Oh, how the folks behind Earth’s Mightiest Heroes have fallen. Going into 2023, Marvel Studios was still busy licking their wounds from the previous year. Recent big-screen entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe had underwhelmed, notably Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Thor: Love and Thunder (despite the …
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Ghostbusters ain’t ‘fraid of no ghosts, but they are scared of extreme climate change in the teaser trailer for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the latest installment in the ghoul-fighting franchise. The sequel to 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife — which introduced a new proton-packing team featuring Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhard, and Carrie Coon …
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This post contains spoilers for the season finale of Only Murders in the Building, which is now streaming on Hulu. The climax of Only Murders in the Building Season Three solves two mysteries for the price of one. It’s opening night for Death Rattle Dazzle, and director Oliver (Martin Short) …
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“I liked the first season a little better than the second season.” This sentiment is uttered by someone talking about the fictional podcast Only Murders in the Building, as opposed to talking about the Hulu comedy series about the three friends who make said podcast. But like a lot of …
Read More »'Only Murders in the Building' Gets Homicidal in the Theater With Season 3 Trailer
The podcasting trio from Hulu‘s Only Murders in the Building — made up of Mabel (Selena Gomez), Charles (Steve Martin), and Oliver (Martin Short) — is a magnet for murder. The trailer for the show’s third season, which premieres on Aug. 8, finds them caught up in another whodunit mystery, …
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Paul Rudd plays a flustered mailman who is incapable of delivering letters because he is worried about his ailing ferret in the video for Claud‘s “A Good Thing.” The track appears on the artist’s Supermodels album, out today. (The album, incidentally, contains a song titled “Paul Rudd.”) Finding Claud’s mail …
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This post contains spoilers for the season finale of Party Down, “Sepulveda Basin High School Spring Play Opening Night.” Throughout the publicity campaign for Starz’s unexpected revival of Party Down, the stars and producers of the comedy cult classic all lamented the fact that Lizzy Caplan was not able to …
Read More »Meryl Streep Makes Her Debut in 'Only Murders in the Building' With Season Three Teaser
A guest star worthy of being presented on Oscars Sunday! Hulu just released the official teaser for Only Murders in the Building Season three — and shared a first look at Meryl Streep and Paul Rudd as the season’s newest guest stars. “This really happening again?” asks Oliver (Martin Short) …
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When the time came for the cast and crew of Party Down to reassemble for an improbable sequel season, the first order of business was to find out when Adam Scott would be available to do it. “The truth is,” explains Party Down co-creator Rob Thomas, “that we found a …
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In the new Ant-Man film, Paul Rudd’s character learns all about the concept of alternate timelines. In an alternate version of our own timeline, he would have starred in Party Down. Rudd co-created the great Starz comedy, which is improbably rising from the dead later this month, with TV producer …
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