Laura Linney Will Make Her Directorial Debut With An Episode Of Ozark Netflix By Kaylee Dugan/April 1, 2022 8:12 am EST Laura Linney is sitting down in the director’s chair for the final season of “Ozark.” While Linney has had a prolific career as an actress — she’s won five Tony Awards, two Golden Globes, and has been nominated for three Academy Awards — this marks a first in her long and impressive industry resume....
New Hawkeye Featurette Is All About Yelena Belova Disney+ By Shania Russell/Dec. 20, 2021 4:00 pm EST Spoilers ahead through episode 5 of “Hawkeye.” Days away from the “Hawkeye” season finale, Marvel is directing our attention away from all that spidey-boy multiverse madness, back to where it truly belongs: Florence Pugh. Sure, this series revolving around Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) has been a great opportunity for our bow-wielding avenger to take center stage, but the titular character must first withstand the shining presence of everyone’s favorite deadly assassin, Yelena Belova (Pugh)....
Nine Perfect Strangers Renewed For Season 2 At Hulu Hulu By Jenna Busch/May 13, 2022 4:02 pm EST Though it certainly seemed like the story wrapped up neatly at the end of “Nine Perfect Strangers,” apparently there is more to tell. The Hulu series is looking like it will be renewed for a second season, according to Variety. This was a pandemic binge for me when it came out on the streaming service in August of 2021, and I was glued to my seat....
Obi-Wan Kenobi Screenwriter Joby Harold Reveals How Kumail Nanjiani’s Character Got His Name Lucasfilm By Danielle Ryan/June 8, 2022 12:16 pm EST What’s in a name? In the vast universe of “Star Wars,” it turns out that names can come from a wide variety of interesting places. Some names have meaning, like Han Solo’s, while others are clearly a play on words, like the Mon Calamari, a race of aquatic fish people named after fried squid....
Oscar-Nominated Doc Summer Of Soul Will Air On ABC Searchlight Pictures By Jenna Busch/Feb. 11, 2022 5:49 pm EST Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s Oscar-nominated documentary “Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)” is about to be seen by a lot more people. The film, which is Thompson’s directorial debut, is set to air on ABC on February 20 at 8 p.m. EST. (It runs for two hours in case you want to let your kids stay up late just this once....
Pam & Tommy Review: A Wild But Sympathetic Portrait Of The Pamela Anderson And Tommy Lee Story Hulu By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 26, 2022 12:00 pm EST In 1995, a sex tape featuring “Baywatch” star Pamela Anderson and her husband, Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, spread like wildfire. Talk of the tape broke out of the pages of tabloids and into the mainstream, and soon, it seemed like the tape was literally everywhere....
Pedro Almodovar’s Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown Series Lands Gina Rodriguez El Deseo By Kaylee Dugan/Jan. 20, 2022 9:27 am EST Have you ever wanted to watch a movie you’ve already seen, but longer? And more segmented? And with completely different actors? Don’t worry, a large corporation and a talented director have heard your cries and are bringing you exactly what you’ve always wanted, a TV adaptation of Pedro Almodóvar’s 1988 film “Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” streaming exclusively on Apple TV+....
Praise Shai-Hulud: Dune Is Coming Back To HBO Max Next Month Warner Bros. Pictures By Jenna Busch/Feb. 22, 2022 4:57 pm EST I have seen Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” three times so far, and that is not enough. When I saw the news that “Dune” will return to HBO Max on March 10, I told all my friends that I won’t see them again for a while, because I had to declare my allegiance to Shai-Hulud every day until it leaves again....
Prehistoric Planet Trailer: Affectionate Dinosaurs In A Five-Night Event Apple TV+ By Jenna Busch/April 20, 2022 2:24 pm EST If you are a human being, there is a strong likelihood that you loved dinosaurs at one point in your childhood. Maybe you stood under giant fossilized skeletons at a museum and marveled at their size. Perhaps you are a fan of the “Jurassic Park” franchise. Maybe you, like Wash in “Firefly,” played with dinosaur toys when you were supposed to be working....
This Season Leaves Nothing On The Table HBO Max John Early has always been a series standout as Elliott, a trend-chasing, insecure gay man who also has a long history as a compulsive liar. This season is no different. The talented actor makes eye-rolling feel like high comedy and possesses a seemingly endless range of hilariously scathing and disgusted expressions. This season, Elliott and boyfriend Marc (Jeffery Self) adopt a synthetically made child after deciding a kid would be a “real conversation starter....
