579 posts tagged ‘entertainment culture’
Quantum Leap's Ready to Jump Back to Your TV
Gizmodo,
It’s been a full month since NBC’s pretty solid Quantum Leap revival went on a midseason break to account for the holidays. But it won’t be too long a wait before the show returns: per Deadline, the remaining episodes of season two will begin airing on Tuesday, January 30. Read more...
R.I.P. Pulitzer-winning TV critic Tom Shales
AV Club,
Tom Shales has died. As a professional TV critic for The Washington Post for more than 30 years, Shales was one of the leading voices in pop culture criticism in the 1980s, ’90s, and beyond, winning the Pulitzer Prize For Criticism in 1988 for his work. His death was made public on social media on Saturday by fellow… Read more...
Sony's El Muerto Movie Should Exist This Weekend
A full month from now, Madame Web will be making its way into theaters. Like Venom and Morbius before it, the film is Sony’s bid at making a universe of interconnected Spider-Man movies that don’t feature the hero in question. And in another universe, we’d have one of those movies playing out in theaters this weekend. Read more...
Universal's Doing Its Monsters the Right Way
Just before the weekend, Universal finally pulled back the curtain on its cryptic horror movie from filmmaking duo Radio Silence. The resulting film is Abigail, which sees Melissa Barrera and Dan Stevens headline a team of kidnappers who snatch up a kid to hold her for ransom. The twist? The titular Abigail, played by… Read more...
Jo Koy refers to the famous people who didn't laugh at him as "marshmallows"
Comedian Jo Koy did not have an especially good week this past week—and most especially did not have a good 10 minutes or so last Sunday night, when he was generally held to have beefed it, big-time, on the stage of the Golden Globes. Koy referenced that previous gig at his latest one on Friday evening, Variety reports Read more...
The Mandalorian's Cinematic Prospects May Not Just Be One-Offs
Earlier in the week, Disney surprisingly revealed Din Djarin will be headlining two films. Along with Dave Filoni’s New Republic-era movie still potentially called Heir to the Empire, the Mandalorian will star in The Mandalorian & Grogu, which sees father and son go on a big-screen adventure. Read more...
Maggie Gyllenhaal's Bride of Frankenstein Movie is Aliiiiiiive! With a Stacked Cast
Netflix and Lionsgate aren’t the only ones with Frankenstein movies in the works. Warner Bros. also has a movie about the undead creature and his lovely Bride in production, and the Maggie Gyllenhaal-directed picture has built up a pretty sizable roster of actors. Read more...
All the Shocking Star Wars News of the Week, and More
Lucasfilm decided to drop a bomb this week with the shocking reveal of a remixed movie slate: now headlined by a Mandalorian movie, the first Star Wars film to enter production since The Rise of Skywalker. But that wasn’t all in the galaxy far far away: Ahsoka’s back! Luke and Padmé finally met, sort of! There’s all… Read more...