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Roland Emmerich is cinema's finest chaos goblin working today. His loudest detractors have accused him of being all spectacle and no substance, but I don't see anyone complaining on the Fourth of July when their fireworks displays don't have enough character development. Subtlety isn't Emmerich's strong suit, and I absolutely love him for it. Give me a spaceship with "F— the Moon" graffitied onto it in a movie called "Moonfall." Use the panic of the "2012" Mayan conspiracy theory to make a movie where a guy literally throws his annoying child to safety in a sacrificial effort. And yes, give me President Bill Pullman delivering an "Independence Day" speech so invigorating, so powerful, it brings about world peace. Emmerich is as much a filmmaker as he is the host of a cinematic demolition derby with a multi-million dollar VFX budget. That is to say, he is an artist of the highest order,...

Paramount’s free streaming service, Pluto TV, has revealed its June highlights. The Pluto TV June 2025 lineup turns up the heat with new movies, music, and marquee moments.

Summer of Cinema kicks off with hundreds of fan-favorite films now streaming — from Interstellar and Heat to Clueless, Mission: Impossible, 28 Days Later, and more.

Pluto TV is also celebrating cultural milestones and bold voices with special programming for Pride Month and Black Music Month, as well as the return of their award-winning Free Movie Weekend initiative, which supports local theaters across the country.

And don’t miss Broadway’s biggest night as The Tony Awards: Act One streams live and free on Pluto TV’s Live Music channel on Sunday, June 8 at 6:40 p.m. Et. Hosted by Darren Criss and Renée Elise Goldsberry, it’s your front-row seat to the kickoff of Tony Awards night.

Pluto TV June 2025 Highlights

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From investigative docuseries to Westerns to sports dramas, Tubi’s June slate offers movies and tv shows for genre lovers of any persuasion.

The Tubi original “TMZ Presents: United States V. Sean Combs: Inside The Diddy Trial,” premieres new episodes June 6 and 13, while the original thriller “The Divorce Lawyer” and the western “Day of Reckoning” make up June’s Tubi original films. Other titles arriving on Tubi in June include “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “Community” seasons 3 and 4, the “Taken” film trilogy, “B.A.P.S.,” “Swiss Army Man,” “Love & Basketball,” “Get Out,” “Hereditary” and more.

Here are all the new titles coming to Tubi in June:

Tubi Original Docuseries

“TMZ Presents: United States V. Sean Combs: Inside The Diddy Trial” – exclusive reporting on all the latest developments & drama behind the scenes from the trial of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs (6/6 and 6/13)

Tubi Original Thriller

“The Divorce Lawyer” – (6/20)

“Please Don’t Feed The Children” – (6/27)

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Tubi is adding lots of free movies and shows in June. There’s something for everyone to watch. All the titles listed below will start streaming on June 1, unless stated otherwise. Take a look and see what’s new!

Docuseries Spotlight

TMZ Presents: United States V. Sean Combs: Inside The Diddy Trial

TMZ brings you exclusive reporting on all the latest developments & drama behind the scenes from the trial of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs. New episodes on 6/6 + 6/13.

Thriller Spotlight

Tko (6/20)

After reconnecting with his sons, a former boxer takes on a new role, being a father and a coach, when his oldest son enters the world of professional boxing.

Western Spotlight

Day Of Reckoning (6/13)

A small-town sheriff teams up with a corrupt U.S. Marshal to hold an outlaw’s wife hostage, hoping to draw the outlaw into a deadly showdown.

Series Spotlight

All In The Family (1971) Seasons 3 & 4

Community Seasons 3 & 4

Cuckoo...

June is a big month for Peacock. Fans of dinosaurs and sharks have a lot to look forward to. All six Jurassic Park movies will be streaming in one place for the first time. This comes just in time before Jurassic World Rebirth hits theaters in July.

Also, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jaws, Peacock will add all four Jaws movies to its library. There’s even more coming too! Check out the full list of new shows and movies below.

June 1

Adventures of Priscilla Queen of The Desert

Anna and The Apocalypse

The Best Man

The Big Lebowski

The Birdcage

Blue Crush

Bride of Chucky

The ‘Burbs

Capote

Captain Phillips

The Chronicles of Riddick

A Cowgirl’s Story

Daddy Day Care

The Day After Tomorrow

Death Wish

Deep Rising

Dirty Dancing

Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights

Erin Brockovich

A Fantastic Woman

Fifty Shades Darker

Fifty Shades Freed

Fifty Shades of Grey...

Tubi, Fox’s free streaming service, has announced its list of June titles. The Tubi June 2025 slate features new Tubi Originals, TV series, and numerous action, art house, Black cinema, comedy, documentary, drama, horror, kids and family, sci-fi and fantasy, thriller, and Western titles.

