Amazon Prime Video has premiered the trailer forSmall Axe: Alex Wheatle, the fourth and penultimate film in Steve McQueen’sSmall Axe anthology series for the streaming platform.Alex Wheatle will drop on December 11th, followingMangrove (November 20th),Lovers Rock (November 27th), and Red, White and Blue (December 4th). Like the other entries in …
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Surprise quarantine star Mandy Patinkin is enjoying a rare moment of solitude in his upstate New York home — his son is with a friend; his wife actress Kathryn Brody is in the city — but he already misses his partner of more than 40 years. “Our first date was …
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Let’s say you grew up with a number of diagnosed ailments and disabilities, ranging from arrhythmia and hemochromatosis to partial paralysis. You’re in wheelchair and have a virtual pharmacy’s worth of pills you need to take. Luckily, your mom stays on top of all of your meds and treatments and …
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NBC’s Peacock has released the first look at theirSaved by the Bell reboot, featuring four of the original show’s cast members reprising their roles as adults alongside a new cast of high school students. Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Tiffani Thiessen, Mario Lopez, and Elizabeth Berkley are all back as Zack Morris, Kelly …
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A review of the Lovecraft Country season finale, “Full Circle,” coming up just as soon as the whole car sings along to “Sh-Boom” by The Chords… “He knew telling a story was a kind of power, but he also knew it wasn’t enough.” —Diana Throughout this often remarkable, occasionally vexing …
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More than a year after Netflix renewed GLOW for a fourth and final season, the streaming service has reversed its decision and canceled the series altogether due to Covid-19. Based off the actual 1986 wrestling promotion, GLOW (“Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling”) told the story of struggling actress Ruth (Alison Brie) …
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A sequel to Disney’s live-action remake of The Lion King is in the works, withMoonlight andIf Beale Street Can Talk director Barry Jenkins set to helm the project. “Helping my sister raise two young boys during the Nineties, I grew up with these characters,” Jenkins said in a statement. “Having …
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Television, it’s often been said without much exaggeration, was invented to sell soap. And the fall television season was invented to sell cars. As Preston Beckman, a retired network scheduler who presided over the Must-See TV era of NBC and the peak of American Idol at Fox (and now tweets …
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Fred Armisen, John C. Reilly and Tim Heidecker star as three eager astronauts in the trailer for Moonbase 8, premiering November 8th on Showtime. The clip opens with the trio in an isolated desert in Winslow, Arizona, at NASA’s Moon Base Simulator. “I’ve just got a lot on the line …
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Michael B. Jordan honored his late Black Panther co-star and “big brother” Chadwick Boseman in a moving Instagram statement on Monday, writing, “I’m dedicating the rest of my days to live the way you did.” “I’ve been trying to find the words, but nothing comes close to how I feel,” …
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