I would never categorize ourselves as specifically country,” Jeff Tweedy told Boise Weekly three years ago about his band Wilco’s disassociation with categories. (A stance he’s since expanded to include his frustration with the term dad rock, no matter how literal the meaning.) The band have never fit comfortably within one singular genre, pulling elements from alternative, psychedelia, and country on every album, including Star Wars, surprise-released earlier this year.

You gotta love a ragtag team of dancing teens! Disney Channel alum Sabrina Carpenter has been elevating whatever material she finds herself working with since the days of Girl Meets World, and I mentally prepared myself for that to be the case again, going into Netflix’s original teen dance movie Work It, in which Carpenter plays a type A but totally clumsy high-school senior who has to start a dance team for reasons.

Check in on your local film bro this morning. The 2023 Academy Award nominees were announced January 24 by two former Girls co-stars, Riz Ahmed and Allison Williams (we assume as part of the Girls resurgence). Going into the ceremony, The Fabelmans, Everything Everywhere All at Once, and The Banshees of Inisherin had the wind at their backs following successful showings at precursor ceremonies such as the Golden Globes and the guild awards of SAG and the DGA, among others.

Frenemies. Good news! She’s deaaaaaaaad actually alive. Over a decade after the production team on the freakishly successful Broadway musical began meeting with filmmakers back in 2010, the first of two Wicked movies is actually being released a week early. While those initial meetings reportedly included potential directors like Rob Marshall (boring!), Ryan Murphy (but he would want Lea Michele), and J.J. Abrams (the sci-fi boy?), Stephen Daldry was officially hired, with a December 2019 release date set back in 2016.

Remember the white party? Empire returns Wednesday, September 23 for its second season. But because its first season jam-packed just about every scandalous plot detail Lee Daniels could dream up into its two-hour March finale — Hakeem and Boo Boo Kitty slept together! Jamal nearly pushed Baretti off a roof! Lucious isn’t dying! — the rest of the season probably feels like a blur. To jog your memory, here are the most salient details to know going into season two, captured in 21 GIFs — along with a few less-important moments worth reliving, because Cookie.

Evil The Demon of Algorithms Season 3 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Evil The Demon of Algorithms Season 3 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “It’s official,” Ben says, “everyone on the internet is possessed.” If that line, and its perfect delivery from Aasif Mandvi, made you want to both laugh because it is hilarious coming from a show about demonic forces, but also cry because it feels so very true, you are not alone!

Take comfort in your massive domestic gross. On the eve of the Oscars, the Razzie Awards blow one fat raspberry in the face of Hollywood with their not at all daring selection of the worst films of the year. This year, Fantastic Four and Fifty Shades of Grey tied for Worst Picture, while Fifty Shades also received Worst Actor, Worst Screen Combo, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Actress (seriously, did they watch the movie?