Saturday Night Live has never been shy about launching attacks on former host Donald Trump, filling its programming over the last few years with swipes against the current president that range all the way from tepid to “mildly cutting.” One of the best, though, wasn’t aimed at Trump himself—because it’s depressingly… …
Read moreJulian is starting to reveal the depths of his learned confusion and its consequences. Whatever strange mysticism he’s been taught about life and death, we now know why he could both murder two people in cold blood and simultaneously be absolutely horrified as it happens: “It wasn’t supposed to hurt.” …
Read moreWelcome back to Trailer Happy Hour, where a dream is a wish your heart makes, provided your heart is regularly dreaming about the latest movie trailers and TV promos. Today we’ve got Buzzfeed reporting, date-able swords, and John Krasinski playing a robot trying to Jim its way into your heart, so let’s dive right in. …
Read moreWe’re not quite optimistic enough to say that Republicans are blindly grasping at straws in hopes of finding something, anything, that might give them an advantage against the evil liberals, but it does seem like a lot of idiot Trumpers out there are desperate for something that they can consider a win. That’s… …
Read moreThere’s a pretty standard (and welcome, and positive) set of social conventions that say that you should be able to attend a concert in the reasonable expectation that no one—including the lead singer of the band you’re there to see—is going to kick the shit out of you for doing it. But that hardline stance gets a… …
Read moreKaren Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstack’s My Favorite Murder has rapidly risen to the rank of podcast institution since it launched in 2016, tapping the same vein of grisly true-crime obsession that helped propel shows like Serial and Dirty John to the top of the pile, but with a comedic twist that revels in the… …
Read moreSay this, if nothing else, for the new Puppet Master: It delivers all the puppet-on-person mayhem a bloodthirsty midnight-movie audience could ever demand. In fact, for long stretches of its slender 90-minute running time, The Littlest Reich plays like nothing more or less than its own kills-only supercut, offering… …
Read moreFinally, we can all rest easy knowing that two giant companies have apparently agreed that it’s okay for both of them to sell toys of characters named Bumblebee. …
Read moreWelcome to Development Hell, the fiery pit into which we fling recent developments in casting, distribution, and everything else that’s new and mildly interesting in the Boschian phantasmagoria of the entertainment industry. …
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