The 2017 time warp continues: While it may feel like this season of Saturday Night Live started a long time ago, this is only the seventh episode. As host, Saoirse Ronan acquitted herself well, although this is a show in which she served as ensemble rather than actual lead in …
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Jon Stewart returned to The Daily Show under the guise of fake reporter “Bernie Bernstein” to promote his upcoming HBO special,Night of Too Many Stars. “Bernie Bernstein” has gained notoriety as an attempt to discredit the Washington Post and the media at large in the aftermath of sexual misconduct accusations …
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After two straight weeks of miserable tedium, The Walking Dead rebounds (a bit) with an episode – “Some Guy” – that gets back to one of the series’ core strengths: reducing a sprawling post-apocalyptic epic to a few pivotal moments in the lives of ordinary people. Granted, this hour is …
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Every morning of Megyn Kelly Today is a priceless time capsule of this moment in America – future historians will analyze it and ask how the hell this happened. Lord, what a sloppity-slop mess. Kelly made her name on Fox News as the network’s resident independent thinker, but since it …
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Don’t mess with Melissa Leo. As Novitiate‘s Reverend Mother Marie St. Claire, the boss lady who calls the shots at the fictional Tennessee convent where this religious drama is based, the actress gives the kind of bravura performance that not only sparks Oscar talk but richly deserves it. She finds …
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Willem Dafoe should be on top of Oscar’s Best Supporting Actor list for his stellar work in The Florida Project, a film that’s as hilarious and heartbreaking as it is unclassifiable. The actor’s soul-deep performance as Bobby, a motel manager working the low-rent fringes of Orlando’s theme-park “paradise,” is alert …
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Jimmy Kimmel thanked GOP Senators John McCain and Susan Collins and those in Congress whose opposition to the GOP’s proposed Graham-Cassidy bill ultimately led to it not coming up for vote. He also thanked the public who called their representatives to voice their opposition during his show on Tuesday. The …
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It, the Stephen King adaptation that has become the highest-grossing horror film of all time, has officially announced the release date for its long-expected sequel: September 6th, 2019. Screenwriter Gary Dauberman will also work on the sequel, while director Andy Muschietti is also in talks to return for It’s second …
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Sibling rivalry culminates in a knockdown brawl between Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller‘s characters in the new trailer for Noah Baumbach‘s film The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), but the volatility doesn’t stop there. While the previous trailer featured a goofy family sing-along, the new clip takes a few serious …
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Melissa McCarthy bumbles through a cooking competition in the wild new trailer for the long-gestating mockumentary, Cook Off! The film premiered at the Comedy Arts Festival in 2007 – long before McCarthy’s breakout turn in Bridesmaids – and will finally receive an on-demand and limited theatrical release November 17th. Cathryn …
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