One of the surprising reprises in John Wick: Chapter 4 is the reincarnated Bowery King, played by Laurence Fishburne, one-third of The Matrix trio behind the Wick franchise. Known for numerous roles, including Boyz n the Hood and Apocalypse Now,…
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After making his late-night debut on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon last year with a laugh-out-loud standup set, breakout comedian Michael Rowland is looking to make a splash on primetime TV with his new sitcom, Animal Control. Following a…
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Gary Young in Louder Than You Think When it comes to music documentaries, the bar is low—some new footage, a long-unseen live performance, maybe a fresh anecdote or two—and yet rarely cleared. For Pavement fans, though, Louder Than You Think will…
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Who’s ready for the ultimate Easter egg hunt? Missing is absolutely packed to the brim with clues, connections to Searching, new story beats for the alien invasion subplot, and more hidden gems. Viewers caught quite a few of them when…
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Confessions of a Good Samaritan. The drive to donate a kidney to a stranger is not a desire I—nor the majority of the population, for that matter—can relate to. (But then again I’ve personally no great love for humanity in…
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John Wick: Chapter 4 is a massive action epic that has allowed its titular character some breathing room and a vast supporting cast after the breathless two-week period of the initial trilogy. Time has passed, John has recovered, and a…
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With the fate of the crew of the Titan hanging in the balance, the fourth episode of Star Trek: Picard delivers a healthy dose of truth and consequence, as Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) takes a moment to get to know…
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[Editor’s note: The following contains major spoilers for Season 1 of Poker Face.]Written by show creator Rian Johnson and directed by Janicza Bravo, the Season 1 finale of the Peacock original series Poker Face, called “The Hook,” brings it all…
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Claudette Godfrey and Mark Hamill at the 2018 premiere of The Director and The Jedi at SXSW. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for SXSW) At this year’s edition of the SXSW Film & TV Festival, two significant milestones will be…
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Punch, the New Zealand movie from filmmaker and academic Welby Ings, is a unique project. A boxing film that is ultimately against violence, Punch uses the testosterone and traditional masculinity of boxing to comment upon the bullying and prejudice that…
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If you’d said to any Mel Brooks fan even three years ago that we’d finally be getting a long-awaited sequel to History of the World, Part I, the epic parody film that took audiences through all of human history, they’d…
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Blood and bruises, anyone? It’s a battle of will and grit in The Siege. Saban Film’s new action thriller is a relentless tour de force, mightily held up by its bulky leading man, Daniel Stisen (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Justice…
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