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Diversity at the Oscars: The 2020 Race Isn't Looking Any Better Than Last Time

While a strong contender like "Parasite" does not need the Oscars to validate its place in history — it's the first Korean film to receive the Palme d'Or, the highest-grossing foreign film of the year (topping the $20 million mark), the first Korean film to receive ...

'Cats': What the Critics Are Saying

The first reviews reference the visual inconsistencies in the feline characters and the thin plot of the film, adapted from Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage production. Reviews have arrived for Cats, Tom Hooper's film based on the stage musical by Andrew ...

'Soundtrack' Creator on Netflix Move, the Longevity of 'Smash' and Rebooting 'Gossip Girl'

Showrunner Joshua Safran likens 'Smash' to the Red Wedding on 'Game of Thrones,' teases his HBO Max 'Gossip Girl' reboot and explains why he cut a Taylor Swift song from his new series. There's plenty of musical talent in Netflix's Soundtrack, the latest ...

'Cats' Review: Tom Hooper's Feline Musical Is an Absurd and Exuberant Mess

Tom Hooper's 2019 adaptation of "Cats" unfolds as an absurd and frequently nonsensical array of light and color, with actors bathed in ill-conceived CGI fur against a similarly invented London backdrop. Fans of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway blockbuster, ...

The New York Times

'Cats': What to Know Before You See It

The New York Times

The first trailer for "Cats" — you know which one I'm talking about — is far from the first time the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical has attracted a wide range of extreme responses: horror, confusion, deranged confusion and, perhaps, bright-eyed excitement.

How Jason Derulo, Prince of the Sexy Club Banger, Ended Up in Cats

TIME

TIME

Jason Derulo is disappointed in himself. This morning, after waking up at 5:30 a.m., he couldn't find his sneakers. And then he had to find the gym. By the time he arrived for his workout, he only had 35 minutes left before his day's appointments would ...

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is the Force ghost version of a movie: Review

"I'm doing what you did," says Rey (Daisy Ridley). Who's she talking to? Does it matter? In Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, newer characters go through old familiar motions, and so do old familiar characters, who won't die even when they're dead. Director ...

Vanity Fair

Cats Review: A Tragical Mess of Mistoffelees

Vanity Fair

I guess I don't really know what I wanted Cats (December 20) to be. An adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's thoroughly odd 1981 musical, itself an adaptation of a curious set of children's poems written by T.S. Eliot, Tom Hooper's film attempts to do ...

You haven't seen 'A Christmas Carol' like the one on FX

Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

Do we really need another version of "A Christmas Carol"? That's the question facing any new adaptation of Charles Dickens' famed 1843 novella. And for Steven Knight, the writer of the new, three-hour version airing Thursday on FX, the answer is, inevitably, ...

Survivor season finale recap: The end

The streak is over! Tell your friends, neighbors, and countrymen! Scream it from the tallest mountain! Ring it from the highest bell tower! Collooh! Callay! There finally will be joy in Mudville because, for the first time in 24 seasons, I have not struck out.