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Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher had some fun on the red carpet on Sunday, playfully posing at the 2018 Breakthrough Awards in Mountain View, California.

Kutcher didn't fail to make his wife laugh, who looked gorgeous in a floral Dolce & Gabbana dress. Though the two have been married since 2015, the event actually marks their first red carpet together as a couple, not counting their days starring together on That '70s Show!

The couple was there to present the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences to Kim Nasmyth, a geneticist best known for his work on the segregation of chromosomes during cell division.

Et spoke to 34-year-old Kunis in October, when she talked about how her and her husband's priorities have changed since becoming parents to 3-year-old daughter Wyatt and 1-year-old son Dimitri.

“I can write you a book on kid-friendly activities anywhere in the world,” she said. “Because that's what we do. We used to be like...

Jennifer Lawrence had the opportunity any superfan would only dream of – interviewing their favorite celebrity about anything—and no topic was hands-off.

The actress, 27, filled in as guest host on Thursday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, and had a wide-ranging conversation with her favorite reality star Kim Kardashian West, whom she has been watching on Keeping Up with the Kardashians since its inception.

From her thoughts on Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber‘s rekindled friendship to her favorite KarJenner sibling and what’s husband Kanye West‘s weirdest habit, Kardashian West, 37, held nothing back to answer all of the Oscar winner’s “deeply personal” inquiries.

James Toback just sounded off on the women accusing him of sexual misconduct in a bizarre, expletive-filled rant.

The Oscar-nominated screenwriter and director, who has been accused of acting inappropriately – including masturbating in front of women, touching them and propositioning them during business meetings – by over 300 women, according to the Los Angeles Times, vehemently defended himself against the allegations in an interview with Rolling Stone on Friday.

Many of the women, including Rachel McAdams and Selma Blair, claim Toback — known for writing films like 1991’s Bugsy, 1987’s The Pickup Artist and 2014’s The Gambler — approached them about a possible movie...

Few if any artists can equal the run of successes that Arthur Miller enjoyed on the New York stage from the end of World War II to the mid-fifties that included “All My Sons,” “Death of a Salesman,” “The Crucible,” and “A View from the Bridge.” Those plays, among the best ever written in America, are intertwined with that era, both bringing Miller immense success at the time and serving as guides to future generations hoping to understand that time and its values.

Continue reading Rebecca Miller Explores The Public & Private Life Of ‘Arthur Miller: Writer’ [Nyff Review] at The Playlist.

Downsizing to open 2017 edition of Italian festival.

The line-up of the 74th Venice Film Festival has been revealed.

As previously announced, Alexander Payne’s latest film Downsizing will open the 2017 festival and is in competition.

CompetitionDownsizing, Alexander Payne (opening film)Human Flow, Al Weiweimother!, Darren AronofskySuburbicon, George ClooneyThe Shape Of Water, Guillermo del ToroL’insulte, Ziad DoueiriLa Villa, Robert GuediguianLean On Pete, Andrew HaighMektoub, My Love: Canto Uno, Abdellatif KechicheSandome No Satsujin (The Third Murder), Hirokazu KoreedaCustody (Jusqu’a La Garde), Xavier LegrandAmmore e Malavita, Manetti BrosFoxtrot, Samuel MaozThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonaghHannah, Andrea PallaoroJia Nian Hua (Angels Wear White), Vivian QuUna Famiglia, Sebastiano RosaFirst Reformed, Paul SchraderSweet Country, Warwick ThorntonThe Leisure Seeker, Paolo VirziEx Libris – New York Public Library, Frederick WisemanOut Of Competition (fiction)Our Souls At Night, Ritesh BatraVictoria And Abdul, Stephen FrearsLa Melodie, Rachid HamiOutrage Coda, Takeshi Kitano (closing film)Loving Pablo, Fernando León de AranoaIl Signor Rotpeter, Antonietta de LilloDiva...

Downsizing to open 2017 edition of Italian festival.

