579 posts tagged ‘entertainment culture’
Griselda review: Sofia Vergara anchors a gripping, if formulaic, Netflix crime drama
AV Club,
Let’s state the obvious first: Sofia Vergara is practically unrecognizable in Griselda, which premieres January 25 on Netflix. Shedding the persona of her well-known Emmy-nominated performance as Modern Family’s Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, the actor approaches her heavily dramatic turn with guns blazing. She embodies… Read more...
Lizzie McGuire and Ethan Craft?!??!
Jezebel,
There have been very few moments in my adult life that were as heartbreaking and infuriating as when Hilary Duff announced in 2020 that the Lizzie McGuire reboot on Disney+ would not be moving forward. My 10-year-old heart broke, my (then) 30-year-old heart broke, and my… Read more...
Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin is now the dark beating heart of Marvel’s TV shows
Marvel Studios released Jeremy Renner and Hailee Steinfeld’s Hawkeye in November 2021 as a little holiday treat for superhero fans, but the real joy was the way the show gradually teased the return of Vincent D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk—with D’Onofrio reprising his role from Netflix’s Daredevil show, where he was one of… Read more...
The 20 most unforgettable Sundance films ever
What began in 1978 as the Utah/United States Film Festival to help promote American independent cinema and boost film production in the Beehive State didn’t officially become the Sundance Film Festival until Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute officially took it over in 1985. Since then, Sundance has become one of the… Read more...
2024 BAFTA nominations: Poor Things and Oppenheimer lead the pack
We’ve knocked out the Golden Globes, Critics Choice Awards, and Primetime Emmys in the past few weeks, but award season is far from over. Today, we got a glimpse into how some of the year’s top films are faring across the pond as Naomi Ackie and Kingsley Ben-Adir announced this year’s BAFTA nominations at a live press… Read more...
"Interactive horror movie" Until Dawn to become un-interactive horror movie for some damn reason
Ohhhh, this one is going to give us a headache. See, THR is reporting this week that Sony has just moved forward with plans to plug 2015 horror game sensation Until Dawn into its freshly minted video game adaptation machine, hiring Shazam! franchise director David F. Sandberg to helm a movie version of the bestselling… Read more...
Richard Simmons once again politely asks the world (and Pauly Shore) to leave him the hell alone
Earlier today, news broke that a subsidiary of Warner Bros. had put into development a new biopic of former fitness star Richard Simmons, starring comedian Pauly Shore—largely, as far as we can tell, on the strength of people making memes over the last few years noting that the two men have a mild physical… Read more...
I, Too, Would Be Pissed If Pauly Shore Was Playing Me in a Biopic
Even in his mysterious absence from public life, Richard Simmons is an American pop culture icon and considered one of the most famous fitness gurus of all time. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to write that he—and his matching short shorts—motivated millions to see health and wellness as a means of fun rather than… Read more...