The It List is Yahoo’s weekly look at the best in pop culture, including movies, music, TV, streaming, games, books, podcasts and more. Here are our picks for June 13-19, including the best deals we could find for each. (Yahoo Entertainment may receive a share from purchases made via the links on this page.) STREAM … Read more
A defamation suit against Netflix from the head of a Cuban exile organization accuses the streamer of distributing propaganda for Cuba for portraying him as a terrorist and drug trafficker in Olivier Assayas’ political spy thriller Wasp Network. In a lawsuit filed on Monday in federal court in Florida, Brothers to the Rescue leader Jose … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — Philip Baker Hall, the prolific character actor of film and theater who starred in Paul Thomas Anderson’s first movies and who memorably hunted down a long-overdue library book in “Seinfeld,” has died. He was 90. Holly Wolfle Hall, the actor’s wife of nearly 40 years, on Monday said Hall died Sunday … Read more
Image: Focus Features The world can be a dark and awful place. But as Brian and Charles so delightfully explores, the power of friendship can perform miracles, even when that friendship gets stormy at times—and even when that friendship is between a lonely inventor and the awkwardly bulky robot he crafts from random parts. io9 … Read more
It’s no secret that the DC Extended Universe has a major casting problem. But the ongoing saga involving The Flash star Ezra Miller and the series of abuse and harassment allegations they’ve accrued over the past year—most recently, grooming—might be the biggest moral conundrum the film franchise has yet to face. Back in April, an … Read more
If you happened to catch the new Adam Sandler film “Hustle” on Netflix over the weekend — as many did, judging by the fact it immediately shot to #1 on the streamer — you might have been intrigued by the actor starring opposite the comedy legend . Sandler plays a Philadelphia 76ers scout Stanley Sugarman … Read more
(from left) Emily Carey as Wendy and Louis Partridge as Peter Pan in The Lost Girls.photo: Vertical Entertainment Most individuals in the writing and creative fields generally believe that public domain is a good thing. It prevents eternal profiteering, allows for the occasional brilliant reinterpretation, and provides for greater distribution of literary works to the … Read more
Spider-Man, meet your new foe. To cap off an Annecy presentation that saw 15 minutes of work in progress footage screen for the first time before a public audience, “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” directors Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson lifted audience the veil on the film’s big bad – an enigmatic … Read more
Nearly 200 writers, actors and directors have signed a petition calling for Hollywood to “harness their power as culture makers” and reconsider how they portray gun use in film. The petition, reported by the newsletter The Ankler, urges the industry to limit scenes involving children and guns and to explicitly show first characters locking their … Read more
yellowstone is quite literally the biggest show on television. Save for NFL Football, it’s the most watched thing on cable television and with various prequels and spinoff in the works, as well as season 5, it’s showing no signs of slowing down. And while it’s expected to finally get some love from the Emmys this … Read more