The line-up of the 74th Venice Film Festival is being revealed at a press conference in the Italian city. Refresh this page to read the line-up as it is announced.

To watch the press conference live, click here.

As previously announced, Alexander Payne’s latest film Downsizing will open the 2017 festival and is in competition.

CompetitionHuman Flow, Al Weiweimother!, Darren AronofskySuburbicon, George ClooneyThe Shape Of Water, Guillermo del ToroL’insulte, Ziad DoueiriLa Villa, Robert GuediguianLean On Pete, Andrew HaighMektoub, My Love: Canto Uno, Abdellatif KechicheThe Third Murder, Hirokazu KoreedaJusqu’a Le Garde, Xavier LegrandAmmore e Malavita, Manetti BrosFoxtrot, Samuel MaozThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonaghHannah, Andrea PallaoroJia Nian Hua (Angels Wear White), Vivian QuUna Famiglia, Sebastiano RosaFirst Reformed, Paul SchraderSweet Country, Warwick ThorntonThe Leisure Seeker, Paolo VirziEx Libris – New York Public Library, Frederick WisemanOut Of Competition (fiction)Our Souls At Night, Ritesh BatraVictoria And Abdul, Stephen FrearsLa...

This podcast focuses on Criterion’s Eclipse Series of DVDs. Hosts David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett give an overview of each box and offer their perspectives on the unique treasures they find inside. In this episode, David and Trevor discuss Eclipse Series 16: Alexander Korda’s Private Lives.

About the films:

Though born to modest means in Hungary, Alexander Korda would go on to become one of the most important filmmakers in the history of British cinema. A producer, writer, and director who navigated toward subjects of major historical significance and mythical distinction, Korda made a name for his production company, London Films, with the Oscar-winning The Private Life of Henry VIII. He then continued his populist investigation behind the scenes and in the bedrooms of such figures as Catherine the Great, Don Juan, and Rembrandt. Mixing stately period drama with surprising satire, these films are exemplars of grand 1930s moviemaking.

It's the final episode as Manuel has worked his way through all the Lgbt-themed HBO productions.

I began this project because, after watching and recapping Looking here, I became fascinated with the idea that, with that Andrew Haigh show, the cable network had somehow reached peak gay TV even as it also managed to alienate the very viewers it was trying to coax. I wanted to, in a way, put Looking in context by watching everything HBO had produced and aired that had tackled Lgbt issues.

This required a lot of scavenging—despite their shiny HBOGo and HBO Now ventures, a lot of the network’s older and more obscure TV movies and shows remain unattainable. And so I reached back and watched a lot of not so great TV movies from the early 80s, caught up with key “very special episodes” of their most well-known dramas and comedies, and...

After more than five decades of working in Hollywood, and lifetime in the public eye, Jane Fonda has collected quite a few envy-inducing, eye-popping stories. Even today, she's still stirring up trouble with costar Lily Tomlin in their Netflix series, Grace and Frankie. Here, nine stories that prove that the 78-year-old is the original - and ultimate - Bamf. 1. She went skinny dipping with Michael Jackson.While shooting On Golden Pond, Fonda got a visit from the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. At the time, she was staying in a "little cabin on the lake," and when the full moon hit,...

After more than five decades of working in Hollywood, and lifetime in the public eye, Jane Fonda has collected quite a few envy-inducing, eye-popping stories. Even today, she's still stirring up trouble with costar Lily Tomlin in their Netflix series, Grace and Frankie. Here, nine stories that prove that the 78-year-old is the original - and ultimate - Bamf. 1. She went skinny dipping with Michael Jackson.While shooting On Golden Pond, Fonda got a visit from the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. At the time, she was staying in a "little cabin on the lake," and when the full moon hit,...

Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation by Cecil Beaton

This week marks the 90th birthday of her majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born in 1926. The Queen celebrates two birthdays each year: her actual birthday on the 21st of April and her official birthday on the second Saturday in June. (Trooping of the Colours)

She is the world’s oldest reigning monarch as well as Britain’s longest-lived. In 2015, she surpassed the reign of her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, to become the longest-reigning British monarch and the longest-reigning queen regent in world history.

