This morning, Paramount released the first trailer for its live-action film adaptation of the video game character Sonic the Hedgehog. But the star of the show was not the iconic, super-fast blue mammal. It was Jim Carrey, whose zany performance looks like a mash-up of all his goofiest comedy roles from the 1990s.
At the end of Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos destroys half of all life in the universe with a snap of his fingers. That film’s sequel, Avengers: Endgame, just obliterated every box office record in existence almost as quickly.
The culmination of 18 Marvel films and dozens more characters and plot lines spanning a decade, Avengers: Endgame is a massive, global event. It has already made $120 million in ticket pre-sales and is on track have one of the biggest opening weekends ever.
Last night’s episode of Game of Thrones proved that sometimes pandering to fans can still serve a story well.
Star Wars fans, today is the day.
Netflix has some serious FOMO.
Over the weekend, Netflix released its new nature documentary series, Our Planet, and one scene in particular is upsetting viewers.
It defies reason that performers who literally light themselves on fire, dive off steel cages, and plow through wooden tables solely for viewers’ entertainment would not get health insurance. But that has been the reality of the WWE for decades.
This story includes plot details about Jordan Peele’s new film Us.
Kumail Nanjiani doing standup. Adam Scott running maniacally around the cabin of a commercial plane. Known for their comic roles, these actors are probably not the first you’d call upon to conjure up existential dread—but they each do so impressively in the Twilight Zone reboot on CBS All Access.
More than two decades after HBO first told the world that it was something better than regular TV, Apple is trying to do the same thing.
Lupita Nyong’o is not the only one seeing double—Jordan Peele’s new horror film, Us, made twice as much money in its opening weekend as Hollywood projected it would.
Only a few seconds into Apollo 11, you realize that this is unlike any documentary you’ve ever seen. In crystal-clear, breathtaking detail, NASA’s crawler-transporter—a veritable city on wheels—lumbers across the screen, herding the mighty Saturn V rocket to its launch site. A few weeks later, that rocket sends three American astronauts barreling toward the moon.
Most questions on Game of Thrones are answered with the sharp end of a sword. Math and science aren’t nearly as sexy, but numbers have a lot to say about the conclusion of the HBO drama, if only we’d listen.
John Oliver doesn’t want you to stop making fun of people; that would put the satirist out of a job. But he does want you to think carefully about how and when you do it.
Jordan Peele debuted his new horror film, Us, at the SXSW film festival in Austin, Texas last week (March 8) to a rapturous reaction in the theater, and later on social media.
As I prepared to bend the knee and pledge loyalty to the army of the living, a priestess stopped me and whispered something in my ear, in what I believe was the fictional language of Valyrian. I’m not quite sure what she said, but the tone of her voice suggested it was something along the lines of: “Nah, we’re good. We don’t need you.”
While the world anxiously waits for the final season of Game of Thrones to premiere in April, HBO is still managing to dominate the cultural conversation with a very different kind of content: documentaries.
We’ve been trained to believe that daytime scenes in horror movies are reprieves—the time to catch your breath and unclench your knuckles before night comes again. But a new film by rising auteur Ari Aster promises to put all of its horrors right out in the open and in the light of day.
Michael Jackson has been accused of molesting children multiple times, and each time his legacy has survived. He settled with his first alleged victim out of court in 1993, and then went on to conduct one of the biggest global music tours in history two years later. In 2005, he beat the charges levied against him in a widely publicized trial, stemming from a second set of allegations. When he died four years after that, his funeral was watched online by more than 31 million Americans, and attended in person by a who’s who of famous musicians, politicians, actors, and athletes.
HBO appears to be doing all it can to maim or kill the cast and crew of Game of Thrones before its highly anticipated final season airs in April.
Netflix started campaigning for the 2020 Oscars before the 2019 awards were even over.
When HBO’s documentary detailing allegations of sexual abuse of children against Michael Jackson premiered at Sundance last month, mental health professionals were on hand to help viewers process what they saw. For the documentary’s premiere on TV, that role will be handled by Oprah Winfrey.
The 2019 Oscars were humming along at a brisk pace, filled with funny cameos and impressively diverse winners. Everything was going great.
