TV amp; Movies

Maybe you remember what happened to Matthew McConaughey back in 1999. The actor had graduated to Hollywood A-list status by this point; he’d also developed a deserved reputation for enjoying a good time off the set. So the cops get a call from his neighbors, complaining about a loud ruckus-in-progress …

Ben Stiller once again reprised the role of Michael Cohen as Saturday Night Live‘s cold open spoofed the former Trump lawyer and fixer’s testimony to the Congressional Oversight Committee. “Now, for any other president, this hearing would be the most damning and humiliating of their lives,” Kenan Thompson’s Elijah Cummings …

It was when half the Doom Patrol traveled through a flatulent donkey to another dimension that I realized a line had been crossed. Probably in a good way. We’re nearly seven years into the modern TV superhero-drama boom, which began with the CW’s Arrow. In those early days, when Oliver …

John Oliver delivered a double-shot of depressing takes about the looming possibilities of both a second term for President Donald Trump and a “no deal” Brexit on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Monday. After a friendly discussion about the Last Week Tonight host’s slowly-atrophying features, Oliver and Colbert turned …

The traditional multicamera sitcom, shot on a stage in front of an enthusiastic studio audience, looks much easier to make than it actually is. The format is close to 70 years old, dating back to I Love Lucy, but its roots go back much further than that, to the earliest …

The “Lie Witness News” team at Jimmy Kimmel Live tracked down some inattentive Los Angeles Rams fans Monday to get their reaction to the team’s Super Bowl “victory.” While the Rams lost to the New England Patriots 13 – 3, several people still had vivid memories of where they were …

To many people who watched it over the weekend, Netflix’s Russian Doll — about a video game designer who keeps dying while celebrating her 36th birthday only to be repeatedly reborn at the start of the party — will play like science fiction. To the show’s co-creator and star,Orange Is …

Brexit, the HBO docudrama premiering tomorrow about Britain’s 2016 vote to leave the European Union, arrives at an unexpectedly timely moment. Three years ago, most of the world was shocked when a slim margin of the country’s population, angry over trade deals and immigration, edged out those wanting to maintain …

A heckling Andy Samberg thwarts Jimmy Fallon‘s late-night serenade of “Escape(The Piña Colada Song)” in a bizarre sketch from Tuesday’s Tonight Show. Peter (Fallon), decked out in a mushroom haircut, earrings and piano tie, smoothly croons Rupert Holmes’ 1979 soft-rock hit – with Samberg interrupting at every vocal pause to …

It was a fever, a bookshelf, and possibly divine intervention, that made Adam McKay realize he didn’t know Dick. In the late winter of 2016, the writer-director had just finished the awards-circuit death march for The Big Short, his look at the housing crisis. Then, a week after the Oscars, …