So it’s quite fitting that Kevin Can FK Himself makes a compelling case for why laugh tracks (or canned laughter) need to die a quick death. The series centers on Allison McRoberts (Annie Murphy), a woman trapped in a marriage to the titular Kevin. Kevin is an infuriating man-child. He throws keg parties on his wedding anniversary, spends obscene amounts of money on sports memorabilia, and treats Allison like an accessory....
In the sham rivalry that persists between devotees of Jane Austen (comedy, marriage, assembly room balls and card games) and the Bronte sisters (tragedy, passion, storm-swept moors and ghosts), you’d peg dramatist Sally Wainwright for the Bronte camp. A Yorkshirewoman who wrote and directed a luminous biopic about the sisters in 2016, she’d be #TeamHaworth all day long. Yet Last Tango In Halifax, Wainwright’s BBC One comedy-drama now returning after a four-year break, shows her to be nothing less than a modern-day Jane Austen....
The Ice Road is Neeson’s latest film, arriving this week on Netflix, and it continues his career’s somewhat improbable second act as an action hero. Neeson stars here as Mike McCann, a trucker who is one of several drivers recruited to transport three large, heavy drills to a remote northern Canada mine in order to free miners trapped in a collapse. To get there on time, McCann and the others must drive their 18-wheelers over the region’s treacherous ice roads — highways literally made of ice that has frozen over the surface of vast lakes, with anything from a particularly strong sun to a slightly sharp turn likely to make the ice crack and plunge the big rigs into the deadly cold water beneath....
Perhaps thanks to the extra half hour of screen time (with seven one-hour episodes instead of five plus a 90-minute finale), or perhaps because there was a genuine sense of threads being tied up as AC-12 went into storage for potentially the last time, there are fewer questions left to answer than usual after Line of Duty series six. The finale gave us lots of certainty, and just a few things still to mull over....
“We finally have a teaser for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, and it’s a ticking time bomb–not literally, but you know, conceptually. With only a few seconds of actual footage, this is a true teaser. Billed only as ‘Oppenheimer Announcement’ on Universal Pictures’ YouTube page, the teaser has been playing on a continuous loop since it was posted on Thursday morning.” Read more at The A.V. Club Internet star Logan Paul took to Twitter to rant about his reaction to Jordan Peele’s latest film Nope....
“Experience the epic motion picture and its legendary score at the historic Radio City Music Hall, beneath a giant screen accompanied by 238 musicians, including symphony orchestra, chorus and soloists, this coming February 6 & 7, 2023.” Get your tickets here for February 6 Get your tickets here for February 7 “Daredevil (Charlie Cox) is officially coming back to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) in the upcoming Disney+ series, Daredevil: Born Again....
“One of the things I enjoy about the Batman franchise is that you can choose how you immerse yourself in it and gain access to a never-ending supply of lore with its plot threads and characters. Comics, cartoons, movies, television, video games, The Caped Crusader has done it all.” Read more at The Mary Sue. Hayao Miyazaki is one of the most celebrated filmmakers alive. Check out some memorable quotes from him....
“Ming-Na Wen means a lot to my generation. She was our Mulan, she is Agent May in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and now she’s bringing Fennec Shand to life in the world of Star Wars. As a fellow Pittsburghian, Ming-Na Wen has been an icon in my life for as long as I can remember, so seeing her shine in The Mandalorian and the upcoming Book of Boba Fett is incredible!...
“If Dear Evan Hansen ever had a shot at ending Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings’ run of box office dominance, it probably dried up the moment Disney decided not to give its superhero movie a day-and-date Disney+ release (which, as we’ve discussed at length on this website, backfired dramatically for Black Widow).” Read more at The A.V. Club Wait a minute, Mark Hamill actually likes the Star Wars Prequels?...
Buy Tickets Here Nope comes out next week, but the world around this film is still very mysterious. Here are all we know so far. “If you’re at all a follower of good horror movies, then you’re probably just as excited as we are for Jordan Peele’s upcoming scary-looking, sci-fi film, Nope. Set to release this month, on July 22nd, it certainly looks like it’ll be just as much of a trip as his past films....
