Should you be one of the many who’ve signed up for HBO Max, you’ll have access to a deep bench of popular TV dramas and sitcoms, plenty of HBO’s greatest hits (Game of Thrones, The Sopranos), some oonly-available-here original programming, the bulk of Studio Ghibli’s animated work, and a good …
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John David Washington trains to prevent World War III in the latest trailer for Christopher Nolan‘s time-bending thriller, Tenet. The new trailer debuted on online video game Fortnite. The new clip is as enigmatic as the first trailer from December, and weaves some of the same footage into the mix, …
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A tale of alien abduction, Proxmity serves as an in-and-out impressive calling card for debuting feature writer and director Eric Demeusy. His training in animation and visual effects helped Demeusy create the Emmy-winning title sequences for Stranger Things and Game of Thrones. So it’s a given that this L.A.-based filmmaker …
Read More »How 'Trolls: World Tour' Became a Kids' Movie About Music Criticism
To some movie industry forecasters, CGI neon trolls that love tohug and sing are also, quite possibly, harbingers of the end of the modern theater experience. Trolls: World Tour was supposed to be a simple sequel to the 2013 DreamWorks original, based on the toy line popularized in the early …
Read More »Stephen King Apologizes to Colbert for Predicting COVID-19
Stephen Colbert had another Stephen, acclaimed author Stephen King, on The Late Show Tuesday night, where he asked King how he was able to so accurately predict the coronavirus crisis. “People have been telling me for years that I sort of foresaw Donald Trump,” King said. “I wrote a book called The …
Read More »'A Parks and Recreation Special': The COVID-Era Reunion We Needed
“This is not the way TV is be supposed to be made.” This was Michael Schur, co-creator of Parks and Recreation, on a call with reporters earlier this week to discuss the improbable creation and production of A Parks and Recreation Special. The half-hour bonus episode of the beloved NBC …
Read More »'Never Have I Ever' Review: Mindy Kaling Does Teen Comedy Right
It’s been nearly 15 years since The Office gave us “The Injury.” You remember “The Injury,” right? It’s the one where Michael cooks his foot on a George Foreman grill, Dwight gets concussed and starts acting nice to Pam, and the gas station in Carbondale does not have fresh yams. …
Read More »Trailers of the Week: 'Extraction,' 'Kubrick by Kubrick,' 'This Is Stand-Up' and More
Extraction The new Netflix film boasts two massively powerful drug lords, one kidnapped child, and a whole lot of over-the-top violence. Chris Hemsworth portrays Tyler Rake, a mercenary tasked with rescuing Ovi (portrayed by Rudhraksh Jaiswal), the captive son of one of the drug lords. While the teaser reveals that …
Read More »Robert Wagner, Mia Farrow, Robert Redford Appear in Natalie Wood Documentary
Natalie Wood’s five-decade career and personal life will be the subject of a new documentary, Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind, premiering on HBO on May 5th. “The day my mom died, my entire world was shattered,” Wood’s daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner says in the clip; she was 11 years old …
Read More »'Better Call Saul': Show's Ant Wrangler Breaks Down Ice Cream Scene
Some very small actors did some pretty heavy lifting at the start of episode three, Season Five of Better Call Saul — specifically, two thousand red harvester ants handled by ant wrangler Jules Sylvester. As fans may recall, episode two, “50% Off,” ended with Jimmy/Saul (Bob Odenkirk) abandoning his mint …
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