As a leading ad-supported video-on-demand service, the company engages diverse audiences through a personalized experience and the world’s largest content library of over 250,000 movies and TV episodes, a growing collection of exclusive Originals, and nearly 250 live channels.

You can watch the Tubi June 2025 lineup for free on Android and iOS mobile devices, Amazon Echo Show, Google Nest Hub Max, Comcast Xfinity X1, and Cox Contour.

You can also watch the service on connected television devices such as Amazon Fire TV, Vizio TVs, Sony TVs, Samsung TVs, Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and on the Tubi site.

Tubi Originals

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TMZ Presents: United States V.

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When Riverdale first premiered, viewers and fans were intrigued by the concept of taking the characters and world from the wholesome Archie Comics and adapting it into a murder-mystery teen drama. The first season's mystery was incredibly well done, but as the show progressed, the mysteries became more and more bizarre and convoluted. After the insanity of the third season's mystery plot, the show decided to do a more grounded story for their fourth season.

The fourth season mostly revolves around the supposed death of Jughead Jones, with the season opening after his death, and the rest of the season is a flashback to how he died. There are many twists and turns, with the story following a dark academia plot with...

The theme song for "The Big Bang Theory" is a fast-talking deluge of pseudo-nerdy references that are juuust incorrect enough to drive real-life nerds a little big crazy. The full version of the theme, rarely played in its entirety before the show, included enough brainy references to be clever, however. It talks about bipeds evolving, the continent of Pangaea, and it contains the lyric "Australopithecus would really have been sick of us," which I deeply appreciate. 

The theme song was written and performed by Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies, the authors of the famously wordy 1998 hit "One Week." Gen-Xers can likely recite large portions of "One Week", although only committed Barenaked Ladies fans have memorized the entire thing. The band also had charting hits with "It's All Been Done" (also from 1998) as well as "Pinch Me" and "Too Little Too Late." Those paying attention to indie rock in 1992 likely heard...

Swiss director Tim Fehlbaum’s “September 5” takes an unusual approach to the story of the terrorist attack on the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, which ended with the deaths of the 11 athletes and coaches who had been taken hostage. For most of its running time, the Paramount film never leaves the ABC Sports studio where a staff accustomed to broadcasting sporting events tried to cover breaking news that was going out to an estimated 1 billion viewers worldwide.

By focusing on a control room, a small studio and a few offices and hallways, the film situates its big story in a small, crowded pressure cooker — and that’s how Fehlbaum and his longtime cinematographer Markus Förderer shot it, too.

“The art department was building the set on a soundstage, and they asked us, ‘Which walls should we break away? Do you want the ceiling to be open to light from the top?...

Joey King's latest movie, Uglies, has received a fairly poor critical score on Rotten Tomatoes. Directed by McG, the movie stars King as Tally Youngblood, who lives in a world where a mandatory operation makes everyone pretty and eliminates their physical differences. The Uglies cast also includes Brianne Tju, Chase Stokes, Laverne Cox, and Keith Powers.

On Rotten Tomatoes, the movie's current score has been revealed, and it is not great. At the time of publication of this article, the film sits at a 20% approval rating based on 20 reviews. No critical consensus has been given, but many reviews have discussed how unoriginal the movie feels, and criticized its underdeveloped social commentary. The score is expected to fluctuate as more reviews get tabulated.

Uglies Continues Joey King's Dismal Trend on Rotten Tomatoes King Has Starred In Many Rotten YA Films.

While Uglies boasts an impressive cast of young actors, it...

Joaquin Phoenix departed Todd Haynes‘ planned Nc-17 gay romance, and now one of the film’s producers is speaking out.

Christine Vachon of Killer Films shared an article to Facebook about the 49-year-old actor dropping out five days before production, and addressed speculation that his sudden departure had to do with the film’s LGBTQ content.

“A version of this did happen. It has been a nightmare,” she began, via People.

Keep reading to find out more…

“And Please — if you are tempted to finger wag or admonish us that ‘that’s what you get for casting a straight actor’ — Don’T,” she went on to say. “This was His project that he brought to US– and Killer’s record on working with LGBTQ actors/crew/directors speaks for itself. (and for those of you who Have — know that you are making a terrible situation even worse).”

The producer worked...

After Joaquin Phoenix‘s abrupt exit from Todd Haynes‘ gay romance resulted in the film’s unraveling, one of its producers has addressed the fallout.

Christine Vachon of Killer Films shared an article to Facebook about the actor dropping out five days before production, while responding to speculation that Phoenix’s sudden departure had to do with the film’s LGBTQ content and planned Nc-17 rating.

“A version of this did happen. It has been a nightmare,” she started in the post, according to People.

“And Please — if you are tempted to finger wag or admonish us that ‘that’s what you get for casting a straight actor’ — Don’T,” wrote Vachon in part. “This was His project that he brought to US– and Killer’s record on working with LGBTQ actors/crew/directors speaks for itself. (and for those of you who Have — know that you are making a...

