Walter White is once again inspiring some concocted indulgences, but this time it’s in the form of a new experience that will be opening in Los Angeles, California later this month. The new pop-up, dubbed Breaking Bad Experience, is launching in conjunction with Netflix‘s upcoming El Camino: A Breaking Bad …
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No show in the Peak TV era has leaned harder into the “this isn’t a TV show; it’s an XX-hour movie” attitude than Stranger Things. The horror pastiche’s nostalgic Eighties references are all to movies (or, occasionally, books that were turned into movies) of the period from the likes of …
Read More »'Jessica Jones': Watch Tense Final Season Trailer
The third and final season of Jessica Jones will premiere June 14th on Netflix. The streaming service announced the premiere date with a short teaser in which a menacing voice threatens Jones as the camera moves down the hallway towards her office: “Jessica Jones, you are a fraud. You’re a …
Read More »Review: Beyonce's Triumphant 'Homecoming'
Before you add any other superlative to her name, Beyoncé is, first and foremost, a performer. She spent her childhood being trained not just to be a great singer but to become the type of athletic vocalist who could sing while in constant, rapid, muscle-and-bone defying movement on a stage …
Read More »Laura Linney Finds Home Again in Moving 'Tales of the City' Trailer
Laura Linney heads back to San Francisco to find old family and new friends in the inspiring new trailer for Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City, set to premiere on Netflix June 7th. The new 10-episode mini-series is based on Maupin’s series of novels and serves as the “next chapter” …
Read More »'Big Mouth' Parodies 'When Harry Met Sally' in Teaser for 'My Furry Valentine' Special
Big Mouth previews a surreal Valentine’s Day for the show’s permanently aroused tweens in a trailer announcing the “My Furry Valentine” special, which hits Netflix on February 8th. The wacky clip includes make-out sessions, romantic meals, dance sequences, Coach Steve showing off his “girlfriend Reese’s Wertherspoons” (a hodgepodge of candy …
Read More »Watch 'Friends from College' Grapple With Betrayal in Season Two Trailer
Netflix comedy series Friends from College will return for its second season on January 11th. The show, which stars Keegan-Michael Key, Cobie Smulders and Fred Savage, first premiered in 2017. The series follows the platonic and romantic relationships of a group of friends who met while attending Harvard. The once tight-knit group …
Read More »The Orson Also Rises: A Brief History of Rescuing 'The Other Side of the Wind'
It begins with a death — a car accident that takes the life of a legendary director on his 70th birthday — and ends with a giant phallic symbol toppling over. In between those two moments, you get young film critics arguing, old actors kvetching, a Jim Morrison doppelganger, a …
Read More »Paul Greengrass: Why I Needed to Make '22 July'
Paul Greengrass was stuck. It was early 2016, and he’d been exploring a possible project about the migration of refugees coming through Lampedusa, the Italian island that had become a landing point for many seeking asylum in Europe — as well as the site of numerous incidents involving sinking boats …
Read More »Best Movies and TV to Stream in Sept: 'Maniac,' Quincy Jones Doc, Sean Penn in Space
It’s Streamageddon: On September 14th, what choice will you make? You’ve only got so many hours in a day for bingeing, so you’ll have to make a tough choice between a check-in on Bojack Horseman, Beau Willimon’s big-budget follow-up to House of Cards for Hulu (featuring Sean Penn and space …
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