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Read More »Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings Are Your New 'Jeopardy!' Hosts — For Now
Mayim Bialik and former champion Ken Jennings will serve as the interim hosts of Jeopardy! for the remainder of the long-running game show’s season following the departure of executive producer Mike Richards. “Jeopardy! will see Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings host shows that will air through the end of the …
Read More »Michael Constantine, Patriarch in 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding,' Dead at 94
Michael Constantine, who portrayed the father of Nia Vardalos’ Toula Portokalos in the 2002 blockbuster My Big Fat Greek Wedding, died on August 31st at his home in Reading, Pennsylvania, The New York Times reports. He was 94. The film — which Rolling Stone‘s Peter Travers called “heartfelt and hilarious …
Read More »'Y: The Last Man': A World Where Women Rule
FX on Hulu’s Y: The Last Man begins with glimpses of a world transformed by a catastrophe. As we race around the globe, we see images of dead bodies everywhere and of impromptu memorials to the fallen. As an onscreen graphic tells us it’s “Three Weeks After” whatever happened, we …
Read More »'Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings': A Fresh Take on the Origin Story Trope
Someone will have to do the actual math (and I don’t doubt that someone will), but if Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings isn’t the most action-oriented movie of the Marvel Cinematic Universe thus far — purely in terms of ratio of time spent watching people beat each …
Read More »Spider-Man Breaks the Multiverse in New Trailer for 'No Way Home'
Tom Holland’s Peter Parker/Spider-Man finds himself caught in a tangled web of multiverse chaos in the new trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home, set to open in theaters on December 17th. The trailer opens with Parker grappling with the fallout from Spider-Man: Far From Home, in which his old foe …
Read More »Is 'The Viewing Booth' the Best Documentary of the Year?
“To suffer is one thing; another thing is to live with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate… Images transfix. Images anesthetize… But after repeated exposure to images, [an event] also becomes less real.”—Susan Sontag, On Photography Ra’anan Alexandrowicz had …
Read More »Charlie Robinson, 'Night Court' Actor, Dead at 75
Charlie Robinson, whose five-decade acting career included playing series mainstay Mac Robinson the court clerk on Night Court, died on Sunday in Los Angeles due to cardiac arrest and cancer complications, as Variety reports. He was 75. Starring in numerous TV, film and theater productions, Robinson’s enduring role was as …
Read More »'Zola' Violates All the Rules of 'Good Storytelling' — Which Is Why It Works
A film inspired by a viral tweet thread could have gone any number of ways — indeed, the thread in question, out of which Janicza Bravo’s new feature Zola was born, goes everywhere. A stripper misadventure, a Backpage okey-doke, a chance encounter from hell, gun violence, a cuckolded boy toy, …
Read More »'Loki' Episode 3 Recap: Strangers on a Train
A review of this week’s Loki on Disney+, “Lamentis,” coming up just as soon as l maintain a serious relationship with a postman whilst running across time from one apocalypse to another… What, exactly, is the advantage of serialized television over movies? Is it just to elongate stories, and get …
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