Exclusive: Three and a half decades into his career as a playwright and film and TV writer, Jon Robin Baitz has never been busier, coming off one series, with three others in production or preproduction. Baitz has now signed a big multi-year deal with 20th Television, the studio behind the four series, which all hail from Ryan Murphy Productions. Noone is commenting but I hear the pact — said to be in the premium top range for writing talent — spans five years.

Under the deal, Baitz will develop, write and executive produce original series with 20th Television, a part of Disney Television Studios, for Disney Entertainment Television, as well as collaborate with Murphy on more projects.

The overall agreement comes on the heels of FX/20th Television/Ryan Murphy Prods.’ limited series Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans, on which Baitz served as an executive producer/showrunner and wrote every episode.

His...

Feud: Capote vs. the Swans has 8 episodes in total, allowing for a focused and concise storytelling experience. The season finale of Feud: Capote vs. the Swans will be released on March 13, 2024, effectively wrapping up the story of Capote's falling-out with his social circle. Episodes of Feud season 2 will follow a weekly release schedule, with two back-to-back episodes premiering on January 31, 2024, and the rest of the episodes airing subsequently on FX and available for streaming on Hulu.

The second season of Ryan Murphy’s anthology series Feud, dubbed Capote vs. the Swans, has finally arrived – but how many episodes are there, and when will the finale air? Feud: Capote vs. the Swans revolves around famed author Truman Capote and the bitter rivalry he unwittingly sparked with his wealthy socialite friends when he outed their hedonistic lifestyle in his unfinished novel Answered Prayers. Every episode in this season was written by...

New York City Opera’s Bryant Park summer series continues with Tenor Alessandro Lora in Concert on Saturday, August 19th at 7pm. An exciting young talent, tenor Alessandro Lora of Vicenza, Italy will perform a crowd-pleasing concert of diverse Italian repertoire including folk, popular, and traditional Neapolitan songs alongside operatic favorites, sure to delight the whole family. Featuring the New York City Opera Orchestra, the concert will be led by two great conductors, Maestro Maurizio Barbacini and Maestro Diego Basso, founder of the Orchestra Musico Sinfonica Italiana and the prestigious Art of Voice Academy. Produced in cooperation with Sandro di Benedetto, Bruno Benetti, and OneArt, the evening promises to be an unforgettable night of classic Italian romance and passion, sure to bring the audience to their feet.

Entry is on a first-come, first-served basis. Performances are designed to be enjoyed casually – no tickets required – with ample seating available and free...

Many of the most important queer films in cinema history share a birthplace: the Sundance Film Festival. Organized by the Sundance Institute, the legendary annual fest in Park City, Utah, has boasted international and U.S. premiere titles as varied as the groundbreaking New York ballroom documentary Paris Is Burning in 1991, Donna Deitch’s 1985 lesbian road drama Desert Hearts or even recent masterworks like Luca Guadagnino’s 2017 adaptation of Call Me by Your Name.

The Hollywood Reporter spoke with Kim Yutani, director of programming at Sundance, about some of the most important Lgbtqia+ films to debut there.

“Seeing the films that Sundance has programmed over the years, especially around the early 1990s with the New Queer Wave, that was what attracted me to Sundance,” says Yutani, who’s been working with the festival for 17 years, and has also worked in various positions within the film industry, like as Gregg Araki...

Making a film based on a historical figure often results in one of two possible events. Sometimes you get a well-rounded and engaging account like the Steven Spielberg-helmed Lincoln. Other times filmmakers will stretch the truth to the point where saying your story is "based on true events" is pushing it. Seriously, Roland Emmerich, what the hell were you thinking when you made Stonewall? But Chevalier takes a different approach. The biographical film shines a light on Joseph Bologne, who was best known as the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, as well as the first well known Black classical musician. Chevalier is visually gorgeous and boasts a rich narrative, especially where Kelvin Harrison, Jr.'s performance of the titular character is concerned. Viewers won't be shocked to learn that the real life Bologne was just as interesting as what they see on the screen.

Return to Silent Hill plot and crew details have been revealed by the production company. The upcoming film is a new film adaptation of the Silent Hill horror video game franchise, which began in 1999 and has expanded to nine titles along with remakes and other linked games. The franchise previously came to the screen in 2006's Silent Hill, directed by Christophe Gans, which was followed by M.J. Bassett's Silent Hill: Revelation, adapting the game Silent Hill 3. Return to Silent Hill, which was announced a few months ago, will be a sequel to the original film written and directed by Gans and adapting the storyline of Silent Hill 2.

In a recent press release from Bavarian film company Fff Bayern, they revealed further details about Return to Silent Hill. This includes the fact that the film will follow James Sunderland as he returns to the town of Silent Hill in...

