Despite Dave Chappelle ending his previous comedy special deal with Netflix on a controversial note, the streaming service has announced a new four-special series featuring comedians handpicked by Chappelle. The series, dubbed Chappelle’s Home Team, will premiere Feb. 28th with an episode spotlighting the stand-up comic known as Earthquake. In …
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The Streaming Era of television has also proved to be the Skip Intro era, where binge-watchers are encouraged to jump past the opening credits of their shows and get right into the plot. And many shows of this era offer long and tedious main title sequences for which this function …
Read More »Surprise! 'Spider Man: No Way Home' Is a Supercharged, Cracked-Mirror MCU Buddy Comedy
When we last left Peter Parker, our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, he’d just watched footage of his battle in London with Quentin Beck, a.k.a. the charlatan savior Mysterio, being broadcast throughout the greater Manhattan area. Then J. Jonah Jameson, a man who never met a webslinger he didn’t want to string …
Read More »'Rust' Armorer's Lawyers Blame Possible 'Sabotage' for Live Round on Film Set
Lawyers for Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed brought forth allegations of possible “sabotage” on the film set that resulted in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Gutierrez-Reed and assistant director Dave Halls — the two people who handled the gun before handing it to Alec Baldwin — have reportedly been at …
Read More »The Roys Are Back (Again): 'Succession' Renewed for Season Four
The Roy Family and their family business Waystar Royco will serve up more dysfunctional drama for another season. The Jesse Armstrong-created series is in the midst of Season Three, which premiered on October 17th. A date for the upcoming season has not yet been announced. “With each season of Succession, …
Read More »'Daily Show' Hits Trump Rally to Talk to Iowans Who Still Think He Won: 'We Are Not a Cult'
The DailyShow With Trevor Noah correspondent Jordan Klepper headed to Iowa during a Trump rally for the first time since the January 6th insurrection in a segment that aired on Monday. During his visit, he chatted with Trump supporters, some of whom apparently still believe the election has not been …
Read More »See Jon Stewart Surprise Pete Davidson During 'Wheel of Opinions' on 'Fallon'
Pete Davidson is a guest on tonight’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where he plays a game with the host called “Wheel of Opinions.” During a preview of the segment, Jon Stewart makes a surprise cameo. The episode airs at 11:35 p.m. ET. The silly game involves Fallon hitting …
Read More »'The Wire' Star Wendell Pierce Remembers 'Immensely Talented' Michael K. Williams
The Wire star Wendell Pierce — among other cast members — paid tribute to fellow series actor Michael K. Williams Monday after news broke that Williams died at the age of 54. “The depth of my love for this brother can only be matched by the depth of my pain …
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W hen Michael Gandolfini arrived at Vera Farmiga’s house to meet her for the first time, he had a bouquet of flowers in hand, like a dutiful son visiting his mother. Which he more or less was, since he would be playing the teenage Tony Soprano to her Livia in …
Read More »'Candyman': Yes, This Remake Is Brutal and Timely. But It Also Overreaches for Relevance
Be my victim. For the many who’ve seen it over the years, 1992’s Candyman remains an unforgettable, almost unforgivably effective grievance: a film whose terrors are sticky, dense, pleasurably warying, and uncomfortable; whose politics feel knowing and rife with intention, just this side of didactic, yet poisoned at the root …
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