Samantha Bee put a Wayne’s World spin on Election Day with a sketch that — emulating Mike Myers’ Saturday Night Live character — imagined the many alternate endings of the presidential race. With Juliana Hatfield serving as the basement band, Bee’s Wayne Campbell first receives the worst possible news regarding …
Read More »'SNL': 'Village People' Tell Trump to Stop Playing 'Y.M.C.A.' at Rallies
Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update poked fun at Donald Trump’s frequent use of the Village People’s music at his rallies — despite the group’s Victor Willis calling for the president to cease playing their music — by having cast members dress up as the disco quintet for a new version …
Read More »'The Breakdown' With Jensen Ackles
For 15 years, Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki have battled demons, werewolves, shapeshifters, angels, and a whole slew of other supernatural entities and paranormal creatures as hunters Dean and Sam Winchester on Supernatural. They’ve saved the world multiple times — despite what God and others have tried. Now, they’re entering …
Read More »'The War With Grandpa': What About Bob, The AARP Years
At this point in his career, Robert De Niro has nothing left to prove. If he were to retire tomorrow, the 77-year-old movie star would still have two Oscars, too many classic American movies on his resumé to count, a greatest-of-his-generation éminence grise status and a legion of pretenders to …
Read More »Good Grief: Apple TV+ Celebrates 70 Years of 'Peanuts' With 'The Snoopy Show'
Charlie Brown‘s beloved dog stars in the new series The Snoopy Show, out February 5th, 2021 on Apple TV+. The announcement arrives on the 70th anniversary of the Peanuts comic strip. The one-minute teaser features Charlie Brown training Snoopy to sit and make him shakes — “That’s delicious!” he tells …
Read More »Anya Taylor-Joy Is an Orphan Chess Prodigy in 'The Queen's Gambit' Trailer
Anya Taylor-Joy is an orphan chess prodigy in The Queen’s Gambit, out October 23rd on Netflix. Based on the 1983 novel by Walter Tevis, the trailer features Taylor-Joy as Beth Harmon, who grows up in a Kentucky orphanage in the late Fifties. She soon discovers a talent for chess, in …
Read More »Poetic Drama 'Residue' Makes Gentrification Personal
At the center of Residue, writer-director Merawi Gerima’s debut feature, there’s a crisis born out of a familiar ritual: coming home. Jay (Obinna Nwachukwu) is a D.C. native who’s just returned home from college in Los Angeles. The experience is immediately rendered strange, right in front of his own doorstep. …
Read More »Jim Carrey to Play Joe Biden on Upcoming Season of 'Saturday Night Live'
Jim Carrey will play Joe Biden on the 46th season of Saturday Night Live, which is set to premiere October 3rd. Carrey will likely appear opposite Alec Baldwin, who will return as President Donald Trump, and former cast-member Maya Rudolph, who will play Biden’s VP pick, Kamala Harris. SNL creator …
Read More »'Parks and Rec' Cast to Reunite for Virtual Town Hall
Amy Poehler, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza and Adam Scott will be among the Parks and Rec cast members that will virtually reunite for a one-night-only “Town Hall” in support of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. The series’ Retta, Jim O’ Heir, creator Michael Schur and special guests will also take …
Read More »Lily James Gets Tangled in Her Husband's Past in 'Rebecca' Trailer
Lily James grapples with her husband’s haunted past in Rebecca,out October 21st on Netflix. Based on the 1938 novel by Daphne du Maurier, the trailer features a young woman (James) getting swept up in a Monte Carlo romance with the suave widower Maxim de Winter (Armie Hammer). Soon after, Winter …
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