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The imaginary movie boasts “two straight actresses who dared not to wear makeup,” and features “a sex scene so graphic that you think, ‘Oh right, a man directed this.’” In the sketch, Mulligan plays an ill woman (much like the character played by Saoirse Ronan in “Ammonite”) who sparks a connection in a seaside town with another woman played by Heidi Gardner. Their courtship is characterized by grazing fingers and longing glances....

Lee has had a proclivity for presenting conspiracy theories in the past. In his 2006 documentary on Hurricane Katrina, “When the Levees Broke,” Lee alleged that the levees were dynamited in order to flood Black neighborhoods. On August 16, the first trailer for Lee’s documentary “NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½” dropped, showcasing a four-part tribute series (each episode is comprised of two hour-long chapters) not only dedicated to the endurance of New York in the wake of tragedy, but also how the city became the epicenter for another devastating series of events: COVID-19....

Poor Shiv Roy. There are ignominious speeches and then there’s what happened to Shiv during her first meeting addressing the employees of Waystar Royco as the company’s new president. In the most recent episode of HBO’s “Succession,” while trying to reassure the masses that the future of the company was stable, Shiv’s speech was, in effect, shouted down by her brother Kendall (Jeremy Strong), utilizing speakers playing Nirvana’s “Rape Me” — a reference to the company’s previously hidden history of mistreating sex workers, migrant workers, and women in general — to drown out his sister’s words....

“I went in with the rock-hard nerd belief that if I made a good movie that I wanted to see, it would do well. And I was wrong,” Miller told audiences during Collider’s Directors on Directing Hall H San Diego Comic-Con panel this past weekend (via ScreenRant). “It was one of those f**king Eureka moments in a bad way, because the movie tanked.” “Dark Fate” served as a direct sequel to “The Terminator” and “T2: Judgement Day,” both directed by James Cameron....

A number of major stars, including big-time Disney talents like Oscar Isaac and Gabrielle Union, have slammed the studio’s response in recent days. (Union did it on an actual Disney red carpet, for her “Cheaper by the Dozen” Disney+ feature, while Isaac spoke out during a “Moon Knight” junket.) Related How Iger May Do What Chapek Wouldn’t: Spin Off ESPN ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Grosses Lower than Expected $17 Million Thursday: What It Means Related Oscars 2023: Remarkable Transformations Lead the Way in Makeup and Hairstyling ‘Lift Me Up’ Rises to Frontrunner Status in Best Original Song RacePassed by the Florida senate this week, the bill bans educators from discussing sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through third-grade classrooms in public schools....

You can’t totally blame the Nees for leaning heavily on their ensemble. In a slapdash comedy filled with big punchlines — and even bigger explosions — they’ve assembled a couple of the best comedic personalities available in Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum. The pair portray noted romance novelist Loretta Sage and her steamy cover model Alan as her franchise’s Fabio-inspired champion, Dash. After a string of best sellers, the jaded Loretta would rather her storybook career just end....

Produced by Nexus Studios and currently vying to be the first animated film ever nominated for Outstanding Television Movie at the Primetime Emmy Awards, “The House” brings together some of the finest artists working in stop-motion today. The separately realized but spiritually related segments by Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels (“This Magnificent Cake”), Niki Lindroth von Bahr (“The Burden”), and Paloma Baeza (“Poles Apart”) amount to a grand work that’s as thematically intriguing as it is aesthetically imposing in its handcraft....