Pedro Pascal is everywhere. The Mandalorian, Wonder Woman, and soon, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (which he stars in alongside Nicolas Cage). "I basically own the world," he says in Esquire's new episode of "Explain This." But for someone who owns everything, he still falls shy of the one thing he longs for in…
It's been a damn good month for hoops fans. The NCAA Tournament introduced us to St. Peter's and the mustached hero of our dreams. The NBA playoffs are already gifting us with drama (ahem). And Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty is reaching Showtime-esque heights. Meaning? The swirl of HBO-ified dramatizations of Jack…
You may remember an actor from the early '00s—he's since fallen off the radar, with casting agents inexplicably blacklisting him from Hollywood—named Wilson. Starring in the heralded 2000 film Castaway, Wilson acted his leathered ass off opposite Tom Hanks, who gleefully soaked up accolades as awards committees snubbed Wilson for every best supporting actor nod…
On Easter Sunday, Showtime aired its first episode of The First Lady, which is appropriate because it both nearly killed me and filled me with life anew. With heavyweights like Viola Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Gillian Anderson, Kiefer Sutherland, Ellyn Burstyn, and Aaron Eckhart in the cast, the production could have been extraordinary. Explosive, even. But…
It’s official: David Lynch has entered the director’s cut chat. See Zack Snyder shaking in his boots over in the corner? Nearly forty years after his ill-fated adaptation of Dune hit theaters, Lynch has confessed that he wants a do-over. You’ll remember that Lynch’s Dune bombed at the box office back in 1984, earning just…
Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP/Shutterstock When Jamie Dornan tells me that his new TV series The Tourist is the last project we’ll hear him sing in for a while, I balk. In recent years, the Jamie Dornan Musical Number has very much become A Thing. A Good Thing. During a video call in March, I go over his…
My father’s first serious girlfriend after he and my mother broke-up was a dream for my twin sister, younger brother, and me. Kaye lived just down the block from my grandparents on the Upper West Side, a genial, welcoming woman, and possessor of that enviable 1983 daily double: a VHS machine and cable TV (we…
After a series of red lights, Squid Game, the massively successful Korean drama that took over Netflix in the second half of 2021, has officially received the green light for a second season. (No, Netflix employees were executed in this decision making process.) Netflix co-CEO and Chief Creative Officer Ted Sarandos made the announcement in…
