By Romeo San Vicente   “Ripley” star Andrew Scott is the latest buzzed-about actor to join the list of potential suspects in Netflix’s “Wake Up Dead Man: A ‘Knives Out’ Mystery” from filmmaker Rian Johnson, alongside “Priscilla” star Cailee Spaeny and Josh O’Connor (the bisexual churros-loving tennis dude of “Challengers”). Scott is also hot off

By Romeo San Vicente   Trans actress and model Hunter Schafer, one of the breakout stars of HBO’s intense teen drama “Euphoria,” is set to shock your summer with the horror film “Cuckoo.” The dark, chaotic thriller from German filmmaker Tilman Singer (2018’s “Luz”) premiered at the Berlin Film Festival to largely positive reviews and

By Romeo San Vicente The perpetually low-key stand-up comic/actor Jerrod Carmichael has had a fascinating past few years. He came out on a stand-up special, co-starred in the Oscar-nominated film Poor Things, and now he’s doing reality TV. OK, his version of it, anyway. No stranger to turning the camera on himself for short personal

By Romeo San Vicente  The filmmaker’s name is Tamika Miller, a writing and directing veteran of episodic TV and commercials. She’s already got one indie feature, the critically well-regarded “Honor Student,†under her belt, and now she’s in pre-production on her next feature she’s writing and directing, “Undercard.†A boxing drama, it’s got its lead

By Romeo San Vicente   In the documentary, “Stormy,†the porn star/dating show host Stormy Daniels — come on, you haven’t watched her tear it up on the wild OutTV queer dating series “For The Love of DILFS†yet? — gets to explain herself the way she’s always wanted. From director Sarah Gibson and executive

Romeo San Vicente  Jennifer Lopez will star in the new musical feature film “Kiss of the Spider Woman†from gay director Bill Condon (“Dreamgirls,†“Beauty and The Beastâ€), in what is the next step in a long journey from its original incarnation as a novel. Manuel Puig’s book was turned into an Academy Award-winning 1985

By Romeo San Vicente   The holiday slasher genre is giving gory gifts all over this season, with the grindhouse-steeped “Thanksgiving†and “It’s a Wonderful Knife†turning the memory of a classic upside down. And the trend will continue over on streaming platform Shudder when “The Sacrifice Game†drops. Directed by Jenn Wexler and set over

By Romeo San Vicente   Good news (and spoiler-free!) for fans of “Only Murders in the Building,†the Hulu mystery-comedy series starring Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez as amateur sleuths/podcasters who keep stumbling over dead bodies in their fancy NYC apartment building: It’s returning for a fourth season. The third season culprits (not

By Romeo San Vicente “Heartstopper†star Kit Connor is about to play audience heartstrings as the co-lead in the film adaptation of Laura Taylor Namey’s YA novel, “A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow.†The sweet romantic dram-com follows a young woman named Lila (Maia Reficco, “Pretty Little Liars: Original Sinâ€) From the U.S.

By Romeo San Vicente  Lady Gaga dropped a bomb on Instagram recently, letting all her fans know that she’s overseeing the edit of a concert film. “The Chromatica Ball,†taken from the Academy Award winner’s 2022 20-city North American concert tour — her first since the Joanne World Tour of 2017 — will be a