Apple TV+ By Joshua Meyer/April 19, 2022 10:38 am EST “Severance,” the acclaimed Apple TV+ series starring Adam Scott, has drawn comparisons to “Lost” for its elaborate, mythology-driven, mystery-box storytelling — “the beginning of a long answer,” as one character describes it. However, the show itself, which uses an office floor as its main setting, drew inspiration from an older sci-fi horror classic set on a spaceship. Think of it as a “haunted house movie in [office] space....
Sony Is Bundling All Eight Live-Action Spider-Man Movies In Advance Of No Way Home’s Digital Release Sony Pictures By Jenna Busch/Jan. 10, 2022 2:46 pm EST Spider-Men, Spider-Men, do whatever some spiders can! (I spent way too long working that one out.) Sony Pictures is bundling all our friendly, neighborhood superhero movies into one giant bundle. According to ComicBook.com, when “Spider-Man: No Way Home” is released on Digital HD, you’ll also have the option to revisit all the other Spider-Films....
Spider-Man: No Way Home Reveals The New Sorcerer Supreme, Here’s What It Means Marvel Studios By Ryan Scott/Dec. 17, 2021 4:29 pm EST Leading up to the release of “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” it was pretty clear from the trailers and the secrecy in the marketing that the movie was hiding many, many secrets. Now that the movie is finally in theaters, we can confidently say that proved to be the case....
Why it’s essential viewing Grasshopper Films Taking tonal and structural cues from the likes of Hirokazu Kore-eda (for his calm sympathy), Robert Altman (for his enormous, interconnected ensemble), and Edward Yang (for his extended contemplations of the amusing foibles of everyday life), Patrick Wang’s film tells the story of the fictional New York town of Checkford (inspired by and shot in Hudson, NY), and centers on a pair of warring arts centers....
The Terminal List Trailer: Chris Pratt Stars In Antoine Fuqua’s Conspiracy Thriller Series Prime Video By Danielle Ryan/May 19, 2022 12:26 pm EST Apparently it’s the Summer of Dads. Not only are barbecue-lovin’, lawn-mowin’ American dads everywhere getting a brand new “Top Gun” movie this summer in the form of “Top Gun: Maverick,” they’re also getting a series from Prime Video that looks like a mix of Jack Ryan and Jason Bourne: “The Terminal List....
The Terrifying Sebastian Stan Scene That Still Gives Us Nightmares Searchlight Pictures By Witney Seibold/June 8, 2022 5:14 pm EST One of the more notable movies of 2022 is Mimi Cave’s “Fresh,” which first appears to be a light, sweet romantic comedy that takes an earnest look at the painful foibles of modern dating. In “Fresh,” Daisy Edgar-Jones (from “Under the Banner of Heaven”) plays Noa, a woman whose app-arranged dates are getting worse and worse....
Top Gun Has Passed $400 Million At The Domestic Box Office – Here’s Why That’s Important Paramount Pictures By Ryan Scott/June 14, 2022 3:00 pm EST 2022 is positioning itself as the year many in the movie business hoped 2021 would be. The recovery at the box office has been impressive this year as we get closer and closer to establishing a new normal that mirrors pre-pandemic levels. To illustrate just how good things are going (relative to how bad they were), “Top Gun: Maverick” just became the highest-grossing movie of the year domestically — and managed to do so in just shy of three weeks....
Who Is Mok Shaiz In The Book Of Boba Fett? The Mos Espa Mayor Explained Disney+ By Soham Gadre/Dec. 30, 2021 11:06 am EST What a time to be alive if you’re a “Star Wars” fan. Each year brings more and newer “Star Wars” content than ever before. All of the long-gestating theories, histories, and lore from the previous four decades are manifesting into movies and TV shows rife with canonical backstories that really flesh out the whole universe that George Lucas started....
Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty Trailer: An Iconic Sports Tale Heads To HBO Warner Bros. By Danielle Ryan/Feb. 11, 2022 1:48 pm EST The latest trailer for “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” is here, and it looks like a perfectly crafted piece of sports nostalgia. The 10-episode series will premiere on HBO and HBO Max on Sunday, March 6, 2022 and stars John C. Reilly as Lakers owner Jerry Buss, along with Quincy Isaiah as Magic Johnson, Dr....
Brianne Tju Talks Unhuman, Becoming A Scream Queen, And Teenage Resilience In Horror [Interview] Blumhouse By BJ Colangelo/June 3, 2022 11:00 am EST Brianne Tju knows a thing or two about teen horror, considering she was only 13 years old when she appeared on the R.L. Stine anthology series, “The Haunting Hour.” In the years since, Tju has returned to horror repeatedly in projects like “iZombie,” “Light as a Feather,” “47 Meters Down: Uncaged,” and both the “Scream” and “I Know What You Did Last Summer” shows....
