Abbott Elementary Season 2 Episode 2 Abbott Elementary is at its absolute best when it finds a glimmer of hope in the depressing atmosphere that is underfunded public education. This week’s episode is another shining example of this, as the teachers of Abbott know better than to get their hopes up when new history books arrive on their doorstep in the mail. They immediately recognize the misdelivery, as the pristine texts were meant for the charter school a couple of blocks down the street....

Laurence Fishburne played “Bumpy Rhodes,” based on Bumpy Johnson, in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1984 gangster film, The Cotton Club, and reprised the role as Johnson in the 1997 film Hoodlum. In the Epix television series, Godfather of Harlem, Forest Whitaker is paroled into the part. Clarence Williams III plays Bumpy in American Gangster. The film opens at his funeral and in his shadow. His lessons loom over a successor’s rise....

The movie, which will still open theatrically in “select” international markets, was originally scheduled to come out last April, but was bumped by the initial onslaught of the coronavirus pandemic to August 21 before being taken off the calendar last month. With COVID-19 still raging unchecked through much of the United States, Lionsgate apparently assumed it was better to get the film out to as wide an audience as possible through PVOD platforms instead of waiting to assess the state of movie theaters this fall....

After years of development, the Aquaman movie is finally here. For a little perspective, we first glimpsed Jason Momoa as Aquaman in a brief cameo in 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, but he had been cast in the role as early as 2014. That’s…quite a long time to wait for the king of Atlantis to ascend (or descend) to his throne, even when you take his starring role in last year’s Justice League movie into account....

And yet, there is a question about this world that persists long after Avatar’s end credits have rolled, and Avatar: The Way of the Water doesn’t look like it will be setting them to bed either. That question is: “What do the Na’vi need warriors for?” Peaceful Warriors? In everything we have seen of the Na’vi so far, there are two fundamental truths about the people and their culture.The first is that this is a peaceful people....

“We want to be crystal clear that the film announced by Pierce is not a biopic, as there are several major players involved in the new B.B. King biopic and the estate does not want there to be any confusion as to the nature of each separate project,” Vassal Benford, chairman of King’s estate, told Variety. “One is a docudrama, and the other is the official B.B. King biopic approved by corporate management of the B....

Barry Season 3 Episode 4 After a mostly table-setting episode last week, Barry returns with “all the sauces,” a propulsive, fiercely funny installment. Moreso than any episode this season, “all the sauces” brings the laughs, even dipping into some of the absurdity that flavored last season’s “ronny/lily.” That said, the emphasis on the comedy doesn’t come at the expense of the plot; all of our main characters have their story moved forward, with many unexpected developments changing their trajectories....

Just in time for the holidays, Den of Geek has curated a buyer’s guide to all of our favorite devices, gadgets, and gaming PC components, from everything you need to become a hardcore gamer or pro live streamer to the best mobile devices on the market. Best of all, we’ve included links that take you directly to where you can buy all of the products in this guide! Editor’s note: Den of Geek may receive a small commission from items purchased through the links in this story....

Wait a minute, the Better Call Saul midseason premiere is here already? It feels like just yesterday that Jimmy McGill a.k.a. Saul Goodman returned for the final season of the Breaking Bad prequel. Yes, these six weeks since the April 18 premiere have flown by and now we’re on the verge of Better Call Saul season 6 episode 7 “Plan and Execution.” This won’t be the final ever episode of Better Call Saul....

“You know, I made a Marvel movie recently,” Murray let slip, having at least some idea of the bomb he was dropping by adding “I’m probably not allowed to tell you, but whatever.” The Groundhog Day and Ghostbusters actor went on to confirm exactly which Marvel movie he’ll feature in by confirming its director: Ant-Man 3’s Peyton Reed, who happens to be a huge fan of his. Not only that, Murray also happens to be a fan of Reed’s by way of his beloved 2000 American teen cheerleading comedy, Bring It On, and the two eventually became friendly enough for this quick casting coup....

