‘A Brighter Tomorrow’ Review: Nanni Moretti Puts a Playful Spin on a Director’s Late-Career Crisis

"When we came to make what will be the last Beatles record, it was a demo John had that we worked on and we just finished it up," said McCartney, adding that the track will be released sometime this year. 

reunion special without a storm-off, does it even really count as a reunion special? Teresa Giudice provided the volatile moment on Tuesday's third and final part of the season 13 reunion — but that's not how things ended.Throughout the hour-long special — which saw the husbands of the series join the Housewives — tensions ran high between Teresa and her brother Joe Gorga — as well as between Teresa and sister-in-law Melissa Gorga, and Joe and Teresa's husband, Louis Ruelas. Basically, everyone was on the verge of tears and fighting.As seen in an ET Exclusive sneak peek earlier this week, the tensions boiled over as the siblings continued to fight, and eventually Teresa stormed off the set in tears until host Andy Cohen managed to cool things down, and get her back out.A peacemaking Cohen calmly admitted what everyone was thinking: «Listen, it's obvious we're not going to resolve anything. I want to just see if there's anything else, Teresa, that you and Joe want to say to each other before I send the husbands away.»«I'm heartbroken,» a tearful Teresa told Joe.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor The wolf pack is hoping for Emmys love. “Teen Wolf: The Movie,” Paramount+’s adaptation of the MTV supernatural-thriller series, has been submitted for the Primetime Emmy Awards for outstanding television movie, Variety has learned exclusively. Moreover, the streamer also submitted the film in five other categories: lead actor in a limited or anthology series or movie (Tyler Posey), directing (Russell Mulcahy), writing (Jeff Davis, Will Wallace, Joseph P. Genier, Russell Mulcahy), prosthetic makeup (Chris Gallaher, Adrien Morot, Erik Porn, Hailey Trifiro, Kyle Yaklin) and original music and lyrics (“Lemon” by Tyler Posey). This provides Posey, who plays the True Alpha werewolf Scott and produces the film, three chances for recognition.

She’s ready for it! Whoopi Goldberg revealed she’d be up for taking over Wheel of Fortune after Pat Sajak steps down as host next year.  

It’s Wednesday, and one star sign will finally feel harmony at home, while another should be honest to avoid a misunderstanding. There are 12 zodiac signs - Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces - and the horoscopes for each can give you the lowdown on what your future holds, be it in work, your love life, your friends and family or more. These daily forecasts have been compiled by astrologer Russell Grant, who has been reading star signs for over 50 years.

Jim Goodwin has insisted it is all about restoring pride and ensuring Dundee United get back into the Premiership at the first time of asking.

much-hyped “straight news” operation when it explained to viewers via text along the bottom of the screen that Biden is a “wannabe dictator” who personally ordered Trump’s arrest.No. Really.

Just a couple of months ago Billy Gilmour was watching Scotland scalp Spain from the sidelines at Hampden. Unsure of his club future and frozen out of the national side too.

One of Eminem’s three children is officially married.

Michelle Keegan jokingly shared how her latest fan was playing 'hard to get' amid filming for her next big project. The actress is currently hard at work filming as she is set to star in Fool Me Once, the new Netflix adaptation of bestselling author Harlan Coben's book.

host Pat Sajak announced on Monday that he'll be retiring after the upcoming 41st season of the iconic game show, leaving many wondering who could potentially take his place at the big wheel.«Well, the time has come. I’ve decided that our 41st season, which begins in September, will be my last,» Sajak confirmed in a tweet.

Bryan Cranston is ready to take some time off. ET's Rachel Smith spoke to the 67-year-old actor at the premiere of in New York City on Tuesday, and he opened up about enjoying his upcoming time off with his wife, Robin Dearden.«We haven't mapped it out,» Cranston told ET of how he at Dearden will spend their time together.

John Slattery told ET on Monday he would «absolutely» reprise his character for HBO's spinoff  Slattery played politician Bill Kelley in several episodes of the original show, which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. «Absolutely, in a hot second,» Slattery told ET of a potential return, agreeing that perhaps his character could be the mayor of New York City by now. «Why not!» Interest surrounding the spinoff peaked in recent weeks, following the news that Kim Cattrall will return for a cameo in the upcoming second season of . Cattrall had previously stated that she would not reprise her role — her last appearance in the franchise was for the second feature film in 2010. Per , she shot just one scene for the cameo and filmed it in one day back in March. Slattery spoke to ET at the global premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival.

Tough as Nails is coming back for a fifth season.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix and Aggregate prevailed in a bidding war to secure the rights to writer David Gauvey Herbert’s 2021 Esquire magazine article Daddy Ball. They will find a new title, but the source material will be developed as an 8-episode limited series that Ozark‘s Jason Bateman will both star in and direct. Bateman, Michael Costigan and Roxie Rodrigue will be co-EPs for Aggregate. David Klawans is also attached to produce the dark comedy limited series.

There’s no place like Everwood. The beloved WB TV show ran for four seasons and launched the careers of some major stars.

