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    Matthew Jacobs

    Matthew Jacobs

    Entertainment Reporter, HuffPost

  • Will This Oscar Season Be A Turning Point For These Veteran Movie Stars?

    Renée Zellweger, Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler and Shia LaBeouf step into rich roles that double as meta commentary on their careers.

  • 'True Detective' Episode 3 Finally Has Us Chasing Clues

    Well, looky there:?last week's "True Detective" cliffhanger?turned into a lot of sound and fury, as anyone could have predicted. Ray is still very much alive and swimming around in the Caspere investigation, despite his best efforts otherwise. Paul pounds back doubles to blind himself from the nightlife scene he would rather avoid, where he also bumps into Frank, who has just threatened his former business partners out of ostensible paranoia.

  • Christopher Reeve's Daughter Names Son After Superman Star

    Superman lives on. Alexandra Reeve Givens, the daughter of actor Christopher Reeve, has named her newborn son after her late father. She and husband Garren Givens welcomed Christopher Russel Reeve Givens on June 13, a family representative confirmed to People and Us Weekly.

  • Jim Carrey Apologizes For Tweeting Photo Of Boy With Autism

    Jim Carrey spent Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning?tweeting about his anti-vaccination views, and on Thursday night he apologized for including a photo of a young boy without permission. The actor had sent out an image of the boy, who has autism, as part of a series of tweets challenging a?new California law?that eliminates personal-belief exemptions for childhood immunizations. The mother of Alex Echols asked Carrey to remove the photo of her son, noting that he had not been given permission to use it.

  • Pop Culture Highs And Lows Of 2015 Thus Far

    We were pretty bored around the midway point last year, but 2015 has given us more than enough to celebrate (and condemn). It's been a wild six months, and pop culture is no exception. Our list of the peaks and troughs ranges from a heroic coming out and a record-smashing TV debut to an embattled comedian who just won't go away and a divorce that leaves our hearts gone, baby, gone.

  • Adrienne C. Moore On Black Cindy's New Religion And Repping The 'Big Girls'

    Much of Litchfield spent the third season of "Orange Is the New Black" grappling with loneliness and loss of personal identity. No one better exemplified that strife than Black Cindy, whose requests for kosher meals began as a way to obtain tastier food and ended with a Jewish conversion that introduced what may be her first sense of purpose in life. Adrienne C. Moore is responsible for bringing that poignancy to life.

  • 'Difficult People' Trailer Previews Billy Eichner And Julie Klausner's Antics

    Not to be outdone by Amazon, Netflix and other streaming platforms, Hulu is revving up its original programming this year, with "Difficult People" next in line to soak up the online splendor. The?Amy Poehler-produced comedy?stars Billy Eichner and Julie Klausner as best friends who live in New York and frequently land in hot water as a result of their ostentatious behavior. The Huffington Post has the show's exclusive first trailer, which finds the pair's theatrics enlivening an otherwise drab event.

  • Everything Is Papier-Maché On 'True Detective' Episode 2

    The?season premiere?of "True Detective" proved divisive last week, but entertainment editors?Erin Whitney?and?Matthew Jacobs?are sticking to their promise to discuss the show every Sunday. This week's episode dove slightly deeper into the mystery of Ben Caspare's death. The city manager's grisly autopsy report prompted Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ani (Rachel McAdams) to question whether a penchant for prostitutes led to his demise.

  • Dear God, Hollywood Reporter, 'Stromo' Is Not Going To Be A Thing

    On Thursday, The Hollywood Reporter tried to make "stromo" happen, with an article about "straight white male stars going gay (ish)." After chucking their laptops into the sea, HuffPost Entertainment editors?Matthew Jacobs?and?Lauren Duca?got new laptops so that they could discuss what this means for society. Lauren: Hey, Matt! I just wanted to pass along a quick congrats to you and all gay men. According to The Hollywood Reporter, we are the lucky witnesses to the rise of the stromo -- a(n offensive) term referring to straight actors catering to gay audiences (which sounds a lot like something a lax bro would make up in the late '90s).

  • Abbi Jacobson And Ilana Glazer Say 'Broad City' Success Is 'Trippy'

    4 and 3 and 2 and 1 and ... time to get "Broad City" some Emmys. The Huffington Post put the show on our?nomination wish list?last week, right around the same time we caught up with Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson, who are at work on the new season. Regardless, we wanted to revisit some of Season 2's highlights and get Glazer and Jacobson's TV recommendations.

  • Constance Zimmer On The 'UnREAL' Realities Of Lifetime's Juicy Drama

    Monday nights belong to "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette," but Lifetime has cooked up a reality show that's juicier than both of them combined -- except it's not actually a reality show. At the center are Quinn (Constance Zimmer), the diabolical executive producer of "Everlasting," and Rachel (Shiri Appleby), a field producer who returns to the show after suffering an on-air breakdown during the previous season's finale. Quinn barks orders from a control room while Rachel and the other producers do most of the dirty work, manipulating contestants in the name of good television.

