There’s no business like the oil business, at least in Rock Spring, North Dakota. That’s the boomtown where the new ABC drama Blood & Oil takes place, and when viewers first see the town it’s through the eyes of a young couple that, like ... More

Improvisation is an essential skill in any actor’s arsenal. And while Katherine Waterston readily admits her theatrical training has prepared her for all sorts of extemporaneous ad-libbing, the 35-year-old beauty’s latest role has her sticking closely to script.  In Steve Jobs, Waterston—whose big break came in last year’s Inherent ... More

To find out what’s going on in the world, you can easily tune into the nightly news broadcasts, but you could also do a lot worse than watching Madam Secretary. The CBS drama, now in its second season, follows the titular diplomat, played by Teá Leoni, as she navigates ... More

Liz Goldwyn’s résumé isn’t light reading. She’s been a filmmaker, jewelry designer, fashion editor and art curator—and now she can add novelist to the list. Her October fiction debut, Sporting Guide, is a dive into the world of 1890s Los Angeles and its booming prostitution industry. Here, Goldwyn discusses ... More

It wasn’t really the end of the world, it was only New Zealand. Still, living somewhere in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, filming Z For Zachariah, a movie about life after a nuclear end of days, Chiwetel Ejiofor couldn’t help but consider how he himself would handle such circumstances. ... More

Jill Hennessy may be most known for her roles on hit shows like Crossing Jordan, Law & Order and The Good Wife, but the actress also shares a strong passion for music.  Six years after the success of her first album, Ghost in My Head, Hennessy has released her second entitled I Do, and it ... More

In the new NBC series The Player, Philip Winchester plays Alex Kane, a Vegas security expert whose strange turn of luck lands him in cahoots with a mysterious intelligence organization and seemingly constant mortal danger. While the actor admits to some long shooting days, however, he’s quite ... More

Something’s rotten in Fresno, California. Plenty of things, really. And in Addicted to Fresno, the sharp, dark new comedy from director Jamie Babbit, two down-on-their-luck sisters—played by Natasha Lyonne and Judy Greer—find that matters can indeed get worse when, in the course of working their jobs cleaning a local ... More

Raza Jaffrey is trading in spy craft for medicine. After star turns on series including Homeland and Elementary, the British-born actor’s latest role finds him front and center in a Los Angeles ER on Code Black, a new CBS medical drama based on the documentary of the same name. Jaffrey plays Dr. ... More

Juliette Binoche’s performance in Ivo van Hove’s production of Antigone—the Greek tragedy penned by Sophocles and updated for today’s stage by Anne Carson—has been a sensation in every city in which it’s been performed. Ask Binoche, the iconic French actress whose next turn on-screen will be in November’s The 33, ... More