All In: The Fight for Democracy In the new documentary, Stacey Abrams examines rampant voter suppression across the United States. Referring to voter suppression as the new “Jim Crowe 2.0,” the documentary focuses on Abrams’ 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race, where voters were faced with five-hour lines, mismanagement, and gerrymandering. Abrams …
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Kenneth Branagh returns to the role of detective Hercule Poirot in his adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile, which released its first trailer Wednesday. Like the director’s spin on Murder on the Orient Express in 2017, Death on the Nile assembles an all-star cast of characters, with Gal …
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Since the Newport Beach Film Festival could not be held in public this year, the event organizers surprised its Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Eugene Levy, with a special video. The clip shows Levy watching as his friends and collaborators both praise and lovingly roast him, bringing tears of joy to …
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Jude Law and Naomie Harris play travelers who end up sucked into the mysterious and terrifying ways of a strange island off the British coast in the new trailer for the limited series, The Third Day, premiering September 14th on HBO. The six-episode series is broken into two parts, “Summer” …
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In a cozy, seaside cottage in Kent, with the winds of WWII still at a distance, Alice Bloom (Gemma Arterton) bangs out academic theses about folklore on her typewriter and launches verbal attacks on neighbors who dare to interrupt her work. The locals have the swaggering, chainsmoking Alice pegged as …
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The Muppets — specifically, the comedy-variety troupe featuring Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo the Great, et. al. — are in their sixth decade of existence, but they have never been more perfectly deployed than in their first project together, the Seventies syndicated hit The Muppet Show. A …
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John Lewis declares that, during the 1960s, he was arrested “a few times.” Then the elder statesman and éminence grise of the civil rights movement pauses before correcting himself in front of the large Dallas crowd he’s addressing: “40 times…and since I’ve been in Congress, another five times. I’m probably …
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LeBron James, Tom Brady, Alex Morgan and more examine the signature moments of their careers in the new trailer for Greatness Code, a short form docuseries premiering July 10th on Apple TV+. The clip opens with James recounting a pivotal 2012 playoff game against the Boston Celtics, a team that …
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Ever since MTV’s The State went off the air in 1995, the 11-member sketch comedy troupe has faced the same problem every time it tries to reform: Finding the time when every member can commit to a project is virtually impossible. That finally changed earlier this year when the COVID-19 …
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John Oliver dedicated all of Sunday’s Last Week Tonight to examining the history of racist police violence, the roadblocks to reform and ways to overhaul law enforcement following worldwide protests over the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others. Oliver opened by showing just how “deeply policing in this …
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