Arriving in theaters on a crest of post-SXSW Film Festival love, A Quiet Place is a tense, jangly new monster movie directed by John Krasinski that has plenty going for it–just not quite as much as some hyperventilating fe

J.K. Simmons' 'Counterpart' Shows Why Super-Spies Aren't That Sexy

Apr 4th, 2018 7m 12s

“It’s so sexy, the work you do,” diplomat Claude Lambert (Guy Burnet) leers at bad-guy, black-clad super-spy Howard Silk (J.K. Simmons) in episode 3 of the sci-fi spy series Counterpart. Lambert’s comment is half lasciviou

Russian Mobster From 'Operation Odessa' Explains His Side of the Cartel Scheme

Apr 3rd, 2018 10m 55s

The fall of the Soviet Union in the early ‘90s had unexpected consequences. One of them was a surplus of ex-military supplies, weapons and vehicles suddenly flushing the black market. In other words, there was a potential

'Pacific Rim Uprising' Has a Plot, Probably

Mar 28th, 2018 3m 18s

Director Guillermo del Toro was way off his mark with Pacific Rim, a moderate hit in the U.S. but a monster hit throughout Asia. So, like it or not, we’re now stuck with Pacific Rim Uprising, an earthlings-vs.-monster/robo

'Ready Player One' Is a Vintage Spielberg Ride You'll Want to Take

Mar 27th, 2018 4m 40s

If the carefully made, earnest, well-acted and politically charged drama The Post exemplified the grown-up Steven Spielberg, then his new science-fiction action flick, Ready Player One, released just months after, is the j

How Drag Culture Became Something You Can No Longer Avoid, Featuring Alaska Thunderf*ck

Mar 26th, 2018 7m 51s

RuPaul’s Drag Race, a televised competition that started in 2009, gained a devoted cult following and is having its season 10 premiere tonight, is arguably the best reality show that straight men aren’t watching yet. For t

Heaven Can't Wait: The Surprise Success of 'I Can Only Imagine'

Mar 22nd, 2018 9m 12s

A $17 million opening weekend is chump change in the Marvelverse, but it’s big bucks for an unheralded movie with a budget under half that amount. Even Variety seemed caught off guard when I Can Only Imagine was outdone in

In Praise of Jessica Jones, the Relatable Superhero

Mar 20th, 2018 6m 28s

In season 2 of Jessica Jones, the main “villain” is Jessica’s mom, Alisa (Janet McTeer), who is somewhat stronger than the superpowered Jessica, and has anger-management issues. In other words, the central conflict of the

Alicia Vikander Brings New Life to 'Tomb Raider'

Mar 19th, 2018 3m 43s

Alfred Hitchcock once mused, “If the dead were to come back, what on earth would we do with them?” We could always call them Tomb Raider. Seventeen years ago, Angelina Jolie starred as sharp, sexy, pistol-packing tomb raid

Why O.J. Simpson Won't Go Away

Mar 14th, 2018 6m 45s

A whole generation of Americans has been born and grown to adulthood since O.J. Simpson’s arrest on a murder rap in 1994. But even so, when President Trump’s former flunky Sam Nunberg had his famous cable-news meltdown las

'Black Panther' Saved Hollywood—Can It Also Fix the Oscars?

Mar 12th, 2018 7m 31s

Barring an envelope snafu so unholy it makes last year’s Moonlight/La La Land mix-up look rehearsed, we already know which highly praised and very popular big-screen lollapalooza of 2017 won’t win the Best Picture Oscar. T

'A Wrinkle in Time' Doesn't Quite Feel Timeless

Mar 9th, 2018 6m 31s

No one ever said it was going to be easy making a movie out of Madeleine L’Engle’s beloved, idea-crammed and visionary 1962 Newbery Medal-winning novel, A Wrinkle in Time. Adapting such rich material—equal parts science-fi

