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Sci-Fi Isn’t The Main Focus For The Writers Of Star Trek: Lower Decks Paramount+ By Witney Seibold/Sept. 29, 2022 5:48 pm EST William Shatner’s 2014 hour-long documentary “Chaos on the Bridge” details the early days of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and specifically focuses on how, for the show’s first two seasons, no one seemed to be in charge. Gene Roddenberry created the show, but one of his lawyers, a sinister figure named Leonard Maizlish, would swoop in, rewrite scripts, change personnel, and generally try to take control....

A Piece of the Action (Season 2, Episode 17) NBC Although humorous moments abound throughout the original “Star Trek,” there aren’t many outright comedy episodes. In fact, there are only three: “I Mudd,” “A Piece of the Action,” and “The Trouble with Tribbles.” Most fans I know vote the straight “Tribbles” ticket, but that episode is merely cute-funny, whereas the over-the-top “A Piece of the Action,” is actually genuinely funny....

Alias Touchstone Television A spy drama firmly anchored in the Bush era, “Alias” is a science-fiction-charged look at the lives of CIA operatives and double agents. Sidney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) is recruited to join the CIA out of college, and ends up working alongside her estranged father, Jack (Victor Garber). However, after a shocking tragedy, Sidney learns she may not be working for who she thinks, and has to learn how to fight for herself....

The 5 Most Interesting Bits Of Dragon Lore In House Of The Dragon HBO By Danielle Ryan/Sept. 3, 2022 4:14 pm EST They might just be big fire-breathing lizards, but the three dragons on “Game of Thrones” were beloved by fans, and there are many more dragons in the prequel series, “House of the Dragon.” While Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) had to kind of wing it when it came to raising her trio, the characters on “House of the Dragon” have the knowledge of centuries of dragon-rearing passed down from dragonrider to dragonrider....

The Daily Stream: Barbarian Is The Best Horror Movie You Can Watch This Halloween 20th Century Studios By Rafael Motamayor/Oct. 31, 2022 1:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movie: “Barbarian” Where You Can Stream It: HBO Max The Pitch: Trusting strangers can be scary, but staying at their house can be absolutely terrifying....

The Daily Stream: Melancholic Western The Misfits Is Marilyn Monroe’s Final Role United Artists By Valerie Ettenhofer/Sept. 29, 2022 6:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movie: “The Misfits” Where You Can Stream It: The Roku Channel, Hoopla The Pitch: A contemplative drama with big ideas about love, companionship, and what it means to be tamed, “The Misfits” is the last role stars Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable completed before their respective deaths....

I know if I do this, I won’t be able to do that. FX In “The Old Man,” Bridges plays former CIA operative Dan Chase, whose peaceful unplugged solitude in upstate New York is upended by a home invasion. After he shoots an intruder, Chase is on the run, with a trio of government agents (played by John Lithgow, E. J. Bonilla, and Alia Shawkat) and a hitman (Gbenga Akinnagbe) on his trail....

The power of motifs Prime Video It may be easy to forget for those who’ve grown used to the barren wasteland of utterly forgettable scores in most blockbuster filmmaking these days, but once upon a time genre movies and shows relied heavily on composing to help tell their stories through something other than visuals or dialogue. Sure, it’s undeniably important to have a killer main theme that passes the ubiquitous “Is it hummable?...

Wednesday Trailer: Meet Fred Armisen As Uncle Fester Addams Cr. Vlad Cioplea/Netflix © 2022 By Sarah Milner/Oct. 9, 2022 11:13 am EST Surprise! After initially keeping the actor’s identity a secret, Netflix has revealed that Fred Armisen is playing Uncle Fester in the upcoming Addams Family series “Wednesday.” The trailer that premiered at New York Comic Con this weekend gives audiences an in-depth look at the series, setting up the basic premise, characters, and mayhem of Nevermore Academy — a bone-chilling boarding school that should be perfect for Wednesday Addams (at least, in theory)....

Which House Of The Dragon Character Is The Hottest Mess? An Investigation HBO By Fatemeh Mirjalili/Oct. 4, 2022 1:00 pm EST This post has spoilers for “House of the Dragon” episode 7. For those who don’t already know, House Targaryen’s sigil is a three-headed dragon, and its words are “Fire & Blood.” I don’t know what that sounds like to you, but anyone who has been acquainted with the unhinged antics of the members of this noble Valyrian house already knows that most of its members are a hot mess....

10 Most Shocking Moments Of Better Call Saul’s Final Season AMC By Ernesto Valenzuela/Aug. 17, 2022 11:00 am EST One of the best television shows ever to grace our screens has ended, and with it, the “Breaking Bad” Universe that Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould created. “Better Call Saul” aired its series finale this past Monday, ending its incredibly well-crafted sixth season. This last stretch of the series featured massive tonal shifts and particularly dark imagery, which paired well with the fact that Saul Goodman was well on his way to getting the ending he deserved....

