Pedro Pascal is going to see a man about a horse. Actually, you can scratch the “about a horse” part. Riding the range in the Wild, Wild West, his cowboy rides into town, hitches his stallion, and walks right into the sheriff’s office. The lawman — he’s named Jake, and …
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Diego Luna just left London’s Pinewood Studios after a long day of shooting Andor’s second season, and as he signs onto Zoom from the back of a car heading home, he realizes he’s still wearing the day’s makeup —including what appears to be a fake bruise on his left cheek. …
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Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal play a sheriff and a cowboy caught in a tangled, tortured, Wild West romance in the new trailer for Pedro Almodóvar’s upcoming short film, Strange Way of Life. The 30-minute film will premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. In the short, Pascal plays a …
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THIS POST CONTAINS spoilers for this week’s episode of The Mandalorian, “The Return.” A funny thing happens in the last 10 minutes of The Mandalorian Season Three: Din Djarin seems to be the central character again. Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, and company spent much of this season treating the show’s …
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THIS POST CONTAINS spoilers for this week’s episode of The Mandalorian, “Guns for Hire.” Well, that was a mostly welcome change of pace. In a broad sense, “Guns for Hire” fits the Mission of the Week mode that The Mandalorian does so well, but it does it in a couple …
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THIS POST CONTAINS spoilers for this week’s episode of The Mandalorian, “The Pirate.” The Mandalorian is a show that likes to keep things simple whenever possible. And it’s hard to imagine a more fundamentally simple story than “heroes rescue community under siege by pirates.” It’s a framework the show has …
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THIS POST CONTAINS spoilers for this week’s episode of The Mandalorian, “The Foundling.” After a very long, off-format, and seemingly divisive episode last week focusing on the extremely minor character Dr. Pershing, The Mandalorian goes extremely back to basics with the Carl Weathers-directed “The Foundling.” The show clocks in at …
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THIS POST CONTAINS spoilers for this week’s episode of The Mandalorian, “The Convert.” Among the more exciting aspects of Andor was the way it proved that Star Wars could go in a very different tonal and thematic direction and still find success. It was Star Wars aiming for something more …
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This post contains spoilers for season one of HBO’s The Last of Us, as well as minor spoilers for The Last of Us Part II (PlayStation 4). It’s official – the first season of HBO’s The Last of Us has come to an end, leaving viewers (8.2M to be exact) …
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THIS POST CONTAINS spoilers for this week’s episode of The Last of Us, “Look for the Light.” As we come to the end of an utterly fantastic debut season of television, it’s worth looking back to note that of these nine episodes, only three of them (the premiere, “Infected,” and …
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