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Jul 17, 2024
The thing about famous people is that they do sometimes be just like the rest of us, i.e., at those times when they desperately need something to watch with their children that won't then cause their brains to come leaking out of their noses out of boredom or irritation. Hence, maybe, why Natalie Portman declared this…
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Jul 17, 2024
Viggo Mortensen has long carved out a reputation for himself as an "independent" actor—and not in either of the ways we usually mean that, i.e., "Unemployed student filmmaker" or "Said some shit on social media and now works exclusively in faith-based entertainment." Mortensen has just made it clear that, despite…
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Jul 17, 2024
It's long been a source of mild frustration for fans of FX's Emmy-drenched restaurant series The Bear that it just sort of lands, splatting on to the internet in a massive impact of content on a random night, like it's 2012 and we're all talking about some new Netflix show that just arrived. While binge-dropping a…
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Jul 17, 2024
Although he's been working on it for a couple of years at this point, Noah Hawley's long-promised Alien TV show has been perpetually shrouded in secrecy for the duration of that period. (Beyond Hawley making it clear he's not going to worry too much about Prometheus and Alien: Covenant while making it.) Previously,…
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Jul 17, 2024
Paramount released the first photographic evidence of its Rosemary's Baby prequel, Apartment 7A. Telling the story of another poor pixie-haired woman manipulated by creepy neighbors and, presumably, a man who is one sick SOB in league with the devil, the show described as a prequel looks like a remake.
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Jul 17, 2024
Sometimes a single quote can carry an entire movie. More often, good films are built from sharp screenplays with writing that acquires even more meaning thanks to the emotions evoked by the narrative. A classic line becomes a classic line because of its context. Both the curators at the American Film Institute…
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Jul 17, 2024
After kicking off the year with the delayed 2023 Emmys in January, we're already back in the thick of it, people. The nominations for the 2024 Emmy Awards just dropped today, which means we're diving into the snubs (sorry, The Curse), surprises (hello, Idris Elba!), and everything else we gleaned from this morning's…
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Jul 17, 2024
The Shining may be almost half a century old at this point (!), but the iconic film is still generating interest and intrigue all these years later. Case in point: the Stanley Kubrick Film Archive, along with the late director's family estate, have certified a new documentary about the film, titled Shine On—The…
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Jul 17, 2024
Marvel Studios must really be worried if they're wooing Joe and Anthony Russo back to the Avengers sandbox. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the directing duo behind the last two Avengers movies are now in the "early stages" of talks to take over the next two Avengers movies. Last we heard, the Russos were saying…
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Jul 17, 2024
There's been a lot of (justified) doom and gloom about the streaming landscape lately, despite the fact that the delivery method had its best month ever this past June. Still, in the wake of receiving two Emmy nominations himself this morning, Jon Hamm pointed out a rarely celebrated aspect of our current era, one…
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Jul 17, 2024
The 2024 Emmy nominations have arrived, and with it, some new history-making stats. Selena Gomez, also nominated as an actor for the first time for Only Murders In The Building, has become the most Emmy-nominated Latina producer in the comedy category, while Sofia Vergara is the first Latina nominated in the Lead…
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Jul 17, 2024
No matter what happens for the rest of the year, this writer can claim with absolute certainty that Charli xcx's "The girl, so confusing remix with lorde" will be one of the best music moments of 2024. Lorde's instantly iconic verse on the (already very good) brat track—the one that was originally written about…
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Jul 17, 2024
The 2024 Emmy nominations were announced on Wednesday, and the results are about as you'd expect. Returning comedies like Hacks, Abbott Elementary, and Only Murders In The Building continue to be strong favorites, while The Crown will show up to take its final bow. And of course, The Bear got plenty of recognition,…
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Jul 17, 2024
It's a hell of a time for the Roman Empire. This fall, both Francis Ford Coppola's sweeping sci-fi fable Megalopolis—loosely based on the Catiline conspiracy of 63 BC to overthrow the Roman Republic—and Ridley Scott's much-anticipated Gladiator sequel with Paul Mescal and Denzel Washington will hit theaters. Before…
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Jul 17, 2024
Picture this: a Survivor tribe with Boston Rob, Parvati, Ozzy, Sandra, and... Joe Manganiello? Survivor-heads will probably have more of a reaction to the fact that the actualcontestants in this list have never worn the same color buff, but who knows? Maybe if the Magic Mike actor had been allowed to execute his…
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Jul 17, 2024
When we first teased the return of A.V. Undercover after seven years on Twitter, asking who should kick off season 9, our friends over at Consequence suggested GWAR cover "I'm Just Ken." We responded, "We're down if @gwar is." It turned out that, in fact, GWAR was.
