Nine years after that landmark TV show, Jarecki and his team have returned with a six-episode follow-up titled simply “The Jinx – Part Two.” The four episodes sent to press don’t really answer that question other than to further reveal a man with such a strong ego and corrupt support system that he thought he … Read more
In just a handful of years, Ti West has made an entire trilogy of films about the intersection of Hollywood, sex, and stardom. It started with 2022’s X, an unusual slasher movie about a killer murdering the cast and crew of an porno film in the late 1980s. Next came Pearl, a prequel set decades earlier about an … Read more
Jon Cryer said that Duckie, his beloved character from 1986’s Pretty in Pink, will always be “the guy I wish I was.” If there’s one character that Jon Cryer will forever be linked to, it’s Duckie from Pretty in Pink. The hopeless romantic who pines for Molly Ringwald’s Andie, he was the charming underdog that … Read more
The crew of The Revenge, having been caught in the (literal) crossfire of Ed and Stede’s tragic romance, begins the season split squarely in two with other couples like Jim (Vico Oritz) and Oluwande (Samson Kayo) forced apart as a result of their former Captain’s epic breakup. As such, the front half of the season … Read more
Instead of continuing directly after the acclaimed 2019 “Mortal Kombat 11,” the creators of this title revert numerically to “Mortal Kombat 1,” which technically makes this a reboot, although it contains many of the same mechanics as the last title and the excellent “Injustice 2,” also from developer NetherRealm Studios and publisher Warner Bros. Games. … Read more
The problem is, in both last season and this one, “The Wheel of Time” doesn’t have much to offer the discerning fantasy fan. Besides, of course, lengthy runtimes, a glossary of high-fantasy gobbledygook, and plot threads as gossamer-thin as the magical waves the “channelers” of Robert Jordan’s fantasy world twirl around themselves, “Last Airbender”-like, when … Read more
Nearly four months since the WGA strike began, talks between the writers and studios are once again at a standstill. It’s been nearly four months since the Writers Guild of America went on strike and there’s no sign that a deal will be reached anytime soon. After a week of meetings, THR reports that talks … Read more
A trailer has been released for the horror anthology 10/31 Part III, coming to VOD in late September, just in time for the Halloween season Horror host Malvolia the Queen of Screams (a.k.a. Jennifer Nangle) is back to present a new batch of twisted tales in the anthology film 10/31 Part III, which is set … Read more
Barbie and Oppenheimer continue being the movies of the summer while the new release Dracula film The Last Voyage of the Demeter fails to impress. Last week it had seemed that the reign of Barbenheimer was over when Jason Statham came in between the two, but like all things that are meant to be together, … Read more
Barbie continues her dominance atop the box office charts, landing at No. 1 for the third week after taking in $53M (-43%), per Deadline. The Margot Robbie-led comedy has collected $459.4M domestically and crossed the $1B worldwide ($527.7M internationally) tally. That’s just crazy. After a close call, it looks like the Jason Statham shark thriller … Read more