TV amp; Movies

Seven years before Jaden Smith was born, his father made a song called “Summertime.” It’s a classic, but Jaden, who grew up in sunny California, didn’t fully grasp the reason why until recently. “People always make such a big deal about summer – Drake’s ‘Summer Sixteen,’ or my dad’s song …

Ant-Man has always been the runt of the Marvel litter, swimming in the wake of the god-like Thor, the super-cool Iron Man and the bulk of the Hulk. It helps that Paul Rudd is a wonderfully appealing actor with the chops to go deeper. But how can Scott Lang, the …

It’s hard to figure out where this whatzit Western is going exactly. David and Nathan Zellner, the brothers who wrote and directed Damsel,aren’t trying to scare the horses or rattle your nerves – but they clearly like springing surprises. Their deadpan tone makes the stately pace of, say,Dead Mandirector Jim …

Samantha Bee examined the nefarious “crisis actor” conspiracy theory and the way it’s used to cast doubt on mass shootings and other American tragedies on Full FrontalWednesday. Bee centered the segment around the Marjory Stoneman Douglas massacre in Parkland, Florida, and the survivors – especially those that became prominent gun …

At least it looks super fly. It’s too bad that Director X (born Julien Christian Lutz), the Canadian short-form film master for the likes of Rihanna, Drake and Nicki Minaj, stumbles when he has to stretch a scene past video length. He sets his blaxploitation remake in present-day Atlanta to …

Two teenagers – one poor and one rich, one black and one white, one boy and one girl, one powered by darkness and the other by light – become one unstoppable crimefighting duo. That’s the basic brief on Cloak and Dagger, the young heroes set to be the next stars …

Hot off starring in one of the most successful films of all time, and increasingly at the center of the marketing for Marvel’s next blockbuster Avengers: Infinity War, Chadwick Boseman confidently stepped onto the stages at Studio 8H and delivered a fantastic job as Saturday Night Live host. The material …

“We made this in the spirit of lighthearted fun,” Daryl Hannah said, staring out into crowd packed in to Austin’s Paramount Theater. “So we hope you can relax your brains.” A mellowed-out frontal lobe is pretty much a prerequisite for Paradox, the actor-turned-filmmaker’s free-form collaboration with boyfriend Neil Young and …

In the new trailer for Ruth Bader Ginsburg documentary RBG, the eminently quotable Supreme Court Justice says: “I ask no favor for my sex; all I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” The film, which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, chronicles …

A space colonization mission goes awry in the new trailer for Lost in Space, Netflix‘s reboot of the series that originally aired on CBS from 1965 to 1968. The action begins when the Robinson family and two others, Dr. Smith and Don West, crash-land on an unknown planet. In their …