New York City Opera proudly announces the winners of the 2023 Duncan Williams Voice Competition. Hosted by J’Nai Bridges, the competition spotlights Black and Latinx singers and awards over $50,000 in prize money. On February 3, 2023 at Manhattan School of Music, 11 winners were announced in 4 categories: The Emerging Artists category, awarding $8,000 to Cierra Byrd, Daniel Rich, and César Andrés Parreño; the Developing Artists category, awarding $5,000 to Elizabeth Hanje, Benjamin Ruiz, and Jazmine Saunders; the Encouragement Award, awarding $3,500 to Joseph Parrish; and the Black and Latinx Song Presentation category, awarding $750 to Daniel Espinal, Kresley Figueroa, Lwazi Hlati, and Ardeen Pierre.

The Duncan Williams Voice Competition is named for baritone Todd Duncan and soprano Camilla Williams, the first African American singers to sing with a major United States opera company when they made their debuts with New York City Opera in 1945 and 1946, respectively. The Duncan Williams Voice Competition aims to address systemic barriers faced by...

German director Roland Emmerich made "The Noah's Ark Principle" in Germany in 1984 -- a student film with a budget of over a million Deutschmarks -- and never looked back. He quickly helmed two English-language family films, followed by a move into the worlds of action and science fiction in the 1990s. The peak Emmerich movie is probably still "Independence Day," although his other action and disaster movies -- "The Day After Tomorrow," "2012," "White House Down," and "Moonfall" -- are the connoisseur's choices.

Emmerich (both wisely and unwisely) stretches himself into other genres -- such as the war movies "The Patriot" and "Midway," and the historical dramas "Anonymous" and "Stonewall." It's good to see him pushing himself, taking risks, and experimenting, even if the end results are mixed, to say the least. But he excels at big-budget action movies, and if he's given actors blessed with the necessary star quality to build his beautiful disasters around,...

At last measure, Roland Emmerich's "Moonfall" was the 26th biggest box office bomb of all time. Working on an estimated budget of about 140 million, "Moonfall" has only made about 44 million worldwide. Factor in the film's advertising and distribution budget, and it stands to have lost about 139 million.

Some may be old enough to remember a time when a box office bomb of this size would be the biggest news in Hollywood. Notorious bombs like Michael Cimino's "Heaven's Gate" (1980), Willard Huyck's "Howard the Duck" (1986), or Elaine May's "Ishtar" (1987) retain their notoriety to this day, stained forever by their box office failure. A film like "Moonfall," meanwhile, is merely another major bomb in a long series of them. One might even have to fight to remember that it came out earlier this year. For perspective, "Moonfall," when adjusted for inflation, lost about 3 million more than "Heaven's Gate." Mere months later,...

Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Oscar winner Melissa Leo and Antonio Banderas have signed onto the Yale Entertainment action-crime thriller Clean Up Crew from director Jon Keeyes.

The Ireland-based production recently wrapped, and Yale’s recently-launched sales banner Great Escape, led by Nick Donnermeyer, will handle foreign rights and introduce the title at next month’s Toronto Film Festival.

Pic follows a crime scene clean-up crew, which includes Rhys Meyers and Leo’s characters, who discover a briefcase full of cash, unknowingly sending them into battle with mobsters – led by a ruthless crime boss, played by Banderas, as well as hitmen, and corrupt government agents who are hellbound to get the dough back. Clean Up Crew was written by Matthew Rogers. Yale’s Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman and Michael Rothstein will produce alongside Richard Bolger and Conor Barry from Hail Mary Pictures, and Richard Clabaugh, Stephen Braun and Kurt Ebner.

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Bruce MacVittie, a prolific New York stage actor who made his Broadway debut opposite Al Pacino in a 1983 production of David Mamet’s American Buffalo and became familiar to television viewers through roles on The Sopranos, Law & Order and As The World Turns, died May 7 at a hospital in New York City. He was 65.

His death was announced by his wife, Carol Ochs, to The New York Times. A cause has not been determined.

MacVittie, a co-founder of the celebrated Off Broadway company Naked Angels, made his Broadway debut in 1983 under trying circumstances: He replaced actor James Hayden in the role of Bobby less than a month into the play’s run, when the up-and-coming Hayden died of a drug overdose. MacVittie would continue in the role on Broadway, in a touring production and on London’s West End.

Acclaimed for his performance in the play (a role Darren Criss...

Exclusive: Jonathan Rhys Meyers and MyAnna Buring have signed on to star alongside Alec Baldwin in the hijacked airplane action-thriller 97 Minutes, from director Timo Vuorensola (Iron Sky), which has entered production at Black Hangar Studios in the UK.

97 Minutes centers on a hijacked 767 that will crash in that amount of time when its fuel runs out. Against the strong will of Nsa Deputy Toyin, Nsa Director Hawkins (Baldwin) prepares to have the plane shot down before it does any catastrophic damage on the ground, leaving the fate of the innocent passengers in the hands of Tyler, one of the alleged hijackers on board who is an undercover Interpol agent – or is he?

