Whether or not you played Sega’s hugely popular Sonic the Hedgehog video game back in the day, you probably have memories of that blue, inexplicably fast furball who had an outsized pop cultural presence. My references mostly consist of fleeting glimpses of his classic visage as I sprinted through the …
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Thanos demands my silence. So if you expect a lot of specific “who lives, who dies” spoilers in this review, snap out of it. However, it is fair to say that Avengers: Endgame, directed by the Russo brothers — Anthony and Joseph — with a fan’s reverence for all that …
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The Fast & Furious franchise just added one more action-packed movie to its lineup. Universal released the trailer forFast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw on Thursday, starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham as the federal agent/mercenary duo. After the events of the previous film,The Fate of the Furious, that …
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Amber Heard detailed the multiple instances of abuse she allegedly endured while married to Johnny Depp in a court filing that attempted to dismiss Depp’s $50 million defamation lawsuit against the actress. “Johnny often would not remember his delusional and violent conduct after he came out of his drunk or …
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“Going from drunk asshole to sober asshole isn’t the makeover you think it is,” Jim Brockmire’s new broadcast partner Gabby tells him in the third season premiere of IFC’s astonishingly filthy — and even more astonishingly sincere — baseball comedy Brockmire. Season One chronicled the return of the titular honey-voiced …
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James Corden parodies the infamous Elizabeth Holmes and her failed blood-testing technology company, Theranos — the subject of the recent HBO documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley — in a goofy sketch from Wednesday’s Late Late Show. The clip looks back at Corden’s fake, “multi-billion-dollar heath company” …
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A marketing executive tries to instill some self-worth in a group of schlubby professional bowlers in a new clip from the upcoming season finale of Documentary Now!, airing March 27th on IFC. “Any Given Saturday Afternoon” is based on the 2006 professional bowling documentary, League of Ordinary Gentlemen. The episode …
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Over its first three seasons, Catastrophe was one of the great miracles of Peak TV, a comedy as hilariously profane as it was startlingly tender. Co-creators and stars Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan played a trans-Atlantic couple (also named Rob and Sharon) who do everything out of order: they meet, …
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Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph and Amy Poehler deftly handled stand-in opening monologue duties for the host-less Academy Awards Sunday as they arrived onstage to introduce the first category of the night, Best Supporting Actress. The trio opened with a few knocks on the Academy, with Rudolph noting the absence of …
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After the success of her Lady Gaga impression on Saturday Night Live the previous week, Melissa Villaseñor brought back the role for a Family Feud sketch. For the sketch, Kenan Thompson as Steve Harvey hosted an Academy Awards-themed Family Feud featuring guests including Villaseñor’s Gaga, Spike Lee (Don Cheadle), Glenn Close (Kate McKinnon), …
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