579 posts tagged ‘entertainment culture’
Alec Baldwin briefly showed up on last night’s SNL
AV Club,
After hosting the show upwards of a thousand times and doing his arguably passable Donald Trump impression for so long that you would’ve thought the alternate persona might’ve completely infected him like the Venom symbiote, it shouldn’t be a weird shock when Alec Baldwin shows up on Saturday Night Live… and yet he’s… Read more...
Timothée Chalamet celebrates the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike in SNL monologue
Timothée Chalamet returned to Saturday Night Live last night for the show’s first episode since the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, meaning hosts no longer have to dance around who they are and why they’re there so they don’t look like scabs, and Chalamet celebrated the opportunity to get back to normal in a heavily… Read more...
What's on TV this week—The Curse, A Murder At The End Of The World, The Crown
Welcome to What’s On, our weekly picks of must-watch shows. Here’s what you need to watch from Sunday, November 12 to Thursday, November 16. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekend edition of What’s On drops on Fridays.] Read more...
Yeah, that's probably it for Loki
Although Marvel hasn’t said anything official yet, it’s sounding increasingly likely that the just-concluded second season of Disney+ TV series Loki will be its last. Both star Tom Hiddleston and series writer Eric Martin have given statements to press surrounding the show’s just-released second-season finale,… Read more...
Long before The Curse, Albert Brooks skewered “reality TV” with Real Life
Following last year’s reality TV home deconstruction project, The Rehearsal, Nathan Fielder returns to screens this week with The Curse. True to form, the series sees Fielder, who also directs and co-writes, and Emma Stone starring as aspiring HGTV gentrifiers Asher and Whitney Siegel. Co-written by Benny Safdie, who… Read more...
The best thriller movies to watch on Netflix right now
In the film genre pecking order, thrillers often get short shrift. They sometimes overlap with the far flashier horror genre, and seldom make the kinds of best-of lists that tend to get filled up with, say, historical dramas, crowd-pleasing comedies, and awards fare. Read more...
The Marvel Cinematic Universe, ranked from worst to best
Conventional critical wisdom holds that the floor and the ceiling of the 15-year-strong Marvel Cinematic Universe are not so far apart—that in devising a recipe for success, the company has managed to avoid any outright disasters, even as its principle of quality-without-risk also more or less negates the possibility… Read more...
So, what the heck did SAG-AFTRA actually get from all that striking?
After 118 days of very clever and dedicated sign-hoisting, actors union SAG-AFTRA announced today that its national board has voted to approve the guild’s new, hard-fought contract with the major Hollywood studios—although not unanimously, as it turns out, as only 86 percent of the board voted in favor of the deal.… Read more...