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The 16 Best Saul Goodman Moments In Better Call Saul And Breaking Bad AMC By Nick Bartlett/Aug. 18, 2022 2:38 pm EST Warning: This article contains spoilers for the series finale of “Better Call Saul.” From his introduction in Season 2 of “Breaking Bad,” Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) was an instant fan favorite. With his silver tongue, sharp suits, and canny brain, he is the perfect legal advisor to Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and his expanding drug empire....

Checking in with the Streaming Wars HBO Before we break down the nitty-gritty, let’s check in with the eternal battle for streaming dominance. Back in the olden days (five years ago), the Emmy ceremony was dominated by broadcast networks and cable TV — both of which continue to make a dent in the nominations list, but as streaming services become the new norm, they inevitably have a way of taking over the show....

The Best TV Shows And Movies Leaving Netflix In August 2022 Warner Bros. By Rafael Motamayor/July 21, 2022 8:35 am EST We’re getting to the end of the month, which means another month of turnarounds in the Netflix library of titles. With economic problems looming over the company’s blockbuster-making future, and every studio having their own streaming service, old licensing deals are not being renewed like they were before, meaning lots of wonderful movies not produced by Netflix are leaving the service, some temporarily and some forever....

The Ending Of The Menu Even Surprised Anya Taylor-Joy Searchlight Pictures By Matthew Bilodeau/Oct. 12, 2022 5:21 pm EST Director Mark Mylod’s directorial body of work has taken him from the world of prestige HBO television (“Succession,” “Game of Thrones”) to the antics of Sacha Baron Cohen (“Ali G Indahouse”). While his career has been mostly steeped in the world of television, Mylod has managed to direct some feature films as well, with his last being a rom-com vehicle starring Anna Faris and Chris Evans (“What’s Your Number?...

Watch The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power trailer You know, maybe Samwise Gamgee said it best when he nervously sputtered on about how he “…heard a good deal about a Ring, and a Dark Lord, and something about the end of the world” because, well, that just about sums up the extent of this new trailer. Much like how another, far older version of the character (played by the esteemed Cate Blanchett, of course) did in Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” Morfyyd Clark’s Galadriel gravely intones about the coming threat of Sauron — a warning that falls on deaf ears to a world that has moved past such concerns after the defeat of Morgoth, the even darker Dark Lord (yeah, there’s a few of them) of whom Sauron was only a servant....

The Most Jaw-Dropping CGI Moments In Star Wars History Lucasfilm By Molly Turner/July 8, 2022 2:03 pm EST Aside from its characters and storytelling in a galaxy far, far away, Star Wars is known for breaking boundaries in visual and special effects. The franchise’s history with groundbreaking visual storytelling dates back to the original film when writer and director George Lucas created his own special effects company Industrial Light and Magic to produce technology that did not yet exist....

You Probably Shouldn’t Expect A Key & Peele Revival Anytime Soon [Exclusive] Comedy Central By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 19, 2022 5:42 pm EST The combined forces of Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key have made them one of comedy’s greatest duos, with their series “Key and Peele” remaining one of the premier sketch comedy shows in recent memory. The show went off the air in 2015 after five seasons, but managed to snag the Primetime Emmy award for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series on its way out....

Animator Lee Hardcastle On Producing His Surreal Rick And Morty Halloween Special [Exclusive Interview] Adult Swim By Michael Boyle/Oct. 31, 2022 12:00 pm EST Regular viewers of Adult Swim probably know animator Lee Hardcastle from his work on those 15-second skits that often play between commercials. Those segments, called “The Non-Canonical Adventures of Rick and Morty,” are wonderful, slightly-unsettling treats for “Rick and Morty” fans, throwing the show’s characters into quick movie parodies in a delightfully eerie claymation style....

Christian Bale’s Acting Process Doesn’t Put Much Stock In Scripts Paramount Pictures By Joshua Meyer/July 11, 2022 10:34 am EST If you watched Christian Bale and company in “Thor: Love and Thunder” and thought, “Are they just making this up as they go along?” it turns out, that may not be so far from the truth. We heard previously from Bale’s costar Natalie Portman that director (and info-dump narrator, as Korg) Taika Waititi gave the actors latitude to improvise major plot points on the set of the latest Marvel Studios film....

Daniel Kaluuya Cast As Spider-Punk In Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse Sony Pictures Animation By Rafael Motamayor/Nov. 7, 2022 2:41 pm EST “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” remains not only one of the best superhero movies ever made but arguably the best Spider-Man film. Four years later, this movie remains an absolute marvel of storytelling and of animation, a film that changed the game for American animation, inspiring a stylized look that influenced everything from “The Mitchells vs....

