Tyler Perry checking another romantic trope off the list with his take on forbidden love in his upcoming film A Jazzman’s Blues. In the trailer for his forthcoming The Notebook-esque film, the multi-hyphenate uses jazz music born in the deep South to soundtrack a tale of two star-crossed lovers, Bayou …
Read More »Middle Earth's Mightiest Prepare for Battle in Final 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' Trailer
With the premiere of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power a mere 10 days away, Prime Video has shared a final, expansive trailer for the highly-anticipated new series. The new series is set during the fabled “Second Age” of Middle Earth, thousands of years before the events …
Read More »Nick Kroll Plots First Standup Special in a Decade With 'Little Big Boy'
After Nick Kroll’s first standup special, Thank You Very Cool, arrived over a decade ago, the comedian shifted his focus toward his star-performing television endeavors, like the Netflix animated series Big Mouth. But Kroll is all grown up now, and he has a new standup special, Nick Kroll: Little Big …
Read More »'House of the Dragon' Premiere Recap: Once Upon a Time in Westeros…
King’s Landing. The Iron Throne. The Red Keep, the theme song, the sex and the violence, more platinum-blonde Targaryens than you can shake a Valyrian steel sword at. And dragons. Big, flying, fire-breathing dragons. Based on its premiere episode — you can’t properly call it a pilot, since the whole …
Read More »UK TV Will 'Reimagine' Prince Andrew's Embarassing Jeffrey Epstein Interview in a Satirical Musical
A satirical take on Prince Andrew is headed for Channel 4. On Monday, the British network announced that it’ll air Prince Andrew: The Musical, a comedic musical based on the Duke of York’s life, including his BBC interview about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein in 2019. The network said the …
Read More »'The Rehearsal' Finale: A Comedic Rorschach Test Takes a Strange Turn
This post contains spoilers for the season finale of The Rehearsal, which is now streaming on HBO Max. Among the most clever things about Nathan Fielder‘s The Rehearsal is that its very structure, along with the secrecy behind how Fielder and company produced the docu-comedy, makes it almost entirely analysis-proof. …
Read More »'I'm Basically a Ticking Time Bomb': Watch Trailer for Netflix's Lori Vallow Docuseries 'Sins of Our Mother'
In the first trailer for the forthcoming three-part docuseries Sins of Our Mother, archival footage depicts Lori Vallow engaged in some uncomfortably eerie foreshadowing. “Being a good mom is very important to me, and a good wife,” she says, adding with a light laugh: “Being all those things together is …
Read More »'Free Chol Soo Lee': The Anti-True Crime Documentary That Exposes Much More Than a Terrible Miscarriage of Justice
On the surface, Julie Ha and Eugene Yi’s Free Chol Soo Lee tells the story of an infamous wrongful conviction and its long cultural aftermath. If you recognize the name, you know the story. In Chinatown, San Francisco, in 1973, a man named Yip Yee Tak was gunned down on …
Read More »Bill Paxton's Family Settles Wrongful Death Suit With Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
The family of actor Bill Paxton has reached a settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit filed against Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the surgeon who performed his heart surgery shortly before he died on Feb. 25, 2017. According to a court filing obtained by the Associated Press, the suit was filed …
Read More »'They Made Up This Story': Gary Busey Denies Groping Women at Horror Film Convention
Actor Gary Busey is facing four criminal charges, including two counts of criminal sexual contact in the fourth degree. The Cherry Hill Police Department confirmed the charges, which relate to “incidents occurring at the annual Monster-Mania Convention hosted by the Doubletree Hotel.” The event, held during the weekend of Aug. …
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