Ed Asner, who died this week at age 91, might not be the grumpiest celebrity I’ve ever interviewed, but I’m pretty sure he was the one who most enjoyed being grumpy. We were talking on the phone and he was annoyed that he could hear some noise on my end of the line. There were…

The second season of FX’s “What We Do in the Shadows,” based on the Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi film of the same name, was one of the biggest TV hits of 2020, even landing a surprising (but totally deserved) Emmy nomination for Best Comedy Series. It’s a show that more people seem to be…

I have long admired Ethan Hawke but I was suddenly aware of the fact that he wasn’t in a lot of comedies, and that he as an actor didn’t have a long history of making me laugh. My colleague Will Tizard for Variety had asked him at this roundtable about the preparation he undertook before playing John…

I am so happy to report that the Reverend Jesse Jackson has been transferred out of the hospital and to a rehabilitation facility after spending almost a week in the hospital being treated for COVID-19. Rev Jackson’s wife, Jacqueline, was also hospitalized with COVID last week, and has been moved to the intensive care unit. Rev. Jackson had been vaccinated, while Mrs. Jackson had…

I walked out of Joachim Trier’s “The Worst Person in the World” feeling pretty good. Trier’s a great writer/director, the kind who makes movies that feel exactly as long and full as they ought to be. Good ideas given the right amount of space to breathe and express themselves. I’ve been a fan since “Reprise,”…