TV amp; Movies

Hugh Jackman remembered standing in the shadow of Stan Lee at Comic-Con during an interview with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show Monday. Lee, the mastermind behind the Marvel universe, died yesterday at the age of 95. Since 2000, Jackman has portrayed Wolverine in the film adaptations of one of …

Soon after Andrew Lincoln made his much-anticipated exit from The Walking Dead, AMC revealed that the actor would reprise the role of Rick Grimes in multiple films based on the hit zombie drama. Lincoln’s closing moments on the series featured a mortally wounded Grimes being loaded onto a helicopter, his …

A review of this week’s The Good Place, “A Fractured Inheritance,” coming up just as soon as I bend down to adjust my toe ring at a Rascal Flatts concert … It’s hard to describe an episode where Eleanor casts a write-in vote for Bofa Deez Nuts in a PTA …

Last night Stephen Colbert had a lot to say about President Trump’s ongoing feud with Elizabeth Warren over her Native American heritage. The Democratic senator, whom Trump often refers to as “Pocahontas,” confirmed via DNA testing that she does, in fact, have Native American ancestry, to which Trump has responded, …

Police shootings of unarmed black men are such a tragic part of everyday life that it’s no wonder movies feel the need to offer their take on the subject. Yet the moral outrage expressed so potently in such films as Fruitvale Station and Monsters and Men rarely results in impactful …

For some, Ken Burns’ 2001 PBS series Jazz was a definitive, open-and-shut take on its subject, as comprehensive a portrait of the genre as one could hope for. For others, the series was a major slight. As Tom Surgal, director of the new doc Fire Musicput it in a 2015 …

Mid90s, Jonah Hill‘s directorial debut, follows 13-year-old Stevie, who befriends a group of skateboarders one summer while navigating a heartbreaking home life in Los Angeles.“A lot of the time we feel like our lives are the worst,” a friend tells Stevie (Sunny Suljic) in the tender new trailer. “I think …

The Toronto International Film Festival just closed a diverse and dazzling edition, which introduced enough Oscar contenders for Best Actress to fill the category twice over. Remember when it was a stretch to find just five worthy contenders? Time is truly up for the Hollywood attitude that women have to …

The premise: It’s the end of the world. Haven’t we seen that before? We have, most recently in A Quiet Place. But in I Think We’re Alone Now, there are only two people left on the entire planet. And they’re played by Peter Dinklage and Elle Fanning. So that’s promising. …

Roy Moore, the former Alabama Republican senator who was accused of attempting to have sex with a 14-year-old when he was in his thirties, has filed a $95 million defamation lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen, Showtime and CBS, the TV network’s parent company. The politician and former chief justice of …