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Zac Efron
John Cena Thinks Zac Efron Is Babygirl The actor finds the man formerly known as Troy Bolton “easy on the eyes.”
awards season
Feb. 27, 2024
Why The Iron Claw Never Became an Oscars Heavyweight The A24 wrestling drama ticks a lot of the Academy’s usual boxes. So why did it fail to pick up a single nomination?
fact vs fiction
Feb. 13, 2024
Everything The Iron Claw Leaves Out About the Von Erich ‘Curse’ A missing brother, a family tree of tragedies, the Von Erich name’s Nazi origins, and more real-life details missing from A24’s new wrestling drama.
performance review
Feb. 13, 2024
The Heartbreaking Sincerity of Zac Efron In The Iron Claw , Efron lays bare the only surviving Von Erich brother’s deepest wounds — and he does so by exerting the force of his own personality.
movie review
Feb. 13, 2024
The Iron Claw Should Be Even SadderZac Efron, Harris Dickinson, and Jeremy Allen White star in the story of a tragic wrestling family that holds its subjects at arm’s length.
a long talk
Feb. 13, 2024
Holt McCallany Saw His Own Father in The Iron Claw On coming full circle from his Lights Out days, empathizing with Fritz Von Erich, and the scenes left on the cutting-room floor.
backstories
Feb. 13, 2024
‘The Movie Just Couldn’t Withstand Another Brother’s Death’ The Iron Claw director Sean Durkin on the hardest decisions he made while telling the tragic (and true) story of wrestling’s Von Erich brothers.
Jeremy Allen White Hasn’t Seen High School Musical Despite being in high school when the movie was released.
By Alejandra Gularte
the bear claw
Oct. 11, 2023
A24 Got Its Beefiest Boys for The Iron Claw Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, and Harris Dickinson are brothers with muscles and daddy issues.
By Jason P. Frank
movie review
Sept. 30, 2022
The Greatest Beer Run Ever Wastes a Very Good Zac EfronPeter Farrelly’s film can’t seem to decide if it wants to be a comedy or a drama and somehow winds up being neither.
By Bilge Ebiri
piledrive me daddy
Sept. 15, 2022
Jeremy Allen White and Zac Efron to Get Topless and Tussle in A24’s Iron Cla w Along with Harris Dickinson, they will play famous wrestling brothers the Von Erichs.
By Rebecca Alter
too many reps
Sept. 7, 2022
By Rebecca Alter
movie review
May 13, 2022
The Lifeless New Firestarter Will Leave You Cold They took a Stephen King novel and turned it into a hostage video starring Zac Efron.
By Bilge Ebiri
This Does Not Make Me Want to Go to Dubai Zac Efron and Jessica Alba star in a bonkers tourism ad for the city.
By Mia Mercado
hot normie gf
Sept. 10, 2020
By Claire Lampen
side hustles
Aug. 14, 2020
Which Erstwhile Disney Star Has the Better Utterly Random TV Show? Selena Gomez and Zac Efron both host series completely unrelated to their previous work. Why? We can’t answer that. But we can say who does it best.
By Rachel Handler
Toward a Working Theory of Zac Efron’s Down to Earth Looks On his Netflix show, Zac expresses himself via beanies, beard styles, tight pants, and shark-themed bathing suits. But why?
By Rachel Handler
trailer mix
June 26, 2020
By Jackson McHenry
movie review
May 15, 2020
Scoob! Is the Kind of Kids Movie That Features Jokes About TinderThe Scooby-Doo reboot, bumped from theaters to on demand, attempts to update the mystery-solving franchise with superheroes and internet jokes.
By Alison Willmore
Zac Efron Was Hospitalized With a Life-threatening Infection The actor is recovering after contracting typhoid or a similar bacterial infection while shooting his upcoming series in Papua New Guinea.
By Claire Lampen
vulture lists
Nov. 20, 2019
Every Song From the High School Musical Movies, Ranked With all the movies available to stream on Disney+, we evaluate the franchise’s music catalogue.
By Carrie Wittmer
Zac Efron Is Great in the New Ted Bundy Movie, But the Film Lacks Purpose Zac Efron disappears into the serial killer’s glib persona as well as Zac Efron’s face can be said to disappear into anything.
By Emily Yoshida
celebrity hauntings
May 2, 2019
Lily Collins Believes She Was Visited by the Ghosts of Ted Bundy’s Victims “I felt supported. I felt like people were saying We’re here listening. We’re here to support. Thank you for telling the story. ”
By Bethy Squires
Panini Beards and Jesus Waves: The Stories Behind The Beach Bum ’s Deranged Hair “We’d pop the wig on Matthew, and he really just became this character. It was a crazy thing. We all called him Moondog. He was just another person.”
By Rachel Handler
Extremely Wicked Director on How Ted Bundy ‘Seduced’ His VictimsJoe Berlinger explains his two very different Ted Bundy movies: one is a Netflix doc, the other a Zac Efron movie.
By Bilge Ebiri
trailer mix
Jan. 25, 2019
By Hunter Harris
trailer mix
Jan. 23, 2019
By Hunter Harris
The Greatest Showman Is the Fakest Show on EarthMusicals are inherently fake — they can be ecstatically, transcendentally fake — but this is a whole other level of disingenuousness.
By Emily Yoshida
last night on late night
Dec. 12, 2017
By Jackson McHenry
How Zac Efron Got So Hauntingly Swole for Baywatch We talk to his Baywatch trainer about how, exactly, we (and Zac) got here.
By E. Alex Jung
New The Greatest Showman Trailer: Hugh Jackman Sings! Hugh Jackman’s long-gestating P.T. Barnum biopic will be in theaters this Christmas.
By Hunter Harris
movie review
May 26, 2017
Movie Review: Baywatch Has Ironic Jiggles, a Few Giggles Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron make a fine pair of chiseled clowns.
By David Edelstein
Male Stars Are Too Buff Now I’m worried that our current leading men are just one scoop of protein powder away from total renal failure.
By E. Alex Jung
casting couch
May 15, 2017
Zac Efron Is Ted Bundy in the Biopic Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile It’s always the quiet ones … who have been doing a lot of comedies lately and want to show off their diversity of range.
By Halle Kiefer
trailer mix
Jan. 10, 2017
By Jackson McHenry
a little something for your birthday
Nov. 7, 2016
By Tolly Wright
baywatch watch
Aug. 30, 2016
By Nate Jones
man’s best friend
Aug. 26, 2016
By Theresa Avila
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