Month: May 2025

Another Simple Favor reunites Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick in a new movie full of murder, deceit, and great hats. Set at a splashy wedding in Capri, it turns out you can’t keep a good – or in this case, a very bad – woman down. Directed by Paul Feig (A Simple Favor, Bridesmaids), the film also stars Henry Golding, Allison Janney and Elizabeth Perkins. It’s streaming on Prime Video.

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A lawsuit filed on behalf of four women accuses R&B legend Smokey Robinson of sexual misconduct.

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Williams’ FX/Hulu series follows a woman with terminal cancer who decides to pursue her own sexual pleasure. She says the show is about sex, friendship and “being scared and brave at the same time.”

Sauk County Sheriff’s Office says Audrey Backeberg, now in her 80s, is living outside of Wisconsin. The detective who managed to track her down says she “had her reasons for leaving” in July 1962.

My Name Is Emilia Del Valle is the newest novel from the prodigious Chilean expat, now in her 80s. Plus, a personal history of the orange, a Josephine Baker history and having kids in the digital age.

While they’re asleep, I’ll use a Sharpie to scrawl “NOT ME” on the front-runners’ faces.

Monday is the Met Gala, known as fashion’s grandest event, where celebrities from various realms come together at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art to celebrate fashion and each other.

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Production in Hollywood has been suffering. But it’s unclear how a 100% tariff on movies produced outside the United States would work – or who it would help.

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The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful re-imagination of Huckleberry Finn.

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Thomas’ April 23 death at age 71 brings to a close one of the most significant avant-garde experiments ever conducted within the confines of pop music. Rock critic Ken Tucker reflects on his legacy.