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Kal Penn Boards The Santa Clause Sequel Series At Disney+ Warner Bros. By Sandy Schaefer/March 4, 2022 1:04 pm EST “The Santa Clause,” a family comedy released by Disney in 1994, starred Tim Allen near the height of his popularity, back when he was on “Home Improvement” and one year before he first voiced Buzz Lightyear in “Toy Story.” Like most of the films he’s made since then, “The Santa Clause” blends Allen’s stand-up comedy with slapstick and sentiment....

Mija Review: The American Dream For First-Born Immigrants Comes With Immense Pressure [Sundance 2022] Sundance Film Festival By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 25, 2022 8:22 pm EST Undocumented Mexican immigrants may find joy in being able to give birth to a generation of first-born children with American citizenship. But for many of them, it’s just the beginning of an even riskier affair. With the threat of deportation always looming, there’s an immense amount of pressure on these first-generation Americans to live up to the potential of the American Dream in order to keep their family from being pulled apart by the government....

Trainspotting Polygram Filmed Entertainment “Trainspotting” (1996) is another aesthetically-stylish but utterly brutal portrayal of the harsh realities of heroin use, following the ups and (mostly) downs of a group of Edinburgh-based friends led by Mark “Rent Boy” Renton (Ewan MacGregor) as they try to escape the gravitational pull of their addiction. Director Danny Boyle employs a pulse-pounding soundtrack and flashy, inventive visuals to immerse viewers in the frenetic underworld that Renton and his pals Sick Boy, Spud, Begbie, and Tommy occupy, and the various physical and emotional states they find themselves in....

Netflix Says F*** It, Orders Game Show Called Bulls*** Bell Media By Anya Stanley/Jan. 5, 2022 3:30 pm EST Hot on the heels of Korean thriller series “Squid Game” dominating pop culture, Netflix is again trading in on cash-strapped contestants vying for riches. The streaming giant’s latest non-scripted order is for “Bullsh*t: The Game Show,” a series where fake news is as good as real news as long as your mark is gullible enough — a truly American show, indeed....

One Buffy The Vampire Slayer Death Was Especially Miserable To Film 20th Television By Valerie Ettenhofer/March 15, 2022 11:42 am EST When you think about the tail end of “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” season 6, what comes to mind? If you’re anything like me, it might take a minute for it to come back to you, because the series’ most controversial ending is in some ways better off forgotten. The exceedingly dark season enters its home stretch with “Seeing Red,” a gutting episode that sees Willow’s (Alyson Hannigan) girlfriend, all-around sweetie Tara (Amber Benson), killed by violent misogynist Warren’s (Adam Busch) stray bullet....

Paul Rudd’s Saturday Night Live Was Totally Disrupted And Weird, Thanks To Omicron NBC By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 19, 2021 4:26 pm EST Was there a new “Saturday Night Live” this past weekend? The answer is a little more complicated than you might think. Initially, yes, there was supposed to be an entirely new episode of “SNL” hosted by Paul Rudd. In fact, it would have been kind of a big deal, because not only was it the Christmas episode, but it was going to be the fifth time that the “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” co-star hosted the show....

The premise The premise is an elevator pitch of epic proportions. The intro to the show was read thus: “In 1650, Black Jack Savage, the famed Caribbean pirate, was captured and hanged in the castle where he lived on the island of San Pietro. 300 years later, Barry Tarberry, a Wall Street pirate indicted for stock fraud, skipped bail and took up residence in Black Jack’s castle. Since the ghost only appears to the owner of the castle, an uneasy partnership was formed....

Slow Horses First Look: The Gary Oldman Spy Series Gets A Release Date From AppleTV+ Apple TV+ By Jenna Busch/Feb. 4, 2022 7:03 pm EST Academy Award-winning actor Gary Oldman’s latest project “Slow Horses” just got a release date and some first look pics from Apple TV+. The series will premiere on the streaming service on Friday, April 1, 2022, with six episodes. The series is adapted from CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning Mick Herron’s first novel in the “Slow Horses” series....

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Features One Heck Of A Deep Space Nine Easter Egg Paramount By Witney Seibold/June 23, 2022 2:41 pm EST This post contains minor spoilers for the latest episode of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.” Those who have been following “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” are familiar with the conceit that Dr. M’Benga (Babs Olusanmokun), the chief medical officer on the Enterprise, has a young daughter named Rukiya (Sage Arrindell) who is dying from a fast-acting and incurable disease called cygnokemia....

Star Wars Fans Got To Live Their Dream As Extras In Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi Series Lucasfilm By Jenna Busch/Dec. 21, 2021 5:54 pm EST Sometimes “Star Wars” fans can be the worst. Sometimes they’re the best people in the world. Sometimes they get really, really lucky. This is one of those times. According to Variety, some hardcore fans got to be extras in the upcoming Disney+ series “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” which stars Ewan McGregor....

