After nearly five years,Friends is parting ways with Netflix. Unfortunately, it looks like it’ll be more than “a break.” The popular sitcom, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, will leave Netflix on an unspecified date in early 2020. HBO Max will launch that spring with 10,000 hours of content, …
Read More »Watch Daniel Craig Probe Family Murder Plot in 'Knives Out' Trailer
Daniel Craig plays a suave Southern inspector trying to solve the murder of an acclaimed crime novelist in the new trailer for Rian Johnson’s Knives Out. The film is set to open November 27th. In the film, Craig stars as Detective Benoit Blanc, who’s brought in after the writer Harlan …
Read More »'Annabelle Comes Home' Review: Hello, Evil-Hellspawn Dolly!
Nestled somewhere in the Evil Doll Hall of Fame between Chuckie and The Twilight Zone‘s Talky Tina, the Conjuring franchise’s resident Satanic toy has enough industry juice to have knocked out three spin-off movies — not bad for a scene-stealing porcelain figure originally used as a supernatural conduit by a …
Read More »Watch Himesh Patel Cover 'Yesterday' on 'Kimmel'
Himesh Patel stars in Danny Boyle‘s upcoming film Yesterday, a movie that supposes a world where The Beatles don’t exist. In the film, Patel’s Jack Malik gets famous pretending he’s the mastermind behind hits like “Hard Day’s Night” and “Hey Jude.” The British actor appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live in …
Read More »Howard Stern Defends Jimmy Fallon for Ruffling Trump's Hair
Howard Stern opened up about a cancer scare, vented about an ill-fated interview with Robin Williams and defended Jimmy Fallon for ruffling Donald Trump’s hair during a lengthy Tonight Show interview. The radio host was on-hand Wednesday to promote his newly issued book, Howard Stern Comes Again, which blends career-highlight …
Read More »'Game of Thrones' Close-Up: Lesser of Two Evils
A lot happens in each episode of Game of Thrones. So every week, we’re drilling down on one memorable scene in particular. Full spoilers for this week’s episode, “The Last of the Starks,” coming up. “The Last of the Starks” is a real structural oddity. For nearly an hour, it …
Read More »Peter Mayhew: A Lost Interview With the Original Chewbacca
Related: 50 Best Star Wars Characters of All Time Trapped in a giant, furry suit, Peter Mayhew had only his emotive blue eyes and his seven-foot-three body to help him bring Chewbacca to life — and he did it, making Han Solo’s fuzzball co-pilot as real as any of the …
Read More »Best TV to See in May: 'Deadwood,' 'Archer: 1999,' Wu-Tang Doc
Yes, we’re all going to be busy saying goodbye to Game of Thrones this month. But May will also bring us an older HBO classic that’s back for a long-delayed proper wrap-up. (How we’ve missed you, Al Swearengen.) Meanwhile, the greatest athlete of the 20th century gets an essential two-part …
Read More »'Deadwood' Rides Again
Bullets are about to fly across Deadwood’s muddy thoroughfare. But first, poetry. It’s a crisp November morning at Melody Ranch, the venerable Santa Clarita studio that’s been home to everything from squeaky-clean Gene Autry Westerns to Django Unchained and Westworld. The picaresque main street has been dressed to recapture the …
Read More »'Killing Eve' Recap: Keep 'Em Separated
A review of “Nice and Neat,” this week’s episode of Killing Eve, coming up just as soon as my moisturizer is made of pig’s placenta… “Nice and Neat” is an ironic title for an episode that’s anything but. Even more than the premiere, this installment demonstrates some of the strain …
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