This post contains spoilers for this week’s Better Call Saul, “Nippy,” which we recapped here. Better Call Saul viewers can be forgiven for assuming that AMC aired the wrong episode this week. “Nippy,” an episode-length trip into the black-and-white world of Gene Takovic from Cinnabon — a.k.a. the fugitive alias …
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In the biggest highlight of Marvel‘s absolutely loaded Comic-Con panel, the film studio and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever director Ryan Coogler revealed the trailer for the upcoming film, showcasing the follow-up to their 2018 masterpiece. The trailer, soundtracked by a mashup of Tems’ rendition of Bob Marley’s “No Woman, No …
Read More »Carol Burnett Slated to Appear in 'Better Call Saul' Final Season
Carol Burnett has been tapped to guest star in Better Call Saul during its sixth and final season, Variety reports. The comedy icon will portray a character named Marion. Outside of the name of her character, little is known about the role and how involved the character will be in …
Read More »Tyler Perry Says He Was 'De-Escalating,' Not Consoling, a 'Devastated' Will Smith After Oscars Slap
Nearly three months after the infamous slap heard around the world, Tyler Perry is addressing the moments just after Will Smith smacked Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars. The multi-hyphenate film mogul was seen speaking with Smith during the commercial break after the actor stormed the stage in retaliation to …
Read More »'Hustle' Is Adam Sandler's Wet Jumper of a Basketball Movie
Adam Sandler may officially be entering his Blue Period. Oh, Our Patron Saint of the Holy Abbie-Doobie is still making the sort of broad, big-swing comedies he’s always made, still not afraid to channel his inner manchild in the middle of a lysergic sugar-high. (A friendly reminder: This movie came …
Read More »'Jurassic World Dominion' Isn't a Movie. It's an Extinction-Level Event
Think back to 1993, an ancient era when cavemen in flannel roamed the earth, a gentleman named William Jefferson Clinton was President and Twitter was not even a toxic gleam in Jack Dorsey’s eye. You’re sitting in a darkened theater, waiting for a movie to start, when the trailer for …
Read More »Movie Theaters in Ukraine Are Making a Surprising Comeback
On the morning of May 18, hours after the Cannes Film Festival kicked off, Polina Schlicht huddled with fellow international film buyers on the lawn of Le Grand Hôtel. As the managing director of Berlin-based Monumental Pictures, a company that licenses films for Ukraine via UFD, its distribution arm in …
Read More »'This Is Going to Hurt': Health Care's a Bitch and Then You Die
“You think that you are the cleverest person in the room, and that makes you dangerous,” a colleague tells Dr. Adam Kay, the British obstetrician at the center of the UK limited series This Is Going to Hurt. Ordinarily, this is the kind of sentiment hurled at the protagonist of …
Read More »Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt Is Forced to Pick a Side in 'Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1' Trailer
The long-delayed seventh entry in the Mission: Impossible action film series is just out of reach in its first official teaser trailer. Dead Reckoning Part One is set for release on July 14, 2023 as the first of two sequels following up Fallout, the latest installment released back in 2018. …
Read More »Tatiana Maslany Goes Green in Marvel's 'She Hulk' Trailer
Tatiana Maslany is ready to smash things in the first trailer for upcoming Marvel Studios/Disney+ comedy-action series, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. The nine-episode series, directed by Kat Coiro and Anu Valia, premieres Aug. 17. The trailer reveals Maslany as Jennifer Walters, a lawyer who specializes in superhuman-oriented legal cases. She’s …
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