Laguna Beach Is Having a High-School Reunion on the Roku Channel
Roku Channel will air a Laguna Beach reunion on April 10, marking the series' 20‑year anniversary. The special is moderated by Casey Wilson and features most of the original cast, including Lauren Conrad and Kristin Cavallari. Notable absences are Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag. The event aims to capitalize on nostalgia while boosting Roku’s ad‑supported viewership.
Vulture Festival Is Joining Tribeca Festival
Vulture Festival is partnering with the Tribeca Festival for a summer collaboration, creating a "Vulture Festival at Tribeca Festival" event. The joint programming will feature panels, interviews, and performances and will run sometime between June 3 and June 14, aligning with Tribeca’s...
What Pete Holmes Watches (and Reads) With His Daughter
Comedian Pete Holmes reveals how he curates movies, TV shows, games and books for his 7‑year‑old daughter Lila, limiting jokes about her to a few minutes in his new special “Silly Silly Fun Boy.” He favors darker cartoons like the...
A Play About the Play Becomes the Thing: Hamnet Onstage in D.C.
Maggie O'Farrell's bestselling novel *Hamnet* has been transformed into a stage play that opened this week at Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre Company after a successful Chicago run. The production, adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti, centers on Agnes Shakespeare as she battles to...
Anne Hathaway Is Your Mother, Mary
Anne Hathaway stars in A24’s upcoming experimental musical drama *Mother Mary*, directed by David Lowery and featuring original songs by Jack Antonoff and Charli XCX. The film follows a fictional pop star’s creative crisis, largely set in a barn where she...
Michaela Coel Is Out for Blood
Michaela Coel is set to remake Jean‑Claude Van Damme’s 1995 martial‑arts film Bloodsport for A24, marking her third collaboration with the indie studio this year. Coel, known for the groundbreaking series I May Destroy You, expressed enthusiasm for exploring the...
Eric Overmyer, Bosch Creator and Treme Co-Creator, Dies at 74
Veteran television writer Eric Overmyer died at 74, leaving a legacy that spans network procedurals and premium‑cable dramas. He began on St. Elsewhere, then shaped Homicide: Life on the Street and co‑created David Simon’s Treme. Overmyer created Prime Video’s Bosch, the...
What Padma Lakshmi Watches (and Reads) With Her Daughter
Padma Lakshmi, host of America’s Culinary Cup, refuses tablets at the restaurant table when she dines with her 16‑year‑old daughter, Krishna, calling devices modern pacifiers. She argues that if a child needs a screen, ordering takeout makes more sense and...
The Daddy Issue Oscars
The 2026 Oscar race is dominated by films that wrestle with fatherhood, from Timothée Chalamet’s tearful climax in *Marty Supreme* to Leonardo DiCaprio’s flawed dad in *One Battle After Another*. Critics debate whether these moments are genuine or manipulative, but the common...
Zohran Mamdani Reportedly Won’t Go on Bari Weiss’s CBS News
Zohran Mamdani pulled out of a scheduled CBS Sunday Morning interview after Bari Weiss retweeted a video sharply criticizing him. The retweet, described by sources as the “nail in the coffin,” followed Mamdani’s already tentative stance due to Weiss’s Free Press...