Looking to celebrate her Majesty’s birthday? First, everyone rise for the national anthem of the United Kingdom.

God save our gracious Queen!

Long live our noble Queen!

God save the Queen!

Send her victorious,

Happy and glorious,

Long to reign over us:

God save the Queen!

For more on the Queen’s schedule, visit the official site: www.

In case you need a reminder how flush and competitive the TV landscape is at the moment: Netflix is spending $5 billion dollars on programming this year. So, if you want to keep pace, you have to throw down some cash, and that's exactly what their rivals Amazon are doing. Today it emerged that the online retailer is backing a whole new slate of feature films. From "Transparent" creator Jill Soloway (who is already brewing a new comedy for Amazon titled "I Love Dick"), the studio is developing “Ten Aker Wood,” a coming-of-age story about a woman who leaves her failing marriage and life on a pot farm, and falls in love a biker and his lifestyle. Tamara Jenkins (“The Savages,” “Slums of Beverly Hills”) is working on the drama “Private Life” about a woman in her 40s who will do anything to have a child. Meanwhile, Barry Levinson has a...

Furthering their burgeoning status as the most auteur-happy studio in contemporary American cinema, Amazon Studios have struck another deal with Jill Soloway, creator of their hit series Transparent. Per Variety, she’ll be writing and directing a new feature, Ten Aker Wood, which is described as “a coming-of-age story [centering] on a woman in a failing marriage who leaves Los Angeles to live on a pot farm in Northern California.” Further details are scant, save for the notice that a romance develops — and, on Soloway’s part, the story bears autobiographical components.

Amazon’s also establishing projects with Barry Levinson (concerning “the Los Angeles comedy scene of the 1960s and ’70s”) and The Savages‘ Tamara Jenkins. She’ll helm Private Life, “about a woman in her 40s who goes to extremes to have a child,” while Tom Kuntz is to direct Desired Moments, which, as written by Griffin Creech, follows “a lonely TV station employee.

The best picture doesn’t always win Best Picture. Sometimes the best film of the year gets robbed. Cinelinx looks at the movies which should have won Best Picture but didn’t.

Whenever the Best Picture winner is announced at the Oscars, sometimes we say, “Yeah, that deserved to win,” but then again, sometimes we say, “Huh? Are they kidding me?!” There are a lot of backstage politics and extenuating factors in Hollywood that can determine which film wins the big trophy. The worthiest film doesn’t always take the statue home. Going back over the 88-year history of the Academy Awards, we look at which films didn’t really deserve to win and the ones which rightfully should have won.

The Best Pictures and the Better Pictures:

1927-8: The Winner-Wings

What should have won: Sunrise (Sunrise was given a special award for Artistic Quality of Production, but it...

Deniz Gamze Erguven’s Oscar-nominated Mustang also among nominated titles.Scroll down for list of nominations

Arnaud Desplechin’s My Golden Days (Trois Souvenirs De Ma Jeunesse) and Xavier Giannoli’s Marguerite topped the nominations list for France’s annual César Awards, announced this morning (Jan 27).

France’s Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences unveiled the nominations for the 41st edition of the awards at its annual news conference at Le Fouquet’s restaurant on the Champs Elysées.

Desplechin’s romantic drama My Golden Days clocked 11 nominations as did Giannoli’s Marguerite, starring Catherine Frot as a society singer with a terrible voice.

Other features picking up multiple nominations included Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan and Deniz Gamze Erguven’s Mustang, which both secured nine nods.

There was widespread consternation last year in some quarters of the French film industry when five times Palme d’Or nominee Arnaud Desplechin’s My Golden Years was not given a Competition...

Deniz Gamze Erguven’s Oscar-nominated Mustang also among nominated titles.Scroll down for list of nominations

Arnaud Desplechin’s My Golden Years (Trois Souvenirs De Ma Jeunesse) and Xavier Giannoli’s Marguerite topped the nominations list for France’s annual César Awards, announced this morning (Jan 27).