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Jul 17, 2024
Given how nebulous the notion of a "hit film" is when it comes to streaming releases, particularly for releases from the barren year of 2020, it's hard to think of a reason to sequelize My Spy. The film was originally intended for a big screen release before the theatrical shutdown led STX Entertainment to sell the…
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Jul 17, 2024
Jon Stewart has his work cut out for him.
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Jul 16, 2024
When the cat's away, the mice at Jimmy Kimmel Live! will play.
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Jul 16, 2024
The Other Two's pop-culture predictive prowess has struck again as another Other Two original will step outside the fictional realm and into our horrible reality. Night Nurse, the little indie film Cary Dubek (Drew Tarver) starred in after "hole storm", is set to become an actual motion picture without Dubek. Per Dead…
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Jul 16, 2024
While it's generally good writing advice that things—especially atypical ones—should happen in your TV show, the Duffer Brothers may have taken that directive a little too seriously. While they've never explicitly confirmed it, Stranger Things is (at least in part) a clear Sean Parker-esque clean up of the phrase…
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Jul 16, 2024
The Deliverance—a new exorcism flick coming to Netflix—just dropped its first trailer. That's not to be confused with The Exorcist: Believer, David Gordon Green's terrifyingly bad 2023 take on the iconic franchise, or Mike Flanagan's upcoming attempt at a repossession. It's also completely unrelated to The Exorcism,…
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Jul 16, 2024
UPDATE: In the wake of the backlash to her performance,Andress revealed on social media that she was drunk and is "checking [herself] into a facility today to get the help [she] need[s]." "That was not me last night. I apologize to MLB, all the fans, and this country I love so much for that rendition," she wrote. We…
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Jul 16, 2024
Streaming may be a bad business (just look at the amount of studios that are frantically bundling or sniffing around for partners), but it's still a popular one. According to Nielsen data, streaming collectively accounted for 40.3 percent "of all TV use in the United States" in June 2024, which is the highest…
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Jul 16, 2024
With his feature debut Caveat, Irish filmmaker Damian Mc Carthy introduced us to a vivid world of strange atmosphere and unbreakable tension. With Oddity, he not only repeats that feat, but deepens and darkens his own stylistic gifts, crafting one of the year's most memorable horror movies. After a festival run that…
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Jul 16, 2024
One of the signs our reality had really gone off the rails is when the Wu-Tang Clan made an album that only had one single copy, and "Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli bought it, and then he got arrested for securities fraud and the album was seized by the government, which then sold it to a cryptocurrency art collective.…
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Jul 16, 2024
There's no other way to say it: Ingrid Andress—the country singer you may or may not know from songs like "More Hearts Than Mine" and "Wishful Drinking"—gave a god awful performance of The Star Spangled Banner last night. It might not have been Fergie bad (feel free to debate that one in the comments), but it…
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Jul 16, 2024
Election season coverage became a lot more complicated over the weekend after what is being described as anassassination attempt on former president Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Tenacious D had to cancel all upcoming events after an off-color remark; The Daily Show canceled its on-the-ground RNC…
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Jul 16, 2024
Stay safe out there, folks; this insane election cycle has the power to break up even the strongest of partnerships. If Tenacious D can put "all future creative plans on hold," the same could happen to any of us.
