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“The Family Stone” is Diane Keaton’s tender onscreen goodbye

Before we meet any characters in “The Family Stone,” Thomas Bezucha’s 2005 holiday dramedy about a close-knit extended family meeting their prodigal son’s uptight new girlfriend for the first time, a cellphone rings. “This is Meredith,” a voice chirps, before…

October 24, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

We’re all living in Murdaugh Country now

Shortly after “Murdaugh: Death in the Family” hints at the crimes that landed Alex Murdaugh in prison for life, it makes a time jump back to one of their supposedly better days when his family was still on top of…

October 24, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Portland’s protest frogs are dead serious about absurdity

Down the street from ICE headquarters on the south Portland waterfront, a rainbow of costumes hung on a makeshift rack, a vertical banner with “FREE” in block letters attached. Available inflatables included a couple of sharks, a dinosaur or two,…

October 24, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Britney Spears says father of kids’ tell-all memoir trades “white lies” for cash

Britney Spears has responded to claims made by her ex-husband Kevin Federline in his forthcoming memoir “You Thought You Knew,” calling his account “extremely hurtful and exhausting.” In a statement shared on X, Spears wrote, “The constant gaslighting from [my]…

October 24, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

The real reason conservatives are furious about Bad Bunny’s halftime show

Soon after the NFL’s announcement that Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny would headline the Super Bowl halftime show, conservative media outlets and Trump administration officials went on the attack. Homeland Security head Kristi Noem promised that U.S. Immigration and Customs…

October 24, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Inside “After the Hunt,” the most provocative film of 2025

Following the premiere of “After the Hunt” at the 82nd annual Venice Film Festival last August, journalist Federica Polidoro sat for a junket interview with the film’s stars, Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield. The film, about a reported…

October 24, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Why living apart could be the key to staying together

For some people, it started with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, grew stronger with Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter, and has since been validated by Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor. For others, it was realizing that the key to…

October 24, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

The slow, painful decline of Black celebrity activism

If the Black entertainment world is any kind of barometer of the state of Black America, something is amiss. Black athletes today are getting record NBA and NFL contracts. Black musicians like Kendrick Lamar and SZA are raking in millions…

October 24, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

Ben Stiller’s love letter to the people who made him laugh the most

Are you a “Seinfeld” person or a “The King of Queens” person? Sure, the two sitcoms might not have that much in common at first glance; the first is revered as one of the greatest shows in the history of…

October 24, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0

“Am I going to heaven, chat?”: Carpenter-hosted “SNL” imagines Trump on tween podcast

The only thing “Saturday Night Live” loves more than an overlong current events cold open is running a successful joke into the ground. With Sabrina Carpenter hosting, the cast couldn’t pass up the chance to revive Marcello Hernandez‘s Domingo at…

October 24, 2025 · by Friedrich Arndt · 0