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Like many TV watchers, I first took notice of Eric Dane on “Grey’s Anatomy.” His Dr. Mark Sloan — “McSteamy,” in the show’s parlance — was a gleeful agent of chaos, remixing the show’s existing cou...

National news events have a way of minting public figures out of people who had not spent their lives expecting the spotlight. This can cut in either direction: For better, as when a person toiling...

Director Grant Gee shifted his focus from rockers to a jazzman, and Berlin took notice. Gee is noted as a documentarian covering music acts; his 1998 doc “Meeting People Is Easy,” for which he foll...

Since last fall, an errant comment Alexander Skarsgård made has fueled wild speculation about his sexuality — and, speaking to Variety in a new cover story, the actor is clearing it up. At last yea...

In the new film “Sirāt,” opening Feb. 6, a father is on a quest. Luis’ daughter has gone missing at a rave in Morocco; Luis (Sergi López), accompanied by his young son, Esteban (Bruno Núñez Arjona)...

On Thursday night’s “CBS Evening News” broadcast, its anchor, in his fifth night on the job, strained for a unifying moment of grace. Reporting from Minneapolis in the aftermath of an ICE agent sho...

Tony Dokoupil’s debut as the anchor of the “CBS Evening News” came widely heralded — by Tony Dokoupil. The broadcast journalist, who since 2019 had been CBS’ morning show co-anchor, came into the s...

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from Season 5, Volume 2 of “Stranger Things, now streaming on Netflix. The biggest show of the streaming era is turning out to be, in large part, about o...

In the new film “Marty Supreme,” a fondly remembered legend of the screen is attempting a comeback. This actress, still resplendent, emerges onstage and receives a round of applause, a bit of homag...

The box office has a new king. As 2025 draws to a close, Jonathan Bailey is the year’s highest-grossing actor, thanks to his roles in “Jurassic World Rebirth” (which made some $869 million globally...

Colin Farrell and Jessie Buckley don’t know one another well when they sit down together — but almost instantly they go deep. It stands to reason: The two Irish actors both play challenging, emotio...

Oscar Isaac and Teyana Taylor both embrace morally complicated and deliciously outsize roles this year. In Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” veteran actor Isaac plays a version of the titular do...

SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot developments, including the ending, in “Wake Up Dead Man,” currently streaming on Netflix. About midway through “Wake Up Dead Man,” the buzz of activi...

In its first released footage, Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” promises to be the director’s most expansive vision yet. A six-minute clip from the film is playing before this weekend’s Imax 70-mi...

For Stellan Skarsgård, art is imitating life this fall in one sense: In “Sentimental Value,” he plays a well-known artist with actor children. The difference may be in, well, sentiment — the real-l...

Dwayne Johnson and Brendan Fraser first met making “The Mummy Returns.” The 2001 sequel continued Fraser’s burgeoning leading-man career, but it was the first ever film role for Johnson, then bette...

This year, Julia Roberts and Sean Penn both deliver star turns as complicated, volatile characters amid volatile political environments. In Luca Guadagnino’s “After the Hunt,” Roberts plays Alma Im...