Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2024 Telluride Film Festival. “The Friend” opens from Bleecker Street Friday, March 28, 2025. There’s no way to play this ...

a Great Dane. Apollo is being played by a canine movie star named Bing, who recently made an appearance on Jimmy Fallon's The Tonight Show alongside his co-star Naomi Watts. The March 25 episode ...

It’s easy enough, then, to understand the profound conundrum facing Iris (Naomi Watts), a writer and professor who suddenly finds herself with a 150-pound Great Dane ward after an unexpected ...

One of the finest double acts of the year has received little fanfare, and, with all due respect, the pairing of Naomi Watts and a Great Dane wasn't top of anyone's dream combo wish list. But here we ...

the long-faced gentle giant of a dog that gives “The Friend” its abiding soulfulness — a black-splotched Great Dane with the drooping eyes of a silent-era clown, credited as Bing — is also ...

I once got punched in the face by a Great Dane. It was on a farm in Portarlington where I was doing summer work. The beast ...

She finds herself "wondering what on earth her late confidant thought she could do for this dog", but of course it turns out that Walter "was more intrigued by what the dog might do for her". Sadly, ...

Naomi Watts (as Iris): “I guess I saw it the other way around.” Meet Bing, the Great Dane. This cutie-patootie pup has many famous pals. But in the new drama “The Friend,” he’s not tuggi ...