Staff Picks: ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane,’‘Daughters of the Dust,’ and More
Need a great book to read, album to listen to, or TV show to get hooked on? The Flavorwire team is here to help: in this weekly feature, our editorial staffers recommend the cultural object or...
View ArticleBeloved, Multitalented Icon Carrie Fisher Dies at 60
TMZ — who first broke news that Carrie Fisher had been hospitalized on December 23 following a heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles — now reports that the...
View ArticleThis Week’s Top 5 TV Picks
There are scores of TV shows out there, with dozens of new episodes each week, not to mention everything you can find on Hulu Plus, Netflix streaming, and HBO Go. How’s a viewer to keep up? To help you...
View ArticleMark Hamill Publishes Tribute to Carrie Fisher: “We Went Through it All. It’s...
Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher of course played (very old spoiler alert) family in the Star Wars films, but in a tribute to the late Fisher that Hamill just published in The Hollywood Reporter, the...
View ArticleWatch the Trailer for the Doc About Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds’...
After Carrie Fisher’s death on December 27, and the subsequent death of her mother and best friend Debbie Reynolds of a stroke on December 28, many felt the weight of the loss of two icons — known not...
View Article‘Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds’ is a Fitting...
When the affectionate showbiz documentary Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds did the festival circuit last year, already slated for a March debut on HBO, it was a pleasant...
View ArticleMeetings Reportedly Set to Determine the Direction of ‘Star Wars” Leia Plot...
Carrie Fisher’s death last month was met with shock and an outpouring of tributes, odes to her humor and candor, and recollections of the ways she activated her fame through her outspokenness on issues...
View ArticleThe Late Carrie Fisher’s Humor Still Shines; Her Ashes Are Carried in a Giant...
Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher, who died last week of a heart attack, struggled with depression during her lifetime and was a big advocate for mental health awareness. So it makes complete sense that...
View ArticleSean Ono Lennon and Willow Smith Share a Song Lennon Wrote with Carrie Fisher
Sean Ono Lennon has shared a song he wrote alongside the late Carrie Fisher, recorded with Willow Smith. The musician wrote on Soundcloud: Carrie and I wrote this song years ago. When she died I just...
View ArticleDetails About Laura Dern and Benicio del Toro’s Characters Among Bounteous...
Vanity Fair has done a massive cover story on the upcoming Star Wars film helmed by Rian Johnson (who also, as a rarity for such an immense-budgeted franchise film, is credited as its sole writer). The...
View Article‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Takes a Familiar Franchise in Refreshingly New...
What’s most striking about Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, first and foremost, is the speed of the damn thing. It’s the longest Star Wars movie to date, clocking in at around two and a half...
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