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‘The Good Place’ Season 3 Clip: Watch The First Scene From The Season Premiere By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 12, 2018 11:30 am EST This post contains spoilers for The Good Place seasons 1 and 2. The first season of The Good Place surprised us all with that twist ending revealing that Eleanor (Kristen Bell), Chidi (William Jackson Harper), Tahani (Jameela Jamil) and Jason (Manny Jacinto) were actually in The Bad Place as part of a new experimental form of torture by the demon Michael (Ted Danson)....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 3, 2017 9:00 am EST The first look at the Will and Grace revival teased new footage from the series return on NBC this month, interspersed with some footage from the good old days when ’90s TV was slightly grainier, and the world was a little less terrible. At least Jack has Grindr now. Watch the new Will and Grace trailer below. “He’s a man, but he has aged into a lesbian,” challenges Will (Eric McCormack)....

Cool Stuff: ‘Samurai Jack’ Complete Series Box Set Arrives In October By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 23, 2017 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Cartoon Network and Adult Swim have have announced a Samurai Jack complete series box set that will have the first four initial seasons of the series as well as the final fifth season from the revival earlier this year. Though the first four seasons have been available on DVD for awhile now, this marks the first time they’ll be available on Blu-ray....

Ryan Murphy Is Making A ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ Prequel For Netflix By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 7, 2017 12:00 pm EST The streaming service has picked up Ryan Murphy’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest prequel about the infamously cruel nurse who ruled with an iron cap over the inmates of the mental institution. The series, titled Ratched, will follow a younger Nurse Ratched, presumably before and during her time working at that unnamed Oregon psychiatric hospital, and will focus on how she came to be one of cinema’s most notorious villains....

Stephen Merchant Is The Latest Recruit In Taika Waititi’s ‘Jojo Rabbit’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 22, 2018 5:30 am EST The cast of Taika Waititi’s World War II comedy Jojo Rabbit is multiplying like…well, rabbits. British writer/director/actor Stephen Merchant is the latest quirky talent to join the cast. Best known Stateside for his role in last year’s Logan and the short-lived HBO series Hello Ladies, Merchant will be playing a Gestapo agent in the Nazi satire....

Steven Soderbergh Is Amazed ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Didn’t Kill Hundreds Of People By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 10, 2017 1:30 pm EST Steven Soderbergh has always been a filmmaker very open to praising fellow artists, and in a recent interview the Logan Lucky director sang the praises of George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road. In a bit of effusive praise for Miller and his directorial skills, Soderbergh commented on how incredibly well-staged the action set pieces in the recent Mad Max sequel were, and how they left him awestruck....

Superhero Bits: Creepy Hybrid Batman And Joker, Jonah Hex In The Future, Supergirl In Riverdale & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 24, 2017 5:00 pm EST What would Patty Jenkins change about Wonder Woman in retrospect? Have you seen the new creepy Joker and Batman hybrid? Could we see Jonah Hex return to DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, but in the future instead of the West? Will Supergirl be stopping by Riverdale at some point?...

Tessa Thompson And Ruth Negga To Star In Rebecca Hall’s Directorial Debut By Ben Pearson/Aug. 6, 2018 4:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Learn more about the Passing movie adaptation below. This sounds like a complex and fascinating story, and the two actresses in the lead roles seem like terrific fits for their respective parts. Negga, who’s portrayal of Tulip O’Hare is consistently one of the best aspects of AMC’s Preacher, recently earned an Oscar nomination for the period drama Loving, and Thompson can really knock a project out of the park when she has the right script to work with....

By Jack Giroux/Oct. 14, 2016 4:35 pm EST Below, learn more about The Bonfire of the Vanities TV series. The novel follows Sherman McCoy (played by Hanks in the film), a young investment banker who has his life changed by a freak accident. Here’s the book’s synopsis: Suddenly, one wrong turn makes it all go wrong, and Sherman spirals downward in a sudden fall from grace that sucks him into the ravenous heart of a New York City gone mad during the go-go, racially turbulent, socially hilarious 1980s....

The Morning Watch: Ray Harryhausen’s ‘War Of The Worlds’ VFX Test, The Movie Alphabet & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 8, 2017 5:00 am EST (The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, check out a visual effects test that was part of a pitch for film legend Ray Harryhausen to adapt War of the Worlds....

