Kevin O'Keeffe

Before she was winning awards left and right for playing a captive young mother in 2015’s Room — but after she first made an impression as hard-rock ex Envy Adams in 2010’s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World — Brie Larson made huge waves in a tiny movie.…

Late Sunday night, in the Big Brother house, contestants Cody Nickson, Jason Dent, Jessica Graf and Matthew Clines sat in and around the hot tub. They were chatting about, among other things, Big Brother season 17 contestant Audrey Middleton, the…

When a movie flops as hard as Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey’s new film The Dark Tower just did, everyone becomes a coroner. What went wrong? Was it the troubled production that made headlines before the film’s Friday release that turned…

LOS ANGELES — Will & Grace may be returning to TV, but the characters of Will Truman and Grace Adler will be in a much different place than when we last saw them. As has already been mentioned ahead of the gay NBC sitcom’s fall revival, Will & Grace…

LOS ANGELES — As Randall Pearson, one-third of the Big Three on This Is Us, Sterling K. Brown has been well-recognized for his work. Among other prizes, the actor is currently nominated for an Emmy for portraying the weather trader, husband, father…

Just how far have depictions of abortions on TV come? A new database is here to show you. The University of California San Francisco’s Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health research group’s Abortion Onscreen project seeks to study the…

LOS ANGELES — The response to Tiffany Haddish’s breakout performance in the hit comedy Girls Trip has been almost all tremendous. Her work as Dina not only had critics calling her a scene-stealer, they started speculating immediately that she could…

LOS ANGELES — When it was first announced in a bombshell press release on July 19, HBO’s new series Confederate caused a backlash with just a logline. Game of Thrones production pair D.B. Weiss and David Benioff’s upcoming series, which imagines a…

LOS ANGELES — Ahead of Broad City’s fourth season premiere on Sept. 13, much has been made in the press of how the show will be treating Donald Trump. Namely: They’re not naming him at all, instead censoring every mention of him as if his name is a…

T.J. Miller is on the strangest press tour of the year. Not only is he promoting an odd product — The Emoji Movie, a bad Hollywood focus-group idea made sentient — he’s also expressive about anything and everything. In the wake of his departure from…

How much can a 44-year-old man be held accountable for what he said at 24? That’s the question on my mind today, as comments actor and director Ben Affleck made on the set of the 1997 film Chasing Amy come back to haunt him. Director Kevin Smith…

Season 19 of Big Brother, CBS’ stalwart summer reality competition, has been a volatile one. From the very first day of the new contestants’ stay in the Big Brother house, the power plays have been frequent and cutthroat. But a new twist took…

Speculation about an actor’s sexuality isn’t truly dead until they make a definitive statement one way or the other. Think of George Clooney, one of the world’s most famous stars, who was dogged by gay rumors until he married Amal Alamuddin. The…

As the dust settles on the 2017 Emmy nominees, we’re left with some questions. Will Julia Louis-Dreyfus ever lose the prize for best lead actress in a comedy series? Can RuPaul’s Drag Race win and shake up the reality competition race? But the most…

Finally, it’s happened to RuPaul’s Drag Race. After eight seasons of repeatedly being shut out for the Emmys’ best reality competition race, VH1’s battle royale of drag finally earned a nod — and then some. In total, the show earned seven…

No one could argue with any semblance of seriousness that Julia Louis-Dreyfus is not amazing on Veep. As Selina Meyer, a one-time incompetent vice-president-turned-unelected-president-turned-political-outcast, Louis-Dreyfus is a hurricane. She’s…

As a general rule, “don’t watch this” is bad criticism. Reviews of film and TV shouldn’t boil down to a basic yes or no — they should dig into the work, offer up arguments and points and allow the audience to absorb them. That way, the reader can…

Upon first glance, a headline like “Aladdin: Disney Struggles to Find Stars for Its Live-Action Movie” is frustrating. How hard can this really be? Were Dev Patel and Riz Ahmed, rising stars who were previously considered for the role, just…

Of all the categories at the Primetime Emmys, none is quite as boring as best reality competition. Sure, there are some technical categories with less buzzy names that are relegated to the Primetime Creative Arts Emmys a week before the main show.…