Jordan Peele is having a good month. The writer-director’s satirical horror film Get Out is officially the highest-grossing original debut ever, adding to its rapidly growing list of box office records.
Netflix has finally made live content—except it’s in the form of an April Fool’s joke that demonstrates exactly why Netflix doesn’t actually do live content.
Plug in your headphones and step inside the mind of David Haller, the most powerful mutant on Earth. Go on:
Serial proved that true-crime podcasts could be global phenomena that rival even the most prestigious of prestige scripted television. But with S-Town, the new podcast from team Serial that launched today, the creators aren’t taking their cues from HBO. Instead, they’re borrowing a page from William Faulkner, hoping to re-invent the medium once again—this time as a sweeping, Southern Gothic novel.
Be it a vigilant citizen or purely cosmic happenstance, someone (or something) is trying to teach US president Donald Trump a lesson about recklessly inviting nuclear hostilities.
If you thought the Republican party’s bumbling efforts to overhaul health care in the US seemed familiar, that may be because you saw it play out in uncanny detail on a cult network comedy 14 years ago.
Eight years after James Cameron’s Avatar wowed moviegoers with its much-hyped 3D technology, the American 3D movie bubble is deflating.
Update (May 17, 2019): This story was first published in March 2017. Since that time, George R.R. Martin has done several more things that are not finishing his book series. As the HBO series Game of Thrones ends this weekend, we have updated this story with the most recent of Martin’s non-book-writing activities.
Ken Burns’s timeless, award-winning documentary series The Civil War has entertained and enlightened students for almost 30 years. The nine-part PBS series, a staple in American classrooms, was largely credited for reviving cultural interest in the war and making the complex saga accessible to all ages. It is a seminal achievement, evidence of the good that can be done when the US government funds programs that foster learning and understanding around the country.
Et tu, Ronald?
In our hearts, we all knew this day would come. Warner Bros. is planning a reboot of The Matrix just 18 years after the iconic sci-fi action film dazzled audiences around the world, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Don Draper is so good at advertising that his ideas have now transcended his fictional reality and entered the real world. Heinz will run a series of ketchup advertisements originally pitched by the ad man in the AMC series Mad Men, Adweek reported yesterday.
Imagine you’re at the theater, watching a film. Right as the tension mounts to the climax, the piercing wails of a young child fill the auditorium. He’s just fallen off the Wobble Hopper.
In 2010, ten Russian sleeper agents were arrested in the United States after a decade-long FBI operation
David Letterman, retired from TV and sporting a dense white Gandalfesque beard, has a message for today’s comedians: “You have an obligation” to take on US president Donald Trump.
One of the most prolific and consistent performers in Hollywood is a large heap of rock.
Yesterday (March 1), Netflix dropped the first teaser for Mindhunter, an upcoming TV series about FBI agents in the 1970s who interview convicted serial killers to help solve ongoing cases. If that’s not intriguing enough, David Fincher, the modern master of the thriller, is producing the series and will direct multiple episodes.
The 2017 Academy Awards, a night that honored Hollywood’s best films and brightest stars, is likely to be remembered for delivering one of the most bizarre moments in live TV history—a mixup over the biggest award.
It’s the year 2042. The birds have long ago left us. US supreme leader Barron Trump reigns over his dominion with an iron fist. Masked marauders patrol the empty streets, killing for water. New Orleans and Miami have already begun to sink into the sea.
During the Oscars this Sunday, there will be at least one person in your Twitter feed who believes their opinions on the proceedings to be of the utmost importance. You know, the one who offers unsolicited criticisms of everything, from the stage design to the speeches to the actual films, as though the world were waiting with bated breath to hear their take.
With just three days until the Oscars, you probably don’t have time to watch all of the best picture nominations. But hopefully you can carve out a few hours for one or two—and to help you choose, we’ve compiled all the information you need to know about the candidates.
Netflix has obtained the rights to distribute Martin Scorsese’s next film, IndieWire reported. The mob film, titled The Irishman, reunites the illustrious filmmaker with Robert De Niro, the actor he helped turn into a superstar.
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Previous seasons of FX’s anthology series American Horror Story have dealt with a range of terrifying concepts: grisly murders, haunted asylums, demonic possession, and witches, to name a few. The next season, according to the show’s creator, will be about the most topical American horror story of all: the 2016 US presidential election.
