Bessie Smith made her name in the 1920s by singing the blues and living them just as loudly. In a new HBO biopic, Queen Latifah—both star and executive producer—tackles Smith’s trailblazing career and tumultuous personal life with a confident performance she says has been more than two decades in the ... More

Despite the blood and the gore and the general mayhem that comes with filming Olympus, SyFy’s mythological drama, Graham Shiels, who plays King Aegeus, says he’s having the time of his life. “Filming the first season was a total dream,” he says. “To swing around swords and be a king ... More

It’s not easy being Dr. Frankenstein. Just ask Harry Treadaway who plays the famed literary physician in Showtime’s Penny Dreadful, now in its second season. What appealed to him the most were the bigger themes of the show that pull each of the characters in. “The issue of life ... More

No one ever called Róisín Murphy a shrinking violet, and luckily, she’s only grown bolder with age. The UK disco queen and fashion icon, who got her start in the mid-nineties as one half of the electro-pop duo Moloko, is returning to the stage with her anticipated third solo album,  More

If you’ve been roped in by Jane the Virgin—the CW show that won leading lady Gina Rodriguez a Golden Globe halfway through its first season—you will know Mexican actor Jaime Camil as Rogelio, the impeccably groomed, egocentric but warm-hearted telenovela star who turns out to be Jane’s long-estranged ... More

Jason Isaacs is hard to pin down. Tune in to one channel and you’ll find him on Dig, the international conspiracy series on which he plays an FBI agent stationed in Israel. Turn the dial and he’s in Stockholm, Pennsylvania as Ben McKay, an inmate whose sentence stems from ... More

It’s no surprise that what happens on-camera during Pitch Perfect 2 is exceedingly musical—after all, the movie does follow the exploits of a college a capella team—but according to Ester Dean, things were never particularly quiet behind the scenes either. And much to her delight, what was often playing was her very ... More

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s latest movie role is a far stretch from his typical larger-than-life action hero gig. In Maggie, a post-apocalyptic drama helmed by first-time director Henry Hobson, Schwarzenegger plays a small-town farmer and doting dad eager to protect his daughter Maggie (Abigail Breslin) from succumbing to a highly contagious zombie virus ... More

Musician Van Hunt might have won a Grammy Award for his work on the tribute to Sly & The Family Stone, but it’s his original work that’s currently getting all of his attention. Specifically it’s his fifth album (and the second he’s released on his own label), The Fun Rises, The ... More

Mackenzie Scott’s been waiting for this moment. Two years after Scott, who performs as Torres, released her first, eponymous album, the 24-year-old rocker is ready to unleash her next creation, the smart, rollicking Sprinter.  Here, Scott explains how the album came to be, what she learned by recording it in ... More