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Jul 16, 2024
Nostalgia for the kinder, simpler, more innocent days of the ‘50s and ‘60s was rampant all through the bitter, cynical ‘70s. The decade was swarming with entertainment that doubled as fictionalized time capsules: American Graffiti, Happy Days, the music of Sha Na Na, Animal House, Grease. Even the soundtrack to Martin…
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Jul 16, 2024
Set well before George Lucas' galaxy became rife with scoundrels, rebels, and despots, Leslye Headland'sThe Acolyte is uniquely positioned to crack open a whole new age for the dauntless (or ceaseless?) Star Wars franchise. Throughout its eight-episode run (the show's season-one finale dropped July 16), the Disney …
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Jul 16, 2024
The Apprentice may be Sebastian Stan's most high-profile project this year (given the layers upon layers of Donald Trump drama), but it's A Different Man that's garnering some of the best reviews of the Marvel star's career. From writer-director Aaron Schimberg, the dark comedy follows an aspiring actor who struggles…
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Jul 15, 2024
As easy as it was to use the The Who pun in this article's headline, Timothée Chalamet's newest project really isn't that surprising at all. Following his Dune: Part Two co-star Zendaya's lead, the Call Me By Your Name actor has set his sights on the high stakes world of racket sports—or paddle sports, to be more…
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Jul 15, 2024
Hey, uh, anything crazy happen in the news this weekend? Usually on Mondays, we can rely on Jon Stewart's weekly return to The Daily Show to break down whatever's going on in this Groundhog Day-esque presidential election season. But the show isn't going to air on Monday following the shooting at Donald Trump's rally…
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Jul 15, 2024
In the end, the draw of a Nicolas Cage-led indie horror just couldn't compete with America's insatiable appetite for those little yellow nuggets. Despite Longlegs pulling off one of the most creative marketing campaigns in recent memory, Despicable Me 4 handilystole the box office this weekend with a massive $45…
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Jul 15, 2024
We asked and you answered. Across social media and right here in our comments section, The A.V. Club readers made hundreds of suggestions for the songs to be covered in the newly revived A.V. Undercover, now entering its ninth season.
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Jul 15, 2024
As if being catapulted to fame isn't startling enough, House Of The Dragon's Emma D'Arcy also found themselves on the forefront of nonbinary representation in Hollywood. It does become "quite dull" to have to talk about their gender identity with strangers all the time, "But simultaneously, I take the responsibility…
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Jul 15, 2024
This time of the year is always exciting for film buffs, as it's usually when we first get to watch the Oscar race begin to take shape. Last week, anyone not lucky enough to sit in the Cannes audience in May got their first glimpse at The Substance, Coralie Fargeat's Best Screenplay-winning body horror flick. But…
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Jul 15, 2024
Seeing the Terminator Zero teaser in action, it's hard to believe this is the franchise's first foray into animation. Translating James Cameron's sci-fi world into anime makes a lot of sense—the grit, the violence, the techno-future aesthetic are perfectly suited to this style. Of course, we shouldn't put the cart…
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Jul 15, 2024
Do you hear the opening notes of "Running Up That Hill" playing in the distance like drums in the deep? That's because the final season of Stranger Things is almost upon us, looming larger every day. If you're sick to death of Hawkins after almost a decade of its never ending, monster-based shenanigans, you may still…
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Jul 15, 2024
Long before Hollywood pioneer James Cameron solely dedicated himself to the world of Avatar and its upcoming installments slated for 2025, 2029, and 2031, he used to make what this critic passionately misses: original, stand-alone pictures. Or, in the case of sequels like Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Aliens (among…
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Jul 15, 2024
James B. Sikking, the actor best known for roles on Hill Street Blues and Doogie Howser, M.D., has died, according to Deadline. His publicist confirmed that he died at home in Los Angeles surrounded by family on Saturday after suffering complications of dementia. He was 90 years old.
