Season One had the Maze. Season Two had the Door. And for a few minutes during tonight’s ultraviolent episode (“The Mother of Exiles”), it looked like Westworld had a new theme in mind: the Hunt. (There was an alt-orchestral cover of Björk’s song “Hunter” in this one, after all.) And …
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“I think the best thing that a lawyer can do with their license is get an innocent guy out of prison,” lawyer Ellen Eggers says in the trailer for Netflix’s The Innocence Files, a new docuseries focused on just that: the exoneration of the wrongfully imprisoned. Executive-produced and directed by …
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This post contains full spoilers for the first season of Star Trek: Picard, whose finale debuted today on CBS All Access. Midway through the Star Trek: Picard finale, the show’s dying title character realizes that he needs to get into orbit in a hurry, and the only person available to …
Read More »Arnold Schwarzenegger Donates $1 Million to COVID-19 Medical Supply Relief
Shortly after he and his livestock gave COVID-19 advice, Arnold Schwarzenegger donated $1 million for medical supplies in light of the pandemic. Schwarzenegger shared a link to a GoFundMe campaign titled Frontline Responders Fund, a campaign that aims to raise $5 million dollars to supply supplies, masks and gowns to …
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On August 3rd, 2019, a gunman killed 22 people in an El Paso Walmart with a semiautomatic rifle after posting a manifesto online decrying a “Hispanic invasion.” Hours later, a shooter killed nine people with an AR-15-style semiautomatic pistol at a bar in Dayton, Ohio. The shootings reignited the gun-control …
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Black Widow is set to launch Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe this May, and we got the latest look at the action-packed spy film on Monday. In the new trailer for the superheroine film, directed by Cate Shortland, Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff, a.k.a. Black Widow, returns on a …
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Better Call Saul catches up with its title in a new teaser for the fifth season of the show, which debuts Sunday, February 23rd, at 10 p.m. EST on AMC. In the clip, Jimmy McGill (now Saul Goodman, played by Bob Odenkirk) brandishes a cellphone with a very special speed-dial …
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Pete Davidson is set to take over streaming services in the next few months. First, the Saturday Night Live cast member’s Netflix comedy special, Pete Davidson: Alive From New York, will premiere February 25th on the platform. Then, Davidson will appear in a supporting role in the upcoming Hulu coming-of-age film Big Time …
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Every month offers a variety of intriguing new shows and returning favorites. And then there’s this February, which sees everything from the long-awaited return of Bob Odenkirk’s shifty lawyer Saul Goodman to Al Pacino tracking down Nazis in ’70s New York. There’s also a documentary about a long-running fast-food scam, …
Read More »Watch David Lynch Interrogate a Monkey in New Netflix Short Film
David Lynch stares down an unlikely murder suspect — a monkey — in his new Netflix short film, What Did Jack Do? The Twin Peaks co-creator also wrote, directed and edited the 17-minute project, which is available to stream now. The film, shot in a crackling black and white, follows …
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