In April, 2020, it was announced that Danish political drama Borgen would be returning to TV screens after almost a decade away. Like many fans, I was delighted by the news. The show had been a source of joy during its original three season run; a sort of feminist, European version of The West Wing without the Sorkinisms but with a similarly huge helping of idealism splashed around the halls of Denmark’s Christiansborg Palace, as the savvy and shrewd Birgitte Nyborg (Sidse Babett Knudsen) became the country’s first female Prime Minister against all odds....

December 2020 was a hundred years ago at least, so we can all be forgiven for not quite remembering everything that happened in Bridgerton’s first season. Daphne and the Duke were but one spoke in the show’s fancy wheel of romance, intrigue, scandal and pastries shaped like swans. There was also the fake-French modiste and the saucy opera singer, the gambling Lord murdered over his debts, the revelation of who was behind the titillating pen of anonymous social commentator Lady Whistledown, Queen Charlotte’s sad marriage, the nasty Cowpers, the nice boxer and his wife, and much more....

BTS’ massive Map of the Soul Tour was announced at the beginning of 2020, and was originally planned as 38 concerts across Asia, North America, and Europe. The tour was set to begin in Seoul in April 2020, but all four shows were cancelled. The rest of the tour’s schedule has been in “postponed” limbo since early 2020… until today, when Big Hit Music announced via Weverse that the rest of the tour has been officially cancelled....

“Joss Whedon abused his power on numerous occasions while working together on the set of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel,” Carpenter wrote in a statement on Twitter. Carpenter went on to allege “ongoing, passive-aggressive threats,” a pattern of “mean and biting” comments, and used the actor’s pregnancy as a way to body-shame her. Carpenter also alleges a disturbing pattern of retaliatory behavior including 1:00 am work calls while she was six months pregnant....

This one? Very nearly the best James Bond movie of them all. Building the entire film around one card game is a masterstroke: the simplicity of the premise allows room for the Bond legend to grow. Umpteen moments of inspiration clamor for attention; Bond inventing the Vesper Martini is a personal favorite. Meanwhile, makers of blue swimming trunks must bow down before the Blu-ray every morning – the collective ‘phwoar’ as Daniel Craig emerges from the sea echoed around cinemas across the world....

“I have become death, the destroyer of worlds,” the real Oppenheimer once said, quoting from The Bhagavat Ghita in an interview about creating the atom bomb. Nolan’s film will focus on the genius scientist’s role in its development. As a young man, Oppenheimer distinguished himself as a student under J. J. Thomson, who had been awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics for detecting the electron. After the start of World War II, Oppenheimer was invited by the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) to take over work on neutron calculations at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, also known as Berkeley Lab, which was struggling against the clock to develop an atomic bomb....

Clarice Episode 4 Clarice, episode 4, “You Can’t Rule Me,” is a misnomer. Unlike its source material, The Silence of the Lambs, it plays by a lot of rules. Agent Clarice Starling (Rebecca Breeds), and the ViCAP unit she works at under Deputy Assistant Attorney General Paul Krendler (Michael Cudlitz) are under investigation for a regulation infraction. A witness died on their watch. The thing which raises the episode, however, is something we didn’t see coming, though it follows the rules....

If, out of Zhang’s 40-year career, you’re only familiar with his wuxia work, such as the aforementioned Hero or (one of my personal favorites) and House of Flying Daggers, then Cliff Walkers‘ understated intensity might surprise you. The spy film, set during in 1930s northeastern China in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, trades the bright spectacle of those earlier films for a much more muted complexity that is no less beautiful for its grimness....

The UK has waited for what seems like an interminable amount of time for Disney+ to make its way to us, but March 2020 will finally deliver. The question is: just how much will it deliver? Certainly, not all of the MCU catalogue will be on Disney+ UK. The Spider-Man movies – Homecoming and Far From Home – are created in partnership with Sony, so they aren’t in the collection....

Subscribe to the magazine here. The Corsair K70 ($160/£170) has been among the most popular mechanical keyboards since it first launched nearly 10 years ago, and while it has gone through several design tweaks over the years, it’s only now getting a full makeover. Out is the thick slab of coarsely brushed aluminum on its top, and in is a sleeker overall look. What’s more, Corsair has added some premium extras, such as doubleshot PBT keycaps, an 8000Hz polling rate, and a removable cable....