A woman walks down a dusty, sunbaked road. She hikes along a mountain ridge, prying a small, flat slab from the craggy wall with a small steel tool. When she removes it, you can hear the buzzing of bees filling the soundtrack. This is her secret honey stash; she will …
Read More »What Do We Want From 'The Lion King' and Disney's Live-Action Remakes?
You remember the opening. Of course you do. For a generation of kids who grew up watching the film in theaters or on DVD, it’s damn near iconic. The sun rises above the African savanna. The chant begins: “Naaaaa-nts ingonyama bagithi Baba.” Antelopes look up from their munching; meerkats spring …
Read More »See 'Stranger Things' Cast Summarize Season 3 in One Word on 'Fallon'
The Stranger Things cast appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Friday night to discuss the series’ upcoming third season as much as they could without revealing spoilers. In the hot seats were cast members Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp and Sadie Sink, …
Read More »Trailers of the Week: 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,' 'Star Trek: Picard'
Has it really been less than a week since HBO dropped that wonderfully cryptic, Pink Floyd-scored Westworld teaser? It feels like several months have passed since then. Trailer-wise, it’s been a busy six days: We got an extended look at Quentin Tarantino‘s latest, a teaser for the upcoming Star Trek: …
Read More »Watch Leslie Jones and Seth Meyers React to 'Game of Thrones' Finale on 'Meyers'
Saturday Night Live cast member Leslie Jones has a lot of feelings about Game of Thrones, particularly the divisive finale episode. In a final segment of “Game of Jones,” in which Jones reacts to the HBO series with Late Night host Seth Meyers, the comedian offered some thoughts on where …
Read More »'Brightburn' Review: What If Baby Superman Broke Bad?
What if baby Superman crashed onto Earth and turned out to be an evil bastard instead of a do-gooder? That’s the idea behind Brightburn, a horror show that doesn’t have a clue about what to do with a clever premise. Produced by James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy), who unfortunately …
Read More »The Shape-Shifting Zazie Beetz
‘I still feel young and small in a big, big world,” says Zazie Beetz. “My inner self sometimes feels in danger of being exposed.” Exposure is certainly a risk if your career moves as quickly as Beetz’s has. As Van, the on-off girlfriend of Donald Glover’s Earn on Atlanta, Beetz, …
Read More »Zac Efron's Ted Bundy Performance Is Good, Not Killer
There’s a daring concept behind this off-kilter Netflix movie about the kinder and gentler side of serial killer Ted Bundy that should have worked: How can a pretty face blind us to the demon lurking inside? Zac Efron perfectly embodies the hotness that drew women to law-student Bundy even after …
Read More »Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham Punch Up, Down, Sideways in New 'Hobbs & Shaw' Trailer
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 …
Read More »Amber Heard Details Johnny Depp's Alleged Abuse in Defamation Lawsuit Filing
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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