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Steve Buschemi Attack Suspect Arrested In NYC. (Photo Credit – IMDb)

Clifton Williams, a 50-year-old homeless man, was identified as the assailant who punched “Boardwalk Empire” actor Steve Buscemi in broad daylight on May 8, 2024. As previously reported, the actor was randomly attacked while walking on Third Avenue in Kips Bay.

Williams is accused of casually walking up to the actor Steve Buscemi before punching him in an unprovoked attack that left the Fargo star with a bleeding eye, swelling, bruising, and substantial pain. He was arrested on Friday, May 17.

According to the New York Post, Williams, who has been in NYC for less than a month, is also accused of allegedly attacking a 22-year-old Asian man ten minutes before slugging the actor.

NYPD says 50-year-old Clifton Williams randomly punched actor Steve Buscemi in the face in Kips Bay. He is homeless. Allegedly punched 22-year-old man 10 mins before slugging Buscemi about 10 blocks away.

The Lovebirds co-stars Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani announced the SAG Award nominees, with the films that make up the Barbenheimer phenomenon each earning four nominations. Succession leads the pack with five nominations, including best drama ensemble and individual acting nods. Several notable omissions from the nominee list include Leonardo DiCaprio, Fantasia Barrino, and Natalie Portman.

On Wednesday morning, The Lovebirds co-stars Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani announced the complete list of Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award nominees via Instagram Live. With Academy Awards nominations less than two weeks away, there's special attention on the SAG Award nominees list. While all major awards shows may provide some clues about what the Oscars race will look like, that statement is most accurate when looking at SAG Award nominees and winners. Historically, the major film awards are typically the same at both ceremonies, as actors make up the largest voting branch of...

Todd Haynes' "May December" is a tricky, difficult drama that tells a fictionalized version of the Mary Kay LeTourneau story. Some may recall that LeTourneau, a sixth-grade teacher, was arrested in 1997 for having targeted and statutorily assaulted 12-year-old Vili Fualaau. LeTourneau had two children with Lualaau, and when she was released from prison, the two married. They remained married for 14 years. In "May December," the LeTourneau-inspired character was renamed Gracie Atherton-Yoo (Julianna Moore), and her much younger husband, 34 at the time of the movie, was renamed Joe Yoo (Charles Melton).

Haynes' film follows a famous actor named Elizabeth Barry (Natalie Portman), who has taken a job playing Gracie in an upcoming drama. Elizabeth spends several weeks observing Gracie, imitating her mannerisms, and interviewing the people in her life. Why, Elizabeth wonders, did Gracie commit her terrible crime? How does Joe feel about it so many years later, still married to his victimizer?...

Todd Haynes' "May December" is the most deliberately uncomfortable movie of 2023, but you owe yourself a viewing. Gracie Atherton-Yoo (Julianne Moore) is a middle-aged woman with a husband, Joe (Charles Melton), less than half her age; they met when he was in 7th grade and she groomed him.

Before you ask, no, depiction is not an endorsement here. Gracie is self-pitying and manipulative, Joe is trapped in arrested development, and the movie hammers in how destructive their "relationship" has been for him; part of him wants to escape but doesn't know how. "May December" enters murky waters to ask tough questions about the audience's relationship to sensationalism.

As Haynes has acknowledged, Samy Burch's screenplay is loosely inspired by the life of Mary Kay Letourneau, a real predator who married her victim Vili Fualaau after being convicted in 1997. These events were a media sensation and have been echoed in film before,...

Todd Haynes' latest Netflix project follows a controversial relationship through the perspective of an actress preparing to play a role. Natalie Portman is actress Elizabeth Barry in May December, and throughout the film, she attentively observes the everyday life of Gracie Atherton-Yoo (Julianne Moore) years after she was convicted for seducing and raping her 13-year-old co-worker, Joe Yoo (Charles Melton). Gracie ends up marrying Joe after her prison sentence and, on the outside, they seem like a happy couple. Yet, as Elizabeth asks questions and tries to understand how the relationship came to be, the couple at hand begins to see their bond through a different lens.

Speaking to the press after a screening of May December, Todd Haynes identified himself primarily as an interpreter, both of cinematic forms of the past and of the pre-existing material from which his work is often adapted. That characterization certainly tracks through his filmography, from metacinematic homages to kaleidoscopic renderings of pop idols to his contemporary readings on midcentury fiction.

Loosely based on the ’90s tabloid scandal of Mary Kay Letourneau, who at age 35 served a prison sentence for rape when her sexual relationship with a 12-year-old boy was made public, May December is perhaps the slipperiest entry in that interpretive project to date. Written by Samy Burch, the film examines real-world events through the lens of mass media with a wry humor that masks profoundly complex and painful undercurrents of emotion.

May December centers on two star turns that complement each other with a rare sensitivity: Julianne Moore as LeTourneau stand-in Gracie Atherton-Yoo,...