Easys Waltz, the new film from True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto, makes good on about half the promise of its title. Pizzolatto keeps his film light on friction, ambling at an easy, lackadaisical pace. Im not sure the movie ever really waltzes, though. That would require more grace and timing, which Pizzolattos script and direction only exhibit on occasion. Still,...

The Cannes-born actor-director Guillaume Campanacci is a frequent attendee of the worlds most glamorous film festival, but he has a special affection for Oldenburg. Ive been to the Cannes Film Festival every year, but Oldenburg is something different I will go there with any film I have, the Frenchman tells The Hollywood Reporter. It makes sense, then, that he would...

Eight years after he announced his retirement, Daniel Day-Lewis is back acting in Anemone, which was directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis. While speaking to Rolling Stone ahead of Anemones world premiere at the New York Film Festival, Day-Lewis admitted he regretted announcing his retirement in 2017. Looking back on it now I would have done well to just keep...

Nearly 50 years after she made her debut as an original castmember on Saturday Night Live, Laraine Newman continues to be an avid fan of the NBC sketch comedy series and closely follows its changes. Newman, who became known for such SNL characters as Connie Conehead and Valley girl Sherry, tells The Hollywood Reporter that she appreciates the propensity for...

Undeniably gripping at times, while proving conclusively that any attempt to do an apolitical documentary about what happened in Israel on October 7, 2023, is inherently unworkable, Barry Avrichs over-titled new documentary The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue is designed to be controversial. And, based on responses before and after the films Toronto premiere, it generally succeeds. Id posit...

Bryan Cranston won the Emmy Award for best guest actor in a comedy for his role as Griffin Mill in The Studio at last weekends Creative Arts Emmys, but he wasnt on hand to accept his prize. On Wednesdays Jimmy Kimmel Live!, he revealed where he was and host Kimmel gave him a chance to relive the awards experience. I...

Chloe Fineman is preparing to return for season 51 of Saturday Night Live, though she admitted that shes still processing many of her former co-stars not returning to the show amid a major cast shakeup. Pretty wild, Fineman told Extra TV when asked about the cast changes. Some shocking stuff. A little heartbreak, sadness. I havent fully processed anything, but...

A feature documentary about Paul Shaffer, best known David Lettermans longtime sidekick and Late Show bandleader, is in the works. The life rights to the story of the musician and TV personality from Thunder Bay, Ontario, who got his start as the musical director of a 1972 Toronto stage production of Godspell, have been acquired for a film to be...

Its a cinematic rite of passage. When an actor hits a certain age, hes often cast as a tough, cynical cop paired with an idealistic new partner whom he must school. The scenario inevitably smacks of clich, but the tough new drama directed by Vincent Grashaw manages to overcome its familiarity thanks to a smart script by Zach Montague, the...

John Connors doesnt have a writing credit on the Oldenburg-bound mental health romance Crazy Love, but the film remains an intimate portrait of the actor-producers life. Im very grateful for the childhood I did have, but its all led to this film, the Irishman tells The Hollywood Reporter. He plays Clayton in Dylan Stagno and Kevin Treacys movie, co-directed by...

Salli Sachse, who appeared in lots of beach party movies and in the counterculture cult classics The Trip and Wild in the Streets as a contract player for American International Pictures in the 1960s, has died. She was 82. Sachse died Monday of an unknown cause at her home in California City, her niece Catherine Schreiber told The Hollywood Reporter....

Fourty one years after This Is Spinal Tap, the band is back together. The parody rock band made up of Christopher Guests Nigel Tufnel, Michael McKeans David St. Hubbins and Harry Shearers Derek Smalls has reunited for Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, which sees Rob Reiners Marty DiBergi directing a new documentary about the bands final show. Reiner, who...

Netflix and AMC have extended and expanded their streaming pact, which sees a variety of AMC and AMC Studios shows available on the platform under the AMC Collection banner. The new deal will bring new seasons of Anne Rices Interview with the Vampire (season two) available on September 30; Dark Winds (season three) available in October; The Walking Dead Daryl...