HBO Max has released the trailer forGeneration, a new teen dramedy that explores the lives and sexualities of a group of Gen Z teenagers and their families. The first three episodes of the series premiere on March 11th. Generation follows a group of diverse high school students navigating the ups …
Read More »Michelle Obama Befriends Foodie Puppets in 'Waffles + Mochi' Trailer
Michelle Obama befriends two aspiring puppet chefs in Waffles + Mochi, out March 16th on Netflix. The former First Lady stars as a supermarket owner who hires Waffles and Mochi, two puppets who dream of being chefs. Obama helps the duo embark on a global adventure, using a flying shopping …
Read More »'The First Time' With Alan Tudyk
Ever since making his major film debut in Patch Adams (1998), Alan Tudyk has had an impressively diverse acting career. From playing robots in sci-fi films to voicing multiple animated characters in hit films and TV shows — as well as video games — there seems to be very little …
Read More »The Wanderlust of Chloé Zhao
The clouds have parted over Ojai, California, on November 7th, and Chloe Zhao can’t stop smiling. She’d planned to spend the dismal Saturday hunkered down inside, in postproduction on Marvel’s Eternals, due out later this year. But when the sun broke through, right after the news that Joe Biden had …
Read More »'Queen Sugar' Tackles Covid-19 Pandemic in Season 5: Watch the Trailer
OWN has released the trailer for Season 5 of Ava DuVernay’s drama seriesQueen Sugar, which sees the Bordelon family and the community of St. Josephine come face-to-face with the Covid-19 pandemic. When production on Queen Sugar was forced to shut down in spring of 2020 due to the novel coronavirus, …
Read More »'Our Friend' Review: Tragedy, Tears and a Testament to One Saintly BFF
In 2012, Matthew Teague found out that his wife, Nicole, was going to die. She’d been diagnosed with ovarian cancer; when the surgeon went in to remove tumors, however, he’d discovered that the disease had spread everywhere. Matthew was a journalist for The Atlantic. Nicole had been an actor when …
Read More »Chris Rock Talks Comedy Legends With Dave Chappelle and Arsenio Hall in New 'Tamborine' Clip
Chris Rock talks classic showbiz rivalries with Dave Chappelle and Arsenio Hall in a clip from the new “remix” edition of Rock’s 2018 special,Tamborine, out Tuesday, January 12th. In the clip, Chappelle, Rock, and Hall are sharing their mutual admiration for each other backstage, which prompts Hall to remark that …
Read More »How John Wilson Made the Quirkiest, Most Transcendent Show on Television
It’s been a little over six weeks since the docuseries How to With John Wilson premiered on HBO to unanimous rave reviews, earning an instant cult following and a perfect 100-percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and the 34-year-old filmmaker at the center of it is still trying to process what’s …
Read More »Why the Band's 'The Last Waltz' Is the Best Concert Movie of All Time
“This film should be played loud!” It’s a cliché now, a concert-movie disclaimer that’s become the equivalent of that hippie-dippy tagline from those Freedom Rock compilation ads (“Well, turn it up, maaaaan.”) But in the late Seventies, when it first flashed onscreen in all white font against a stark black …
Read More »'The Climb': The Story Behind the Indie Buddy Comedy of the Year
When it comes to The Climb, filmmakers/real-life movie bros Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin have learned to expect any and all reactions. For one, Covino received what he calls a “lovely email” from Tom Hanks after he saw the award-winning indie dramedy (he has a small role in Hanks’ …
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