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Every Main Character In Only Murders In The Building Season 2, Ranked Worst To Best Hulu By Bee Delores/Aug. 26, 2022 5:33 pm EST How about that “Only Murders in the Building” Season 2 finale?! If you thought it couldn’t get any crazier, the writers take it up a notch. It was an undeniable roller coaster ride with some standout moments from everyone in the main cast. When we last saw our beloved Mabel (Selena Gomez), Oliver (Martin Short), and Charles (Steven Martin), they were in handcuffs being escorted from the lavish Arconia apartment building when it was discovered Bunny Folger (Jayne Houdyshell), president of the board, had been brutally murdered and discovered in Mabel’s apartment....

How ESPN’s Be Water Tried To Bring Humanity Back To The Mythic Bruce Lee Golden Harvest By J. Gabriel Ware/July 18, 2022 10:10 am EST Sometime in the ’90s — I couldn’t have been no more than 4 years old — my big brother brought home this fighting game called “Mortal Kombat” for the Sega Genesis. My favorite character quickly became Liu Kang. In my young, impressionable eyes, the character’s martial arts moveset and his high-pitched “Whaaaaah!...

Jeff Goldblum Made The Fly A Once-In-A-Lifetime Role For Geena Davis By Drew Tinnin/Nov. 26, 2022 11:00 pm EST Not only is Geena Davis remembered and recognized for iconic roles such as “Tootsie,” “The Accidental Tourist,” “Thelma & Louise,” and “A League of Their Own,” her humanitarian work has done a great deal for the entertainment industry at large. The Geena Davis Institute on Gender Media has been involved with the Bentonville Film Festival for years now, and Davis recently sat down with Collider from the festival to talk about some of her personal career highlights....

Kate Mulgrew Contributes More Than Her Voice To Star Trek: Prodigy’s Captain Janeway Paramount By Witney Seibold/Oct. 27, 2022 2:06 pm EST “Star Trek: Prodigy” returns to complete its first season on October 27, 2022, and the teenage crew of the U.S.S. Protostar has already been through a lot. After having escaped the evil Diviner (John Noble) and freed hundreds of teen slaves, the main characters have all donned Starfleet uniforms and have set about their mission to return to Federation space....

Morgan Freeman’s Favorite Role Is One He Never Wanted To Repeat Warner Bros. By J. Gabriel Ware/Aug. 21, 2022 11:38 am EST When I majored in journalism at Western Michigan University, my professors routinely showed movies in the classroom to complement their lesson plans. In my investigative journalism course, for example, one professor had us watch the 2015 biographical film “Spotlight,” which is based on The Boston Globe’s uncovering of a child sex abuse scandal committed by local Roman Catholic priests....

Mr. Peepers The Mr. Peepers character first appeared on “SNL” on September 28, 1996, during the show’s 22nd season. Guest host Tom Hanks, playing an animal trainer, was presenting a rare animal to Jay Leno on “The Tonight Show.” The rare animal was Mr. Peepers (Kattan), a human ape sporting red short and suspenders, outsize ears, and mussy hair. Mr. Peepers’ violent and outlandish behavior — he barked and flailed incessantly — was meant to stand in contrast to the hosts’ attempts to retain composure....

One Key To Mel Brooks’ Comedy Was Knowing Exactly When To Break The Fourth Wall Warner Bros By Jeremy Smith/Dec. 5, 2022 8:19 pm EST As a member of the legendary writing staff of NBC’s “Your Show of Shows” in the 1950s, Mel Brooks played a key role in pushing the formal boundaries of television comedy, so it stands to reason that he would be equally adventurous behind the lens of a film camera....

Rian Johnson’s Star Wars Trilogy Could Still Get Made Lucasfilm/YouTube By Sandy Schaefer/Aug. 30, 2022 4:01 pm EST Director Rian Johnson’s “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” riled up the “Star Wars” fanbase when it arrived in 2017, but that was also kind of the point. It’s a movie that wants to challenge your preconceived ideas about “Star Wars” in order to evolve the franchise and bring it into the future, keeping the parts that still work while learning from the mistakes of the past....

Samaritan Trailer: A Superpowered Sylvester Stallone Comes Out Of Retirement Prime Video By Jeremy Mathai/July 27, 2022 10:05 am EST Long before superhero movies ever came close to wielding as much influence on global audiences as they do now, viewers made do with an assortment of steroid-injected, distinctly-accented (and slightly overcompensating) action stars in the mold of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dolph Lundgren, and particularly Sylvester Stallone. As the closest thing we had to actual superheroes, those absurdly over-the-top movies of the ’80s leaned as hard as they possibly could into their leading men’s musclebound physiques, adding a cinematic sheen to various franchises whose niche is now filled by films set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe or its DC counterpart....

