The HBO Max show follows a gender-fluid 20-something who knows how to care for others but is still figuring out how to care for themselves.
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Eight months of delays, two corgis, and one freak injury: the show’s stars on the long road to remaking an anime classic.
I saw them first on the 7 train going into Queens, wearing hoodies emblazoned with “Mic Drop” and earbuds plugged in like they were fighters getting ready for a match. Soon, they were everywhere, 40,000 strong, of every demographic, b...
Will this finally be the year a Korean film gets an Oscar nomination? Despite having a rich and influential film tradition with murderer’s row of directors like Park Chan-wook (The Handmaiden; Oldboy), **** Joon-ho (The Host; Okja), a...
Even though he subsisted on comedy growing up — Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, SNL — Alan Yang didn’t think that it was something you could actually do for, like, money. “We had the very traditional Asian-American upbringing wh...
Raphael Bob-Waksberg is reading me some numbers. As the seasons of BoJack Horseman progressed, he had his team create some quantitative data to look at the show’s hiring practices for voice actors: over five seasons, 35 percent of the...
At first, John Cho didn’t want to do Searching. He thought it sounded like a YouTube movie, and to be fair, the writer and director Aneesh Chaganty fumbled the initial pitch. “It was the first time I had ever spoken to a celebrity. I ...
First Man opened the Venice Film Festival to rapturous reviews, with critics transported by Damien Chazelle’s history of the first moon landing filtered through the perspective of first lunar walker Neil Armstrong. But not everyone wa...
Sunday night at the world premiere of If Beale Street Could Talk at the Toronto International Film Festival, the writer and director Barry Jenkins ended the onstage Q&A portion — often a quick and slightly cursory proceeding —&nbs...
When Bradley Cooper’s Jackson Maine first encounters Lady Gaga’s Ally in A Star is Born, they’re at a drag bar called Bleu Bleu outside of Los Angeles staffed by RuPaul’s Drag Race alumni Shangela and Willem. Ally is the token cis gir...