Ryan Reynolds stopped by The Late Show via video chat to speak with Stephen Colbert about the COVID-19 pandemic, his efforts to raise funds for coronavirus relief and why it’s essential for people and companies to give back. During the lengthy chat, Reynolds discussed being the only man quarantined in …
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“I’m a journalist!” Hilde Lisko tells her father, Matt. “You’re a fourth-grader!” he replies. Both are right. In the new Apple TV+ drama Home Before Dark, inspired by the real work of underage reporter Hilde Lysiak, Hilde (Brooklynn Prince) goes to elementary school and has trouble making friends, but she’s …
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HBO has released a trailer for its upcoming film, Bad Education, which stars Hugh Jackman as a school district superintendent caught in the middle of an embezzlement scandal. Jackman stars alongside Allison Janney and Ray Romano in the film, which was directed by Cory Finley. The movie is based on …
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In the premiere of Twenties, BET’s new dramedy about a trio of girlfriends negotiating love, life, and showbiz, studio executive Marie (Christina Elmore) praises a black romance movie simply for existing. “We should support black shit,” she insists. Her aspiring screenwriter friend Hattie (Jonica T. Gibbs) retorts, “We should support …
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Saturday Night Live returned from its two-week hiatus to tackle the most pressing issue to emerge in recent weeks, the coronavirus, with the show’s Vice President Mike Pence leading a press conference on the spreading illness that gets hijacked by the remaining Democratic presidential candidates. “Most of you know me …
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The backstory to the reboot of Steven Spielberg’s quirky, cult Eighties hitAmazing Stories could be a series itself. NBC announced the project in 2015 before the show headed over to Apple TV+ two years later. Showrunner Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies, American Gods) and executive producer Hart Hanson left the project …
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After being axed ahead of its release last fall, the controversial thriller The Hunt has received a new trailer and will finally be released in theaters March 13th. The film centers around 12 strangers from working-class and/or Southern communities who are referred to as “deplorables,” kidnapped and forced to partake …
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In an early episode of Netflix‘s new supernatural thriller Locke & Key, teen heroine Kinsey Locke (Emilia Jones) is invited by her new friend Scot (Petrice Jones) to see a Band of Horses tribute act, one of several cover bands operating in Matheson, the remote New England coastal town where …
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A review of this week’s The Good Place, “Mondays, Am I Right?”, just as soon as I’m back in my toilet library… On last week’s Good Place, Team Cockroach (with an assist from Raylan Givens) triumphed over the literal forces of evil (and institutional stubbornness), setting up a Happily Ever …
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When the collective republics of the Soviet Union began their conscious uncoupling in the early 1990s, many Russians saw the collapse as a bold new step toward freedom and democracy. Mikhail Khodorkovsky saw cash. The future billionaire had grown up with dreams of being an engineer — he lived on …
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