Star Trek: Lower Decks Brings Back One Of The Franchise’s Most Unsettling Enemies Paramount By Danielle Ryan/Oct. 20, 2022 12:48 pm EST This post contains spoilers for the latest episode of “Star Trek: Lower Decks.” For an animated comedy series, “Star Trek: Lower Decks” takes its world very seriously. The workplace comedy set in Starfleet, now nearing the end of its third season, has deep reverence for the “Star Trek” universe even when it’s being its irreverent itself....

The series premieres tonight at SXSW We all know that show business is a cutthroat one, but oof, Shipka’s character Lou has been planning to take Kruger’s character Joyce down, and she’s not going to let anyone stop her. It looks really juicy and I’m 100 percent ready to binge this. To be honest, this show actually would have worked well on Quibi, as it looks like every single moment is going to have us talking....

A talented improv comedian gone too soon Defiant Digital Teddy Ray’s most prolific work may well have been with All Def Digital, where he and DoBoy found humor in the competition of one-on-one basketball games, IQ tests, and smoking weed, among other challenges. The performer also appeared on the improv web series “Cancel Court” last year, where he faced off against comedian Patrick Cloud in a debate about Lil Wayne that went off the rails in a very funny way....

Butcher vs. Termite When Season 3 starts, the Boys have gone legit. Hughie is working at the Federal Bureau of Superhuman Affairs, passing info to Butcher and the gang to help them bring Supes to justice. However, that doesn’t mean they can’t still have a little bit of fun. The first mission in the show’s third season is an attempt to capture Termite, a Supe we first saw back in Season 1 who can shrink himself at will....

The 15 Funniest Moments In The Simpsons, Ranked 20th Television By Liam Gaughan/Aug. 25, 2022 4:06 pm EST It’s almost impossible to believe that “The Simpsons” is still on the air. The groundbreaking animated sitcom has been delighting audiences since 1989. “The Simpsons” was unlike anything else when it first premiered. While there had been occasional animated films like “Fritz the Cat” that were aimed at older viewers, “The Simpsons” told stories similar to the family comedies that dominated the era....

The Pokémon Company Is Looking For A Pokémon Historian, Could It Be You? Netflix By Jenna Busch/July 15, 2022 6:52 pm EST Are you a Pokémon fan who knows every bit of trivia about every single creature? The Pokémon Company is looking for you! They recently posted a job listing for an archivist to help them create a real-life Pokémon archive and museum (via Vice). As someone who only joined the Pokémon train with “Pokémon Go,” I definitely don’t qualify, but maybe you do....

Bad decisions for good reasons Prime Video “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” episode 7 drove the point home as we watched Galadriel emerge from the volcanic eruption of Mount Doom, aka Orodruin. We watched as Prince Durin (Owain Arthur) defied his father to do the right thing for his friend Elrond (Robert Aramayo), a choice that will eventually bring about the destruction of Khazad-dûm. The dwarves will dig too deep in their quest for mithril and awaken the Balrog; just as the Southlands are doomed to become Mordor, Khazad-dûm is doomed to become Moria....

To The Moon Director Scott Friend On How To Make A Horror Movie In The Woods [Interview] 1091 Pictures By Jack Giroux/Sept. 24, 2022 10:59 am EST Scott Friend hadn’t directed before “To the Moon.” No shorts, no commercials, or music videos. Friend had been acting for over a decade, though, and even produced a few short films. Right before the pandemic, he decided it was time to make a movie....

Violent Night Trailer: David Harbour’s Santa Claus Is Coming To Town Universal Pictures By Jenna Busch/Oct. 5, 2022 11:14 am EST Universal Pictures has released a new trailer for the upcoming holiday film “Violent Night,” starring David Harbour (“Stranger Things,” “Black Widow”). This comes shortly before the movie makes its debut at New York Comic Con on October 7, 2022. This happy holiday romp (kidding … this will be just as violent as the title says) showcased some footage earlier this year at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, with /Film’s own Ben Pearson describing it as a combination of “John Wick” and “Krampus....

Finally seeing the light of day The film has already had a bit of life on the festival circuit, but I was starting to wonder if it would ever actually see the light of day — and considering Eisenberg’s pull in the industry, I was surprised a film of his would end up down that road. I’m happy to find out that it won’t. The movie premiered at Sundance in January 2022, though it had a virtual showing there because of COVID-19 restrictions....

Why Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Star Dominique Thorne Didn’t Need To Audition For Riri Williams Marvel Studios By Lyvie Scott/Oct. 3, 2022 1:27 pm EST Riri Williams, aka Ironheart (above left), has been a long-awaited addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe for quite some time. As a character, she’s still relatively new — having debuted only six years ago in “Invincible Iron Man” Vol. 2 — but she quickly endeared herself to many Marvel fans, especially those hankering for a bit more Black female representation....