Last week, The Walking Deadended with Negan meeting an unseen character on the road, someone who he described thus: “If shit could shit it still wouldn’t look as shitty as you.” [Sigh] The man with the Louisville Slugger then drove this person back to the Sanctuary, before enlisting the mystery …
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Anyone who keeps up with all the news about The Walking Dead franchise probably already knows that the character Morgan Jones will be moving over to Fear the Walking Dead when the spinoff series’ fourth season debuts in two weeks. So now’s as good a time as any to ask: …
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Let’s be real for a second: The real Roseanne reboot had already happened long before this past Tuesday, and it was called Lady Bird. Darlene was now going to Catholic school; Aunt Jackie was playing the mom. But otherwise, Greta Gerwig’s film had all the tropes that made the originalRoseanne …
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Marvel‘s fourth wall-busting superhero Deadpool assembles his own squadron of superheroes in the outrageous, hyper-meta new trailer for Deadpool 2, out May 18th. The clip opens with Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) saving the world from the scourge of gluten before finding himself up against a genuine problem: The time-traveling mutant soldier, …
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Over three days of fighting in March of 1918, British soldiers stuck in the WWI trenches of northern France and their commanding officers quartered below await a German attack. Raleigh (Hugo‘s Asa Butterfield), an inexperienced 19-year-old officer, had actually requested to join C Company, led his much-beloved former school housemaster …
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When you watch The Looming Tower, Hulu’s ambitious 10-episode adaptation of Lawrence Wright’s 2006 book on the intelligence failures and international terrorist conspiracy that led up to 9/11, you’ll find yourself keying in to a number of the show’s moving parts and characters. There’s the globetrotting narrative, with the series …
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The Golden Globes get woke? Most years the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s ceremony barely looks semi-conscious. That’s the whole point of this tipsiest and dippiest of award shows, where a herd of wobbly celebrities squeeze themselves into the Beverly Hilton for a night of free booze and camera time. But …
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President Trump‘s alleged foibles were put on display in excerpts from Michael Wolff’s forthcoming book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, earlier this week, and on Thursday, late night hosts added a few zingers of their own. Wolff’s tell-all portrays Trump and his administration in an oft-unflattering light …
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This year, we’ve asked 10 writers to pick some of their favorite TV episodes from 2017 and weigh in on why they were great stand-alone eps and the highlights of our viewing year. First up: Sean T. Collins on Girls‘ “American Bitch.” When 2017 lies dead and buried in the …
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The 2018 Sundance Film Festival has announced their selected feature films. Among the 110 independent films from around the globe, the festival will also premiere documentaries on Joan Jett, Robin Williams and Studio 54. Directed by Kevin Kerslake and written by Joel Marcus, Bad Reputation focuses on the life of …
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