Posts

The People Have Been Heard: LeVar Burton Among Newly Announced ‘Jeopardy!’ Guest Hosts By Ben Pearson/April 21, 2021 3:00 pm EST As the beloved game show series Jeopardy! continues its quest to find a full-time host to replace the dearly departed Alex Trebek, one man has become the clear fan-favorite choice to take over the podium: LeVar Burton, the former host of Reading Rainbow and star of Star Trek: The Next Generation....

The Tender Bar Trailer: Ben Affleck Tends Bar In Long Island For Director George Clooney By Max Evry/Oct. 14, 2021 10:01 am EST Besides Affleck, the cast includes Tye Sheridan (“Ready Player One”), Emmy Award winner Christopher Lloyd (“Nobody”), Lily Rabe (“American Horror Story”), Max Martini (“Pacific Rim”), and introduces child actor Daniel Ranieri as the younger version of Sheridan’s character whose Long Island upbringing with an absentee father is chronicled in the movie....

The Tragic Truth Behind The Seth Rollins Fan Altercation On Monday Night RAW WWE By BJ Colangelo/Nov. 26, 2021 10:36 am EST “You know it’s fake, right?” has been said time and time again to wrestling fans by people who don’t realize we’re in it for the costumed soap opera dramatics and muscle ballet, but the conflict on this week’s episode of Monday Night RAW at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York was very, very real....

Trivia: Dan Aykroyd And The Temple Of Doom By Peter Sciretta/May 31, 2008 8:57 pm EST When I was re-watching the Indiana Jones trilogy in preparation of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, I discovered something I never noticed before – Dan Aykroyd. That’s right, the SNL star turned Ghostbuster has a very small cameo in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Unlike Raiders and Last Crusade, I had only seen the film once or twice since I was a kid, which might explain how I passed him by....

‘Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings Of Miami’ Trailer Promises A Thrilling Cat And Mouse Chase By Shania Russell/July 22, 2021 12:44 pm EST Netflix is going all in on docuseries, with new titles seemingly springing up every week. In their defense, true crime is only getting more popular, made all the more thrilling by its inclusion of real footage and the excitement that comes with tracking a lengthy chase. So what better story for the latest series than that of the Cocaine Cowboys Augusto “Willy” Falcon and Salvador “Sal” Magluta?...

‘Emily The Criminal’ Will Star Aubrey Plaza As Emily, A Criminal By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 18, 2021 2:33 pm EST More Aubrey Plaza movies are never a bad thing, so let’s all get excited about Emily the Criminal, a film Plaza will produce and star in. Written and directed by John Patton Ford, Emily the Criminal will have Plaza playing a woman with heavy debts who gets involved in a credit card scam....

‘Friday Night Lights’ Reboot Finds New Coaches In The Dowdle Brothers By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 24, 2019 1:00 pm EST Just in case you forgot, that Friday Night Lights reboot movie is still in the works, and it has a new creative team. John Erick and Drew Dowdle, known collectively as The Dowdle Brothers, have been tasked with making this potentially bad idea happen. Rather than follow-up the original Friday Night Lights movie, or connect to the popular TV series in any way, this new Friday Night Lights will tell a brand new story....

‘Game Of Thrones’ Actors React To Last Night’s Series Finale By Ben Pearson/May 20, 2019 3:00 pm EST After eight seasons, almost 75 episodes, and generating enough passion to fuel every fire in the realm, HBO’s Game of Thrones has come to an end. You know how we’ve responded, but what do the stars of the show think about the way the series concluded? Read on for several of their Game of Thrones finale reactions, including comments from Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, and more....

‘I Am Not A Hipster’ Is A Beautifully Personal ‘Once’-Style Indie Rock Musical [Sundance 2012] By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 21, 2012 12:00 pm EST In the low-key Sundance premiere I Am Not a Hipster, Dominic Bogart plays a San Diego indie rock singer/songwriter named Brook who is stuck in a depression. His three sisters and estranged father visit, forcing him to break his self-isolation and confront something he has spent two years running away from — the death of his mother....

‘Let The Right One In’ TV Series Heads To Showtime With Demián Bichir Starring By Ben Pearson/March 15, 2021 3:30 pm EST Almost 15 years after the Swedish film adaptation of author John Ajvide Lindqvist’s adolescent vampire drama Let the Right One In captured the attention of the international film world, a TV adaptation may finally make its way to the small screen. Showtime is the latest company to attempt an adaptation, giving a pilot order for what they’re calling an “elevated genre series....

