TV amp; Movies

Bruce Campbell has played a lifetime’s worth of sleazebags — miserable, self-serving lowlifes who drag everyone else down with them. His latest is Gary, an alcoholic contractor who also goes by “Captain” on Lodge 49. He was introduced on the show last week, chugging spirits from a paper bag and …

“It has been established that persons who have recently died have been returning to life and committing acts of murder.” “Yeah, they’re dead, they’re all messed up.” Who the fuck premieres a movie in Pittsburgh? Specifically, who premieres their movie in Pittsburgh, on a Saturday in October, during matinee hours, …

Colette was a pioneer in women’s rights, an author who was nominated for the Nobel prize in literature six years before her death in 1954. But director Wash Westmoreland (Still Alice) — working from a script he wrote with his late husband Richard Glatzer and Rebecca Lenkiewicz — has rightly …

Spoilers for the fifth season of BoJack Horseman — primarily for the season’s sixth episode, but with details about the rest sprinkled throughout — coming up just as soon as I check to see if I have a hand for a penis… When the new BoJack screeners arrived, they were …

Hulu’s The First is being sold as the story of Sean Penn leading the crew chosen for the first manned mission to Mars. This is two bait-and-switches for the price of one. For starters, when the series begins, Penn is not actually part of that first crew until something goes …

Quincy Jones reflects on his remarkable career in the new trailer for the upcoming documentary, Quincy. The trailer is filled with archival footage of Jones performing on stage, working in the studio and palling around with popes, presidents and other musical luminaries. It also teases interviews with artists like Dr. …

A judge granted Johnny Depp a motion today that would allow him to declare an oral contract he had with his former lawyers to be invalid. Depp’s attorneys first asked for the decision this past March, claiming that California requires written contracts for contingency fee agreements — the idea that …

Heads up: Spike Lee is coming at you with his greatest and most galvanizing movie in years. BlacKkKlansman is right up there with Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X in the Spike’s Joint pantheon of game-changers. For starters, it gets your blood up about the toxic and enduring power …

A reboot of the cult television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer is in the early stages of development with the original series’ creator Joss Whedon attached as executive producer. Midnight, Texas creator Monica Owusu-Breen will serve as writer, executive producer and showrunneron the reboot, which would feature an African-American woman …

Dr. Dre is developing a movie about Marvin Gaye, making adeal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing to secure the rights to the late Motown icon’s music. Reps for Dre and Sony/ATV confirmed the deal to Rolling Stone, though the film remains in the very early stages of development. Sources tell Rolling …