The Simpsons has been renewed by Fox for a 31st and 32nd season, which will bring them to a record-shattering 713 episodes by the end of the deal. “Woo hoo! 32 Seasons!” Homer Simpson said in a statement. “Watch your back Meet the Press.” Read: 150 Best ‘Simpsons’ Episodes And …
Read More »Best Movies to See This February: 'Lego Movie 2,' Liam Neeson, 'Alita'
So you’ve caught up with all of the big-name Oscar-nominated films and are ready to move past the dead zone that is January at the movies — what do you have to look forward in February? There’s a gangster movie set among the indigenous population of Colombia and an off-beat …
Read More »See Salt-N-Pepa in Trailer for HBO Roller Skating Documentary 'United Skates'
Salt-N-Pepa reflect on how roller rinks fostered the development of hip-hop in the new trailer for HBO’s United Skates, the John Legend-produced documentary film premiering February 18th at 8 p.m. ET/PT. “It was a place where, the streets, everybody met up,” says Sandra “Pepa” Denton. The clip touches on how …
Read More »'Empire' Star Jussie Smollett Hospitalized After Potential Hate Crime Attack
UPDATE:Chicago Police detectives have located surveillance footage that “shows potential persons of interest wanted for questioning” in connection to the recent potential hate crime attack on Empireactor Jussie Smollet, according to Chicago Police Chief Communications Officer Anthony Guglielmi’s tweet on Wednesday. Guglielmi also shared two photos of the people of …
Read More »Taylor Swift's 'Reputation' Film Shows Why She's One of the All-Time Greats
Taylor Swift’s triumphant Reputation tour gets immortalized the way it deserves in her new Netflix concert film, which premieres on the streaming service on New Year’s Eve. (Just in time for “New Year’s Day”: that’s our Taylor, always thinking conceptually.) It shows off the biggest and best tour yet from …
Read More »'Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes': Portrait of a Raging Bull
Showtime is cooking up its own take on Roger Ailes, The Loudest Voice in the Room, starring Russell Crowe as the disgraced Fox News CEO and chairman who was brought down when at least 20 women, including network stars Gretchen Carlson and Megyn Kelly, called him out for sexual harassment. …
Read More »'The Good Place' Recap: Dammit, Janet(s)
A review of “Janet(s),” this week’s episode of The Good Place, coming up just as soon as your amusement has been scheduled… Well, what do you know? The Good Place returns to the afterlife full-time and turns out one of its best episodes in a long time. Funny how that …
Read More »Ali/Foreman Doc 'When We Were Kings' to Become Broadway Musical
When We Were Kings, the Oscar-winning documentary about Muhammed Ali and George Foreman’s legendary “Rumble in the Jungle,” is being adapted into a Broadway musical. Held in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) in 1974, the Rumble in the Jungle remains one of the most famous boxing bouts of …
Read More »Nicolas Roeg, Bernardo Bertolucci and Another End of Another Era
It’s always tough when giants shuffle off this mortal coil, but the twofer that hit film fans over the past few days has been a particularly hard blow. Early Saturday morning, word began to spread that Nicolas Roeg, the filmmaker behind The Man Who Fell to Earth, among others, had …
Read More »'The Good Place' Recap: Welcome Back to the Neighborhood
A review of this week’s The Good Place, “The Worst Possible Use of Free Will,” coming up just as soon as they use this place to shoot porn… This has been a tricky season for The Good Place. Sending the four dum-dums down to Earth (and then having Michael and …
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