James Franco has no fewer than five sexual misconduct allegations against him, but that’s a few allegations short of keeping him from returning to The Deuce in its second season, reports Entertainment Tonight:
The Hollywood Reporter disclosed on Thursday that a mural painted by James Franco for the high school he attended has been effaced amid growing criticism over sexual misconduct allegations against the Disaster Artist auteur.
Over the summer—before his Oscar campaign, before the Harvey Weinstein allegations, and before Franco’s Time’s Up pin prompted women to come forward with their stories of Franco’s sexual misconduct—James Franco did a cover story with Out Magazine. The tone between Franco and the renowned queer writer Edmund White is…
Two of the five women who came forward to accuse James Franco of inappropriate sexual behavior sat down with Good Morning America’s Amy Robach to elaborate on their allegations against the actor and to discuss why they went public.
Keeping in mind that low-res photos posted on the internet out of context with ALL CAPS meme overlays are generally unreliable sources of news or information, WOAH these photos don’t look good. After Oprah’s Golden Globes “Time’s Up” speech rallied an informal #Oprah2020 caucus on Twitter, Seal posted images of Oprah…
There have long been rumblings about actor James Franco and his relationships with women, plus the public incident in which he DMed a 17-year-old on Instagram for a sexual encounter. In a new exposé, five women have come forward to allege exploitative sexual behavior.
While appearing on Tuesday’s episode of The Late Show, a very exhausted-seeming James Franco was asked by host Stephen Colbert about the many rumors and rumblings regarding his alleged treatment of women that began bubbling up to the surface of our Twitter feeds after his big Golden Globes win Sunday night.
James Franco, who won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Tommy Wiseau in The Disaster Artist on Sunday, had a decidedly less ennobled time this Tuesday as the New York Times announced it would be canceling its TimesTalk with the actor.
Susan Sontag would have most certainly deemed Tommy Wiseau’s mess of a movie, 2003's The Room, as pure camp. In her seminal essay “Notes on Camp,” Sontag defined the “essence” of camp as “its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration,” and further fine-tuned her vision for this sensibility as she went. “In…
At long last, on Tuesday, Netflix announced that actor Danny Masterson, whom four women have accused of rape, is being written off his Netflix series The Ranch, in other words, he’s been fired.
David Simon’s forthcoming HBO series The Deuce is ostensibly about how porn became the cultural and economic juggernaut it is today—but it’s also about misogyny, according to David Simon. Cool.
Compared to most weeks, this has been a good one for gay movies. Moonlight* scored a stellar eight Oscar nominations on Monday. I Am Love director Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation of André Aciman’s beloved 2007 novel Call Me By Your Name debuted at Sundance on Sunday to such effusive praise, “raves” feels like an…
Do you long for a film that trenchantly critiques America’s economic inequities through the story of a strong female lead? If so, John Hamburg’s objectively terrible Why Him? is not for you. But just because a movie features a gratuitous KISS cameo, floods of moose urine, and a shirtcocking James Franco doesn’t mean…
Celebrity endorsements are so fun. They can say naughty words and get goofy in a way ads from the actual candidates can’t. Their only weakness is, really, who gives a shit what celebrities think about the election?
At long last, Angelina Jolie’s childhood nanny speaks, offering the only take we need or want about their divorce.
Imagine James Franco peacocking in black nail polish, eyeliner, and a furry top hat that was never in style per se, but looks this close to coming back in. Imagine him wearing all this, standing in a bar, attempting to facilitate a hook-up for a friend by gently insulting a woman (and her intelligence) in a process…
The red band trailer for the Christmas movie Why Him? has enough humor and foolishness in it to warrant interest in seeing James Franco play an obnoxious “internet zillionaire” boyfriend who’s a source of hatred, and Bryan Cranston, the man we came to love as a meth-dealing pathological liar on Breaking Bad, as DAD.
As you likely know, James Franco is remaking the Lifetime classic Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? We are now learning that his unique spin on the made-for-TV staple will involve a same-sex relationship and also it’ll be a “vampire love story.”
This fall, the Internet was gripped and then convulsed by Zola and her harrowing Twitter tale of a stripping trip to Florida gone very wrong. Now, in a development we’re still working through emotionally, James Franco will direct a movie based on Rolling Stone’s story about Zola’s tweets.