Meyers and Buring are playing passengers on the transatlantic flight, with Jo Martin (Doctor Who), Michael Sirow (Infamous), Pavan Grover,...

It’s summer, everyone! And with its relatively sparse list of new releases for July 2021, Hulu seems to be subtlety imploring its subscribers to go outside.

Don’t get us wrong: Hulu’s library offerings get a big upgrade this month. July 1 sees the arrival of great films like Galaxy Quest, Fargo, and Caddyshack. Bill and Ted Face the Music premieres on July 2 and its followed by Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar on July 9. Not bad stuff! It’s just that, outside of the library titles, there isn’t much to go off of.

Hulu’s only major original release this month is the FX on Hulu production American Horror Stories on July 15. As its name implies, the show is a spinoff of American Horror Story and will feature self-contained horror episodes rather than a season-long arc. If you’ll allow this geriatric millennial to deploy one truly ancient meme: “Yo dawg,...

HBO Max’s upcoming “Green Lantern” series is eyeing actor Jeremy Irvine for the role of Alan Scott.

Irvine would join Finn Wittrock in the series, who has been cast in the lead role of Guy Gardner. HBO Max declined to comment.

Scott was Earth’s first Green Lantern, who, true to the comics, is a gay man. He was created by Martin Nodell and made his comic book debut in 1940. A train engineer by trade, Scott derived his powers from a mystical green lantern crafted from a mysterious meteorite. He later joined the Justice Society of America, and in universe-hopping adventures would sometimes team with members of the Green Lantern Corps, including Hal Jordan.

Based on the DC Comics property, the show was first announced in 2019 and was ordered to series last year. The story spans decades and galaxies, beginning on Earth in 1941 with Scott, and then heading to...

Discovering Sy Rogers was a big deal for me. As a gay kid in Pensacola, Fl, I learned early on that my “same-sex attraction”––as it’s often called in conservative Christian churches––was not acceptable in my community. Rogers previously identified as trans and led international ministries based on the idea that if God can change Rogers from being transgender, he can also change one’s homosexuality. This assumes it’s wrong to be gay and that being transgender is even worse. But I didn’t want to be gay, so I walked in Rogers’ footsteps. For the first half of the 2010s, I believed ex-gay theology and it took the second half of the decade in therapy to unravel it. Telling my story is not easy, but the truth is more powerful than pretending my past never happened.

While watching Sam Feder’s new documentary Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen,...

Chicago – The 2020 Pride Weekend, which occurs every year around the June 28th anniversary date of the Stonewall Inn uprising, will be remembered not for the LGBTQ+ themed parades or observances, but the cancellation of those events due to Covid-19. But the celebration continues, as the film series “Reel Pride” reviews the documentary “After Stonewall.”

“Reel Pride” is co-hosted by Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com and arts reviewer Jeffrey Leibham of AroundtheTownChicago.com. The YouTube series reviews Lbgtq+ films through cinema history, to increase awareness of the passion for these cinematic stories within feature films and documentaries. For additional reviews, click the title links of ”Stonewall” (1995), ”Stonewall” (2015) and ”Parting Glances” / “Cruising”.

’After Stonewall,’ Directed by John Scagliotti

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“After Stonewall” was a documentary from 1999, narrated by Melissa Etheridge, that tracked LGBTQ+ history from the Stonewall Inn uprising in 1969 through 1999, a timeline of progress and setbacks endured in...

Need to catch up? Read our previous Riverdale recap here.

Riverdale came back strong this week with another musical episode — but we’re still thinking about that surprise lip-lock, to be honest.

More from TVLineKaty Keene Stages Another Riverdale Crossover: What Brings Kevin to NYC?Riverdale's Casey Cott Previews Kevin's Big Hedwig Showcase, Picks a Side in the Archie/Betty/Jughead Love TriangleNancy Drew Star Breaks Down Season Finale's 'Tragically Beautiful' Ending

The Stonewall saga is over (finally), but those creepy VHS tapes are still showing up on everyone’s doorsteps. (Guess it wasn’t Bret after all.) Jughead...

Actor Matthew Faber, best known for his memorable roles in '90s cult classic movies like Welcome to the Dollhouse and Natural Born Killers, has reportedly passed away. According to Faber's brother Mark, the actor's family hadn't heard from him for days, so they contacted the landlord of his Van Nuys, California apartment to gain access to the home. Inside, Faber was found deceased, and though no cause of death has been immediately made apparent, his passing "appears to be natural." He was 47 years old.

In a statement provided to TMZ, Mark speaks about the kind of person Faber was in life, making his passing all the more tragic. "A beautiful man. Incredibly talented. Wise beyond his years, quick-witted. Abundantly aware. He could really pay attention more than most. He had such incredible focus and ability to sustain concentration -- brilliant man, very aware, very smart," Mark says in the statement.