“The history of cinema is littered with lines of dialogue that transcend context, but for the most part, what are considered the Great Movie Quotes are vintage in nature. AFI’s 100 Years…100 Quotes remains the bible, reminding us that, yes, ‘Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn’ is pretty significant.” Read more at Thrillist. Lin-Manuel Miranda explains why he cut a Trump reference from the movie adaptation of In the Heights....
“Recently, Snipes was asked about his thoughts on the recasting, and he rather plainly stated that he supports the casting and that’s all there is to it. ‘The issue of him being cast wasn’t between us,’ Snipes said, ‘I don’t walk around as Blade, so I’m not attached to the character like that.’ Even further, he added that there’s no ’emotional loss’ is not playing the Daywalker again, with the only advice to be that Ali should be to avoid getting hurt and ‘enjoy it while it lasts....
“In fact, 1999 saw Hollywood make one of its best post-Raiders adventure flicks in the form of The Mummy. One of the most fun and lighthearted American studio blockbusters of the past thirty years, the film is only elevated by star-making turns by its leads. Ever seen it? No problem. The Mummy is available to stream now on HBO Max.” Read more at Inverse You can now snag your own George Lucas action figure as part of the Star Wars The Black Series collection....
“My Brother’s Husband is written by Gengoroh Tagame, a gay manga artist/writer who is well known for his erotica. My Brother’s Husband would be his first (but not his last) work that wasn’t erotic, with Tagame using it to examine homophobia and conservative viewpoints in Japan.” Read more at The Mary Sue. One of Dave Bautista’s biggest complaints about Marvel is their failure to fully develop Drax the Destroyer, and it sounds like the creator of the character agrees....
Manifest Season 3 Release Date Although we know that Manifest season 3 will return in the first half of 2021, no specific premiere date has been set by the network. Tweets from the cast indicate that after several production delays, filming wrapped in late November of 2020. Manifest Season 3 Cast All of the series regular cast is returning for Manifest season 3 including Josh Dallas as Ben, Melissa Roxburgh as Michaela, J....
Even though series creator and showrunner Jeff Rake initially had a six season plan for Manifest, he told Entertainment Weekly shortly after the series’ rescue that “the endgame won’t change at all.” He later says “When I’ve talked in the past about having a roadmap all the way to the end of the series, that didn’t mean that I had a roadmap for literally every single episode. I have a roadmap with a series of twists and turns and flags in the sand that we would ultimately hit in order to tell the core stories within our mythology and within our relationship drama....
In the first official trailer for Moon Knight, Steven (Oscar Isaac) is not the millionaire playboy of the comics, but a humble and bafflingly British gift shop employee who has a “sleeping disorder” and might get up to some unwelcome night time activities unless he ties himself to his bed in an effort to stay put. Working at a popular London museum, Steven seems haunted by the Egyptian exhibits, and later finds out that he has at least one other identity: Marc Spector, a brutal mercenary who likely shares little in common with the timid Steven....
Marvel’s Loki may have only been six episodes, but it was a wild ride from start to finish, reinventing a fan favorite character, wrestling with complex existential questions of free will and fate, and telling one of the franchise’s weirdest love stories to date. Plus, you know, it also managed to entirely rewrite the reality of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we know it. Thankfully, Marvel wasted no time confirming a second season, announcing the show’s renewal in the end credits of the Season 1 finale....
So, when Firaxis confirmed that Marvel’s Midnight Suns is actually a card-based strategy game, many of those same fans seemed to be pretty upset. Some simply wanted an XCOM game with Marvel characters and didn’t understand why the game would deviate from that idea. Others heard the word “cards” and immediately thought of microtransaction-filled CCG games. While Firaxis has made it clear that Midnight Suns is absolutely not that kind of game, the buzz around their project has cooled down considerably since the first details of its gameplay were confirmed....
BioWare has published an extensive report about player choices in Mass Effect Legendary Edition, and they reveal (among other things) that a lot of you really don’t like Kaidan and felt that he needed to be the one to die on Virmire. Before we dive into that part of the report, though, it should be said that the entire infographic breakdown is actually quite interesting. For instance, this section reveals that the average player-created Shepard is a male soldier who was an Earthborn survivor....
