American comedian and emissary extraordinaire Conan O’Brien is at it again. After trips to Cuba and Armenia, the late-night host has now brought his brand of humorous diplomacy to one of the world’s most precarious locales—the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).
Game of Thrones is getting its own weekly recap show, HBO announced this week—more evidence that TV watchers are almost as addicted to discussing their shows as they are to watching the actual shows.
Tuesday night (April 5), FX aired the finale of its critically acclaimed series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story. Spoiler alert: O.J. was acquitted.
All the cool kids are doing it. Today (April 5), Starz launched its own streaming app, following fellow premium TV channels HBO and Showtime into the unbundled business.
Warner Bros. is developing an animated movie based on the popular Looney Tunes character Speedy Gonzales, Deadline reported yesterday (April 4). The film, tentatively called Speedy, will be released in both English and Spanish.
I stopped watching AMC’s The Walking Dead two seasons ago. I immensely enjoyed the show’s first season, then slogged through the next three, before finally calling it quits early in its fifth season. I never wholly disliked the show—I just got bored by it. Still, I always assumed I’d pick it back up again, perhaps during a week-long summer binge session.
Last week, I attended a “4D” screening of Batman v Superman at a brand new theater in New York City. It was not the immersive experience that it claimed it would be. And while its technology—including artificial wind and rain, moving seats, smoke, and smells—might seem new to many moviegoers, similar gimmicks have existed in theaters for a half-century.
Fans of the Game of Thrones books and TV series have long quarreled over who the true hero of the story is. Daenerys? Tyrion? Jon Snow? Hodor? Every time a character seems to be developing into a protagonist, he or she is brutally killed (video). Such is the perilous existence of the major players in the world of the wildly popular HBO series—when you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.
Not all heroes wear capes.
When Apple CEO Tim Cook stood on stage last year and proclaimed, “The future of TV is apps,” we didn’t think he meant it this literally.
No, you haven’t gone crazy. Netflix’s catalog of movies and TV shows really is shrinking.
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Listen up, internet: This is how to respectfully debate someone you disagree with.
Netflix has bought the US rights to The Little Prince, after Paramount suddenly and mysteriously dropped the animated film just a week before it was scheduled to be released in the country (today, March 18). Netflix has not yet said when Americans can expect to see the film on the streaming service, but at least it has found a home.
A new at-home streaming movie service proposal has turned Hollywood into a battleground, with some of the industry’s most influential filmmakers facing off over the future of cinema.
Indiana Jones will return for a fifth movie in 2019, Disney announced yesterday (March 15). Harrison Ford will once again reprise his role as the titular archaeologist adventurer, and Steven Spielberg will return to direct. The first “Indy” film, Raiders of the Lost Ark, debuted in 1981. Since then, the franchise has raked in over $2 billion at the global box office and has inspired TV spinoffs, theme park rides, and mounds of merchandise.
Your colleague comes up to you during lunch and says, “I heard you talking about Making a Murderer earlier. I really want to watch, but I don’t have a Netflix account. Do you mind if I binge on your account? I’ll stop using it after that, I swear.”
Be honest, do you pay for your own Netflix subscription, or mooch off someone else’s?
Lilly Wachowski, one half of the sibling filmmaking duo behind The Matrix, has come out as a transgender woman. Her sister, Lana, did the same in 2012.
If there’s one thing HBO has learned since first airing Game of Thrones, it’s that you can’t stop the spoilers. You can only hope to contain them.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens had a relatively diverse cast, and now director J.J. Abrams has enacted a new hiring system that will ensure all of his future films will be equally, if not more, diverse.
Every year, dozens of tough-as-nails mushers and their equally resilient sled dogs race 1,000 miles through the brutal Alaskan wilderness in the Iditarod. Sled dog races, of course, require that there be snow on the ground.
First Dish Network, then Comcast, and now AT&T. The giant TV, internet, and mobile provider will launch three new TV services available to anyone in the US with an internet connection—no cable or satellite subscription required. They’re expected to arrive in late 2016.
He wanders silently around an art exhibit, unsure of what’s “good” or “bad,” until he observes the reactions of other patrons who seem like they can tell a Monet apart from a Manet. No, we’re not talking about you on your last Tinder date at the Met. We’re talking about Berenson, a wide-eyed, bowler hat-wearing art connoisseur—who also happens to be a robot.
