Netflix is slowly positioning itself to take over all media: Next week, the streaming service will launch a comedy channel on SiriusXM, and it is reportedly in talks of buying an iconic movie theater in Los Angeles. The station, Netflix Is a Joke Radio, will be broadcast on the satellite …
Read More »Watch Zac Efron's Chilling Portrayal of Ted Bundy in 'Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile' Trailer
Netflix has launched their trailer for Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, a biopic about serial killer Ted Bundy (Zac Efron) told through the perspective of his girlfriend Liz Kloepfer (Lily Collins) who struggled to recognize the truth about him. The film will premiere on the streaming service on May 3rd. …
Read More »Watch 'SNL' Question Jussie Smollett's Innocence in 'Empire' Meeting Sketch
Empire producers weighed Jussie Smollett’s fate on the show in the aftermath of his dropped charges in a Saturday Night Live sketch that questioned the actor’s exoneration. In the sketch, Chris Redd’s Smollett is two hours late for a meeting between Empire head Lee Daniels (played by Kenan Thompson) and …
Read More »Best TV to See in April: 'Game of Thrones' Final Season, 'Killing Eve,' 'Fosse/Verdon'
This month, it’s all about the TV power couples: FX unveils their next big prestige project, i.e. a bruising Broadway-duo relationship drama with a liberal doze of jazz hands; AMC and BBC America combine forces to give folks a match-up between a witch and a vampire, as well as bringing …
Read More »Bill & Ted Make It Official: 'Face the Music' Out Summer 2020
The third installment of the Bill and Ted saga, Bill and Ted Face the Music, will open in theaters August 21st, 2020. Production on the film is set to begin this summer in New Orleans with original stars, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, reprising their roles as the titular time …
Read More »Cardi B to Make Film Debut in Stripper Scam Movie 'Hustlers'
Cardi B will make her feature film debut in the upcoming stripper scam flick, Hustlers, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The rapper joins previously announced co-stars Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu, as well as fellow newcomers Julia Stiles, Lili Reinhart and Keke Palmer. Written and directed by Lorene Scafaria (The …
Read More »SXSW 2019: 'The Beach Bum' and Harmony Korine's Anarchy in the USA
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 …
Read More »'SNL': Ben Stiller Returns to Spoof Michael Cohen Hearing
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 …
Read More »Go Weird or Go Home: Why 'Doom Patrol' Beats 'Umbrella Academy' at the Superhero Game
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 …
Read More »Watch John Oliver Talk Trump, Brexit Chaos on 'Colbert'
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 …
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