In Samba, the new French-language from directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, Omar Sy—most recently seen in a slew of big-budget action movies—takes on a quiet, affecting role as the titular character, an immigrant living in France and exhausting every avenue imaginable to obtain citizenship. He’s paired at ... More

The actual Stanford Prison Experiment, which divided 24 young men into “prisoners” and “guards” and studied what happened next, took place in 1971. Now, almost 45 years later a film on the study—The Stanford Prison Experiment, out this week—looks at what happened during that seven-day period and ... More

It doesn’t take much to become the surprise TV hit of the summer—just backstabbing, lies, drugs, death, deception and, of course, cameras. On UnREAL, the new, scripted Lifetime series that follows the production of a popular reality dating show, all of this and more is apparent each week as ... More

Jose Stern is going through a rough patch. In the new movie No Way Jose—out now on VOD—the 40-something Angeleno finds himself single, underemployed, desperate and wanted by the law. Thanks to writer, director and star Adam Goldberg, however, what could be a complete downer instead is a nuanced, touching and ... More

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Corey Stoll could have slipped into any number of supervillain-appropriate costumes on his first day as the bad guy Yellowjacket in Ant-Man, the big-screen adaptation of the Marvel comic. Instead, he ended up hanging from the ceiling, wearing a skintight polka-dot one-piece.  “We did motion capture on my very first day,” ... More

On the new TV Land series Impastor, a down-on-his-luck gambling man (Michael Rosenbaum’s Buddy Dobbs) jumps at the chance to start a new life by impersonating a pastor in a small town, seemingly worlds away from his problems. One of the characters he first encounters is a devoted assistant ... More

In person, Cody Simpson is every bit the heartthrob his 7.4 million Twitter followers would expect him to be. Six feet tall, with a generous shock of blonde hair and a deep-steeped surfer’s tan, the 18-year-old Australian looks slightly adrift in New York City. When I meet him it’s lunchtime, ... More

Two years ago, Cassidy Gifford said goodbye to her home on the East Coast and headed to California to follow her dreams. And despite her name recognition—the 21-year-old stunner is the daughter of TV legend Kathie Lee Gifford and football great Frank Gifford—Gifford says she still had moments of uncertainty, ... More

There’s something for every Nina Simone fan to take away from the new, Liz Garbus-directed Netflix release What Happened, Miss Simone? The film features a dizzying array of live performances, private photos, diary entries and interviews that serve to sketch an image of the complicated, incredibly talented singer and the ... More