The truth has been set free! (Did any of your guesses prove right?)

Jughead and Betty confronted their long-time Stonewall Prep enemies on Riverdale Season 4 Episode 16, and their investigative tactics let them have it. This is the point in the murder-mystery where the detectives shout out "a-ha!"

Everything that came to be from the flash-forward led to this moment. It was so worth it to have Donna and her minions stew in panic.

"Chapter Seventy-Three: The Locked Room" channeled the perfect tone from a mystery novel's killer reveal.

The series of events that took place within Stonewall Prep's literary office was better than the last. Betty and Jughead topped each reveal with an even better mic drop moment that made you not want to look away from the screen. Especially, with the fear of missing a key piece of information.

All the clues and evidence collected throughout Riverdale Season 4 was...

This Riverdale review contains spoilers.

Riverdale Season 4 Episode 16

“The million dollar question is who was going to kill Jughead, and how?”

Traditionally, Riverdale is not a show that is great at sticking the landing. Whether talking about the lazy wrap-up of Farm saga or the narrative thud that concluded the once-thrilling Gargoyle King plotline, the series has a real problem with endings. So how did they pull off the Stonewall Prep storyline so flawlessly?

That’s a question that I’m currently wrestling with, because that’s exactly what this episode did.

Continuing the show’s always welcome capacity for meta-awareness, “dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s” is invoked a few times in this episode. Then we see the storytelling on display do just that. The episode opens with Jughead and Betty essentially holding the Stonies hostage then walking them through the myriad ways they faked the former’s death.

Need to catch up? Read our previous Riverdale recap here.

Riverdale‘s resident crime-solving duo Betty and Jughead cracked the case of his attempted murder this week — and one key character didn’t survive the fallout.

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Jughead is stuck alone in the bunker, living off of microwave dinners and watching a live stream of his own funeral, hard...

Riverdale gets back on track thanks to a pleasing, if goofy, episode.

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Riverdale Season 4 Episode 12

"If you go on the run now, you'll never stop running."

After last week's infuriating episode (my least favorite of the series to date), I had much trepidation going in to this new episode of Riverdale. Fortunately, my concerns didn't last too long.

Thanks to a sharp script by first-time series Writer/Co-Executive Producer Ariana Jackson that thrusts the various storylines forward while having to pause to introduce the Katy Keene character before her solo show debuts tomorrow, this was the most eventful episode Riverdale has had, well, in ages.

Let's break down the various developments, shall we?

With Mary off working on a case in Chicago, Uncle Frank is still staying at the Andrews' house and working for the family construction business. With this being the inconsistent series that it is,...

The first Riverdale of 2020 pits our heroes against enemies old and new.

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Riverdale Season 4 Episode 10

"They don't play to win, they play to hurt"

And that's been Stonewall Prep's game since their introduction on Riverdale. First they judged and abused Jughead because he wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Then they tormened him by burying him alive. Plus, the instructors there, especially Mr. Dupont, toy with Jug's emotions by flip-flopping their behavior towards him. It's a pretty toxic learning environment, one that makes South Side High look like the school from Fame.

But as we learn in this latest episode, Stonewall Prep's entire M.O. is to try to destroy and break anyone who isn't their own -- be it on the football field or in real life. Is there any doubt that Brett was the ringleader of the attack on Monroe?...

The results of the 9th Annual Streamy Awards are in, presented tonight live at the Beverly Hilton and streamed worldwide by YouTube. The Streamys honor the best in online entertainment and the creators behind it. The annual event brings together the biggest names in online entertainment for a night of celebration, discovery, and recognition. This year’s show included appearances by Emma Chamberlain, David Dobrik, Paris Hilton, Derek Hough, Casey Neistat, and Hannah Stocking, among others. The Streamys, which went host-less for the first time, featured the show’s inaugural collaborators. Emma Chamberlain coached this year’s Breakout Creator nominees on how to give a good acceptance speech. Diy creators Mr. Kate got distracted while presenting the Lifestyle award and re-designed Joey Graceffa’s table. Rosanna Pansino was joined by her friend iJustine for some live cookie decorating prior to presenting the Health and Wellness award.

Engineer Mark Rober unleashed...

A great bad movie makes you ask, “What did I just see? And when can I see it again?” as opposed to a run-of-the-mill stinker, the kind you wish you’d never watched and will immediately forget that you did. The great bad movies inspire think-pieces, podcasts, watching parties and feverish cult adoration. The regular ones merely wallow in mediocrity. Here’s my alphabetical list of the greatest bad movies the 2010s had to offer:

“Collateral Beauty” (2016)

Will Smith is sad, and his best friends gaslight him by hiring actors to pretend to be Love, Time and Death, but we’re supposed to find their efforts — noble? Charming? None of this makes a lick of sense, but it’s all delivered with hilarious gravitas by the likes of Kate Winslet and Helen Mirren. Make sure to stick around for the shameless third-act twist, and a labored explanation of the title.