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Jul 15, 2024
For fans of Max's Harley Quinn, it's safe to say there's an inbuilt knowledge of D-list DC villains to rival even the most dedicated of comic-book collectors. On the show, the likes of Calendar Man, KGBeast, Clock King, and Reverse-Flash have all gotten their moment in the spotlight. (Hell, Clock King even married the…
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Jul 15, 2024
Setting aside all the rude posturing of Deadpool & Wolverine, there's still nothing as profane or patently ridiculous in the current Marvel canon as Marvel's Hit-Monkey. This violently comedic Hulu animated series, co-created by Will Speck and Josh Gordon (based on comics by Daniel Way and Dalibor Talajic), has proven…
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Jul 15, 2024
King Aegon lives! Despite being burnt to a crisp by his younger brother's dragon in episode four, the eldest Targaryen boy survives. House Of The Dragon's fifth installment, "Regent," reveals that Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney) doesn't die after falling in battle. Instead, he's charred and so badly injured he can barely…
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Jul 14, 2024
Nothing screams "big bad" quite like a sinister-looking man in an eyepatch, standing alone in a darkened room, smiling as lightning flashes around him. Oh sure, it's a little on the nose, but the intent is clear: Aemond is the villain after the events of Rook's Rest, a fact made plainer by the expression on Ewan…
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Jul 14, 2024
Shannen Doherty, a TV icon of teen angst, has died. As confirmed by her publicist to People, Doherty died at her Malibu home on Saturday, July 13, after a years-long struggle with cancer. She was 53.
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Jul 14, 2024
Welcome to What's On, our weekly picks of must-watch shows. Here's what you need to watch from Sunday, July 14 to Thursday, July 18. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekend edition of What's On drops on Fridays.]
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Jul 13, 2024
Richard Simmons has died. (Confirmed by a representative for Simmons, speaking to ABC News.) One of the most famous fitness gurus on the planet—and later, a figure of occasionally reclusive speculation—Simmons was best known for his Sweatin' To The Oldies line of exercise videos, and for a long string of extremely…
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Jul 13, 2024
Can a species have a rock bottom moment? That flash of clarity when 8.1 billion people look in the (very large, possibly space-based) mirror, take a frank assessment of their collective bleary eyes and shaky hands, and then wearily admit to themselves that they're spending way too much money buying tickets to see the D…
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Jul 13, 2024
Dr. Ruth Westheimer has died. As the host of numerous radio shows and television programs focused on giving sex advice—starting with Sexually Speaking on New York radio in 1980, and spreading to empire proportions from there—Westheimer helped lead a revolution in the ways sex was talked about in the media, bringing a…
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Jul 13, 2024
FX's groundbreaking hit Shogun is expected to nab several Emmy nominations next week, but it has already emerged as a winner at the Television Critics Association (TCA) Awards. The show scored top honors at the 40th annual ceremony, including the big one: Program of the Year. HBO's Hacks came in second, sweeping the…
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Jul 12, 2024
Maya Rudolph gave a genuinely (and unsurprisingly) great interview to The New Yorker this week, timed to the recent conclusion of the second season of her AppleTV series Loot. Great, in large part, due to the sheer Maya Rudolph-ness of it all—as exemplified by a long stretch of conversation in which any discussion of…
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Jul 12, 2024
The producers of Letitia Wright's recent film Sound Of Hope would like everyone to know that they're very sorry that they didn't tell Wright (who they love) that the film would be released in partnership with conservative news outlet The Daily Wire—who, the producers of Letitia Wright's recent film Sound Of Hope would …
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Jul 12, 2024
Judge Mary Marlowe Sonner has just dismissed the involuntary manslaughter case against Alec Baldwin "with prejudice." The dismissal comes under a Brady violation, which comes into play when a judge finds that prosecution in a case withheld evidence that would have materially impacted the defense—in this case, related…
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Jul 12, 2024
Billie Eilish's latest album is lusty and romantic, the exact vibe the 22-year-old singer brought to her recent Chicken Shop Date with Amelia Dimoldenberg. For the uninitiated, Chicken Shop Date is a bit like Hot Ones, if Sean Evans was British and asked spicy questions instead of eating spicy wings. As is usually the…
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Jul 12, 2024
In a development that has, tragically, caused even the most stolid of local TV news anchors to resort to ill-advised License To Ill puns, it's being reported that the Beastie Boys are suing Chili's. (Or, technically, Brinker International, the chain's parent company, which is a fun little reminder that every dead-mall…
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Jul 12, 2024
Does anybody really believe that Euphoria is ever coming back? Well, besides HBO, which has kept up the illusion that its popular, edgy high school show is going to return, through multiple strikes, reported script disputes with creator Sam Levinson, and the general slow pace with which prestige shows seem to move…
