Foxx was already an underground comedy legend when Cleavon Little, best known for his role as Sheriff Bart in Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles, suggested him for the lead in the mid-season replacement. Little wasn’t available, but worked with Foxx on Ossie Davis’s 1970 neo-noir film Cotton Comes to Harlem. Before Foxx played the junk dealer stuck with the bale of genuine Mississippi cotton, he was known as the “King of the Party Records....

Created by Tony Basgallop, season one introduced the story of Dorothy (Lauren Ambrose) and Sean (Toby Kebbell) Turner, who, after the death of their infant son Jericho, replace the baby with a life-like doll to help Dorothy with the grieving process. They even hire a nanny, Leanne (Nell Tiger Free), to maintain the illusion, until one day, in place of the doll is a real baby boy. Is it the reincarnation of the Turners’ child?...

There’s a terrific little scene at the end of Episode 3 of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law when Jennifer Walters, aka She-Hulk (Tatiana Maslany), is walking through a deserted parking lot at night and is suddenly attacked by a quartet of extremely rough-looking customers. It’s a scenario that every woman dreads, and Jen’s own reaction at first is one of fear – until she realizes that she is now in a position to handle this kind of attack in a way that we imagine anybody, man or woman, would want to: she Hulks out and makes short work of her attackers, sending them scurrying back into the darkness and licking their wounds rather than absconding with a sample of their victim’s gamma-radiated blood, which was apparently their goal....

“An evil too great to play on just one network,” reads the tagline in the new teaser trailer for Chucky, which hypes a series designed for a deluge of doll-dealt deaths, set for a dual network run—under the NBCUniversal umbrella—this fall on USA Network and Syfy. Surprisingly enough, Mancini openly expresses, in an interview with EW, that said evil might even be too great to play on just one medium, since the creator is already envisioning a multimedia continuity centered around his terrifying toy with a possible complementary continuation of the Child’s Play movies....

After five seasons, Uhtred’s cry of “To Bebbanburg!” is finally a toast and not a direction of travel. He’s made it back. Every twist of fate over the years that took him further from his childhood fortress was leading to this moment – when his destiny and that of the Wessex throne would become one and the same. Now he has a home for his children, a stronghold for his people, and a future....

Rodney Ascher’s superb 2012 documentary Room 237 pulled together some of the more outlandish theories about The Shining. It’s Kubrick’s veiled confession that he helped NASA fake the 1969 Moon landings, goes one line of thinking. No, it’s an allusion to the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, says a different theorist. Wrong again, another voice suggests: it’s a retelling of the Minotaur myth. Often these theories are based on incidental background details – a home-knit Apollo 11 jumper, the specific make of a typewriter, a tin of baking powder, a poster that looks a bit like a mythical beast if you squint hard enough....

We saw this start to happen in The Mandalorian season 2, which not only introduced beloved animated characters Ahsoka Tano and Bo-Katan Kryze to live-action but also ended with a teaser for the next Star Wars series, The Book of Boba Fett, which arrives in December. The Book of Boba Fett doesn’t just star the infamous bounty hunter; it’s also a showcase for Ming-Na Wen’s Fennec Shand, an assassin who debuted in the first season of The Mandalorian....

But she might just have picked the wrong mark. Tipped off by her corrupt doctor mate Dr. Amos (Alicia Witt), Marla targets a woman called Jennifer Peterson (Dianne Wiest), a very independent person who appears to have loads of money and no family at all – a ‘cherry’ as Marla and Amos call her. Big mistake. Jennifer isn’t who Marla thinks she is and now she’s incurred the wrath of her son Roman, played by Peter Dinklage....

J Blakeson’s I Care a Lot is one of very few films where everyone in it is a villain. In the lead role, Rosamund Pike ushers in a new amoral high mark as conservator con artist Marla Grayson. Peter Dinklage meanwhile mines the standard Hollywood heavy role for an unexpected haul of gangster gravitas. And with his turn as Roman Lunyov, the former black sheep of the Lannister family in Game of Thrones joins the likes of Robert De Niro, Marlon Brando, Wesley Snipes, and Humphrey Bogart as memorable cinema crime bosses....

And just like that it’s over. After seven years and 22 movies the DC Animated Movie Universe has come to an end. Justice League Dark: Apokolips War has the unenviable task of wrapping up multiple threads and acting as a sort-of-sequel to some of the DC Animated Movie Universe’s biggest hits. The R-rated action romp succeeds at crafting a satisfying end and makes an unexpected hero out of one of the most famed anti-heroes in Hell and Earth, John Constantine....

