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Displaying all articles tagged:
Ben Stiller
auto tunes
Dec. 20, 2024
Turns Out Ben Stiller Also Yearns to SZA While Driving
Maybe this is what helped inspire
Severance
season two.
By
Alejandra Gularte
circle of trust
Dec. 10, 2024
Ben Stiller and His Focker-in-Law Might Reunite
He and Robert De Niro are reportedly in early talks to meet us in
Meet the Parents 4
.
By
Jennifer Zhan
lumon+
Dec. 7, 2024
Severance
Heads Back Into the Office for Season Two
The new trailer welcomes us back into Lumon.
By
Rebecca Alter
vulture lists
Dec. 2, 2024
Every Ben Stiller Movie Performance, Ranked
Audiences have come to know and love many Stiller personas: jester, auteur, control freak, buff daddy.
By
Sean Malin
tiff 2024
Sept. 6, 2024
It Sure Is Nice to Have Ben Stiller Back
The raucous
Nutcrackers
upholds Stiller’s place as one of American cinema’s funnier objects of humiliation.
By
Bilge Ebiri
unverified
Apr. 15, 2023
Millionaires Are Not Into Paying for Twitter Verification
And they’re tweeting about it.
By
Wolfgang Ruth
awards
Mar. 27, 2023
Idina Menzel Serenades Adam Sandler As Opera Man
Chris Rock, Conan O’Brien, and others also offered touching tributes to the comedian during his Mark Twain Prize ceremony.
By
Hershal Pandya
controversy telephone
Feb. 24, 2023
Ben Stiller Has Always Stood by
Tropic Thunder
Through its controversies around blackface and intellectual disability, he makes “no apologies.â€
By
Jason P. Frank
video game review
Nov. 3, 2022
Kratos’s Contradictions Are Amplified in
God of War Ragnarök
The muscleman returns for another buccaneering (but conflicted) take on fantasy violence.
By
Lewis Gordon
politics
Sept. 5, 2022
Sean Penn and Ben Stiller Are Now Permanently Banned From Russia
Both actors have expressed public support for Ukraine in the ongoing war.
By
Jennifer Zhan
severance
Apr. 8, 2022
What Is Lumon Industries Up to on
Severance
?
What do brain surgery and baby goats have to do with serving Kier? Allow us to theorize.
By
Roxana Hadadi
tv review
Feb. 17, 2022
Prepare to Give Yourself Over to
Severance
Apple TV+’s immersive, Philip K. Dick–esque mystery-thriller is one of the best new series of 2022.
By
Roxana Hadadi
origin stories
May 21, 2021
How a Bookstore Became the Unlikely Birthplace of Alt-Comedy
In the 1990s, a group of misfit comedians who didn’t fit in at clubs created their own.
By
David Peisner
vulture sports
Feb. 16, 2021
Adam Sandler Still Gunning for Shooter McGavin
Shooter has now answered.
By
Rebecca Alter
trump in cinema
July 12, 2020
Sorry, Ben Stiller Won’t Be Editing Donald Trump Out of
Zoolander
So quit asking.
By
Halle Kiefer
last night on late night
May 20, 2020
Ben Stiller’s Sweetest Story About His Dad Involves a Bad LSD Trip
“Every kid calls his parents on LSD, right?â€
By
Megh Wright
dads
May 19, 2020
Ben Stiller Remembers Jerry: ‘I’ve Never, Ever Thought I Was Funny Like My Dad’
“I’ve never really felt a competition, because I would lose, hands down.â€
By
Megh Wright
conan archives
May 12, 2020
Revisit the Time Jerry Stiller Crashed His Son’s
Conan
Interview in 1996
“This is a personal reflection on me as an actor. I mean, how did I bring my kid up?!â€
By
Megh Wright
coronavirus
Mar. 23, 2020
Governor Cuomo Has Your Favorite New Yorkers Warn You to Stay Inside Already
Listen to Ben Stiller. Stay in, and work on your chainsaw art.
By
Halle Kiefer
the industry
Jan. 6, 2020
Patricia Arquette Lining Up Her Next Golden Globe With Apple Thriller
S
everance
Ben Stiller is set to direct the series, based on Dan Erickson’s 2016 Bloodlist-topping script.
By
Halle Kiefer
underrated
Nov. 18, 2019
How
The Ben Stiller Show
Influenced a Generation of Sketch-Comedy Writers
SNL
senior writer Bryan Tucker explains why the show is worth a rewatch.
By
Will Harris
stiller thriller
Nov. 8, 2019
Apple Orders Thriller Series by Ben Stiller, Dearies. It’s Also Got Adam Scott.
“Men with dark pasts†are the “florals for spring†of television: groundbreaking!
By
Rebecca Alter
vulture lists
Sept. 19, 2019
Every
Between Two Ferns
Episode, Ranked
Sorting out the highs and lows of Zach Galifianakis’s absurd chat show.
By
Pablo Goldstein
last night on late night
July 18, 2019
Conan
: How Tom Cruise Embodied
Tropic Thunder’s
Les Grossman
“I want to have fat hands, and I’m going to dance.â€
By
Bethy Squires
reunions
May 6, 2019
Ethan Hawke Roasts Ben Stiller at
Reality Bites
Cast Reunion
And credits Winona Ryder with getting him the part of Troy.
By
Jason Bailey
tv
Mar. 14, 2019
Chris Messina Will Play a Long-Haul Trucker on YouTube
Yes, you did just read all those words correctly.
By
Anne Victoria Clark
last night on late night
Mar. 3, 2019
Ben Stiller’s Michael Cohen Is ‘Torn’ During His
SNL
Testimony
He’s all out of faith. This is how he feels.
