If wishing could make it so, Underwater would be Alien on the ocean floor. Instead, this brazen carbon copy of Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi landmark is just all wet. Shot three years ago, this soggy horrorshow gives credence to the belief that January is the month Hollywood uses to bury …
Read More »Best TV/Streaming to See in Jan.: 'Star Trek: Picard,' 'New Pope,' 'Good Place' Goodbye
The rush of the holidays is now behind us, the weather sucks, and the news is getting scarier by the day. There’s really only one sane response: stay in and watch more television. Continuing its never-ending flood of content, Netflix has already released Messiah and Spinning Out, series designed to …
Read More »Jordan Peele's 'Hunters' Releases New Trailer With Al Pacino
Amazon has released a new full-length trailer for Jordan Peele’s Hunters, a new original series starring Al Pacino and Logan Lerman that follows a group of Nazi hunters in Seventies New York City. The series will premiere February 21st on Amazon Prime. While attending his grandmother’s funeral, Jonah Heidelbaum (Lerman) …
Read More »Golden Globes 2020: Where and How to Watch This Year's Ceremony
Ricky Gervais will return to host the 2020 Golden Globes Awards, Sunday January 5th. The telecast will broadcast live from the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles starting at 8 p.m. EST/5 p.m. PST on NBC. Along with the television broadcast, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s annual gala will also …
Read More »'The Cotton Club': Francis Ford Coppola's Mangled Epic Gets an Encore
Francis Ford Coppola did not want to make another gangster film. He’d already made two of the most commercially successful, critically lauded organized-crime movies of all time, and though people kept saying he could have a lucrative career by simply churning out Godfather clones if he wanted to, the writer-director …
Read More »Paul McCartney Animated Film 'High in the Clouds' Headed to Netflix
A film adaptation of Paul McCartney’s children’s novel, High in the Clouds, is headed to Netflix. Per a statement, High in the Clouds tells the story of a teenage squirrel named Wirral who finds himself “pulled into a ramshackle gang of teenage rebels who live high in the clouds after …
Read More »'Wonder Woman 1984': See Sequel's Action-Packed First Trailer
Wonder Woman brings her golden lasso into the Eighties in the first trailer for Wonder Woman 1984, the sequel to the DC superhero’s 2017 movie. The preview debuted Sunday at the CCXP in Sao Paolo, Brazil. The sequel keeps its mysterious plot under wraps, instead focusing on Gal Gadot’s Diana …
Read More »Baby Yoda: An Evolutionary Psychologist Breaks Down His Scientific Cuteness
Baby Yoda has been awakening the hearts (and biological clocks) of the Internet since his recent premiere in The Mandalorian, thenew Star Wars show on Disney+. With his massive eyes and tiny Jedi cloak, the mini Yoda — who is a member of Yoda’s species and not Yoda himself — …
Read More »'His Dark Materials' Recap: Mother Superior
The show is called His Dark Materials. But who are we kidding? It’s all about her. HBO‘s latest fantasy epic struck gold when it cast Ruth Wilson as its villain, Mrs. Coulter. In lesser hands, the sinister head of the General Oblation Board and leader of its “gobblers” would be …
Read More »Watch Harry Styles Play 'Funeral DJ' on 'SNL'
Harry Styles and Chris Redd play a pair of “Funeral DJs” in a wacky sketch from Saturday’s SNL. The bit opens with a priest (Mikey Day) paying tribute to the late Betty as her family looks on mournfully. But the tone shifts after he introduces the woman’s “close personal friends” …
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