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This post contains spoilers for the first episode of The Mandalorian, which is now available on Disney+. Early in The Mandalorian, the Star Wars series’ title character — a laconic bounty hunter, hidden under armor similar to Boba Fett’s — is offered a state-of-the-art land speeder to drive him and …

John Witherspoon — the versatile actor and comedian known for his turns in movies like Friday and House Partyand The Wayans Bros. sitcom — died Tuesday. He was 77. Witherspoon’s family confirmed the actor’s death on his Twitter account, writing, “It is with deep sadness we have to tweet this, …

Ted Danson was among those arrested alongside Jane Fonda in Washington, D.C., at the actress-activist’s latest “Fire Drill Fridays” climate change protest. The latest demonstration marked the third consecutive Friday that Fonda has been arrested outside the Capitol. Billing himself as Fonda’s “new trainee,” Danson spoke to the crowd of …

A review of this week’s The Good Place, “Employee of the Bearimy,” coming up just as soon as I’m holding a champagne glass full of Scrabble letters… Among the funny things about a show called The Good Place is how little time we’ve spent in the eponymous location. But while …

For seven seasons, The Good Wife was a cable drama dressed in broadcast procedural’s clothing. Each episode introduced one or more legal cases that would be resolved within the course of that hour, the better to be eaten by a weary audience at the end of a long (and often …

RZA speaks about his new office-bound lifestyle with reverence — the grind and mundanity, structure and camaraderie. The writers’ room for Hulu’s new original series, Wu-Tang: An American Saga, is, in his words, a utopian ideal. He describes working on the show with words like “sacred” and “therapy.” From October …

The stories are legion, and they are remarkably similar. Some begin in a Buffalo, New York, concert hall in 1978; others in a five-star hotel in Venice in 1998. But it usually starts with a seemingly benign offer of help, or a friendly chat, or a meeting about the next …

Get ready for a whole new pill to swallow when The Matrix returns for a fourth installment, with both Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss set to reprise their roles as Neo and Trinity, Varietyreports. Filmmaker Lana Wachowski, who co-directed the original film with her sister Lilly, will write and direct …

For some people, Bruce Springsteen doesn’t just write lyrics — he sings words to live by. That’s the case for Javed (dynamite newcomer Viveik Kalra), a no-hope British-Pakistani teen feeling the financial squeeze of Thatcherism in 1987 Luton. Then he hears Springsteen for the first time, and the words of …

BH90210 is a reunion of Beverly Hills 90210 in which most of the original stars of Beverly Hills 90210 play themselves as they try to mount… a reunion of Beverly Hills 90210. It would probably not make a list of the five weirdest TV revivals of all time, in part …