Netflix has released the preview for their summer 2021 movie slate, with new movies premiering each week on the streaming platform between late April and August. The schedule kicks off withThings Heard & Seen (April 29th), the Berman/Pulcini horror film starring Amanda Seyfried; and The Mitchells vs. the Machines (April …
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Netflix has released a new trailer for its upcoming series adaptation of Leigh Bardugo’s young adult fantasy novel, Shadow and Bone, set to premiere April 23rd. The show is centered around Alina Starkov (played by Jessie Mei Li), a lowly soldier and orphan, who discovers she has the power to …
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Former Saturday Night Live cast member and guest host Maya Rudolph revived her Beyoncé impersonation in a sketch based on the popular hot wings-eating YouTube series Hot Ones. “I still can’t tell if this beneath me, but my sister Solange loves this show, so I said I’d do it,” Rudolph’s …
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There are only so many stories to tell, especially in the picked-over underdog-sports genre. So it doesn’t feel egregious that the new Disney+ series The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers blatantly rips off the premise of Cobra Kaiby making the heroes from the movies — a ragtag-turned-champion youth hockey team — …
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UPDATE (3/22): The official trailer for Them has been released. *** Little Marvin and Lena Waithe revealed a teaser for their upcoming anthology series Them, and, yes — it’s insanely creepy. Set in the Fifties during the Great Migration, the trailer features a black family moving from North Carolina to …
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John David Washington kicked off the latest episode of The First Time with the story of his first time feeling starstruck: When he first met Morgan Freeman. “I had watched the movie Glory just a thousand times, plus and I had every line memorized,” Washington recalled. “I knew every character, …
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I don’t envy the job of anyone tasked with taking a classic Eighties comedy — Coming to America, say — and making a decades-later sequel that tries to please its guaranteed audience. Namely, everyone who loved the original, people who’ve rewatched it a million times, who have Soul Glo memes …
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John Oliver explored the overzealous and overused tactic of police raids on Last Week Tonight Sunday, February 28th. In the segment — which began with a very worthwhile, if unrelated, digression into the short-lived TV musical Cop Rock — Oliver traced the rise of police raids back to the War …
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Coming 2 America stars Tracy Morgan, Leslie Jones, Wesley Snipes, Jermaine Fowler, Bella Murphy and KiKi Layne reenact the original comedy’s “Soul Glo” ad in this bonus clip ahead of the film’s global premiere March 5th on Amazon Prime Video. In Coming to America, Eddie Murphy’s Prince Akeem vied for …
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Netflix has released the trailer for Murder Among the Mormons, a new documentary series that investigates the 1985 pipe bombing at Salt Lake City’s LDS Church, which killed two people and severely injured another. The three-part series explores the history of the Mormon community in Utah and the role that the …
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