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Jul 12, 2024
Suits continues to influence modern television, as legal dramas—directed by Ryan Murphy or otherwise—are clearly this week's hot ticket. Glenn Close, Halle Berry, and Renée Zellweger have all signed on to take the bar for various productions. Multiple projects also found their ensemble casts this week, including the…
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Jul 12, 2024
It was probably inevitable, but the phrase "Emerald Fennell is doing Wuthering Heights"still sends a real chill down the spine. Unfortunately for anyone who cares about classic literature, basic story structure, or avoiding watching Oscar-nominated actors slurp up bathtub cum on screen, the director of the divisiveSa…
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Jul 12, 2024
This is the risk you run when you marry a dangerous, edgy comedian like [checks notes] um, Saturday Night Live's Colin Jost? To be honest, Mr. Jost's time behind the Weekend Update desk hasn't exactly rocked the boat in the manner of, say, his predecessor Norm Macdonald. But there's one segment that tip-toes close to…
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Jul 12, 2024
Sorry/Not Sorry opens with a smattering of journalists and comedians (mostly men) mourning what could have become of Louis C.K.'s genius. And it's true, Louis C.K.'s genius—a word that gets used a lot throughout Cara Mones and Caroline Suh's documentary—had taken the world by storm during the late 2000s and early…
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Jul 12, 2024
For all of its nearly 50-year history, Saturday Night Live has been a deeply impractical show. Every week, a 90-minute episode is written and produced in a matter of days by a bunch of sleep-deprived comedians (some of whom, at certain points in the show's history, were on hard drugs). If the show was launched today,…
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Jul 12, 2024
Hulu's niche comedies are its underrated highlight. They range from irreverent (Pen15, The Great, High Fidelity) to inclusive (This Fool, Shrill, Ramy). The platform has cultivated a wide-ranging and fun voice through them that feels oft-forgotten while discussing more high-profile originals like Only Murders In The…
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Jul 12, 2024
Hulu's niche comedies are its underrated highlight. They range from irreverent (Pen15, The Great, High Fidelity) to inclusive (This Fool, Shrill, Ramy). The platform has cultivated a wide-ranging and fun voice through them that feels oft-forgotten while discussing more high-profile originals like Only Murders In The…
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Jul 12, 2024
Elf isn't known as one of the greatest holiday movies of all time just for its claymation narwhal or heart-attack-waiting-to-happen spaghetti dinner—though those things obviously help. The real key to Elf's success is its larger-than-life performances, specifically propped up by the ingenious idea to bring a serious…
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Jul 12, 2024
"Mind Games, to me, was like an interim record between being a manic political lunatic to back to being a musician again," John Lennon told Crawdaddy magazine in March 1974 about his fourth solo album. "I was really playing mind games—mind games is what it was. I had had enough of this trying to be deep and thought,…
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Jul 12, 2024
It's a brave new era for the shield in Captain America: Brave New World, premiering February 14, 2025. While Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) finally embraced the moniker by the end of the Disney series The Falcon And The Winter Soldier, we hadn't seen him fully step into the role of Captain America. Now, the first…
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Jul 12, 2024
Watching 2016's Sausage Party through a 2024 lens is a fraught experience. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's anti-VeggieTales comedy is stuffed with jokes based on ethnic stereotypes associated with foods. Bottles of sauerkraut spout Nazi rhetoric in song form (the joke being some pun on "exterminating the juice"). A…
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Jul 12, 2024
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off the weekend by taking a look at the world of gaming, diving in to the ideas that underpin the hobby we love with a bit of Game Theory. We'll sound off in the space above, and invite you to respond down in the comments, telling us what you're playing this weekend, and what…
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Jul 12, 2024
Welcome to the weekend edition of What's On. Here are the big things happening on TV from Friday, July 12 to Sunday, July 14. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekly edition of What's On publishes on Sundays.]
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Jul 11, 2024
Despite the way we run the vast majority of our lives, personal relationships, and incessantly running inner monologues, TV trivia is rarely a high-stakes sort of thing. Except when your failure to watch the popular HBO dramedy Succession costs anti-cancer fundraisers and non-profit workers fighting for the wrongly…
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Jul 11, 2024
Katy Perry is pretty far down the runway of what's likely to be a very aggressive push for her new album, 143, and we might have just had the official lift-off: The release of the album's first music video, "Woman's World," in which Perry positions herself as a short of satirical truth-telling robot woman, as one does.
