"The Academy, as you are no doubt aware, took action last year to expel Harvey Weinstein from their ranks," Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel said a few minutes into his monologue, causing jaws to cl…
In an entertainment ecosystem where a comic-book character's popularity is judged largely by whether it's made it to a movie or a TV show, the heroes and villains of Saga stand apart for the…
The collision of universes is a common trope in superhero fiction. Time and again, comic books have presented stories in which a group of characters from one version of Earth merge into a di…
Several Disney Channel stars have gone on to do things that might have scandalized former fans " consider Ryan Gosling freebasing in Half Nelson " but few have embraced the transition like 2…
By Odin's beard, the flaxen-haired Odinson hath returned! Thor: Ragnarok is about to hit theaters, thus adding a new installment to 55 years' worth of sagas about Marvel's premier thunder go…
It's sort of a shame that Edgar Wright hasn't done more music videos. The writer-director has memorably blended sizzling scenes with titillating tunes on a variety of filmic occasions, in wo…
Spoilers ahead for tonight's episode of American Gods.Every once in a while, a monologue comes along that seems destined to be recited by theater students and auditioning actors until the su…
The Flash and Supergirl share DNA insofar as they're both part of the same superhero family on the CW, but they also, in a way, share a parent: Glee. Grant Gustin and Melissa Benoist " the t…
Mild spoilers for Logan below.The ending of Logan isn't a cheery one, but at a recent New York screening of the film, at least one audience member walked out of the theater giddy: Chris Clar…
One of the great rises to fame in recent television history has been that of Jean Smart. The veteran actress has accumulated an impressive number of film, TV, and theater credits in her four…
The surreal FX show Legion wants to put viewers inside the head of its main character, tortured mutant David Haller. Doing so takes the form of disorienting visuals and timelines, but the sh…
On Christmas day, 2006, a curious twist on the Nativity debuted in a handful of movie theaters. Directed and co-written by Mexican auteur Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men told the stor…
A little over four years ago, gunman James Holmes opened fire during a crowded opening-night showing of The Dark Knight Rises in an Aurora, Colorado, Cinemark theater, killing 12 a…
Lin-Manuel Miranda won the award for Best Score for Hamilton, and in lieu of a traditional speech, delivered a poem about love for his wife and the need for love in the wake of tragedy, no d…
Look, it's hard to put food on the table when you're a struggling actor in New York. Sure, you dream of being a marquee name on the Great White Way, but if you need to pay your rent, you tak…
Since the earliest days of television, narrative shows have drawn from the frenetic, over-the-top energy of Broadway and vaudeville for episodes in which characters sing, dance, and chew sce…
Let us all weep into our overstuffed tuna sandwiches and bags of Blisteritos, for Kroll Show has come to an end. We've known for a few months that this third season of the Comedy Central ser…
Spock may have been half-human and half-Vulcan, but Leonard Nimoy was all Jew. His parents were Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, and they raised him in the Orthodox tradition " and that meant re…
There were a lot of emotional moments at this year's Tony Awards (which is not exactly surprising, given that it's a bunch of theater kids on stage), but none more powerful than the acceptan…
Well, that happened! A few hours into the Tony Awards, host Hugh Jackman started talking about being in a childhood production of The Music Man and did a few lines from the show's rhythmic o…
Neil Patrick Harris may not have been hosting the Tonys this year, but that didn't stop him from stealing the spotlight. He and his fellow Hedwig and the Angry Inch cast members took to the …
Oh, Hugh. Tonight's Tony Awards kicked off with a slightly surreal opening number wherein host Hugh Jackman hopped up and down while making the rounds with various nominees and affiliated Br…
We tried to cover as many mediums as possible in our inaugural Vulture Festival. Thanks to Jason Robert Brown, we were able to make sure musical theater was one of those mediums. The Tony Aw…
In the ranking of sexy accents, the Scottish brogue has to be near the top. And in the ranking of sexy Scottish brogues, Alan Cumming's is definitely in the top five. But just how powerful a…