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Bringing your A game to a B movie Columbia Woods is at his live-wire best as a William Kuntsler-like civil rights attorney who’s keeping the electricity on by negotiating plea deals for moneyed drug dealers. It’s principled work in theory (these men are simply supplying a demand in a deeply corrupt system that targets people of a darker skin tone), but there are greater injustices he could be addressing. It’s just that those clients don’t pay as well, if they can pay at all....

Alfred Hitchcock Wasn’t Shy About Which Of His Films He Liked The Least Tony Evans/timelapse Library Ltd./Getty Images By Demetra Nikolakakis/Sept. 9, 2022 1:32 pm EST Despite his well-earned title as the master of suspense, many of director Alfred Hitchcock’s movies left something to be desired. Though he rarely made all-out duds, his hits were so impressive that they set the bar too high for many of his lesser films. Hitchcock also had a habit of returning to the same elements: an innocent man on the run (“The 39 Steps” and “Saboteur”), a pair of murderers where one of them is horrified by the act (“Rope” and “Strangers on a Train”), etc....

Andor Feels Nothing Like Any Previous Star Wars Project – And That’s A Good Thing Lucasfilm By Jeremy Mathai/Sept. 21, 2022 8:00 am EST For as unimaginably large universe as “Star Wars” is — full of potential to host stories with all sorts of different tones, protagonists, and even mediums (as proven by the property’s shift away from the big screen and towards Disney+ streaming) — the franchise can’t help but bring things back to the famous Skywalker family again and again....

Black Adam Credit Scene Explained: We Can’t Say Anything Else In This Headline Without Spoilers New Line Cinema By Witney Seibold/Oct. 20, 2022 9:00 pm EST Warning: This article will contain spoilers for the mid-credit scene featured in “Black Adam.” Dwayne Johnson, star of Jaume Collet-Serra’s new comic book movie “Black Adam,” has given multiple interviews with the press, teasing audiences that his new movie features a notable cameo in its mid-credit sequence....

Dawnn Lewis’ Star Trek: Lower Decks Audition Was A Combination Of Kirk And Sisko [Comic-Con] Paramount+ By Ben F. Silverio/July 25, 2022 8:37 am EST If you’re a fan of “Star Trek: Lower Decks,” you’re probably really excited about the news that came out of their panel from San Diego Comic-Con 2022. The cast and crew beamed down to Hall H to share a brand-new trailer, plus some details about the Cerritos’ visit to Deep Space Nine and the live-action crossover with “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds....

Every Supernatural Season Ranked Worst To Best The CW By Jenn Adams/Aug. 3, 2022 2:07 pm EST After 327 episodes, 15 seasons, two networks, and one pandemic, the longest-running sci-fi/fantasy series in America came to an end in November 2020. “Supernatural” premiered in September of 2005 on what was then known as The WB. Creator Eric Kripke originally pitched the show as a horror series angled around a reporter, but that quickly changed to two brothers “cruising the country, chasing down these urban legends....

Everything Everywhere All At Once And Tar Were Originally Written For Male Leads A24 By Tyler Llewyn Taing/Dec. 9, 2022 2:26 pm EST Two of this year’s most discussed awards season contenders, Daniel Kwan’s and Daniel Scheinert’s (aka the Daniels’) crowd-pleasing “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and Todd Field’s provocative “Tár” might not initially seem to have a lot in common. One is a maximalist tale of a Chinese-American immigrant mother trying to save her daughter with her newfound ability to traverse the infinite multiverse, and the other is a slow-burn character study of a renowned maestro’s career imploding with the changing modern culture around her....

Fred Armisen Shares Tales Of Working On SNL With Bill Hader And James Anderson NBC By Drew Tinnin/Nov. 3, 2022 1:14 pm EST One of the many reasons that “Saturday Night Live” has managed to stay on the air since 1975 is the public’s fascination with what happens behind the scenes of the perennial sketch show. The experience of being a cast member immediately places you in rarified air with the other performers that have come before....

Lost Ollie Review: A Sweet But Familiar Adventure Promises To Unleash Your Inner Child Netflix By Shania Russell/Aug. 17, 2022 8:00 am EST Is there a more universal experience than the festering fear of looking around and realizing you’re lost? It happens to children and adults, and evidently, it’s also a very common occurrence for toys. “Lost Ollie” certainly isn’t the first time we’ve seen a beloved toy embark on a dangerous journey to find its way home, but it might very well be the most adorable....

How Tom Cruise and Chris McQuarrie pulled off the greatest stunt ever First Tom Cruise looked out from atop the Burj Khalifa, the tallest skyscraper ever built by humanity, and thought that this was good. Then, he strapped himself outside of a moving cargo plane and figured that might be better. The next few years saw him parachuting from a mind-bogglingly high altitude to duel Henry Cavill to the death and then promising to jump inside a rocket to fly into outer space....

