The cardinal rule of bedtime is simple: Don’t look under the bed. Everybody knows this. Amoebas know this. Yet Kaylee, one of the two young kids in Kyle Edward Ball’s low-budget Canadian horror flick Skinamarink, does it anyway. Worse, she does so after a voice in the dark instructs her …
Read More »Joaquin Phoenix Can't Tell Fact From Fiction in Neurotic 'Beau Is Afraid' Trailer
Reality and illusion blur into one in the first official trailer for Ari Aster‘s upcoming dramedy Beau is Afraid. Joaquin Phoenix stars as Beau, an outwardly well-meaning man riddled with anxiety and family trauma who loses his grasp on reality. Believing he’s on his way to visit his overbearing mother, …
Read More »Pamela Anderson Is Ready to 'Take Control of the Narrative' in New Netflix Documentary Trailer
Pamela Anderson gets the chance to tell her story her way in the new trailer for the upcoming documentary, Pamela, a Love Story, set to arrive Jan. 31 on Netflix. The opening moments of the clip seem to encapsulate the project’s aim, with Anderson appearing to react to the renewed …
Read More »Bad Bunny Executive Producing 'They Both Die at the End' Netflix Series
Bad Bunny loves himself a good, sappy read. The singer has signed on to executive produce the upcoming Netflix adaption of the New York Times bestselling YA novel They Both Die in the End, Rolling Stone has confirmed. The series, based on the novel written by Adam Silvera, is also …
Read More »'Alcarras' Is a Powerful Movie About a Divided Family Fighting for Its Future
Carla Simón’s wonderful Alcarràs is set in Alcarràs, Catalonia, among a three-generation family of peach farmers whose future is uncertain. The movie is about this uncertainty. Years ago, the patriarch of the family, Rogelio (Josep Abad), made a deal with the owners of the land, the Pinyols, that it now …
Read More »In Movies and TV, Self-Harm Is No Longer the Butt of the Joke
The comedic instinct to use anything and everything as fodder for ridicule means even the most sensitive of subjects can be reduced to a punchline. And in the past decade or so, several popular TV shows have used self-mutilation, specifically cutting, for cheap laughs. Cutting always served the same purpose …
Read More »Penn Badgley Is in His Sherlock Holmes Era (But Still Dangerously Horny) in New 'You' Trailer
Penn Badgley’s Joe Goldberg has to try to suppress his own murderous desires while trying to find a different killer in the new trailer for Season Four of You. The Netflix series picks up in London, where Joe has absconded to after getting rid of his past life, and wife, …
Read More »Jenna Ortega, Jennifer Coolidge Announced to Present at 2023 Golden Globes
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is shifting into high-gear ahead of the televised return of the Golden Globes. After last year’s awards were handed out via a very long Twitter thread, the typical A-list presenters will return this year with Quentin Tarantino, Billy Porter, and Jamie Lee Curtis among them. …
Read More »Hugh Jackman Loves Wolverine, But Not Enough to Use Steroids to Become Him
If chickens ever decided to seek revenge against all of the non-vegans and non-vegetarians of the world, Hugh Jackman would be one of their biggest targets. In a recent interview for HBO’s Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace, the actor recalled his process of bulking up for his role as X-Men …
Read More »'Workaholics' Movie Canceled Weeks Before Filming Was Supposed to Begin
The Workaholics movie has been canceled five weeks before it was set to begin filming, according to a new message from one member of the comedy outfit, Adam DeVine. “Welp, Paramount+ decided to cancel the Workaholics movie,” DeVine wrote on Instagram Monday, Jan. 9. “Obviously, this news is the loosest …
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