Disney movies are supposed to be safe spaces for children to wish upon a star, let it go and watch genies do cool stuff. Nothing too bad can happen there — the handsome prince always likes […]
After Kevin Smith’s Dogma returned to Cannes last month and received a seven-minute ovation, per Deadline, the portrayal of God on screen is back in the public consciousness. While Dogma is definitely a comedy — serious religious films don’t feature Jay and Silent Bob […]
There’s a lot going on in your average modern blockbuster. Gone are the days when a slow-burn romantic drama could be the year’s top box-office earner; we need buildings exploding, dudes in capes flying, or at least […]
Even though it’s been well over a week since Season Two of The Rehearsal wrapped up, a number of fans are still obsessing over the finale, possibly with the aid of a cork board and string. […]
Shortly after taking over the NBC late-night spot formerly occupied by David Letterman, Conan O’Brien found himself on the precipice. Early critical reaction to Late Night With Conan O’Brien was lukewarm, and the ratings weren’t much better. “It […]
Robin Williams owes his big break to George Lucas and Dick Van Dyke. That’s because Garry Marshall’s kid was a huge fan of Star Wars when it took over the galaxy in 1977. The son begged his father, […]
Anytime you watch a movie musical, something about it will feel a bit strange, and we’re not talking about the dubious verisimilitude of everyone breaking into song. You’re watching something that was originally designed for […]
Shortly after the news broke that King of the Hill star Jonathan Joss had been shot and killed during a violent altercation with a neighbor on Sunday evening, fans flocked to social media to memorialize the late […]
Redditors often have a flair for the dramatic. Case in point: One of them asking, “You’re bleeding out profusely after a fatal car accident and only have three minutes to live, what song do you want […]
The King of the Hill conclave has sent up a metaphorical plume of Manitoba cigarette smoke with the announcement that they have selected a new Dale Gribble. The biggest question surrounding the upcoming Hulu reboot of the […]
Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary show was mind-blowing for Eddie Murphy, for all the obvious reasons. But one fact in particular caught his attention. “It was a trip,” he told Jennifer Hudson this week on her eponymous […]
I love the Final Destination movies. As someone with generalized anxiety, they’re borderline cathartic. Watching a sink disposal get turned on by accident and making paella of someone’s arm? Makes me want to stand up […]
When I was a young, stupid child, I assumed that the person who owned Cartoon Network must be awesome. A Willy Wonka figure, preferably minus the child murder, rolling around the office on a skateboard […]
Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks “got along swimmingly” when they made Young Frankenstein, Brooks writes in his memoir All About Me: My Remarkable Life in Show Business. But their disagreement over one key scene was so fierce that […]
While at the Met Gala, a yearly highlight for fashion and lowlight for wealth inequality, Ego Nwodim chatted with The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White about SNL’s recent song dedicated to short kings. He was namedropped […]
Before the premieres of The Muppet Show in 1976 and Sesame Street in 1969 — and even before he was a frequent guest on The Ed Sullivan Show in the late 1960s — Jim Henson created a puppet show […]
After Bowen Yang dressed like baby hippo Moo Deng and made pop-culture jokes on Weekend Update last year, outlets like Variety led the outrage machine with headlines like, “SNL Mocks Chappell Roan.” Mocks? Well, Moo Deng did mention Roan, but […]
This Saturday Night Live revelation might be more shocking if Michael Che hadn’t cried wolf so many times in the past. The Weekend Update anchor recently posted that he’d watched a terrible stand-up comedy special but […]
After a century of non-recognition for their broken bones and unsightly bruises, movie stunt designers are finally getting their own Oscar. It’s about time stunt guys and gals get their flowers for death-defying feats. But forget Mission: […]
When Jim Nabors found out that his Gomer Pyle character from The Andy Griffith Show was getting a spin-off in which the filling station attendant becomes a U.S. Marine, he researched how to act like a […]