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The Hot Priest is even hot over the phone. Apologies to Andrew Scott, who seems too lovely and thoughtful a man to be reduced to the nickname Hot Priest, especially after a 30-minute chat about love and despair and shame and other aspects of the human condition during which his …

Although Elisabeth Moss was a teen in the Nineties, she never paid much attention to grunge or punk. “I just wasn’t cool enough,” she says with a laugh. “I grew up on classical, jazz and blues, and I was a ballet dancer. I was definitely more [into] Britney Spears.” In …

Tom Hanks’ chosen line of work, of course, is acting. Here’s how he started: On a family car trip, young Tom heard a bird, and announced that fact by adopting a Shakespearean delivery and saying, “Hark, a mourning dove!” It got a laugh, as he hoped. So he spent the …

Of the approximately 953 shows Netflix has debuted in the last five years, BoJack Horseman is far and away the best. The animated story of a half-man, half-horse former sitcom star grappling with depression, alcoholism and his own shrinking fame has also been one of the best shows on all …

HBO’s Sharp Objects, which just aired its fifth episode, is a classic kind of star vehicle for Amy Adams. She’s in nearly every scene (and other people tend to talk about her even when she’s not). Her character, reporter Camille Preaker, is perpetually drunk, a cutter who has carved a …

2018 has been the year of the sophomore slump. The Handmaid’s Tale, Luke Cage, Westworld, Legion, 13 Reasons Why, Jessica Jones and Sneaky Pete were among the second-year shows to disappoint, frustrate and/or inspire reevaluations of their acclaimed debut seasons. But ironically, it’s also been the year of the sophomore …

Innocence is a slippery concept: We’re never conscious of possessing it, only of having lost it. That’s the conceit behind writer-director Jennifer Fox’s extraordinary cinematic memoir The Tale(which begins airing May 26th on HBO) – a raw, personal chronicle of the sexual abuse she sustained as a child in the …

“Let’s go to the steps.” Filmmaker William Friedkin is leading a group of journalists around Georgetown, the Washington, D.C. neighborhood that served as the setting for his 1973 blockbuster The Exorcist on a fittingly overcast April day. After a quasi-lecture about his history with the film in Georgetown University’s Healy …

Overexaggeration is what makes professional wrestling the big-stage, fist-fight fantasy that it is, but for Andre the Giant – one of the niche business’ greatest legends – the allure was in reality. Jason Hehir’s HBO documentary Andre the Giant, which premiered on HBO on Tuesday night, explores the real-life mystique, …

Jean-Claude Van Damme – the kickboxing King of the Splits, the street-fighting inspiration for the game Mortal Kombat, the fabled flexing “Muscles From Brussels” – can get seriously silly. “I like to make voices with my kids,” he saysnonchalantly. “You see a cartoon and you do one.” Then Van Damme …