‘Antidote’ Review: A Tense, Entertaining Documentary About the Perils of Investigative Journalism

EXCLUSIVE: The West Wing actor Joshua Malina will make his London stage bow in the fall playing a “secular, sarcastic, anti-religious Jew” who says “the unsayable” about Israel in what’s being billed as the European premiere of Nathan Englander’s adaptation of his 2012 short story What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank.

Brent Lang Executive Editor Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to “The World According to Allee Wilis,” a new documentary about the musical powerhouse best known for writing the “Friends” theme song and Earth Wind & Fire’s “September.” The film, which is directed by Alexis Spraic, had its world premiere at SXSW and has been hitting the festival circuit. It most recently screened at the Provincetown Film Festival, and will next be showcased at Frameline.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Variety won eight first-place awards Sunday night at the Los Angeles Press Club‘s 66th annual SoCal Journalism Awards, including a top win for executive editor Brent Lang as entertainment journalist of the year. Variety came into the 2024 ceremony with 74 nominations, representing work published by staffers online or in the weekly print edition during the 2023 calendar year.

Jordan Moreau Andrew Callaghan, the 27-year-old director and journalist known for his popular Channel 5 YouTube videos, is back with his most intimate project yet: “Dear Kelly.” The documentary is Callaghan’s first major project since his directorial debut “This Place Rules,” which premiered on HBO in 2022. It also marks his return to feature filmmaking since he paused his career in light of sexual misconduct allegations in early 2023. After apologizing for his past behavior, Callaghan went on hiatus, began attending therapy and completed a 12-step Alcoholics Anonymous program.

Siddhant Adlakha “Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme” centers on an immensely interesting subject — financial fraudster and D-List actor Zach Horowitz, a.k.a. Zach Avery — but ends up telling his tale in uninteresting ways. The film draws its various techniques from far better and more accomplished documentaries, resulting in a multifaceted, mixed-bag approach that never clicks, thanks in large part to how the movie chooses to reveal information.

Updated with the Latest: Five new cast members have joined HBO’s A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms in addition to a new director, and production is underway in Belfast, Ireland.

Martin Scorsese is set to shoot a new film which will see him return to the small town from where his family originated.The filmmaker is reportedly working on a documentary about ancient shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea. The documentary will take Scorsese to Polizzi Generosa, a small town on the island of Sicily, where his paternal grandparents were born.Currently untitled, the film is reportedly based on research by archaeologist and professor at Cranfield University in England, Lisa Briggs.

Gordon Cox Theater Editor Live theater always reflects the moment in which it’s presented, but this season, Broadway charged head-on into the politics of today with unusual force: A play that directly addressed antisemitism, Israel and Gaza opened barely two months after the events of Oct. 7; climate protestors interrupted a 140-year-old drama about the threat of environmental calamity, and an onstage chronicle of Vladimir Putin’s rise to power opened even as the Russian invasion of Ukraine rolled into its third year.

Marta Balaga Japanese creator Naoko Yamada, whose latest film “The Colors Within” screened in the main competition at this year’s Annecy Animation Festival, continues to challenge herself. “Animation provides me with hope, yearning and challenges. It allows me to expand my imagination infinitely and, at the same time, it challenges me to see how much imagination I actually have,” she told Variety via an interpreter following the premiere of her latest.

Tove Lo and SG Lewis have teamed up for a new collaborative EP ‘Heat’ – inspired by their fans in the queer community. Check out our interview with the duo below.Released yesterday (June 14), the four-track dance project came with four interlinked music videos directed by David Wilson, who has previously worked with Lady Gaga and Christine And The Queens.

Russell Crowe has been in a lot of big films. So many that he can sense when something fits, or not.

is ready to talk about the .Grande didn't participate in the Discovery docuseries—which detailed allegations of of some of Nickelodeon's most popular kids' shows—but clips of her from her time at the network were featured heavily. At the time of the series' release, Grande didn't comment on the documentary or her own experiences.

Guy Lodge Film Critic For teenage tennis prodigy Julie, discipline isn’t merely a virtue but a survival strategy. Repressing adolescent urges and emotional swings has long been part of her routine at the high-level youth tennis academy where she’s currently the star student: Years of concentrating all her time and attention on her game — all work and all play, as it were — look likely to reward her with the pro career she dreams of.

TV doctor Michael Mosley has been missing for three days, sparking a massive search operation and a flurry of theories about his sudden disappearance. The 67 year old This Morning star was enjoying a holiday on the Greek island of Symi in the Aegean Sea when he was reported missing on Wednesday, 5 June. Reports suggest that the TV doctor had gone for a hike on the picturesque island but alarm bells were raised when he didn't return home.

Things aren’t so peachy between two Real Housewives of Atlanta cast members!

The life of a long-haul truck driver isn’t for everyone, nor could it be considered easy even for those years deep in the job; weeks/months away from home, the majority of any given 24-hour time period spent manipulating the steering wheel of a fully loaded 80,000-pound semi, sleep deprivation, the only meaningful social contact coming from the briefest of moments at a truck stop or over the chatter of a CB radio, and the list goes on.

The Traitors season 3 was just announced in the most comforting way possible: with Alan Cumming sitting by a roaring fire, looking dapper in his yellow tartan suit as he reads off a “distinguished roster” of reality stars and other notable figures set to appear on .Who needs ASMR when you have this?The Peacock series—which is similar to the party game Mafia, in which one group of secretly appointed “traitors” must eliminate the “faithfuls” in order to win—has become a massive hit for the streaming channel, taking home an Emmy for outstanding casting for a reality program in season 1 and earning the honor of the number one unscripted series in the US during season 2’s launch week, according to Nielsen.But Traitors season 3 promises to be even more entertaining and devious, if the lineup is anything to go by. The Bachelorette’s , RuPaul’s Drag Race winner , Vanderpump Rules star , and Britney Spears’s ex are just some of the familiar faces set to travel to the Scottish Highlands, where they’ll compete in a series of missions with the hope of earning a $250,000 cash prize.Who will be the traitors? Who will be faithfuls? And what will Cumming wear? With so many questions, we had to break it all down.

(Alec also has a daughter, Ireland, from his marriage to Kim Basinger, and a grandchild via Ireland), are TLC's latest “giant family,” following in the wake of Jon and Kate Plus 8 and 19 Kids and Counting. By TLC standards, they're actually not that big, but the actor thing is a twist.

EXCLUSIVE: David Hare, one of the UK’s foremost playwrights and a double Oscar nominee, is in an unsparing mood about the state of UK politics. This comes as leaders of the country’s two major parties parry in the cut and thrust of the July 4 general election.

The indigenous Yanomami tribe living in the Amazon rainforest on the border between Brazil and Venezuela is dwindling. Only 35,000 remain.