‘Loki’ Almost Had The God Of Mischief Wielding All The Infinity Stones And Having Lots Of Wild Sex By Ethan Anderton/July 21, 2021 9:34 am EST If you thought Loki being confirmed as gender fluid and bisexual in the God of Mischief’s own series on Disney+ was mind-blowing, you’re going to be shocked to hear what the Marvel Studios show almost included. In Assembled: The Making of Loki, we get a glimpse at the development process for the series, including a white board where plans for the series were being explored in the writers room....

‘Malignant’ TV Spot Features Scary New Footage From James Wan’s Return To Horror By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 10, 2021 12:49 pm EST Some new Malignant footage just arrived via a TV spot, and while it’s not much — 30 seconds, all told — we’ll take what we can get. The upcoming movie is James Wan’s return to horror, marking the first time he’s helmed a horror movie since 2016’s The Conjuring 2....

‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Tackles One Of The Greatest ‘Clone Wars’ Threats With “Battle Scars” By Caroline Cao/June 11, 2021 9:23 am EST This article contains spoilers for the Star Wars: The Bad Batch episode “Battle Scars.” Since we last saw them, the Bad Batch (Dee Bradley Baker) and Omega (Michelle Ang) have been miserably pulling jobs for Cid (Rhea Perlman). Since they (deliberately) botched their assignment on Corellia, they aren’t on her good side and she deducts creds on their expenses, one that hilariously includes Wrecker’s and Omega’s routine purchase of the popcorn-ish Mantell Mix....

By Ethan Anderton/April 6, 2021 8:00 am EST Michael B. Jordan is not going to let an international conspiracy keep him down in Without Remorse, a new action thriller based on Tom Clancy’s book of the same name.Without Remorse finds Michael B. Jordan playing John Clark, one of the most popular recurring characters from the world of Tom Clancy’s espionage novels. In a story that plays out like John Wick meets Clear and Present Danger, Clark loses his family in a brutal attack by a squad of Russian soldiers seeking retaliation for a top secret operation he pulled off....

A Catwoman Crime Caper DC Comics There have been rumors that Catwoman might appear in Reeves’ “The Batman” alongside the Penguin, but the story of Selina Kyle deserves more. While she was the star of the notoriously bad 2004 movie “Catwoman” starring Halle Berry, there are far better ways to adapt the story of a cat burglar who leans a little too far into her feline fetish. The Pitch: The perfect “Catwoman” series follows a young Selina Kyle as she tries to make a name for herself in Gotham City....

WandaVision Poster by Ruiz Burgos WandaVision by Ruiz Burgos 24" x 18" Hand-Numbered Fine Art Giclee (Cold Press Natural) Edition of 150 Printed by Grey Matter Printing $50 Burgos explained in a post on Facebook, “I loved the vintage style of the first episodes of Marvel’s WandaVision, and after watching them I needed to paint them honoring that feeling.” He really captures that classic sitcom style in black and white, and the detail on Wanda and Vision is truly remarkable....

DC Films President Says James Gunn Is “Always Welcome Back” By Eric Vespe/Aug. 5, 2021 5:53 am EST Looks like James Gunn is not done with DC quite yet. We know the writer/director is going back to Marvel to finish out his Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy, but according to DC Films President Walter Hamada, there’s a future at DC if Gunn wants it. Specifically he told The Hollywood Reporter that “Gunn is always welcome back, whatever he wants to do....

Dr. Crusher And Captain Picard’s Relationship In Star Trek Explained Paramount By Joshua Meyer/Oct. 26, 2021 12:46 pm EST On “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” Captain Jean-Luc Picard, played by Patrick Stewart, and Dr. Beverly Crusher, played by Gates McFadden, always had one of those will-they-or-won’t relationships that left fans wondering whether they would ever become an official item, romantically speaking. Now that Stewart’s character is back captaining his own Paramount+ series, “Picard,” it’s possible that Dr....

George Segal, Oscar-Nominated Star Of ‘Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf’ And ‘The Goldbergs,’ Dead At 87 By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 24, 2021 8:30 am EST George Segal, the Oscar-nominated actor seen in films like Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Where’s Poppa?, and sitcoms like The Goldbergs, has died. He was 87. Segal died Tuesday in Santa Rosa, CA, of complications from bypass surgery, Segal’s wife Sonia confirmed. “The family is devastated to announce that this morning George Segal passed away due to complications from bypass surgery,” she said in a statement....

Ghostbusters: Afterlife Team Jason Reitman And Gil Kenan Sign Overall Deal With Sony Sony Pictures Press Site By Jenna Busch/Nov. 30, 2021 11:05 am EST Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan have signed an overall producing deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The writers of “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” will reportedly launch a new production banner. In a statement to the site, Sanford Panitch, president of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group said: “Jason and Gil as co-writing partners have a remarkable understanding of commercial quality cinema, and we are thrilled about the upcoming pipeline from these guys....