TV amp; Movies

Three months after Stranger Things: The First Shadow opened in London, the stage play based on the hit Netflix series is already plotting its move to Broadway. According to Broadway World, casting notices for the Broadway run of the acclaimed play have already been posted, with an estimated opening date …

In step with a growing trend of extending celebrity value beyond the grave, Marilyn Monroe has been resurrected as an AI-generated “Digital Marilyn” capable of answering questions in the dead icon’s “signature voice and style.” Soul Machines, the technology firm behind“AI-powered digital people,” debuted its new project in partnership with …

For years, fans of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series believed the books simply couldn’t be adapted to the screen. There were too many characters, spread across multiple continents, in stories that would take years to intersect. And much of the plot was inspired by …

Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey and Megan Fox were the big “winners” at the 2024 Golden Raspberries (or Razzie) Awards, the annual pre-Oscars celebration “dishonoring” the worst of Hollywood each year. A torture-porn slasher film created solely to capitalize on its characters falling into the public domain, Winnie the …

The driver charged in the fatal crash that killed actor Treat Williams in June 2023 has changed his plea to guilty, and by doing so, will avoid a prison sentence. Ryan Koss, the Vermont driver charged with gross negligent operation in Williams’ death, initially pleaded not guilty to the charge …

You remember Road House, right? The 1989 movie where Patrick Swayze is a professional New York City bouncer imported to Missouri to work at the most raucous road house bar in the Show Me State? The kind of film in which the hero does tai chi, reads philosophy and coos …

“There are many stories of chivalry where the heroic knight saves the damsel in distress,” a voice informs us before a single image appears on the screen. “This is not one of them.” It probably isn’t necessary to prep and/or warn viewers that Damsel, Netflix‘s expensive-looking throw of the cinematic …

As in Star Wars, Dune has an interplanetary emperor, and as with most similarities between the two universes, it’s probably not a coincidence, given the all-too-obvious influence of Frank Herbert’s novels on George Lucas. But in Denis Vileneuve’s Dune 2, instead of Ian McDiarmid’s lightning-tossing, “unlimited power”-bellowing Palpatine, we get …

There are many lessons to be gleaned from Season Two of The Traitors, Peacock’s smash hit reality TV competition based on the parlor game Mafia: 1) that you should never drink from an ominous-looking rusty chalice, particularly if it has been offered to you by a notoriously cutthroat former Survivor …

Akira Toriyama, the legendary manga artist who wrote and illustrated the belovedDragon BallandDr. Slumpseries, has died at the age of 68. The prolific Japanese creator died on March 1 from an acute subdural hematoma, the officialDragon Ballwebsite shared in a statement on Friday from Bird Studio, which Toriyama founded in …