The galaxy’s most notorious bounty hunter, Boba Fett, returns to rule over Tatooine in the new trailer for the upcoming series, The Book of Boba Fett, premiering Dec. 29 on Disney+. The new series is a spin-off of The Mandalorian, with Temuera Morrison and Ming-Na Wen reprising their roles from …
Read More »'I Know What You Did Last Summer' Is Full of Dicks and Gore — And Not Much Else
Note: Spoilers ahead. Not that long into the first episode of Amazon’s new take on the teen classic I Know What You Did Last Summer, we see a dick. Said dick belongs to a teenage boy peeing in a pool at a raucous party. And that pretty much sets the …
Read More »Snoop Dogg, Martha Stewart Give Us Toothache With Halloween Baking Show
In a move that seems to have been born in a meme generator, Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart have teamed up with BuzzFeed Studios and Magical Elves for a Halloween-themed baking competition. Snoop & Martha’s Very Tasty Halloween begins streaming on October 21st via Peacock. The show takes the classic …
Read More »Kendall Roy Rallies the Troops for Corporate Revolution in New 'Succession' Clip
Kendall Roy prepares to hit the warpath hard in a new clip from Season Three of Succession, premiering October 17th on HBO. The clip, which HBO shared on Twitter, appears to be set in the immediate aftermath of Kendall’s betrayal of his father Logan. In it, Kendall (Jeremy Strong) faces …
Read More »'The Card Counter' Plays the Hand Its Dealt in Paul Schrader's Moral Universe
The first tell is that he calls himself William Tell — a name that sounds fake whether or not you’re an opera buff, a student of Swiss folklore or a kid who grew up pantomiming the heroics of The Lone Ranger and singing the theme song by heart. It’s a …
Read More »'The Tragedy of Macbeth' Trailer: 'Something Wicked This Way Comes' for Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand
Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand are warned that “something wicked this way comes” in the trailer for A24’s The Tragedy of Macbeth. The film premieres at New York Film Festival this weekend, where it opens the fest on Friday. It arrives in theaters on December 25th and hits Apple TV+ …
Read More »Emmys 2021: The 'Coffin Flop' of Awards Shows
The Emmys are always the Fredo Corleone of the Hollywood award-show crime family — they want respect, but they’re lucky if they get a little pity and/or the occasional banana daiquiri. They always get overshadowed by their glitzier, glammier, drunker siblings. But even by Emmy standards, the 73rd annual event …
Read More »'Monsters Inside' Trailer: New Docuseries Re-Examines Case of Billy Milligan
Netflix has released a new trailer for its upcoming docuseries, Monsters Inside, about Billy Milligan, the first person to be acquitted of a major crime based on a defense that he suffered from a dissociative identity disorder. In 1977, Milligan was arrested and charged for a string of rapes that …
Read More »'Ted Lasso' Season 2 Premiere Recap: Richmond Goes to the Dogs
Ted Lasso is back for a second season. I wrote about the joy of the series overall last week, and now I’ll be reviewing each episode. Spoiler-filled thoughts on the premiere, “Goodbye, Earl,” coming up just as soon as we discuss Tom Cruise’s hair in Magnolia… When last we left …
Read More »Two Unlikely Drug Kingpins Conquer Miami in the New 'Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami' Trailer
Netflix has released a new trailer for Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami, director Billy Corben’s docuseries follow-up to his acclaimed 2006 documentary, Cocaine Cowboys. Where Cocaine Cowboys took a broad look at the rise of cocaine trafficking and the Miami drug wars during the Seventies and Eighties, The Kings …
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