The director of Independence Day crashes and burns with his wannabe World War II epic.

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There’s a scene early in Midway, the latest misfire from director Roland Emmerich, in which we watch terrified sailors aboard the USS Arizona flee from the flames as the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. Everything in the scene--right down to the flames themselves, which seem to hover in front of the men--is so transparently fake, so obviously computer generated, that there is absolutely no sense of the horror, shock, or gravity that a recreation of one of the darkest days in U.S. history should summon up.

Even though his movies are live-action cartoons at best, Emmerich is usually on surer ground when he’s doing alien invasions (Independence Day) or the end of the world (2012). Those kind of scenarios allow for a certain amount of unreality in the vast vistas of...

Director Roland Emmerich has, for better or worse, been identified as the “Master of Disaster” ever since he sent aliens to destroy the White House and evaporate all of mankind in 1996’s box-office force of nature “Independence Day.” Since then, he’s brought Godzilla down upon us with his 1998 version of the Japanese monster saga, torched the planet with “2012,” recreated a pivotal but violent moment of Lgbt history with “Stonewall,” and, of course, in 2004, imagined what a new global Ice Age might look like with “The Day After Tomorrow.”

While promoting his upcoming film “Midway,” which releases November 8 and recreates an iconic WWII naval battle, Emmerich spoke with Variety’s Matt Donnelly about the mountain of resistance he climbed in getting “The Day After Tomorrow” out the door. With its bleak, but cautionary message of impending environmental collapse, the film depicts a superstorm that takes hold of the planet, plunging New York City beneath ice,...

HBO Max has commissioned a four-part docuseries on the history of the Lgbtq+ movement.

Titled “Equal,” the series will explore the true stories of leaders and activists of the movement. Each hour-long episode will feature interviews, reenactments, and never before seen footage. The series hails from Warner Horizon Unscripted Television.

“We are extremely proud to partner with these groundbreaking producers on a subject this important, at a time this critical,” said Mike Darnell, president of unscripted and alternative television at Warner Bros. “What a perfect project to launch Warner Horizon Unscripted Television’s new documentary series unit.”

Among those who will be profiled in the series are: Harry Hay, a gay rights activist and the founder of the modern gay movement; The Daughters of Bilitis, a lesbian civil and political rights organization; Christine Jorgensen, a transgender woman who flew to Europe in 1951 to undergo sex reassignment surgery and publicly transitioned...

HBO Max has ordered Equal, a four-part docuseries chronicling landmark events and the forgotten heroes of the Lgbtq+ movement, from Greg Berlanti’s Berlanti Productions, Jim Parsons and That’s Wonderful Productions, Scout Productions, Jon Jashni (Lost in Space) and Warner Horizon Unscripted Television.

Equal marks the first project to come out of a new documentary series unit at Warner Horizon Unscripted Television launched by Mike Darnell, President, Unscripted & Alternative Television at Warner Bros. as part of a major expansion into the docu space.

Per the producers, Equal captures the gripping and true backstories of the leaders and unsung heroes, pre-Stonewall, who changed the course of American history through their tireless activism.

Each hour-long episode brings to life the high stakes and hard deadlines of historical events that have not yet been given their due. The docuseries honors rebels of yesteryear through high-end re-enactments, never-before-seen footage, and captures the emotions...

Did the death of Judy Garland trigger the Stonewall Riots and the birth of the gay liberation movement as is suggested in the new biopic “Judy”? The truth is, it depends who you ask.

To this day, the legendary singer’s death less than a week before the 1969 riots continues to be recognized as a considerable factor in the gay uprising that led to 13 arrests and many injuries at the gay bar Stonewall Inn in New York City’s Greenwich Village. Garland’s adoration in the gay community was of mythical proportions decades before her death from an accidental overdose of barbiturates on June 22, 1969. “She is an Elvis for homosexuals,” Barry Walters wrote in a 1998 article in The Advocate. He, like many, many others, believe her tragic end “may have” helped to ignite the five-night Stonewall rebellion.

Not many businesses welcomed openly gay people in the ’50s and ’60s. The...

Lionsgate has released a brand new trailer for the World War II epic Midway. This is the latest from Roland Emmerich, the blockbuster filmmaker known best as the man behind Independence Day. In this case, Emmerich is taking a stab at one of the most famous events in history's most infamous war, the Battle of Midway. Is Emmerich the right man for the job? That's tough to say based on the trailer alone, but he's brought along with him a large ensemble cast that includes Nick Jonas and Woody Harrelson.

The trailer wastes no time in getting to the action, as we see the events of Pearl Harbor unfold with lots of explosions and dramatic moments. We then see how the fallout from that historic event paved the way for the historic battle documented in this movie. The high stakes are made crystal clear. Even though we're dealing with history here,...