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Jul 11, 2024
Ever since it was announced—way back in May of 2022, i.e., so long ago that Justin Roiland was still voicing the title characters back in its mothership series—we've been trying to figure out what the gag of Rick And Morty: The Anime is supposed to be. It has a great pedigree, sure, and even some solid proofs of…
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Jul 11, 2024
Michael Powell was born in the coastal English county of Kent. He started in the silent-era film industry of the 1920s, working countless studio odd jobs before he was promoted, in the 1930s, to directing low-budget "quota quickies," of which he made almost two dozen. His eventual creative partner, Emeric Pressburger,…
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Jul 11, 2024
It's a busy day for Starz. The cable network has announced a bunch of new TV shows and premiere dates at the 2024 Television Critics Association (TCA) summer press tour. But let's be real, nothing screams Starz more than its claim-to-fame in recent years: the sexy period drama Outlander. And thankfully, Starz ends the…
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Jul 11, 2024
"These three women had the audacity to believe they deserved more," Shailey Woodley enunciates in the trailer for a new Starz series titled, yes, Three Women. It sums up the video and, presumably, what the show is all about. Based on Lisa Taddeo's 2017 bestselling non-fiction novel, the drama premieres this fall on…
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Jul 11, 2024
The movie business has gotten so unstable that apparently even Michael Bay is downsizing. The Hollywood Reporter just announced that for the first time ever, the Transformers director is in talks to take his explosive tendencies to the small screen.
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Jul 11, 2024
Dune: Prophecy and The Penguin are the latest so-called "Max Originals" to jump from the streaming-only ship. Per Variety, both shows will now air on HBO, following a similar decision regarding the Harry Potter series, the IT prequel series, and the Green Lantern show. The Dune and Penguin series move is notable…
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Jul 11, 2024
Mike Flanagan knows how to give the people what they want. Apart from creating some of the best horror series of the past decade and signing on to (at least attempt to) resurrect the increasingly haunted Exorcist franchise, the Haunting Of Hill House and The Fall Of The House Of Usher director is also just a really…
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Jul 11, 2024
Sabrina Carpenter is one of the It Girls of Summer 2024 with her back-to-back pop hits "Espresso" and "Please Please Please." So naturally, she's the next guest on Hot Ones, where she dished on the craft of songwriting and her Beatles fandom while breathing heavily through intense hot sauce consumption. "I do like to…
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Jul 11, 2024
Week after week, in spite of a less-than-promising exhibition landscape, U.S. distributors release noteworthy international titles in a small number of theaters and/or on digital platforms for American audiences to access. Unfortunately, these films not in English and without any household names in their cast often…
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Jul 11, 2024
Sabrina Carpenter is one of the It Girls of Summer 2024 with her back-to-back pop hits "Espresso" and "Please Please Please." So naturally, she's the next guest on Hot Ones, where she dished on the craft of songwriting and her Beatles fandom while breathing heavily through intense hot sauce consumption. "I do like to…
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Jul 11, 2024
Shelley Duvall—star of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and multiple films by her mentor, Robert Altman—has died. The news was confirmed by her life partner, Dan Gilroy, who told The Hollywood Reporter that she died in her sleep in her home in Blanco, Texas, due to complications from diabetes. "My dear, sweet, wonderful…
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Jul 11, 2024
NBCUniversal knows what it's got with a talent like Kenan Thompson, so no wonder it would make him a spokesperson for the company and one of the faces of its Olympic coverage. At a Peacock programming preview attended by The A.V. Club on Thursday, Thompson opened the event by teasing the celebrities that will be…
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Jul 11, 2024
James Hunter—the background actor who sued Mia Goth for battery and director Ti West and A24 for wrongful termination earlier this year—has come forward with new details regarding his alleged experience on the MaXXXine set. In his complaint, originally reported in January by TMZ, Hunter claims that Goth…
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Jul 11, 2024
The power of performance is the central exploration of Sing Sing, the latest collaboration from director Greg Kwedar and co-writer Clint Bentley (Transpecos, Jockey). Taking place in the titular maximum security prison in Ossining, New York, the film follows John "Divine G" Whitfield (Colman Domingo), a skilled writer…