By
Bethy Squires
this! is! jeopardy!
Feb. 28, 2019
I Love Seeing Celebrities Freak Out About Their
Jeopardy!
Clues
It’s the highest game-show honor!
By
Devon Ivie
tributes
Feb. 26, 2019
Jimmy Fallon Celebrated His 5-Year Anniversary by Becoming Larry Sanders
“Trump got elected because of you.â€
By
Ramsey Ess
last night on late night
Feb. 26, 2019
Tina Fey, Ben Stiller Stop by
Tonight Show
Anniversary to Loathe Jimmy Fallon
The late-night show is celebrating its host’s fifth anniversary with a fairly dark
Larry Sanders Show–
inspired special.
By
Halle Kiefer
true crime
Dec. 23, 2018
Escape at Dannemora
Subject Hates ‘Idiot’ Ben Stiller’s Showtime Series
“Ben Stiller is a son-of-a-bitch liar just like the rest of the world. He doesn’t care about the truth.â€
By
Halle Kiefer
anatomy of a scene
Dec. 16, 2018
How Ben Stiller Made
Escape at Dannemora
’s Heart-Pounding Prison Break
Yes, Paul Dano really did squeeze into that claustrophobia-inducing pipe.
By
Maria Elena Fernandez
last night on late night
Dec. 2, 2018
Alec Baldwin Returns to
SNL
for a Star-Studded Cold Open
And shirtless Putin has been working out.
By
Bethy Squires
tv review
Nov. 15, 2018
Escape at Dannemora
Is an Extraordinary Prison Break Turned Humdrum
Even with stellar performances by Patricia Arquette and Benicio del Toro, this Showtime drama is longer than it needs to be.
By
Matt Zoller Seitz
trailer mix
Oct. 26, 2018
Benicio Del Toro Seduces Patricia Arquette in a New
Escape at Dannemora
Trailer
Arquette portrays Joyce “Tilly†Mitchell, the prison employee who helped two convicts, played by Benicio Del Toro and Paul Dano, plan a break.
By
Halle Kiefer
book trailers
Aug. 16, 2018
If You’re a White Ivy League–Educated Man, Ben Stiller Has Just the Book for You
The actor wants to get
you
paid in the book trailer for Gary Shteyngart’s latest novel.
By
Halle Kiefer
saturday night live
May 6, 2018
SNL
Reunites Stormy Daniels and Trump, Sorta
Or at least the version of Trump we can tolerate.
By
Anne Victoria Clark
last night on late night
Apr. 15, 2018
Ben Stiller’s Michael Cohen Vs. Robert De Niro’s Robert Mueller Gets Feisty Fast
You can’t milk a cat, but you
can
bribe a porn star.
By
Devon Ivie
cannes 2017
Oct. 12, 2017
The Meyerowitz Stories
Is the Best Adam Sandler Film Since
Punch-Drunk Love
Noah Baumbach’s new film shows the director at his most generous and insightful.
By
Emily Yoshida
vulture lists
Sept. 29, 2017
What’s New on Netflix: October 2017
Ready for another trip to the Upside Down?
Stranger Things
returns to Netflix this month.
By
Andrew Lapin
Sept. 26, 2017
Will Ben Stiller’s Characters Ever Grow Up?
The secret of Stiller’s success: His perennial man-children connect with a universal sense of inadequacy within us all.
By
Bilge Ebiri
Sept. 20, 2017
Ben Stiller Punches Adam Sandler in
The Meyerowitz Stories
Trailer
Noah Baumbach’s latest film also stars Dustin Hoffman.
By
Ethan Sapienza
Sept. 15, 2017
Brad’s Status
Is a Naked, Grim Exploration of Envy
Even if you relate to Brad, you’ll probably end up wishing he’d save it for his shrink instead of a paying audience.
By
David Edelstein
Sept. 13, 2017
Everyone in Hollywood Is Envious. Mike White Is Willing to Talk About It.
The director of
Brad’s Status
on his “craven†contemporaries,
Dawson’s Creek
and
Enlightened
, and whether he considers himself “successful.â€
By
Kyle Buchanan
Aug. 15, 2017
Netflix’s ‘Meyerowitz Stories’ Teaser Features Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, […]
Last year it was announced that Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller were teaming up to star in Noah Baumbach’s next movie, and today Netflix released […]
By
Megh Wright
July 25, 2017
Ben Stiller Is a Sad Dad Named Brad in the
Brad’s Status
Trailer
Co-starring Jemaine Clement, Luke Wilson, and Michael Sheen, hopefully as dads too.
By
Ethan Sapienza
July 25, 2017
Check Out the ‘Brad’s Status’ Trailer Featuring Ben Stiller, Jemaine […]
Last year, Ben Stiller signed on to star in a movie written and directed by Mike White and produced by Brad Pitt called Brad’s Status, and […]
By
Megh Wright
casting couch
July 17, 2017
Dev Patel Will Star in a Movie About Chippendales (Sadly Not As a Dancer)
He’ll play Somen Banerjee, a co-founder of the strip-club empire.
By
Jackson McHenry
new gigs
June 2, 2017
Ben Stiller to Direct Showtime Drama About the Real-Life Dannemora Prison Break
Escape at Dannemora
will star Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Arquette, and Paul Dano.
By
Hunter Harris
love is dead
May 26, 2017
Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor Split After 17 Years of Marriage
“With tremendous love and respect for each other, and the 18 years we spent together as a couple, we have made the decision to separate.â€
By
Halle Kiefer
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