If you’re under the impression that Haim are faking playing their own instruments, you’re very wrong.

Peter Andre found himself being flooded with comments by shocked fans as he paid a gushing tribute to his son, Junior. The singer and TV star took to Instagram where he posted a video compilation of photos of his eldest child through the years as he marked his milestone birthday.

Mackenzie Boyd is facing arrest in the aftermath of Caleb Milligan's attempted murder in Emmerdale next week.

If you don’t want people to know you’re dating someone, don’t make out with them in public. Otherwise, there’s a chance Keith Urban might accidentally reveal your romance to the world.

The full truth. Kelly Clarkson hasn’t held back when talking — or singing — about her ex Brandon Blackstock.

It sounds like Kanye West may be telling friends to forget about Kim Kardashian — because he’s found his real soul mate now!

King Charles is believed to be making a major change for his Trooping the Colour debut this Saturday.

Zazie Beetz is talking Joker 2!

Former US President Donald Trump has arrived at court in Miami to surrender to authorities ahead of his court appearance on charges of allegedly hoarding classified documents at his Florida estate.

Joey McIntyre's two sons, Griffin and Rhys, are revealing what it's like having a famous musician and pop star as a father and their favorite New Kids on the Block songs while all three spill the tea for Entertainment Tonight ahead of McIntyre's upcoming summer tour. During the group interview, McIntyre, who became famous in the late 1980s and early 1990s as one of the members of New Kids on the Block, asked his two sons, whom he shares with wife Barrett Williams, if they had a favorite song from his boy band days. And for Griffin, it's «Single,» the 2008 song with Ne-Yo from the album,.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Filmmaker Victoria Bousis has partnered with Unique Network to enhance the immersive film experience of her award-winning film “Stay Alive, My Son.” Inspired by true events and based on the memoirs of Pin Yathay, “Tu Vivra, Mon Fils” (“Stay Alive, My Son”), Bousis says she wanted to “leverage technology to break the rules of traditional storytelling and educating audiences about Cambodia’s history.” The film, which will screen at Siggraph in August and is currently on the festival circuit, uses augmented reality and a virtual world that audiences experience through a VR headset.

McKinley Franklin editor HBO has released the official trailer for its explicit Sam Levinson-directed series “The Idol,” which is set to premiere on June 4. “The Idol” premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, making it the first television show to officially debut at the festival. The series stars Lily-Rose Depp as rising pop star Jocelyn and Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye as Tedros, a powerful, sex-obsessed cult leader.  After calling off her latest tour, Jocelyn is on a mission to reignite her career, with big dreams of becoming the biggest star in the industry. After she meets Tedros, Jocelyn is swiftly drawn into his world, where he promises to expand her career to new heights — at any cost.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic I reckon there are more ideas per second of screentime in “Elemental” than any other Pixar movie to date. So why does this imagination-teasing opposites-attract rom-com feel like a misfire? No one can accuse director Peter Sohn (“The Good Dinosaur”) or his team of under-thinking the ultra-creative studio’s latest high-concept feature, which takes the four elements as identified by various ancient cultures — Fire, Water, Earth and Air — and reimagines them as uneasy neighbors in a crowded modern metropolis. But fun as it can be to soak in the movie’s cheeky sense of detail (from flame-retardant costumes to blink-and-you-miss-them background puns), the whole scenario seems forced: so much world-building to tell a story better suited to flesh-and-blood human characters.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic It began in the son’s room, when father was away on business. L’enfant thought it was l’amour, but for her, 30-odd years his senior, the sex, lies and audiotape were a mistake. Wild at heart, she’d yielded to the taste of … oh, never mind. Competing for the Palme d’Or at Cannes, Catherine Breillat’s “Last Summer” echoes films that have come before — most notably, 2019 Danish drama “Queen of Hearts,” on which it’s based — but it proves most daring in the ways the film departs for its more conventionally moralistic source, and especially in Breillat’s refusal to call either party a parasite. Yes, the affair between a lawyer and her 17-year-old stepson is a betrayal — of her marriage, of her parental responsibilities, of everything she stands for as an attorney — but that’s nothing compared to how the 50-ish woman deals with it when word gets out in this thought-provoking domestic drama. In reviewing the original, Variety’s Guy Lodge wrote, “you can practically envisage a Robin Wright-starring U.S. remake” — which isn’t far from the truth. Backed by fearless producer Saïd Ben Saïd (“Elle”), Breillat gives us the great Léa Drucker (who played far more responsible moms in “Close” and “Custody”) in the role of Anne, who’s introduced representing an underage girl in a sex-crimes case.

The Little Mermaid” cast did their best at playing Variety’s “Name That Fish” on the red carpet at the movie’s premiere in Los Angeles Melissa McCarthy (Ursula), Jacob Tremblay (Flounder), Noma Dumezweni (Queen Selina), Daveed Diggs (Sebastian) and Javier Bardem (King Triton) were put to the test by Variety’s Marc Malkin to see just how much they know about life under the sea. When quizzed with images of various fish, answers included “basketball with spikes,” “sad fish,” “not Spongebob,” “swordy-thing” “not edible” and “definitely a fish.”