A Fairy Tale Born Out of Lockdown Simon and Schuster Publisher Simon and Schuster announced that “Fairy Tale” will hit shelves on September 6, 2022, and gave us a little background on the characters, plot, and even the origins of the book straight from King’s mouth. Turns out that this book came as a result of the pandemic, where King found himself kinda bummed (as did we all) during lockdown and he asked himself: “What could you write that would make you happy?...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Villain Spin-Off Movies Coming To Paramount+ New Line Cinema By Ben F. Silverio/Feb. 15, 2022 10:38 pm EST Back in summer 2020, fans of “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” were surprised to learn that the heroes in a half shell would be getting yet another reboot. However, instead of another live-action film with motion capture performers (or better yet, the terrifying rubber suits), the latest installment would be computer-animated under the guidance of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s Point Grey Pictures....

The 15 Scariest Stephen King Villains We’ve Seen On Screen Warner Bros. By Kyle Milner/May 4, 2022 4:16 pm EST From the very first adaptation of Stephen King’s fiction — Brian De Palma’s eternally excellent “Carrie” (1976) — his villains have dug their claws into the collective consciousness, inspiring as many nightmares as the books they’re based upon. Across film and television, there are King adaptations of all kinds: scary, laughable, faithful to the source material, completely off-the-wall … if you want King, they’ve got it....

The Dragon Prince Season 4 Trailer: The Incredible Fantasy Series TV Series Finally Returns Netflix By Rafael Motamayor/June 9, 2022 9:29 am EST Ever since “Game of Thrones” ended, everyone has been looking for the next big fantasy TV show. Of course, we’ve got some good candidates, from “The Witcher” and “Shadow and Bone,” to “The Wheel of Time,” and now the upcoming “House of the Dragon” and the “Lord of the Rings” TV show....

The Many Men Who Inspired Quint In Jaws Universal Pictures By Eric Vespe/June 20, 2022 3:00 pm EST When a monstrous great white shark stakes a claim in your quaint seaside town and starts munching on the locals, there’s only one person you can turn to, and that’s Captain Sam Quint, the larger-than-life cantankerous old bastard fisherman who has a personal grudge against all maneaters. He’s tough as nails, has absolutely zero filters, and feels like he hates just about everybody on Earth, especially those damn sharks....

The Nikto Sand Riders In The Book Of Boba Fett Explained Lucasfilm By Ryan Scott/Jan. 12, 2022 12:48 pm EST “The Book of Boba Fett” continues to roll right along on Disney+, with Chapter 3 of the “Star Wars” series arriving this week. With an odd number of episodes, seven to be exact, we’re pretty close to the halfway point, and lots of pieces are being moved around the chessboard that will come into play in the final stretch....

The Party Down Revival Is Finished Shooting, According To Adam Scott Starz By Kaylee Dugan/March 19, 2022 2:41 pm EST “Party Down” is party done! According to your favorite caterer Adam Scott, the “Party Down” revival has just finished shooting. So have a little too much to drink, throw on a button-down shirt, and start responding to those Craigslist casting calls, because you have just enough time to immerse yourself fully in the “Party Down” lifestyle before the show slides back onto your TV....

This Dangerous Rosemary’s Baby Stunt Was Much More Real Than You Think Paramount Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Jan. 18, 2022 11:14 am EST Thanks to director Roman Polanski’s history of being a sexual predator and fleeing the United States to avoid accountability, talking about his influential work is like performing a balancing act upon a moral tightrope. Shot a decade before he would be arrested and charged for committing especially heinous acts, “Rosemary’s Baby” is considered by many to be one of the most important horror films in existence....

TV, Interrupted: The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance Went Out Fighting Netflix By Sandy Schaefer/Feb. 13, 2022 1:13 pm EST (Welcome to TV, Interrupted, a series where the /Film team remembers, eulogizes, and makes a case for the revival of TV shows we loved that were canceled far too soon.) You can see why audiences didn’t really know what to do with “The Dark Crystal” when it opened in theaters back in 1982....

Cyrano United Artists Releasing Technically, “Cyrano” opened in theaters this month, but unless you live in Los Angeles and/or review movies for a living, odds are you won’t be seeing this one until next year. For those who’re only just hearing about this film for the first time, it’s adapted from Erica Schmidt’s 2018 stage musical, itself based on Edmond Rostand’s classic 1897 play, “Cyrano de Bergerac,” about a masterly poet and duelist whose insecurity over his unusually large nose prevents him from confessing his feelings to the woman he loves....