Meredith Woerner

Action romance is a tricky genre to master — it requires the right balance of heart and spectacle. But when done well, à la “True Lies” or “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” it will live on forever in the rewatch rotation. Stunt coordinator-turned-director David Leitch has launched cars straight into the air and staged fight scenes […]

“Bluey” has returned for a surprise episode set to drop this weekend. Appropriately titled “Surprise,” little is known about this sneaky new episode. Will the latest edition to the Bluey-verse emotionally devastate the parents of the world, similar to last weekend’s TV special? Details are scarce, but what we do know is that the brand-new […]

After much anticipation, the sequel to the 2017 sketch “Papyrus 2” has finally emerged despite being cut for time during the live broadcast, making its debut on YouTube. The original sketch was conceived by former “SNL” writer Julio Torres, who was inspired by a past tweet in which he mused, “Every day I wake up […]

Popular on Variety After 13 years of marriage, actors Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher announced Friday that they filed for divorce last year. The announcement was shared on both actors’ Instagram stories, and it featured a picture of the couple wearing tennis attire. “After a long tennis match lasting over twenty years, we are […]

A big battery with a little strap (for easy carrying). This new power bank has a lot going for it in one little cube. For example, the Anker device has glow-in-the-dark slashes on either side (making it easier to find in a blackout), a retractable light source (which can glow for 42 hours and 18 minutes), a solar power port, SOS button that will activate flashing from the light source, a 1.9 ft USB-C to USB-C cable and a 3-year warranty. This is fantastic for keeping phones, tablets, laptops and…

Popular on Variety Paul McCartney has weighed in on Beyoncé’s cover of “Blackbird,” nestled near the front of her latest album “Cowboy Carter.” “I am so happy with @beyonce’s version of my song ‘Blackbird’. I think she does a magnificent version of it and it reinforces the civil rights message that inspired me to write the […]

Popular on Variety Karen Pittman — who played Dr. Nya Wallace on “And Just Like That” since the “Sex and the City” revival premiered in 2021 — will not return for Season 3. After two seasons on the “Sex and the City” revival series on Max, the streamer announced that Pittman would not reprise her character […]

Celebrating the release of his first solo album, “Honeymind,” Tony Award winner Ben Platt just announced a concert residency at Broadway’s Palace Theatre. “Like my foremothers Liza and Judy before me, it is far beyond my wildest imagination to announce that I’ll be playing a 3-week concert residency at The Palace on Broadway,” Platt wrote […]

Popular on Variety The last scandalous reveal in Ryan Murphy’s docudrama “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans” was far more surprising than any of the gossip-filled tales penned by Truman Capote (played by Tom Hollander). The final twist came 32 years after his death when a longtime confidant, Joanne Carson (played in the drama by Molly […]

All Ryan Gosling needed was a 40-piece orchestra, 62 dancing Kens, over 24 gigantic Barbie heads, four “cameo Kens” and a Guns N’Roses surprise to turn his highly anticipated performance of “Barbie” track “I’m Just Ken” into one of the most unbelievable moments in award show history. After all the protracted speculation about whether Gosling […]