Joshua Caleb Johnson is learning from Ethan Hawke in ‘The Good Lord Bird’

Barack Obama, who has spoken of reading “Gilead” while campaigning in Iowa.Hawke has recorded an abridged narrative of “Gilead” that was commissioned by Manhattan's 92nd Street Y and can he heard Oct. 19-29 via www.92y.org/gilead.

Jessica Alba is opening up about her thoughts on critics and she doesn’t think she’s ever received a good review from a critic throughout her career.

NEW YORK -- Jack White will be the last-minute replacement musical guest on “Saturday Night Live” after country singer Morgan Wallen was dropped for breaking COVID-19 protocols.Wallen was removed as musical guest on Thursday after TikTok videos showed him partying last weekend without a mask on among a large group of people. Lorne Michaels announced White as a fill-in Friday on the “Today” show.“Calling somebody on a Thursday to be here for Friday, it’s complicated," said Michaels.

Boris Johnson has pledged to help more young people in the UK to get on the property ladder for the first time.At present, many youngsters struggle to buy their own home - as a result of high deposits and high interest rates on mortgages.But now the PM has said he wants to see an end to this, and has pledged to turn “generation rent into generation buy” with long-term, fixed-rate mortgages of up to 95% of the value of a home for first-time buyers.The Prime Minister said the policy could lead to

The Walking Dead for its long-awaited Season 10 finale on Sunday to the broadcast premiere of DC Universe's Swamp Thing on Tuesday and the debut of Netflix's The Haunting of Bly Manor at the end of the week, there is a lot to go around.

Ethan Hawke opened up about his own family's regrets voting for Donald Trump in the 2016 election and compared Donald Trump's debate performance to Emperor Palpatine while appearing onThe Late ShowThursday night.

The Good Lord Bird was worth the wait.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticToo often, period pieces about the making of America treat the past with undue dignity, turning the raucousness and rambunctiousness of a two-and-a-quarter-century pageant of personalities into a chamber piece. American history is serious, sure, but it’s also giddy and strange, and too few entertainments treat it that way.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorFor Ethan Hawke’s “The Good Lord Bird,” the crew was asked to create a dusty rural environment to simulate the world of 1850s Kansas, in which abolitionist John Brown (Hawke) proposes the armed overthrow of slavery.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorFresh off their Emmy wins, “Watchmen” co-stars Regina King and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II will present at The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s upcoming virtual Grants Banquet.The HFPA also announced on Thursday morning that Lin-Manuel Miranda, Aubrey Plaza, Billy Porter, Christian Slater, Danielle Macdonald, Ethan Hawke, Jason Sudeikis, Orlando Bloom, Rita Moreno, Riz Ahmed, Scott Eastwood and Zachary Quinto will also make appearances

ORIGINAL SERIESTHE GOOD LORD BIRDLimited Series Premiere Sunday, Oct. 4, at 9 p.m.

Certain movie stars go their entire careers without ever truly getting the kudos they deserve. Sure, everybody and their mother is fond of Denzel Washington, Will Smith, Meryl Streep, and Brad Pitt; they’ve given enough iconic performances to provide their audiences with a lifetime’s worth of Oscar clips.

Did John Brown, the infamous abolitionist who led the 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, really take a cross-dressing teenage slave under his wing and name him Onion? No, not at all. “The Good Lord Bird,” which never purports itself as a true retelling, opens each episode with the tagline “All of this is true.

2013 novel of the same name — “The Good Lord Bird” follows newly freed young slave Henry, nicknamed “Onion” (Joshua Caleb Johnson), who ends up with famous abolitionist John Brown (Hawke) and his band of soldiers on a crusade to end slavery. It culminates in the 1859 raid on the Army depot at Harpers Ferry, Va.