France’s Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences unveiled the nominations for the 41st edition of the awards at its annual news conference at Le Fouquet’s restaurant on the Champs Elysées.

Desplechin’s romantic drama My Golden Years clocked 11 nominations as did Giannoli’s Marguerite, starring Catherine Frot as a society singer with a terrible voice.

Other features picking up multiple nominations included Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan and Deniz Gamze Erguven’s Mustang, which both secured nine nods, as well as Stéphane Brizé’s The Measure Of A Man.

For the first time in the awards’ history, three female directors are nominated in the best directing and best film categories...

Manuel is working his way through all the Lgbt-themed HBO productions...

Last week we looked back at the 1990 1989 Oscar ceremony (it took place in 1990 but celebrated the best of 1989) and got to see an unfazed Jessica Lange and a blustered Charlton Heston, both things which are equally entertaining to watch. This week, we’re tempering our nerves over Haynes’s Oscar snub with a visit to In Treatment’s Dr. Paul Weston (Gabriel Byrne).

Developed by Rodrigo García (who we talked about briefly since he directed Six Feet Under’s “A Private Life”), this HBO show is an American adaptation of the Israeli series BeTipul. Aired as a five-night series, every episode follows a session with Dr. Weston. For today we’re looking at season three’s “Week 1: Jesse” where we meet Dane DeHaan’s character Jesse. And boy is he a testy one!

Playing an aloof New York...

Every girl deserves a “girls night out” – even the future Queen of England.

A Royal Night Out is a charming, Cinderella in reverse type film that follows one evening in the lives of princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Windsor on V-e Night, May 8th, 1945, respectively played by Sarah Gadon (Maps to the Stars, Dracula Untold, The Amazing Spider-Man 2) and Bel Powley (Variety’s 10 Actors to Watch 2015, The Diary of a Teenage Girl).

Premiering at the 2015 Hamptons International Film Festival, A Royal Night Out will open in New York City and Los Angeles on December 4th, 2015 and additional cities throughout December.

As the whole of London is on the streets to celebrate the official end of World War II in Europe, it is known that the young princesses, aged 19 and 14, slipped out of the palace to join the communal euphoria, returning to Buckingham Palace just after midnight.

Directed by UK director Julian Jarrold (Becoming Jane,...

The entertainment industry is fascinated by the life of King Henry VIII, and for good reason. One of the most famous monarchs in world history, he had an outsize personality, established a new church and married six times. So it's no wonder he's been depicted so often on stage and screen: his story is ripe with drama. That has to be good news for Damian Lewis, who plays him in "Wolf Hall" and is nominated for an Emmy as Best Movie/Mini Supporting Actor.  -Break- Could 'Wolf Hall' pull off another British upset for Best Miniseries Emmy? This rich role of Henry VIII is a triple crown acting winner, having won an Oscar for Charles Laughton ("The Private Life of Henry VIII," 1932), a Tony for Rex Harrison ("Anne of a Thousand Days," 1949) and an Emmy for Keith Michell ("The Six Wives of Henry VIII," 1972). Just a few months ago,...

From spoofs to point-and-click adventure games, here are 10 of the most memorable unusual incarnations of Sherlock Holmes...

We don’t know a great deal about the content of the 90-minute Sherlock special set to air later this year, but one thing has emerged from the set photos and tantalising titbits of information we’ve seen so far. Sherlock Holmes and John Watson will be in nineteenth-century garb, pitching them back into the setting of the legendary detective’s original adventures: 1895, to be precise. Why that happens is as yet unclear, but all will be revealed.

For those still craving their Holmes fix in the meantime, the new film Mr. Holmes offers us Ian McKellen’s take on the character, musing upon an old case as he looks back on his long career from the vantage point of retirement. Jonny Lee Miller’s ultra-modern, Us-based Sherlock will be entering his fourth...

