McKenna Grace Announced The Release Of The Bad Seed Returns Has Been Delayed Following Uvalde Shooting
Variety is reporting that Lifetime is pushing the release of “The Bad Seed Returns” in the wake of the horrific school shooting in Uvalde, TX that has claimed the lives of 19 children and 2 adults. “The Bad Seed” originated as a novel that was then adapted as a stage play and subsequently a film in 1956 starring […]
Continue readingHow Microsoft Turning Down A Marvel Deal Led To PlayStation’s Exclusive On The Spider-Man Games
The console wars have deeply divided gamers for as long as I’ve been around, and I’ve been around a long, long time. In recent years, Nintendo has been happy to be off on their own little island, doing what they do best and fostering their own IP while Sony and Microsoft duke it out for […]
Continue readingHayden Christensen Explains His ‘Cathartic’ Return to Darth Vader for ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’
Director Deborah Chow knew that there is no Obi-Wan Kenobi without Anakin Skywalker, no Jedi Master without Darth Vader. Thus, there could be no Ewan McGregor without Hayden Christensen.Upcoming Disney+ series “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” debuting May 27, marks both McGregor and Christensen’s respective returns to the “Star Wars” franchise after the prequel trilogy. Set 10 years […]
Continue reading‘This Is Us’ Finale Had the Series’ Best Ratings Since November 2020
Wipe your eyes, last night’s “This Is Us” series finale just scored the show’s best “live” ratings since November 2020.The end of Season 6 (and the series) drew a 1.27 rating among adults 18-49, according to Nielsen. That is the key demo for entertainment programming, the one that most ad-supported shows use to sell their […]
Continue readingMelanie Lynskey Isn’t a Fan of Watching Herself Onscreen in ‘Yellowjackets’: ‘It’s Torture’
Even after 30 years in Hollywood, Melanie Lynskey isn’t a fan of watching herself onscreen.The “Yellowjackets” star joked that she “would forget every audition if I could” and said seeing herself acting is torture.”“I watch it one time so I know how to talk about it when I have to talk about it,” Lynskey told […]
Continue readingViggo Mortensen Dispels “Bullsh*t” Myth That Cronenberg’s Cannes Jury “Deprived” Pedro Almodóvar Of 1999 Palme d’Or Win
It’s a Cannes Film Festival legend. Supposedly, at the 1999 festival, when David Cronenberg headed the competition jury, he swayed his jury cohorts to award the Palme d’Or to the Dardennes’ “Rosetta” over Pedro Almodóvar‘s festival favorite, “All About My Mother.” Now, at this year’s festival, “Crimes Of The Future” star Viggo Mortensen put the […]
Continue readingPairing Jason Statham With A Baby Was A Big Bet For The Fast 8 Crew
The “Fast & Furious” movies pride themselves on their absurdity, and 2017’s “The Fate of the Furious” is no different. It’s a film where, among other things, Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto wins a race by driving a car backwards while it’s on fire, the villain Cipher (Charlize Theron) hacks into the electronics systems of a […]
Continue readingWhy Season 5 Of Black Mirror Is Better Than You Remember
After a lot of behind-the-scenes complications, “Black Mirror” is officially returning for a sixth season on Netflix. Now that fans have something to look forward to again, it’s worth looking back on the show’s most widely-derided string of episodes: season 5. The season started off with “Striking Vipers,” an episode whose biggest claim to fame was […]
Continue readingApple TV+ Orders Speed Racer Series From J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot
You didn’t think Tom Cruise was the only one with a patent on the phrase “the need for speed,” did you?Both filmmaker J.J. Abrams and Apple TV+ remain incredibly busy these days. The producer extraordinaire has his fingers in a number of different pots through his Bad Robot production company, although we most recently heard that his “Demimonde” […]
Continue reading‘Elvis’ Review: Baz Luhrmann’s Deliriously Awful Biopic Is ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ at 4,000 M.P.H.
“It doesn’t matter if you do 10 stupid things so long as you do one smart one,” Colonel Tom Parker advises us near the start of Baz Luhrmann’s utterly deranged musical biopic about the King of Rock & Roll, but even a ratio that forgiving would still leave “Elvis” roughly 370 “smart ones” short. If […]
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