New York City’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has lined up a slate of familiar names to Hollywood for his inaugural committee, with a massive New Year’s Day block party planned to be held by City Hall.

Jimmy Kimmel delivered a politically charged alternative Christmas message on the U.K.’s Channel 4 on Thursday, using the platform to rail against Donald Trump and warn that “tyranny is booming” in America under a president who “thinks he is our king.”

Snoop Dogg took over for the NFL’s second-ever Christmas Halftime show on Thursday evening, enlisting a star-studded set of cameos from the likes of Lainey Wilson, the singers behind KPop Demon Hunters‘ Huntrix, and a book-end cameo from the veteran rapper’s longtime pal Martha Stewart to help him out.

Mohammad Bakri, a Palestinian director and actor who sought to share the complexities of Palestinian identity and culture through a variety of works in both Arabic and Hebrew, has died, his family announced. He was 72.

A second batch of holiday movies is opening nationwide on Christmas Day in North America, including A24’s high-profile period pic Marty Supreme — starring Timothée Chalamet as a 1950s table tennis champion who will do whatever it takes — and Sony’s Jack Black-Paul Rudd campy monster reboot Anaconda.

Martin Scorsese is mourning the loss of his friend and colleague, Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele.

The final season of Outlander is quickly approaching, but before that, Starz has dropped a bonus teaser for the upcoming eighth installment.

The first teaser trailer for David O. Russell‘s John Madden biopic has been released, and hoo boy is it sure to get NFL fans and gamers excited.

When Deadpool & Wolverine lands on Disney+, it will almost certainly set a record for the most f-bombs for a movie on the family-friendly streaming service (definitely blowing past That Darn Cat and Cheaper by the Dozen).

The Bill Simmons podcast is making its Netflix debut Jan. 11 with a live episode.

Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc is ready to solve another mystery.

In the mid-‘90s, a new channel found magic by connecting with the then-current generation of teens, Gen Y (for the youngins out there, that’s what they used to call millennials). The WB, which later became The CW, captured the emerging teenagers’ experience of coming of age at the close of the 20th century. Or at least, it provided a glossed-up version of high school: fashions rivaling Clueless’ Cher, evenings spent at under-18 clubs frequented by a parade of on-the-cusp punk and rock bands and the struggles faced by teens growing up in a single-parent home.

The post-pandemic theatrical landscape has mostly been an anxiety disorder punctuated by the occasional high. But one genre has consistently drawn audiences back to the multiplex in the past few years: horror.

As I wrote in my review of Max’s The Pitt, it feels as if the collective bingeing of shows like ER and House during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic has finally paid off in a resurgence of the medical genre on television.

Jimmy Kimmel delivered a politically charged alternative Christmas message on the U.K.’s Channel 4 on Thursday, using the platform to rail against Donald Trump and warn that “tyranny is booming” in America under a president who “thinks he is our king.”

In the year 2000, there were so many hip filmmakers making sexy violent experimental crime fantasias. Darren Aronofsky stood out. Most Sundance debuts were cheap, but his breakout feature looked funded by quarters stolen from a broken vending machine. When other young directors were trying hyper-kinetic editing, he all-but-trademarked the rapidfire split-second montage: heroin, lighter, bubbles, syringe, molecules, eyeball, STONED. Rather than join the long line of provocateurs battling the MPAA over NC-17 ratings, Aronofsky just released his second film unrated — a totemic act of Generation X defiance. And while plenty of awesome movies back then were about drugs, an Aronofsky picture somehow just was a drug: intoxicating, traumatizing, addictive, corrosive.

Snoop Dogg took over for the NFL’s second-ever Christmas Halftime show on Thursday, enlisting a star-studded set of cameos from the likes of Lainey Wilson, the singers behind KPop Demon Hunters‘ Huntrix, and a book-end cameo from longtime pal Martha Stewart to help him out.

A second batch of holiday movies is opening nationwide on Christmas Day in North America, including A24’s high-profile period pic Marty Supreme — starring Timothée Chalamet as a 1950s table tennis champion who will do whatever it takes — and Sony’s Jack Black-Paul Rudd campy monster reboot Anaconda.

Martin Scorsese is mourning the loss of his friend and colleague, Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele.

Imani Smith, the former child actor who starred in Broadway‘s The Lion King, has died. She was 26.

The final season of Outlander is quickly approaching, but before that, Starz has dropped a bonus teaser for the upcoming eighth installment.

Over the last near-decade, Matt Rogers has been putting forward his pop culture takes on Las Culturistas, the podcast he hosts with real-life pal and former Saturday Night Live cast member Bowen Yang.

The Bill Simmons podcast is making its Netflix debut Jan. 11 with a live episode.

Bari Weiss is defending her choice to pull a 60 Minutes story again, this time citing her decision’s seemingly “radical” nature as necessary to restoring Americans’ trust in news.