'Father of the Bride': Steve Martin and Kimberly Williams. Top Five Father's Day Movies? From giant Gregory Peck to tyrant John Gielgud What would be the Top Five Father's Day movies ever made? Well, there have been countless films about fathers and/or featuring fathers of various sizes, shapes, and inclinations. In terms of quality, these range from the amusing – e.g., the 1950 version of Cheaper by the Dozen; the Oscar-nominated The Grandfather – to the nauseating – e.g., the 1950 version of Father of the Bride; its atrocious sequel, Father's Little Dividend. Although I'm unable to come up with the absolute Top Five Father's Day Movies – or rather, just plain Father Movies – ever made, below are the first five (actually six, including a remake) "quality" patriarch-centered films that come to mind. Now, the fathers portrayed in these films aren't all heroic, loving, and/or saintly paternal figures. Several are...

Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants, based on/built from the TV show – Minuscule – The Private Lives of Insects, is not just an animated adventure, but a kind of artistic experiment.

It’s a story told visually, with no dialog beyond the hoots and squeaks of ladybugs and ants, which makes it a challenging experiment already, but it is also an experiment of form, structure, and thematic content. It’s an effort that ultimately betrays the European sensibilities responsible for it.

A ladybug gets separated from her family, and finds herself in a lunchbox that a group of black ants are very interested in. She (just based on the “ladybug” standard) is dragged away by the ants, who are after the sugar cubes, and when some nasty red ants get involved, the adventure begins. Our ladybug has to figure out, not just the situation she’s in at the moment,...

Over the course of film history, we've seen plenty of long-time actors step behind the camera to take up their directorial ambitions. Clint Eastwood did it. Mel Gibson did it. George Clooney did it. What do these three have in commonc Well, for starters, they are all men, so there's that. Further, they are all white, but more on that later. More to the point of the article, these men all eased into their directorial careers by starring in their respective debuts, using their presence on screen to help market their talents off it. And with his feature directorial effort The Water Diviner, which hits limited theaters this week, Russell Crowe is just the most recent addition to a growing list of actors who have decided to try their hand behind the camera. Like Eastwood, Gibson, and Clooney before him, the Best Actor winner stars in his first feature as director,...

The Sea Hawk

Written by Howard Koch and Seton I. Miller

Directed by Michael Curtiz

U.S.A., 1940

Under the Warner Brothers banner, Errol Flynn leaps, bounds and rouses hearts to the tune of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s winning score and the direction of taskmaster Michael Curtiz. Following on the coattails of Captain Blood (1935) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), it’s easy to dismiss The Sea Hawk (1940) as just a studio swashbuckler, another outing of a tried and true formula that Bosley Crowther called, “an overdressed ‘spectacle’ film which derives much more from the sword than the pen.” Admittedly, this loose adaptation owes more to the seafaring adventures of Sir Francis Drake than the original Rafael Sabatini novel of the same name, but it owes even more to the politics surrounding its production. On closer examination, the film stands as a testament not only to Flynn in his booming...

Fandor, the premiere streaming service for independent, classic and critically-acclaimed films, shorts and documentaries, in a partnership with the Criterion Collection and Hulu Plus, is currently home to a rotation of uniquely curated bundles of Criterion films available to watch instantly via desktop, set top and mobile devices.

Every Tuesday, Fandor rolls out a new collection of films that share a common theme, genre, time period, film style, etc. These films are available on the site for 12 days before being replaced by a fresh new batch of featured Criterion masterpieces.

Fandor’S Criterion Picks For March

March 17-28: The Sixteenth Century

Carnival in Flanders(1935, Director Jacques Feyder): A small village in Flanders puts on a carnival to avoid the brutal consequences of the Spanish occupation. Ivan the Terrible(1944, DirectorSergei Eisenstein): As Ivan ascends to lead Russia, the Boyars are determined to disrupt his rule. Ivan’s relationship...

Above: Us three-sheet poster for The Private Life of Henry VIII (Alexander Korda, UK, 1933).