12 Movies Like The Hangover That Are Absolutely Hilarious Warner Bros. Pictures By Liam Gaughan/Nov. 3, 2022 11:52 am EST “The Hangover” is one of the most influential comedy films of the 21st century, and certainly one of the raunchiest. While comedies have been testing the boundaries of acceptable content since their inception, “The Hangover” truly showed audiences something they had never seen before. Part of the reason the film became so iconic is that it was an event....

Akira Kurosawa Set Out To End One Of Japanese Filmmaking’s Biggest Trends Toho By Debopriyaa Dutta/Aug. 14, 2022 11:58 pm EST Legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa opened “Seven Samurai” with a group of bandits approaching a small village on horseback. Between the opening credits and the first shot, Kurosawa established the themes of civil unrest and violence that would permeate the film; the bandit scene predicts the brutal savagery that is about to play out....

Andor’s Faye Marsay Hopes Vel Sartha Helps To Normalize LGBTQ+ Representation [Exclusive] Lucasfilm By Erin Brady/Nov. 2, 2022 4:50 pm EST “Star Wars,” much like other Disney-owned franchises, tends to hype up its LGBTQ+ representation a bit too much. While it is nice to know that same-sex relationships exist in the franchise, seeing two faceless characters kiss in the background of a scene isn’t exactly revolutionary. Having an established character — perhaps even multiple — be explicitly queer while not leaning their characterization solely on that trait is much better representation than what we have been given so far....

The War Dog Marvel Studios The first character seen in the “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” trailer is Lupita Nyong’o’s Nakia. While we won’t dedicate too many words to speculation about who the next Black Panther will be, Nyong’o has certainly proven herself many times over as a leading lady in movies like “Us,” “Queen of Katwe,” and “12 Years a Slave.” Nakia is a War Dog, one of Wakanda’s highly-trained spies, who serves the country by carrying out covert intelligence missions on foreign soil....

Brandy Will Return To The Role Of Cinderella In Disney+ Descendants Prequel The Pocketwatch Walt Disney Television By BJ Colangelo/Nov. 21, 2022 6:51 pm EST Whitney Houston was right: “Impossible things are happening every day.” The first Black woman to ever play Cinderella on screen and the Vocal Bible herself, Brandy will be wearing her glass slippers once again as she reprises the role for the “Descendants” prequel film, “The Pocketwatch” for Disney+, according to Variety....

Bringing His Vision Of Batman To Life Was ‘Torture’ For Tim Burton Warner Bros. By Christian Gainey/Oct. 28, 2022 9:27 am EST In 2005, Christopher Nolan’s “Batman Begins” introduced a darker and moodier version of the iconic superhero than had ever been seen on-screen before, and that angst and violence was further embraced by Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” in 2022. For the first time in a while, moviegoers were given raw and brutal street fights between The Dark Knight and Gotham goons, and wanted more....

The story and stars of Carry On Netflix “Carry On” is a thriller set at an airport and focusing on a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent named Ethan Kopek, a young employee who finds himself at the center of a blackmailing scheme when a mysterious traveler forces him to allow a dangerous package through security and onto a flight on Christmas Day. Taron Egerton (“The King’s Man,” “Rocket Man,” “Eddie the Eagle”) is slated to play the young TSA worker and while it is still unconfirmed, Deadline has speculated that “Ozark” and “Arrested Development” star Jason Bateman will play the traveler....

A friendship Apple TV+ At the start of “Causeway,” we’re introduced to Lawrence’s character Lynsey in a mute, unmoving state. She was injured overseas — we later learn she’s a member of the Army Corps of Engineers — and a brain injury has left her unable to take care of herself. After being nursed back to some semblance of health (Jayne Houdyshell plays the nurse, in a very small, but very impactful role), Lynsey returns home to live with her mother Gloria (Linda Emond), a woman so frazzled that she forgets to even pick Lynsey up at the bus stop....

Classic Western High Noon Is Becoming A Broadway Stage Play From Forrest Gump Writer United Artists By BJ Colangelo/July 27, 2022 5:55 pm EST The Western genre may not be as prolific as it was half a century ago, but “High Noon” continually remains one of the seminal pieces of American Western cinema. Directed by Fred Zinneman and starring Gary Cooper as Will Kane and Grace Kelly as his wife Amy, “High Noon” is about a former marshal preparing to leave his small New Mexico town with his new wife when he learns that a rough and tumble criminal Frank Miller, someone he put in jail, has been released and is looking for revenge....