The fourth episode of CBS All Access’ miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s epic novel The Stand, titled “The House of the Dead,” contains two scenes that are surprising to say the least. Neither one of them turned up in the 1994 ABC miniseries based on King’s post-apocalyptic tale; one of them is taken from — or at least inspired by — the unexpurgated edition of the book that King published in 1990, from which very little was used in the 1994 TV event, while the other is wholly original to this adaptation....

Everyone has their favorite Bond, and everyone has their favorite reading of the character. When producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman insisted that 007 is bigger than any single actor, they meant it and have convinced multiple generations to insist that theirs is the best James Bond who ever donned a tux. So we’ll freely admit picking a “best” 007 actor is purely subjective—an attempt to answer an impossible question....

Which is why this weekend’s Malignant is such an inviting proposition. Five years after walking away from personally helming Ed and Lorraine Warren’s on-screen adventures, Wan’s returned to his roots with an original horror movie that’s not part of any franchise. What a novel concept. To celebrate this change of fortune, the editors at Den of Geek have put their heads together and voted, coming up with a definitive ranking of Wan’s horror movies....

In 2021 alone, the respected 66-year-old actor appeared in Zack Snyder’s Justice League, voiced characters in animated fare such as Invincible, Infinity Train, and The Great North, and still has blockbusters The Tomorrow War and Spider-Man: No Way Home on tap. And while it’s easy to single out his Oscar-winning performance in 2014’s Whiplash as a crowning achievement, Simmons still maintains a certain fondness for his portrayal of J. Jonah Jameson in Sam Raimi’s previous Spider-Man trilogy....

We don’t even see it happen. Like Deborah Johnson (Dominique Fishback) and the other seven Black Panther Party members fortunate enough to survive an all-out assault on a Chicago apartment, we only experience the sound of it. Off-screen and out of focus, police officers glibly taunt Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya), who is still incapacitated in his bed despite all hell having just broken loose in his home. Then there’s that sickening noise: two shots are fired into Hampton’s head....

In short, there isn’t a whole lot separating the receptions garnered by Disney/Touchstone’s King Arthur in 2004 and Warner Brothers’ King Arthur: Legend of the Sword in 2017. Both received lukewarm reviews, and both bowed under $20 million during opening weekends (though the ’04 vintage was able to drift above $15 million even without inflation). In a century where Hollywood success is dictated by a frontloaded debut, neither are going to be the subject of songs or ballads....

The result was the wildest spy film in ages, one that’s best described as if Roger Moore had been dropped into a total slaughterfest. A delightfully depraved diversion, it was also a surprise hit that proved blockbusters could open in February and paved the way for Kingsman: The Golden Circle, a sequel that arrives two years later and into a world where the Cold War is also on the rebound....

Starting Cyber Monday (November 30th), Wizards of the Coast is releasing one of its periodic Secret Lair drops. These are exclusive, limited availability collections of cards with alternate art or styles that are only sometimes playable in competitive formats. In this case, it’s likely that at least the Bob Ross cards will be legal everywhere. The collections include: Happy Little Gathering – $29.99/$39.99 (Foil and Non-Foil) · 2x Different Plains cards with art by Bob Ross · 2x Different Island cards with art by Bob Ross · 2x Different Swamp cards with art by Bob Ross · 2x Different Mountain cards with art by Bob Ross · 2x Different Forest cards with art by Bob Ross · MTG Arena Redemption: One (1) single-use code for one MTG Arena “Happy Little Gathering” Themed Sleeve (may be available later for separate purchase in MTG Arena)....

Lethal Weapon Season 2 Episode 22 Against all odds, Lethal Weapon season 2 has not only been an overall improvement on the show’s first year, but it’s turned into one of the most entertaining procedural cop shows on television and it’s a ratings hit, at that. “One Day More” is an exceptional season (series?) finale that expertly wraps up all of the season’s lingering plot threads in an impressive way. The consistent source of drama that comes from Riggs’ relationship with his father gets to be put to rest, but all of this progress can’t help but feel a little bittersweet....

“The genuine answer is we don’t know,” Line of Duty actor Martin Compston told the Shrine of Duty podcast last week about whether or not the BBC One crime drama will return. “But that’s nothing different for us. Jed always takes his time.” As reported by Radio Times, Compston explained, “After a series, [creator Jed Mercurio] always takes a couple of months… I think he likes to take the emotion out of it and sit down and look at all that....