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Back in 1993, Hollywood had the shot of a lifetime. A shot at an opportunity to change the movie industry forever. They had all the ingredients: the rights to the highest-selling Nintendo video game and an untapped market greedy for more content. But they missed. The arrow didn’t even hit …

After years in development, there were many who doubted the necessity of an adaptation for the modern PlayStation classic The Last of Us. Already considered one of the most cinematic games ever produced, what more could it possibly bring to the table as a television show, or worse, what would …

This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The Last of Us, “Long, Long Time.” The latest chapter of the story is bookended with sequences featuring the series’ only two ongoing characters at the moment. With Tess gone — though she appears in flashbacks later in this episode — …

The wild and crazy Roy family is back for more psychological torture and corporate shenanigans in the new trailer for Season Four of Succession, premiering March 26 on HBO. The new short clip opens with a superb bit in which Kendall, Roman, and Shiv — fresh off of failing once …

First things first: as I mentioned in my review of Season One, I’m not a gamer, have never played The Last of Us, and haven’t even watched a walkthrough video of it. So I’ll be discussing this episode, and all the ones to come, solely on the basis of how …

Among the many compliments I can give HBO’s The Last of Us is that it eventually made me forget that it’s based on a video game. This isn’t a knock on video games, but on the very different, conflicting natures of gaming versus watching film or television. One is interactive, …

James Marsden knows he’s inescapable. “Someone yesterday said, ‘My son has Sonic on TV all day long, every day,’” he tells Rolling Stone. “I never know whether to apologize or not. Parents must be like, ‘I’m so sick of seeing that man’s face.’” The self-effacing 49-year-old is in a state …

If there is one incontrovertible truth, it is that Yale produces some of the worst people on planet Earth. I’m talking about Cameron (Theo James), the lecherous creep terrorizing Sicily’s Four Seasons Taormina in The White Lotus Season Two. That scholarly revelation is perhaps the least surprising one in the …

“I survived!” exclaims Theo James. Indeed, the Season Two finale of Mike White’s The White Lotus contained a number of deaths—four of them, to be exact—but none of the fallen was Cameron, James’ lecherous Yalie who not only cheats on his wife Daphne (Meghann Fahy) with a pair of escorts, …

White Lotus 3.0 is on its way. On Friday, HBO announced that The White Lotus will officially continue with a third season, and will feature a new set of guests at a different White Lotus property. The announcement comes weeks before the show is set to conclude its second season …