Ten months after FX announced plans for a Donald Glover-written animated series dedicated to the Marvel antihero Deadpool, both the network and the Atlanta star revealed Saturday that they are exiting the project. Donald Glover and his brother Stephen Glover were recruited to write, executive produce and showrun the cartoon …
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Stephen Colbert ripped Cambridge Analytica, a data company that has been linked to President Trump‘s 2016 election campaign, on Monday. The firm is accused of stealing Facebook information from over 50 million users without their permission. More distressing, Colbert noted, was that Facebook knew about the breach but failed to …
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Kurt Vile takes a side gig as Carrie Brownstein‘s literal in-house roadie in a sketch from Portlandia‘s ongoing eighth and final season. The clip opens with Fred Armisen presenting to Brownstein a ridiculously elaborate birthday gift: a music-themed transformation of their house, including rock memorabilia, a Chrissie Hynde mural, a …
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John Oliver and Last Week Tonight returned from its winter break Sunday to deliver a scathing look at Donald Trump‘s foreign policy (or lack thereof) and how the world views it, from vacant ambassadorships in crucial nations to an “America First” mandate that alienates allies. Oliver quickly ran down Trump’s …
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Molly Ringwald tries to influence Ally Sheedy‘s eating and sanitary habits in a hilarious deleted scene from John Hughes’ 1985 classic, The Breakfast Club. In the newly released clip (via Vulture), Ringwald and Sheedy’s characters, Claire and Allison, are in the bathroom, where Claire chastises Allison for washing her hands …
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Erik Menendez talks about the Menendez brothers’ murder of their parents, an “ongoing and enduring family tragedy,” in a new clip from The Menendez Murders: Erik Tells All, an upcoming A&E limited series featuring Erik Menendez’s most in-depth interview since the infamous 1989 murders. “My only hope in speaking out …
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Back when Larry David was a writer for Saturday Night Live, you could charitably describe the relationship between the two entities as oil and water. But over the last few years, that’s turned into more of a peanut butter and jelly situation, with David’s breakout performance as Bernie Sanders producing …
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Who better than Richard Linklater to craft a movie about people talking – and in doing so, revealing the quirks and flaws that make them human? Whether it’s Boyhood or the “Before” trilogy, the Texas-based writer-director and indie-film figurehead is always alert to the moments when people drop their public …
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This scattershot satire of the dark underbelly of 1950s suburbia feels like a movie the Coen brothers forgot to make. It is their script, which means the laughs still have bite. And the director is George Clooney, who’s previously worked as an actor with the Coens, sometimes smashingly (O Brother …
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Robert Guillaume, who played the quick-witted and sarcastic Benson DuBois on Soap and the spinoff Benson, has died. His widow, Donna Brown Guillaume, told The Associated Press that he died at home in Los Angeles where he was battling prostate cancer. He was 89. In 1977, Guillaume took on the …
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