The great Charles Laughton may not have been the prettiest of movie stars, but he had a presence that many matinee idols would have killed for (as the current retrospective running at Film Forum will attest). In an era in which glamor was everything, studio marketers may have struggled with how to present Laughton’s unconventional looks and his larger-than-life portrayals of larger-than-life characters (so many monsters, murderers, tyrants, or simply overbearing fathers) to the public. In most of the posters for his most famous film, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), he is all but a silhouette, a spoiler alert to his monstrous transformation as Quasimodo. And in some posters for The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), the film for which he won his first Oscar, Henry is made to look more like the Hans Holbein...

First Best Actor Oscar winner Emil Jannings and first Best Actress Oscar winner Janet Gaynor on TCM (photo: Emil Jannings in 'The Last Command') First Best Actor Academy Award winner Emil Jannings in The Last Command, first Best Actress Academy Award winner Janet Gaynor in Sunrise, and sisters Norma Talmadge and Constance Talmadge are a few of the silent era performers featured this evening on Turner Classic Movies, as TCM continues with its Silent Monday presentations. Starting at 5 p.m. Pt / 8 p.m. Et on November 17, 2014, get ready to check out several of the biggest movie stars of the 1920s. Following the Jean Negulesco-directed 1943 musical short Hit Parade of the Gay Nineties -- believe me, even the most rabid anti-gay bigot will be able to enjoy this one -- TCM will be showing Josef von Sternberg's The Last Command (1928) one of the two movies that earned...

To Steven Bauer, age ain't nothing but a number! The 57-year-old Ray Donovan star was spotted out and about with 18-year-old Lyda Loudon, who calls herself a  "journalist, activist [and] film guru" on her website. This isn't the first time Steven and his 39-years-younger gal pal have spent time together. Back in July, the May-December duo attended the Magic in the Moonlight premiere together in Hollywood. Us Weekly and a handful of other media outlets picked up on the twosome's significant age gap, prompting Lyda's mother, Dr. Gina Loudon, to respond. In a lengthy Wnd post titled "When Your Child's Private Life Makes the 'News'". In it, Gina admitted she...

“It’s just a big story, you know? The book is a big tale. It travels a lot and it goes to a lot of different places. And as I looked at it… the rights holder initially was trying to do it as a feature and I knew that it was never going to be a feature. You would lose everything that was special about the book once you stripped it down to two hours. And still, if you want to do the story justice, if you want to actually enjoy the experience the way the reader enjoys the experience, you have to take your time. You have to sort of drink in the landscape. You have to get to know the people. You need to let the moments breathe. You need to let the story just unwind a little bit. And to create that feeling in television, it just...

Matthew Modine is reaching back to the glory days of Stanley Kubrick's stark masterpiece of war from 1987, "Full Metal Jacket." With help from producing partner Adam Rackoff, Modine, now working comfortably in indie film and TV, has launched a Kickstarter campaign for "Full Metal Jacket Diary," an immersive audiobook adapted from his 2005 book of the same name. (Last year, he created six original short films for ShortsHD.) Like the book, which eventually became an interactive iPad app, the audio diary promises to be a firsthand account of what it was like to work with Kubrick on the set of the director's penultimate film for two years. Fans will hear Modine, who played Carl Jung-loving Private "Joker" Davis, reenact the diary across five chapters -- Private Life, Vietnam, Boot Camp, On Leave, and Boot Camp Redux -- totaling four hours.  On the Kickstarter -- two weeks and $6,000 away from the...

A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power, and Jayson Blair at the New York Times Gush Productions Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes Grade: C+ Director: Samantha Grant Cast: Jayson Blair, Macarena Hernandez, Seth Mnookin, Lena Williams, William Schmidt, Howell Raines, Gerry Boyd Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 3/31/14 Opens: April 11, 2014 In her 1999 book “Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life,” philosopher Sissela Bok holds that virtually all lying is ethically unjustified—not even giving a free ride to doctors who white-lie to patients about pessimistic prognoses. The reason is simply that without truth, there is no trust. A civilization could collapse if we cannot [ Read More ]

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