Jim Jarmusch’s comic deadpan seems ideally suited to the zombie genre. So who better than this indie hipster, who’s been an avatar of cool from Stranger Than Paradise to Paterson, to take a stroll with the walking dead? Having tackled vampires in high style with 2013’s Only Lovers Left Alive, …
Read More »'Pavarotti' Review: Doc on Famed Tenor Hits Most of the Right Notes
There was the 1,000 watt smile, the sort of giant grin that could light up a room, or an auditorium, or the Metropolitan Opera House. There was the bulky physique, which made an already larger-than-life figure that much larger, yet somehow not intimidating; if anything, it helped turn him into …
Read More »David Letterman Plots Season Two of 'My Next Guest Needs No Introduction'
UPDATE:The second season of David Letterman‘s Netflix series,My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, will feature interviews with Kanye West, Ellen DeGeneres, Tiffany Haddish, Melinda Gates and Formula 1 racer Lewis Hamilton. ** David Letterman’s interview series My Next Guest Needs No Introduction will return to Netflix for its second season …
Read More »See 'SNL' Cold Open Tease Republicans Over Enduring Support of Trump
Saturday Night Live opened with a Meet the Press sketch that teased Republican leadership over their unimpeachable support of Donald Trump, even as the president’s actions conflict with their own political beliefs. For instance, all three GOP members – Beck Bennett’s Mitch McConnell, Kate McKinnon’s Lindsey Graham and Cicely Strong’s …
Read More »'Killing Eve' Recap: Babes in the Woods
A review of “Smell Ya Later,” this week’s Killing Eve, coming up just as soon as I look like someone stuck a mustache on some fudge… “Together again. Gee, it’s good to be together again. I just can’t imagine that you’ve ever been gone. It’s not starting over. It’s just …
Read More »Jaden Smith To Play 'Alternate Reality' Kanye West in Showtime Series
Jaden Smith has been cast as a younger version of Kanye West in Showtime‘s upcoming limited half-hour anthology series Omniverse. Smith will play an alternate reality version of West, who will act as an executive producer on the show alongside manager Scooter Braun. According to Variety, the series will examine …
Read More »Trailers of the Week: 'Child's Play,' 'Hobbs and Shaw,' 'Big Little Lies 2'
So what dropped trailer-wise over the past seven days, you innocently ask? How about the final clip for an upcoming movie about a mutant run amuck and an uncensored look at a TV show about folks trying to bring down power-mad superheroes? Plus an animated show about birdy BFFs voiced …
Read More »'Under the Silver Lake' Review: L.A. Noir Goof Goes Nowhere, Slowly
It starts as an irresistible riff on Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye, with Andrew Garfield standing in for Elliott Gould as an Angeleno stoner and Peeping Tom-turned-amateur-detective named Sam. It ends … well, we’re still not sure where this movie ends, exactly. In this wannabe spellbinder from writer-director David Robert …
Read More »'Fosse/Verdon' Review: A Dance With the Devil
When we first meet the main characters of FX’s new limited series Fosse/Verdon, stage and screen director-choreographer Bob Fosse (Sam Rockwell) assumes such control over his wife, the dancer Gwen Verdon (Michelle Williams), that he moves her body into the position he wants. She tries it his way, then moments …
Read More »Kit Harington Winks His Way Through 'Game of Thrones' Spoilers
Kit Harington appeared onThe Tonight Show on Thursday and promptly was met withGame of Thrones questions from host Jimmy Fallon. “If I can show a picture [from theGame of Thrones trailer] and ask you something about it, maybe give me a wink for ‘yes,’ and a blink for ‘no,’” said …
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