Wes Anderson’s New Stop-Motion Movie Is Titled ‘Isle Of Dogs,’ Full Cast And First Footage Revealed By Jacob Hall/Dec. 21, 2016 9:00 am EST Aside from that pretty wonderful holiday short film/commercial released last month, things have been pretty quiet for director Wes Anderson in the wake of 2014’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, which was a critical darling, a box office hit, a genuine Oscar contender, and very much the best movie released that year....

Westworld: Dr. Ford’s Gigantic World Sculpting Machine Is A Real Thing By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 27, 2016 2:30 pm EST In the fourth episode of Westworld entitled “Dissonance Theory”, we are finally introduced to a gigantic machine that Anthony Hopkins’ character Doctor Ford uses to literally change the landscape of Westworld. The machine seems like something from the far future, a product of science fiction — but it isn’t. What you see in the episode is a something called the Bagger 293, a Bucket Wheel Excavator the size of an ocean liner on land....

‘Captain Marvel’ Casts Jude Law As The Original Captain Marvel By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 22, 2017 12:39 pm EST Jude Law is joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The actor will star opposite Brie Larson in the upcoming Captain Marvel. Details on Law’s role are slim, but reports say he’ll be playing Mar-Vell, the original Captain Marvel and a mentor to Larson’s Carol Danvers. Here’s everything we know about the Jude Law Captain Marvel casting...

‘Ghostbusters’ Honest Trailer: How Much Do You Enjoy Paul Feig’s B Material? By Angie Han/Oct. 18, 2016 3:30 pm EST Ghostbusters was neither this summer’s best film nor this summer’s worst film, but it’s definitely the frontrunner for this summer’s most divisive film. The exhausting culture war over Paul Feig’s reboot began the moment it was announced and intensified after the trailer was released, peaking with the film’s release in July....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Actress Elizabeth Debicki Added To ‘Valerian,’ A Month Before Release By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 2, 2017 7:30 am EST Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets wrapped production back in June 2016, but with a month and a half to go before its release, it looks like it’s still not quite done yet.Elizabeth Debicki, who was recently seen in another fantastical space romp Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....

‘It: Chapter 2’ Begins Filming This July, Says Producer Roy Lee By Ben Pearson/April 12, 2018 11:00 am EST Are you ready to go back to Derry, Maine? It director Andres Muschietti certainly is, and a new report claims that his upcoming sequel It: Chapter 2 begins filming in just a few short months. Steel yourselves now, because Pennywise the clown is going to haunt your dreams once again. Roy Lee produced Muschietti’s wildly successful It: Chapter 1 last year, and he’s returning to produce the sequel as well....

‘Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again’ Review: A Delightful Miracle Of A Sequel By Karen Han/July 19, 2018 8:00 am EST But it hardly matters. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, directed by Ol Parker (Imagine Me & You, both Exotic Marigold Hotel movies), is a complete delight. I laughed, I gasped, and I cried, as did the entire screening audience I watched the film with. How many other films can boast that kind of a balancing act?...

‘Saturday Night Live’ Will Air Live Coast-To-Coast All Season, Gets A Museum Exhibit In Chicago By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 20, 2017 1:00 pm EST In just 10 days, we’ll be getting a brand new episode of Saturday Night Live to kick off the 43rd season of the landmark, late night sketch comedy series from NBC. Ryan Gosling has been tapped to host the season premiere with Jay-Z serving as musical guest, and we’ll see if the show can keep the momentum from the high ratings last season earned thanks to the lampooning of a certain spray tan president....

‘Sharknado 6’ Will Mercifully End The Franchise With Time Travel By Ethan Anderton/March 29, 2018 10:30 am EST Syfy let a goofy joke get out of hand after their original B-movie Sharknado became a ratings hit. The movie about a tornado that picks up sharks from the ocean and sends them into the flooding city streets of Los Angeles launched an inexplicable franchise that has delivered four sequels so far. But Syfy has one more shark-infested cyclone up its sleeve....

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’: Carrie Fisher Wrote Leia’s Emotional Final Lines By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 18, 2017 7:30 am EST Carrie Fisher was many things over the course of her career: actress, writer, princess, general, and of course, script doctor. Over her 30-plus year career, she edited countless scripts and worked with a variety of renowned directors in the process. Fisher began rewriting her lines during the first Star Wars trilogy, so it seems only fitting that the last script she would work on would be her final Star Wars film....