  • 'True Detective' Season 2 Premiere Falls As Flat As A Circle

    After more than a year of?casting rumors,?memes and hashtag wish lists?and?confusion over the plot, "True Detective" Season 2 finally premiered on Sunday night. The first episode of the new season, which is completely separate from Season 1, introduced audiences to a new round of characters, a fictional city and an entirely new mystery. Each week, The Huffington Post Entertainment editors?Matthew Jacobs?and?Erin Whitney?will gab about their thoughts on the season.

  • 'Dope' Ushers In A New Breed Of Coming-Of-Age Films

    "Dope," which opens Friday, presents the opposite: At the center are three high-school seniors in urban Inglewood, California, who have a complete sense of themselves and their future -- at least until those plans are temporarily interrupted. The story in "Dope" is culled from the life of director Rick Famuyiwa, even if it's not exactly an autobiographical tale. At the center are Harvard hopeful Malcolm (Shameik Moore) and his two close friends, Diggy (Kiersey Clemons) and Jib (Tony Revolori), all of whom are more invested in their schoolwork and the band they've formed (Awreeoh, like "Oreo") than they are the rowdy social scene that surrounds them.

  • The 'Bitch I'm Madonna' Video Features All Of Your Favorite Pop Stars

    Madonna teased splashy celebrity cameos in her new video, and splashy celebrity cameos she provides -- even if most of them didn't actually occur in the same room. The video for "Bitch I'm Madonna," the third single from "Rebel Heart," launched Wednesday morning on Tidal, and it features a parade of hitmakers who don't appear in Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood." The video expands on Madonna's rollicking Jimmy Fallon performance of the song from April, and with people like Beyoncé and Miley Cyrus mouthing the words Bitch, I'm Madonna, it seems to back up what Diplo, the song's producer, told us a few months ago: We made this record about, 'F--k it, bitch, we're all Madonna.

  • 'Me And Earl And The Dying Girl' Will Be Summer's Signature Teen Movie

    It's the basic plot of last year's weeper "The Fault in Our Stars," which started as a 2012 book by John Green. It's also the plot of this year's weeper "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl," which started as a 2012 book by Jesse Andrews. The latter opened in limited release this weekend after a tremendous premiere at the?Sundance Film Festival?in January, where it received a standing ovation, saw one of the festival's?costliest bidding wars ever?and?went on to win?the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award.

  • The Barden Bellas Will Sing Again In 'Pitch Perfect 3'

    You won't have to miss the Barden Bellas, because, it turns out, they aren't going anywhere. Universal Pictures announced on Wednesday that "Pitch Perfect 3" is officially moving forward. Kay Cannon, who wrote the first two movies, is in negotiations to pen the new script, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

  • Chris Pratt And Bryce Dallas Howard Are Living Our Dinosaur Fantasies

    Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard have come as close as anyone can to walking among dinosaurs. While filming "Jurassic World" in Louisiana and Hawaii last summer, they had daily access to what they say amounted to a functioning prehistoric facility. "Jurassic World" is a beast unto itself, though.

  • Ranking The Jonah Insults In This Week's 'Veep'

    It was like creator Armando Iannucci, who wrote the episode but will leave the show after this season, had one final field day with the everyone's favorite punching bag. In keeping with the show's long history of insults, without a passing thought about the insensitivity of these jokes, we've ranked all 21 entries that were read aloud from the Jonad Files, because they are too good not to revisit on a Monday morning: 21. J-Rock 20.

  • See The First Trailer For Steven Spielberg And Tom Hanks' New Movie

    Tom Hanks hasn't starred in a Steven Spielberg movie since 2004's "The Terminal," but this year's "Bridge of Spies" should put the esteemed duo back at the top of the Oscars' radar. The Cold War thriller zeroes in on James B. Donovan (Hanks), a lawyer who must use his client, Russian spy Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance), to negotiate the release of CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers (Austin Stowell), whose plane was shot down by the Soviets in a 1960 espionage controversy.

  • 'Spy' Is Wonderful, But Melissa McCarthy Still Deserves More

    Early in "Spy," we see Melissa McCarthy's character, Susan Cooper, feeding instructions to Bradley Fine (Jude Law), a CIA agent who wears a tiny earpiece during missions. In between perilous commands, he drops in pleasantries that could be vaguely interpreted as compliments, and Susan latches on to each one, swooning to herself and briefly losing track of the task at hand. This amusing repartee shows these two have attained a certain comfort level, but, moreover, it invokes an undercurrent of pity, forcing the audience to register that this hunky, physically deft fella is clearly not in Susan's league.