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Jul 11, 2024
In a new interview with InStyle, Rashida Jones says her parents, Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton, protected her and her siblings from the glare of the spotlight when they were young. Though she enjoyed the safety and privilege of her parents' position, fame "wasn't that much a part of my reality," Rashida says. That…
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Jul 11, 2024
It's finally time for the first few Cannes standouts of 2024 to start rolling out for the rest of us. Today, us regular folks got our first real glimpse at the sick and twisted world of The Substance, Coralie Fargeat's Best Screenplay-winning body horror flick. The movie stars Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, and an…
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Jul 11, 2024
As many TV critics have said recently, it's the so-called golden age of video game adaptations, thanks to HBO's The Last of Us and Prime Video's Fallout. However, tabletop games haven't been given the same due, despite Dungeons And Dragons' big-budget film last year and Margot Robbie's promised Barbie-style Monopoly…
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Jul 11, 2024
Let's face it: The Boys has meandered all season long. Thanks to NSFW sex dungeons, flying sheep, a murderous ice rink fiasco, Billy Butcher's (Karl Urban) tumor-induced visions, and whatever the hell Frenchie (Tomer Capone) has been up to, Prime Video's superhero drama feels lost. Even the two promising new Supes who…
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Jul 10, 2024
Last year, we reported that composer and musician Danny Elfman was being sued, with fellow composer Nomi Abadi accusing the Oingo Boingo frontman of failing to pay the full part of a settlement in an earlier sexual harassment suit between them. Now Abadi (one of two women who came forward with accusations against…
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Jul 10, 2024
Warner Bros. Discovery's upcoming animated adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen continues to be the gift that keeps on giving (us reasons to elaborately shrug). Today, the studio released a new redband trailer for the upcoming Watchmen Chapter 1, an animated adaptation of the classic graphic novel, that…
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Jul 10, 2024
In news eerily reminiscent of the last time we had really serious food poisoning, it sounds like a whole bunch of Chicken Soup is about to be emptied straight into the toilet. Specifically, Deadline reports that faith-based grandparent bookshelf ballast provider Chicken Soup For The Soul is liquidating in a Chapter 7…
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Jul 10, 2024
Just a few weeks after getting into a high-profile conflict with former co-star Sacha Baron Cohen, Rebel Wilson has made it clear that she's in a brand new show biz battle—this time with the producers of The Deb, Wilson's (presumably) upcoming directorial debut. We say "presumably" because Wilson took to social media…
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Jul 10, 2024
Benji Gregory, best known as Brian Tanner, the child star of ALF, has died. First reported by TMZ, Gregory was found with his service dog, Hans, who also died, in his car in a Chase Bank parking lot in Peoria, AZ, on June 13. No cause of death has been determined. He was 46.
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Jul 10, 2024
Letitia Wright has stepped in it again. Three years after she filmed, published, and deleted a video expressing her skepticism of the then-new COVID-19 vaccine, she has found herself in the conspiracy theory world again. Wright produced the film The Sound Of Hope: The Story Of Possum Trot, inspired by the true story…
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Jul 10, 2024
Letitia Wright has stepped in it again. Three years after she filmed, published, and deleted a video expressing her skepticism of the then-new COVID-19 vaccine, she has found herself in the conspiracy theory world again. Wright produced the film The Sound Of Hope: The Story Of Possum Trot, inspired by the true story…
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Jul 10, 2024
Update: Deaner ‘89 is technically not part of the FUBAR franchise. In 2019, Paul Spence sold his shares of the FUBAR IP to Dave Lawrence. Lawrence retained the rights to FUBAR and is continuing the series through TNT FUBAR. Deaner ‘89 is a new continuity unrelated to FUBAR. The article has been updated to reflect…
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Jul 10, 2024
Get ready to give'r one more time for the first time. Dean Murdoch, a.k.a. the Deaner, a.k.a. the Governor of Givin'r, the singer of Nightseeker, and the star of the 2002 cult Canadian classic FUBAR, is going back in time. Deaner '89, the upcoming origin story about the first time Dean shotgunned a beer, finally has a…
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