Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci recreate the story of long-lost union boss Jimmy Hoffa in the gripping new trailer for Martin Scorsese‘s long-awaited crime drama The Irishman. The film will premiere at the New York Film Festival, September 27th, before it is released on Netflix and in …
Read More »See Daveed Diggs in First 'Snowpiercer' TV Adaptation Trailer
It’s been a long time coming for TBS to release their TV adaptation of Bong Joon-ho’s 2014 film Snowpiercer. The new version, coming in the spring of 2020, stars Daveed Diggs in Chris Evans’ role as a man trapped on a continuously moving train containing the remains of humanity. In …
Read More »Watch 'Kimmel' Quiz Customers in Weed Dispensary Game Show
In honor of the lesser-known stoner holiday “Oil Day” of July 10th, Jimmy Kimmel Live hosted a weed-themed game show on Wednesday’s episode — quizzing customers in the drive-thru line at Las Vegas’ NuWu Cannabis Marketplace, the world’s largest marijuana dispensary. “Let’s Make a Dope Deal” featured pot-related questions, with …
Read More »Netflix to Cut Down on Smoking After 'Stranger Things' Leads Tobacco Use Study
Days after the release of Stranger Things 3, Netflix has pledged to cut down on the amount of smoking seen in their original programming following outcry from an anti-smoking organization. Truth Initiative, “America’s largest nonprofit public health organization committed to making tobacco use a thing of the past,” recently published …
Read More »Watch Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon on Trump's Familiar-Sounding 2020 Campaign Slogan
Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon dissected President Donald Trump’s familiar diatribes and campaign slogans as he officially returned to the trail on their respective late-night shows Wednesday. During a rally in Orlando Tuesday night, Trump touched on all of his preferred topics, from the “witch hunt” investigation into Russia’s interference …
Read More »'I'm Just Sick of Zombies, Man': Jim Jarmusch on 'The Dead Don't Die'
There are dozens of filmmakers who get giddy at the thought of orchestrating an army of extras, all made up to look as if the flesh is rotting on their bones, all shuffling forward as if battling rigor mortis, all moaning and grasping and jaws chomping in anticipation. Jim Jarmusch …
Read More »Six Things We Learned About 'Dark Phoenix' and the X-Men Franchise
It’s a simple story, more or less: Girl meets boy, girl’s mutant powers multiply to galaxy-eating levels, girl turns evil and glow-y. But telling the saga of Dark Phoenix, centered on the corruption of X-Men member Jean Grey, has somehow always been a fraught task. Even in the original comic-book …
Read More »'The Secret Life of Pets 2′: Same Ol' Dogs, No New Tricks
Sad to say, the bloom is off the rose. The first The Secret Life of Pets in 2016 was an animated fluff-ball that hit on a fresh premise: What do our pets do when we close the door and leave them behind? The sequel covers pretty much the same territory. …
Read More »'I Felt I Had to Make It': Ava DuVernay on Why the Central Park Five Story Still Matters
The morning after Ava DuVernay’s four-part Netflix miniseries about the Central Park Five, When They See Us, premiered at Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theater, she was in a daze. “I don’t drink and I don’t do any other kinds of substances,” she told Rolling Stone, “but I think I have a …
Read More »Flashback: The Terminator Gets Rebooted in a 'T2: Judgment Day' Deleted Scene
The teaser trailer for Terminator: Dark Fate was released last week, giving fans their first glimpse of Linda Hamilton back in action as Sarah Connor for the first time since Terminator 2: Judgment Day in 1991. There have been three disappointing sequels since then and it’s understandable if some are …
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