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Again and again throughout Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad, the Oscar-winning Moonlight director will pause the story to present a tableau of his huge cast of black characters. These shots are stunning in their composition, as if Jenkins and cinematographer James Laxton are painting an entirely different vision of American history than the one you most commonly find in textbooks and on museum walls. It’s an appropriate touch for a story that weaves in agonizingly real details from our horrible past of racist...

Grimes appeared as Princess Peach in a Saturday Night Live sketch where Wario, played by host Elon Musk, is on trial for Super Mario’s murder. “Tune into SNL tonight to watch me try acting,” Grimes teased earlier in the day prior to her partner’s controversial hosting gig. In the sketch — a nod to the news that Nintendo was allegedly killing off its chief mascot —  Wario is accused of murdering Mario. However, the villain’s defense attorney (played by Mikey Day) exposes that Mario’s brother Luigi (Kyle Mooney) and longtime...

Dogecoin had a rough night, and so did comedy. Elon Musk was one of the most anticipated Saturday Night Live hosts in recent years, just because his booking was so divisive and derided. Many fans were openly hoping for a live-from-New-York disaster. But instead, it turned out to be a snoozy stroke session, framing Musk as a lovably zany sitcom boss — what a character! It was in no way terrible enough to be funny-terrible. It was just a 90-minute suck-up infomercial for the Tesla mogul and his brands, especially...

Products featured are independently selected by our editorial team and we may earn a commission from purchases made from our links; the retailer may also receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. Since the launch of the MCU, Marvel has gotten moviegoers and TV viewers to career about characters they might previously have known much about. Sure, Iron Man wasn’t exactly obscure in 2008, but he wasn’t exactly Spider-man, either. The project’s success has paved the way for characters known only to dedicated comics readers to get some time in...

Sebastian Stan and Lily James transform into Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson in the first look photos at Pam & Tommy, an upcoming Hulu limited series about the Motley Crue drummer and Baywatch star’s relationship and the world’s most infamous sex tape. In addition to Stan and James, Pam & Tommy also stars Andrew Dice Clay, Nick Offerman, Taylor Schilling and Seth Rogen, who tweeted about his character Friday: My co-stars, Sebastian and Lily, are a lot cooler than I am. #PamandTommy pic.twitter.com/r8YWh1eBuJ — Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) May 7, 2021...

In the opening scene of Netflix’s new superhero drama Jupiter’s Legacy, three kids run around a backyard playing superhero — a familiar moment given a twist when we see that one of them has actual superpowers. Then the subject of their role-play, the iconic Utopian (Josh Duhamel), who happens to be their dad, flies down to scold his daughter Chloe for taking things too far. “We have these powers for a reason,” he lectures. “And with great power comes—” “Great responsibility,” Chloe interjects. “No,” he says, thrown, before admitting, “Well,...

Actor Alfonso Ribeiro joined Rolling Stone’s The First Time to share a number of firsts, including dancing with Michael Jackson as a kid, working as a director, and racing in a Grand Prix.  The America’s Funniest Home Videos host started off the episode with what it was like hosting the show for the first time. Ribeiro admitted that he was actually super nervous at first, which is rare for him. “I don’t ever really get nervous… but I knew it was something that was important to me.” He recalls speaking...

The Daily Show has released the second installment in its new profile series, “The Daily Showography,” this time examining the life and times of Ted Cruz, not-so-endearingly referred to as “The Booger on the Lip of Democracy.” (That sub-title is a nod to a nod to a 2016 Republican presidential debate, during which a small object — ostensibly a booger — dangled from Cruz’s lip as he spoke. And then he swallowed it, on national television, for all to see.) The clip traces Cruz’ rise from a Texas teen obsessed...

In the new season of the Apple TV+ comedy Mythic Quest, creative directors Ian (Rob McElhenney) and Poppy (Charlotte Nicdao) struggle to design an expansion for the wildly popular online video game they run together. The deeper their struggles get, the easier it is to wonder if the two of them have taken Mythic Quest the game as far as it can go. That story arc provides an effective counterpoint to what’s happening with Mythic Quest the show, which McElhenney created with fellow It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia writers Charlie...

Uzo Aduba assumes the lead role in the HBO series, In Treatment, which will return for its fourth season on May 23rd. Taking over for Gabriel Byrne — who led the show for three seasons — the actress will play Dr. Brooke Taylor, who works with an array of different clients but struggles to make positive strides in her own life. The new clip teases an ensemble cast of unique patients, including a live-in homeworker who seems to both resent and love the rich family he works for, a troubled...

Products featured are independently selected by our editorial team and we may earn a commission from purchases made from our links; the retailer may also receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. It’s a pretty common experience: sometimes you’ll read a great book and conclude there’s no way it could ever be turned into a film or TV series. It was easy to feel that way after reading Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad, but the right choice of a director can make a difference and it’s hard to think of...

Stranger Things goes back to the beginning and brings back a long-absent character in its mysterious new Season 4 teaser. The minute-long preview returns to Hawkins Laboratory, where Matthew Modine’s Dr. Martin Brenner — believed to be killed off in Season 1 — is performing tests on children with special powers. After slowly moving down a hallway, the camera then swings around on the door of “11,” Millie Bobbie Brown’s character who is shown for a flash when the teaser ends. As production was halted on the series due to...

When NBC announced that the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk would be hosting Saturday Night Live this week, the booking was met with righteous indignation from all corners of the internet, with some citing Musk’s controversial views on everything from Covid-19 to crypto-currency. But for the show’s longtime fans, there’s an even bigger concern: Can Musk be funny? Or will this be another all-time SNL catastrophe? Throughout its 46 seasons, the legendary sketch-comedy show has had its share of dud hosts — with some performing so badly that longtime producer Lorne...

The story of WandaVision‘s main character, Wanda Maximoff, a.k.a. the Scarlet Witch (played by Elizabeth Olsen), is set to continue in 2022’s Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, but the two projects were almost linked much more directly. As Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige reveals in Rolling Stone‘s upcoming, extensive oral history of WandaVision, Marvel struck a deal with Benedict Cumberbatch to appear in the final episode of the show as Dr. Strange. But late in the process, they wrote him out. “Some people might say, ‘Oh, it would’ve...