One Thing Has Never Changed About Writing Downton Abbey Focus Features By Matthew Bilodeau/Aug. 18, 2022 5:50 pm EST “Downton Abbey” has endured across six seasons of television and two feature films as an ensemble-driven costume drama about the momentous lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and the downstairs staff that serve them. There are a lot of people to keep track of, which seems like a huge task to take on seeing as “Downton Abbey” is always adding new characters each season....

Perry Mason Season 2 Trailer: Matthew Rhys’ Angsty, Brooding Lawyer Is Back For Another Angsty, Brooding Case HBO By Jeremy Mathai/Dec. 7, 2022 12:57 pm EST When you watch enough movies and shows, you start to pick up on certain little recurring trends. Chief among them has to be the instinct to create new adaptations of classic, pulpy characters … but with a dark, brooding, and adult-only sheen layered on top....

A meeting of minds TVLine/Paramount+ Michael Dorn will finally reprise his classic role as Worf in season 3 of “Star Trek: Picard.” While none can escape the inevitable crawl of time, as “Star Trek: Picard” makes a point of emphasizing, the years certainly seem to have been kind to Picard’s old Klingon friend. Dressed in his familiar cultural clothing and carrying some well-groomed eyebrows that would put Spock himself to shame, the above image comes courtesy of TVLine and depicts the long-awaited reunion between the two former USS Enterprise-D crewmembers....

Ranking Every Season Of Family Guy From Worst To Best By Chad Collins/Aug. 23, 2022 10:58 am EST “Family Guy” follows Peter Griffin’s (Seth MacFarlane) family: his wife Lois (Alex Borstein), his daughter Meg (voiced by Lacey Chabert in season 1 until Mila Kunis took over the role from season 2 onward), his sons Chris (Seth Green) and Stewie (MacFarlane), and his dog Brian (MacFarlane). MacFarlane’s series is famous for its irreverent and boundary-pushing humor....

Think African mythology with Tarantino sensibilities Lacme Studios If there’s anything that should get you hyped for this movie, it’s the plot. “Saloum” centers around the Bangui Hyenas, a small group of mercenaries who just finished their most dangerous heist in the middle of a coup. Hiding out in a holiday camp in the Senegalese region of Sine-Saloum, the group attempts to hide in plain sight amid other troubled and secretive attendants....

Seth Rogen’s The Fabelmans Costume Gave Him A Minor Existential Crisis Universal Pictures By Witney Seibold/Nov. 16, 2022 4:27 pm EST In Steven Spielberg’s new semi-autobiographical film “The Fabelmans,” Seth Rogen plays Benny, a character inspired by Spielberg’s “favorite uncle.” Benny lives with the Fabelman family and is genial, playful, and well-liked. He’s certainly more charismatic than the family’s stuffy patriarch, Burt (Paul Dano). The film’s young protagonist, Sammy (Gabriel LaBelle) is an aspiring filmmaker and idly spends a notable camping trip filming his family playing around....

She-Hulk: Attorney At Law Review: A Messy, Meta Legal Sitcom With Humor That Mostly Misses The Mark Marvel By Valerie Ettenhofer/Aug. 17, 2022 9:00 am EST Jenn Walters doesn’t want to be patronized. The hero of Marvel’s latest TV series, “She-Hulk: Attorney At Law,” is a successful lawyer who is promptly launched into the spotlight when her new secret identity as a six-foot-seven green woman is revealed to the world. As the series shows it, Jenn (Tatiana Maslany) was already subject to everyday sexism even before going green, but after her Hulk status comes into the light, her unique body and, as one lawyer puts it, “sideshow” identity, makes her even more commodified and objectified....

She-Hulk Ending Explained: Whose Show Is It, Anyway? Marvel Studios By Lyvie Scott/Oct. 13, 2022 3:04 pm EST This post contains spoilers for the latest episode of “She-Hulk: Attorney At Law.” She-Hulk, we hardly knew ya! Nine weeks have flown by in a flash, and though it feels like we’ve only just started to gel with the newest Marvel hero, our time together is already coming to a close … at least for now, anyway....

Spider-Man: No Way Home Re-Release Leads Another Abysmal Box Office Weekend With $6 Million Sony By Hannah Shaw-Williams/Sept. 4, 2022 3:34 pm EST The box office is starving right now, and not even a National Cinema Day event and the re-release of Marvel mega-blockbuster “Spider-Man: No Way Home” can provide it with much sustenance. Variety reports that the “More Fun Stuff” version of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” is #1 at the box office this weekend with a take of $6 million....

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3 Review: The Animated Series Is As Funny And Adventurous As Ever Paramount+ By Jacob Hall/Aug. 22, 2022 3:00 am EST The beauty of “Star Trek” is that there’s so much of it that a certain percentage has to be good by default. Another beauty of “Star Trek” is that there’s so much of it that a certain percentage of it has to be bad or weird or inexplicable by default....