When it came time to film their debut directorial effort, Bad Turn Worse, brothers Zeke and Simon Hawkins didn’t just conjure up a South Texas landscape, they actually moved there. The movie, which is based on a story by Dutch Southern and Justin Duprie, takes place in a Texas town where three ... More

Some of the U.S. government’s most closely guarded secrets will never be known by civilians. Others end up on network TV. On NBC’s new series State of Affairs, a cast lead by Katherine Heigl portrays a crack group of CIA analysts whose job is to brief the president on the ... More

Initially, Robert Duvall says, the jury was out when it came to The Judge. “It didn’t appeal to me,” he recalls. “I really needed time to think about it.” Nevertheless, he came to love his role (opposite Robert Downey Jr.) as tough-as-nails Judge Joseph Palmer. The part required Duvall ... More

Chris Lowell is used to being in front of the camera; he’s appeared in everything from Grey’s Anatomy to The Help and Veronica Mars. But when it comes to working behind the scenes, he’s still a novice. Or he was before Beside Still Waters, a new film that Lowell not only wrote (alongside his writing ... More

When Ex Cops hit the road earlier this fall in support of their just-released sophomore album Daggers, the members of the duo weren’t expecting to find themselves communing with nature. “I live in Denmark, so I’m always close to nature,” explains Amalie Bruun, who sings and plays keys for the group. ... More

Among the musicals and large-cast dramas, the superheroes and the tragediennes, a play is running at New York City’s Westside Theatre that is devoted to one woman, and she is someone who lived and died in the 19th century, famous in the Massachusetts town she lived in her whole life for ... More

Anjelica Huston knows a thing or two about Hollywood. The actress, who won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Maerose Prizzi in Prizzi’s Honor, has starred in The Royal Tenenbaums and The Grifters, among other cult favorites films. In her latest work, a second volume memoir titled Watch Me, Huston ... More

In Lips Together, Teeth Apart, Terrence McNally’s play about two couples spending an awkward, revealing weekend in the Fire Island Pines, actress Tracee Chimo plays Chloe, the most exuberant member of the foursome. It was a role Chimo had been waiting to play. “I actually studied this play in ... More

Over the course of its four seasons, Scandal has become something of a behemoth. The show draw in millions of viewers each Thursday night, and it riles up countless more on the Twitterverse as the show’s cast live-tweets its twists and turns. In addition to the show becoming a hit, the ... More

To fully understand NBA star Nick Young, one must first become familiar with the term “swag.” For the uninitiated, the word describes a certain je ne sais quoi, a person who exudes an overall air of confidence—occasionally bordering on cockiness—with a knack for style and effortless panache. It’s the kind of ... More