Bette Midler headlined New York’s World Pride main event Saturday night at the Javits Center in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Stonewall. During her performance of her 1973 hit single “Friends” accompanied by composer Marc Shaiman of Hairspray fame, she took a moment to bite back at President Trump.

“Now I’m going to tell you a little secret,” she told the crowd, teasing that she was surprised she was invited to the event because Trump recently called her a “washed-up psycho.” “Just two weeks ago, I was a washed-up psycho.

At a concert honoring the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots Friday, Lady Gaga surprised the crowd with an impassioned speech dedicated to the Lgbtq community during this year’s Stonewall Day Concert. The “Born This Way” singer has long been an ally of the community, so she was a fitting choice to speak to the crowd during World Pride.

“True love is when you would take a bullet for someone,” Gaga said during her speech. “And you know I would take a bullet for you any day of the week.

Many attendees of the Shanghai Intl. Film Festival likely know little about the ShanghaiPRIDE Film Festival, the other event in town every June. Unlike the former, government-sponsored one, ShanghaiPRIDE operates in a legal grey zone due to its celebration of Lgbtq content, which is frowned upon by Chinese censors.

This year, ShanghaiPRIDE’s non-profit event ran from June 8-16 and showcased more than 60 films — half of them shorts — over the course of a packed week to around 80 people per screening. “We are pretty out. The problem is we don’t know just how out we can be,” said organizer Raymond Phung, who explained that though the volunteer-run festival has been allowed to continue into its 11th year relatively unmolested by authorities, there’s always a possibility that circumstances could change without warning.

This year, it opened with the Chinese-Spanish feature “A Dog Barking at the Moon,” directed by Lisa Zi Xiang.

When Ryan Murphy announced he was adapting the Broadway hit “The Boys in the Band” into a movie for Netflix, it raised a few well-coiffed eyebrows. While Mart Crowley’s seminal 1968 play received a successful Broadway revival last year, cast entirely with out gay actors to boot, material that was once groundbreaking is now considered dated by some. The characters in “Boys” are mostly self-loathing and angry, perhaps not the most relevant story to tell today.

Still, many celebrate it as a pioneering work in the Lgbtq canon, worthy of honoring with a revisit. Murphy, the powerhouse television one-man-brand with a giant overall deal at Netflix, understands the criticisms lobbed at the play — but stands firmly in the latter camp.

“I feel like the world needs more Lgbtq history. It just does,” Murphy told IndieWire during an in-person interview in May. “[‘The Boys in the Band’] is a play that...

Netflix may get most of the attention, but it’s hardly a one-stop shop for cinephiles who are looking to stream essential classic and contemporary films. Each of the prominent streaming platforms — and there are more of them all the time — caters to its own niche of film obsessives. From chilling horror fare on Shudder, to the boundless wonders of the Criterion Channel, and esoteric (but unmissable) festival hits on the newly launched Ovid.tv, IndieWire’s monthly guide will highlight the best of what’s coming to every major streaming site, with an eye towards exclusive titles that may help readers decide which of these services is right for them.

Here’s the best of the best for June 2019.

Amazon Prime

Amazon Prime isn’t offering its subscribers much in the way of exclusives this month, and — for reasons that aren’t entirely clear — the brunt of the platform...

At Wednesday night’s Paley Honors, which paid tribute to Lgbtq achievements in television, attendees never lost sight of those who first paved the way – both on screen and off. CNN’s Don Lemon opened the ceremony by thanking legendary transgender activist Sylvia Rivera, who helped lead the charge at Stonewall fifty years ago. After recounting the story of the riots, he gestured around the Ziegfeld Ballroom. “Because she was there, we’re here tonight in this room, and at this point in history.”

On the eve of that landmark anniversary, stars ranging from Laverne Cox to Billy Crystal reflected on the progress that’s been made in the decades since — and how far things still have to go.

Our Lady J, a writer on “Transparent” and “Pose,” first learned about Stonewall as a teenager in New York. She immediately wanted to know more, so she turned to someone with...

Madonna was honored at the GLAAD Media Awards in New York on Saturday night. The 60-year-old pop icon - who recently graced the cover of British Vogue - was named the recipient of the Advocate for Change Award. She earned the distinction for her enduring efforts to promote equality and acceptance for the Lgbtq+ community. Rocking an embroidered ensemble, the singer delivered a passionate speech about spreading love and kindness and her personal connection to the Lgbtq+ community.

"The first gay man I ever met was named Christopher Flynn," she said. "He was my ballet teacher in high school, and he was the first person that believed in me. That made me feel special as a dancer, as an artist and as a human being." She then revealed the teacher took her to her first gay club in downtown Detroit, adding, "I finally felt like I was not alone, that...