Month: September 2021

Lifetime / NeueHouse NY Luminaries Present 'Surviving R. Kelly' With Civil Rights Activists And SurvivorsSource: Chance Yeh / Getty On Sept. 27, the jury in R. Kelly’s contentious sex trafficking case finally delivered a long-awaited guilty verdict to the singer. While the milestone victory served as a sigh of relief for some of his victims, Kelly’s ex-wife Andrea “Drea” Kelly shared in an interview with Good Morning Britain that she had mixed emotions about the news. “I sit in a very difficult place because unlike the rest of his victims, I also share children with him. I was married to him, so I wear two hats. I wear the hat of a survivor and an advocate, but I also wear the hat of a mother and an ex-wife… I feel that my heart is in two places,” Drea, who shares three children with the...

Still from Warner Bros.' "The Many Saints of Newark." Warner Bros. Who made Tony Soprano? That's the question that "The Many Saints of Newark" aims to answer over the course of its two-hour run time. However, those expecting a story about a boy's rise to the top of North Jersey's most powerful criminal organization may find themselves disappointed. Tony, portrayed by the late James Gandolfini's son Michael, plays a minor role in the film. Instead, it's Dickie Moltisanti (Alessandro Nivola), Tony's mobster uncle that is at the center of "Many Saints." The feature film prequel to the award-winning and beloved HBO series "The Sopranos" opens in a graveyard. As the camera pans up to the headstone of Christopher Moltisanti, audiences hear the voice of actor Mi...

Disney’s next animated feature, Encanto, has a lot of what you’d expect from the studio. It’s bright and colorful, telling the story of a magical family living in the mountains of Colombia, most of whom have been blessed with superpowers. It’s even a musical with songs written by Lin-Manuel Miranda. But despite the familiar fantasy trappings, it explores new territory for Disney: the narrative tradition of magical realism. “The magic is born out of a human need or drive,” Encanto co-writer and co-director Charise Castro Smith tells The Verge. “It’s all generated by relationships and what these characters are going through.” Encanto tells the story of the Madrigal family, who lives in a magical home and go through a very unique experience at the age of five: they’re each granted a sp...

Daniel Craig is veering from James Bond to Shakespeare. The 53-year-old actor, who has said that his tenure as Bond will come to an end with the release of “No Time to Die,” on Oct. 8, plans to return to Broadway next spring to star in the title role of “Macbeth.” Famous for his film career, especially as the rakish spy, Craig is also an accomplished stage actor. He has starred in two previous Broadway plays, the 2009 production of “A Steady Rain” and a 2013 revival of “Betrayal.” And he played the villainous Iago in a 2016 Off Broadway production of Shakespeare’s “Othello” at New York Theater Workshop, opposite David Oyelowo in the title role. (“Gritty brilliance,” the New York Times critic Ben Brantley wrote of Craig’s performance.) In the “Macbeth” production, Ruth Negga will play...

Disney+ // SEPTEMBER 29, 2021 Get your first look at the key art for the series ahead of its debut later this year. Disney+ announced today that The Book of Boba Fett — the new Lucasfilm series teased in a surprise end-credit sequence following the Season 2 finale of The Mandalorian — will premiere on Wednesday, December 29, exclusively on the streaming service. Disney+ also debuted the key art for the series, which you can see for yourself below. The Book of Boba Fett, a thrilling Star Wars adventure, finds legendary bounty hunter Boba Fett and mercenary Fennec Shand navigating the galaxy’s underworld when they return to the sands of Tatooine to stake their claim on the territory once ruled by Jabba the Hutt and his crime syndicate. The Book of ...