
Deadline Hollywood - 5 hours 19 min ago
Focus Features is out with Morgan Neville's documentary Lorne at 414 locations, a behind-the-scenes look at Lorne Michaels, the creator of Saturday Night Live and one of television's most influential creative forces. The doc features rare footage and never-before-seen archival materials and wide-ranging conversations with some of SNL's most influential cast members and writers, including Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, John […]...

Cinema Blend - 11 hours 27 min ago
Let's talk about where the show sits politically.

The Guardian - 14 hours 24 min ago
As the president's second term has wrought new horrors, comedians reflect on whether humor can still deflate the strongman's image' During Donald Trump's first term, as his lies distorted reality and gaslighted Americans, Stephen Colbert said his goal was to remind his audience : "Hey, you're not crazy." But watching political comedy during Trump's second term be it a deranged Saturday Night Live impression of a cabinet member, or a rapid-fire late-night monologue...

Variety - 14 hours 41 min ago
There’s a complicated, bittersweet study of female friendship fighting to free itself from the glib, shiny, “Saturday Night Live”-adjacent comic veneer of “Roommates,” and when it shows through, in enticing fits and starts, it even approaches wisdom. Elsewhere, however, this Netflix original from up-and-coming Canadian filmmaker Chandler Levack disappointingly flattens the moral and emotional zigzags […]...

Los Angeles Times - 19 hours 25 min ago
Even though Lorne Michaels is the subject of Morgan Neville's dutiful profile, he remains something of an elusive mystery, burnished by famous friends.

NPR - 20 hours 43 min ago
A Martinez speaks with Morgan Neville about his new documentary about the creator of "Saturday Night Live," and how he persuaded the reclusive Lorne Michaels to consent.