How Robots Delayed Patrick Heusinger's Path to the A-List

Mar 8th, 2018 7m 43s

Patrick Heusinger is a 37-year-old actor who spent a decade in New York and the last decade in Hollywood, not becoming a household name. He has an IMDb page full of one-episode guest spots on 30 Rock and Bones. He was on f

Pollyanna McIntosh Gets Her Close-Up on 'The Walking Dead'

Mar 7th, 2018 7m 2s

Scottish actress Pollyanna McIntosh plays Jadis as a strange, enigmatic presence on The Walking Dead. She speaks in Yoda-like haikus, wears a Rhythm Nation-style getup and paints in her spare time. On Sunday night, she cam

Good Luck Taking Your Eyes Off Jennifer Lawrence in 'Red Sparrow'

Mar 6th, 2018 3m 30s

Pro tip: For maximum enjoyment, watch Red Sparrow for the movie it is, instead of the movie you wanted it to be. The new spy thriller based on the first entry from former CIA operative Jason Matthews’ best-selling trilogy

Kwaye: The Wandering Soul with Soulful Music to Match

Mar 5th, 2018 9m 3s

Articles and interviews from Playboy magazine, plus Playboy.com online exclusives. Because we all read Playboy for the articles. A SpokenEdition transforms written content into human-read audio you can listen to

Kwaye: The Wandering Soul with Soulful Music to Match

Mar 5th, 2018 9m 3s

'Everything Sucks!' Creators on '90s Naivete—and Teaching the Cast to Use a VCR

Mar 2nd, 2018 6m 58s

Netflix’s half-hour dramedy Everything Sucks! is woke nostalgia. The series overlays post-millennial sensibilities about race, sexuality and storytelling onto a 1990s world of rotary phones and mail-order CDs. It’s goofy e

'Unsolved' Stars Discuss Lingering Mystery of Tupac and Biggie's Deaths

Mar 1st, 2018 7m 48s

The famous East Coast-West Coast hip-hop beef in the ‘90s had been going on a while, but it entered the public stratosphere in 1995 at the Source Awards when Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight famously took a very public di

Making Sense of 'Annihilation' in a Post-'Black Panther' World

Feb 28th, 2018 7m 29s

Annihilation should really be called Assimilation. First of all, the mysterious, alien Area X, located somewhere in the United States, isn’t bent on killing all Earth life as it expands. Instead, it absorbs and changes all

'Game Night' Is a Winner, Thanks to Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams

Feb 27th, 2018 3m 45s

Game Night is one of those comedies that have been cast with terrific, fast-on-their-feet actors who seem a good 10 years older and smarter than the pop culture-obsessed, weirdly developmentally stunted characters they’re

You're Not Ready for 'Annihilation'

Feb 26th, 2018 5m 26s

Otherworldly beauty and stomach-knotting horror walk hand-in-hand in Annihilation, the stunning, nerve-jangling, ambitious and nightmarish science-fiction thriller, one of the best and most ambitious genre movies to come a

'Babylon Berlin' Fires the Warning Shot We Need

Feb 22nd, 2018 7m 7s

Berlin in the 1920s was the seed of every sexual revolution that’s rocked our world since then, from the mainstreaming of uncloseted gay life to badass women acting out a newly liberated, free-spirit autonomy. Even 90 year

Revolutionary 'Black Panther' Lives Up to the Hype

Feb 8th, 2018 6m 31s

Those of us allergic to pre-release hype know that the publicity machine is strong with Marvel’s Black Panther. For a solid year now, the buzz has now verged on deafening, and the movie’s record-smashing pre-ticket sales k

Justin Timberlake Gave Us a Halftime Show Devoid of Meaning

Feb 7th, 2018 5m 32s

As Super Bowl Sunday dawned, America woke up to dire news: Pink had the flu. “I’ve arrived at another one of my dreams which is slowly becoming a sort of nightmare,” everybody’s favorite coiffed diva posted on Instagram. R