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic What The Weeknd wants, The Weeknd gets in “The Idol,” a skintastic, dark-side-of-showbiz fable that perpetuates the myth that pop stars are corporate puppets with no say in their own image-making, even as it allows hit-maker The Weeknd to call the shots (and reshoots, apparently, since the five-part HBO series was overhauled late in production to suit him). Picture “Blonde” as Joe Eszterhas might have written it, but with better music. After making a toe-dip cameo as himself in A24’s “Uncut Gems,” the R&B phenom-turned-TV producer plunges head-first into acting here, teaming with “Euphoria” creator Sam Levinson to imagine a shady super-predator just looking to corrupt an unsuspecting young pop singer. The edgy, high-gloss HBO series, which premiered the first two of its five episodes at the Cannes Film Festival, demands a lot of star Lily-Rose Depp. She plays “rags-to-riches, trailers-to-mansions” Jocelyn, a mono-monikered Britney or Miley type who seems empowered one moment, impressionable the next.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Tudor, or not Tudor. That is the question in “Firebrand,” a revisionist royal portrait of Henry VIII’s last wife, Katherine Parr (played here by Alicia Vikander), that features all the pageantry you’d expect from a lavish costume drama, while showing the ahistorical audacity to call “Time’s Up” on the gluttonous king (Jude Law). Never mind that Henry VIII died — of very different causes than the movie depicts — all of 476 years ago. When it comes to art, there’s no statute of limitations on taking toxic masculinity to task, which can be both encouraging (since history has excused no shortage of monsters) and frustrating. There’s a big difference between exposing the truth and rewriting what came before to suit a contemporary political agenda, the way this movie does. Liberally adapted from Elizabeth Fremantle’s fast-and-loose historical fiction “The Queen’s Gambit,” director Karim Aïnouz’s tony British production needn’t try hard to demonstrate that Henry was a notoriously bad husband.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Depending on where you come down on the question of its main character’s guilt or innocence, Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall” could be seen as a kind of “Gone Girl” in reverse: A frustrated writer dies of suspicious causes, leaving behind clues that implicate his wife (Sandra Hüller). If the man’s death was a suicide — and the bilingual (half-English) movie strongly points in that direction — then there’s a terrible cruelty to what follows, as his grieving wife is hauled into court and tried for his murder. Their 11-year-old son is obsessed with trying to make sense of what happened, whereas it’s the death of the marriage, not the husband, that preoccupies Triet. Can any couple’s relationship withstand the kind of scrutiny this one is subjected to, as old fights and infidelities are dragged into the open?

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic In the experimental montage that opens “Persona,” a bare-chested teenage boy caresses a screen upon which the faces of two women slowly morph back and forth. It’s easy to imagine Todd Haynes being tempted to start his deep-as-you-want-to-go rabbit-hole drama “May December” the same way, seeing as how this endlessly fascinating movie focuses on the blurring of the lines between a Hollywood star (Natalie Portman) and her Heartland subject (Julianne Moore), who was caught in a sexual relationship with a 7th grader at the age of 36. The movie wants to know: Can playing this Mary Kay Letourneau-like tabloid sensation really answer what makes such a woman tick? A heady director whose entire oeuvre feels ripe for film-studies dissertations, Haynes makes movies not merely to be watched, but to be analyzed and deconstructed after the fact. From the rich Douglas Sirkian pastiche of “Far From Heaven” to the queer twist on classical “woman’s pictures” provided by “Carol,” his style can be chilly and distancing. Not so “May December.” As layered and infinitely open-to-interpretation as any of his films, it’s also the most generous and direct, beginning not with Ingmar Bergman references (those come later), but with footage of monarch butterflies. They’re symbols of transformation, too, but also something nice to look at (and listen to, underscored by a lush reworking of the piano theme from “The Go-Between”) before these two women meet.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Taking a cue from the movie’s soon-to-be-infamous spanking scene between Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, someone ought to paddle whoever let Martin Scorsese take three and a half hours to retell “Killers of the Flower Moon.” You could read David Grann’s page-turner — about an audacious 1920s conspiracy to steal resources from the Osage people by marriage and murder — in less time, and you’d learn a whole lot more about how J. Edgar Hoover and the newly formed FBI used this case to establish their place in American law enforcement. Granted, this is cinema legend Martin Scorsese we’re talking about. For years, he fought studio execs telling him what to cut, going head-to-head with Harvey Weinstein on “Gangs of New York” (a movie that probably would’ve been better longer). Now he’s earned the right to tell stories as he sees fit. Trouble is, at 206 minutes (still four shorter than “The Irishman”), “Killers of the Flower Moon” isn’t an epic motion picture so much as a miniseries. Nothing wrong with that, except it’s intended for the big screen — where Apple has committed to release it this fall. Closer to two hours, “Killers” would make a killing, whereas longer than “The Longest Day,” most folks will wait to watch at home.