Danny DeVito’s Time On Taxi Meant Missing Out On Indiana Jones ABC By Matt Rainis/Oct. 2, 2022 10:30 pm EST There are few actors with as unique a screen presence as Danny DeVito. When DeVito plays a part, he plays it in a way that nobody else could. Ever since his first major film role as one of the patients in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” DeVito’s voice, stature, and overall comedic ability have become one-of-a-kind....

Did Harper Actually Cheat On Ethan In The White Lotus Season 2 Episode 6? HBO By Shae Sennett/Dec. 6, 2022 1:00 pm EST Season 2 of “The White Lotus” is all about strained relationships. One of the most troubled marriages on the show is between Ethan and Harper Spiller, portrayed by Will Sharpe and Aubrey Plaza. Tensions have been building all season long between Ethan, Harper, and Ethan’s college roommate Cameron, played by Theo James....

Disenchanted Review: A Surprisingly Enjoyable And Overdue Sequel Disney By Josh Spiegel/Nov. 18, 2022 3:00 am EST If you need any proof of the faulty decision-making exemplified by the Oscars, consider that they failed to give Amy Adams an Academy Award for her sterling work in the 2007 Disney fantasy “Enchanted.” Adams’ performance in “Enchanted,” in which she delivered a true breakout-star turn as an animated princess brought into the real world who was forced to learn about how our world is a bit different than hers, is a genuine force of nature....

Futurama’s Kif Started Off A Lot More Like Star Trek’s Spock FOX By Devin Meenan/Aug. 9, 2022 8:29 am EST “Futurama” is a loving send-up of science fiction, “Star Trek” very much included. The series’ parodies of “Trek” got pretty bald, such as the episode “Where No Fan Has Gone Before,” which features the Planet Express crew teaming up with the original “Star Trek” cast to fight the alien Trekkie Melllvar....

Greg Nicotero Is Working On A Film About The Making Of Night Of The Living Dead Image Ten By Eric Vespe/July 22, 2022 8:01 pm EST If there’s one thing Hollywood loves it’s movies about the making of movies. Film production is a crazy, hectic, inspiring, frustrating, and sometimes magical experience, which of course translates well into fictionalized drama — and that’s under the best of circumstances. The scrappy, no-budget, a**holes-and-elbow-grease type of production pops even better on screen....

How Inland Empire Tied Together Three Unrelated David Lynch Shorts Absurda By Witney Seibold/Oct. 13, 2022 9:42 am EST As any home media hunters of a certain age know, securing a VHS copy of David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature “Eraserhead” was a Herculean task. Cassettes were rare, and the ones the public could access were typically living in libraries or video stores who would not sell them to you. If you were willing to shell out $80 to $100, in 1992 dollars, then maybe you could cut a deal....

Ingrid Bergman Had To Test The Waters Before Trusting The Hollywood System Warner Bros. By Mike Shutt/Oct. 16, 2022 9:30 pm EST Whenever Hollywood looks to the rest of the world to find talented, beautiful women to star in their films, they inevitably end up falling into one of two categories: They are either able to completely assimilate into what Hollywood deems to be American culture, or they are branded as exotic temptresses....

Dance ’till you die Netflix Nevermore Academy has a thriving social scene. There are fangs, furs, stoners, and scales — the four main cliques. Like normie high school, there are certain social expectations, including attending the upcoming Rave’n. If you’re gonna go, you have to have a date. Torn between two lovers, Wednesday attends with Tyler (Hunter Doohan) and even dresses the part. Donning a frilly black dress, Wednesday crashes the party with gawking looks and gasps from the crowd, a moment ripped out of “She’s All That....

The Duke goes to Harvard Universal The goofy feud kicked off when Jim Downey, the undergrad president of the Lampoon and future head writer of “Saturday Night Live,” fired off a missive to Wayne. According to Scott Eyman’s “John Wayne: The Life and Legend,” it read as follows: “You think you’re tough? You’re not so tough. You’ve never pored through dozens of critical volumes on imagist poetry. You’ve never gotten your hands dirty with Corrasable Bond and corrector fluid....

Josh Brolin Knew His Deadpool Casting Came With Some Baggage By Jamie Gerber/July 22, 2022 3:12 pm EST While it has become increasingly common for actors of a certain caliber to portray comic superheroes and villains on the big screen, Josh Brolin has played not one, but two major Marvel characters in the past few years, both of whom were a huge hit with fans. Though Thanos first appeared in “Avengers” in 2012, Brolin debuted as the Mad Titan in “Guardians of the Galaxy” in 2014....