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fAs the lone European in the headlining triumvirate of Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga, Dan Stevens may just have a deeper understanding of the massive, weird, and quintessentially European contest than Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams. The Brit has long watched the annual event, something that surely…

It’s a well-established fact that Paul Rudd and Chris Evans are incredibly good looking, very talented, and immensely charming Hollywood superstars. Seeing just one of them give their flinty-eyed, chiseled-jaw “Aw, shucks” grins on a talk show is almost too much to bear on their own—so it’s with this in mind we are…

As reported by Billboard, The Dixie Chicks have apparently changed their band name to simply The Chicks, with the trio’s social media pages all reflecting the name change and a new single, “March March,” being released under The Chicks branding as well. Billboard says the band hasn’t put out an official statement…

This pandemic hasn’t been especially kind to budding streaming platforms like Quibi and HBO Max, but that isn’t stopping NBCUniversal from unleashing its long-gestating service Peacock, the next home of some hard-fought favorites and new original programming. Today, the digital hopeful debuted its first look at some…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With Jon Stewart’s Irresistible headed for home-viewing platforms—and with November 3 on the horizon—we’re looking back at other films about elections or political…

As announced by the official Disney Parks account on Twitter, the Splash Mountain ride at Disneyland in California and Walt Disney World in Florida is going to be “completely reimagined” with a new The Princess And The Frog-themed story and aesthetic. The Disney Parks blog goes into this change a bit more, saying it…

By now everyone knows that Rose Byrne is the kind of actor that can jump into any genre and knock it out of the park, but the star never feels more in her element than when she’s antagonizing other characters in a comedy. In the tradition of Helen in Bridesmaids and Rayna Boyanov in Spy, Jon Stewart’s political satire …

“If you’re not happy, you’re nothing at all,” a voice warns at the end of this Brave New World trailer, bringing with it, we imagine, the whiff of soma. Soma, as Aldous Huxley’s 1932 book details, is a happiness-inducing drug that’s key to the sustainability of Brave New World’s new world, where hunger and violence…

When USA first brought back lovable freelance investigators Shawn and Gus for Psych: The Movie in 2017, it was mostly done without the duo’s longtime cranky foil Carlton Lassiter—as Timothy Omundson, who played Lassie on Psych, had just suffered a stroke before shooting began and could only appear in one scene. Now, …

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Although he was in his 30s when he began his leading-man career in earnest, Will Ferrell’s big-screen output (as well as plenty of his small-screen SNL work) has largely been defined by midlife crisis. He tends to play characters who are comically inept at accepting their limitations, leading to a thirty- or…

The Hollywood Reporter recently put together a roundtable with women who star in comedy shows, specifically Jane Levy, Jameela Jamil, Elle Fanning, Robin Thede, Amy Sedaris, and Tiffany Haddish, with the chat touching on various subjects like how they feel about where their careers are, how they think they’re…

Some of history’s most impressive feats of engineering allow our species to accomplish everything from deep sea diving to space travel without dying horrible, painful deaths. The same holds true for amusement park rides, which provide us the ability to spit in god’s face by creating structures that safely fling us…

Whether you’re talking about the animated classics of the “Disney Renaissance” or the slasher horror flicks of the ’80s, the most enchanting characters are always the villains. That’s especially true for queer audiences, who have long found themselves not in the protagonists, but in the perceived outsiders, the…

In the ongoing conversation about the concept of copaganda, true crime occupies an interesting space. On the one hand, trust in cops is built in to the genre’s storytelling: Even when dealing with cases of institutional neglect and indifference, ultimately it’s the actions of police that bring about a return to…

Search Party’s third season is a mystery nearly three years in the making: What’s become of Dory Sief (Alia Shawkat), the New York hipster whose life began to unravel the moment she saw a missing persons flyer in the premiere? Along with her equally self-centered friends Drew (John Reynolds), Portia (Meredith Hagner),…

If it wasn’t for that little jerk Ferris Bueller, the world may never have appreciated the gift it was given with Yello’s “Oh Yeah,” the song that immediately comes to mind whenever you see a sweet car or a killer bod. In a new video from Great Big Story, we’re shown just how close we were to being denied the…

All 23 seasons of South Park are now available on HBO Max—absent roughly two-and-a-half-hours. According to Deadline, five episodes of the naughty Comedy Central cartoon have been consigned to the vault, where they can hurt no one.

Given the chance, Nazis can and will ruin anything. Case in point: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Today’s essential read is this piece from The Atlantic’s Kaitlyn Tiffany, which details the upheaval in the community of adult and mostly male fans of the series, known as bronies. It is both very specific and…

When the first season of Hanna arrived in early 2019, it seemed like creator David Farr was given license to strip-mine his earlier, and far more interesting, film, to capitalize on the girl power craze. That first season simply remixed the story beats of the 2011 tale that featured Saoirse Ronan as the titular…

Romantic comedies tend to be better at the “meet-cute” than the “get-to-know-ya.” There’s a reason why so many TV and movie love stories begin with the couple hating each other. It’s easier in a way for writers, directors and actors to work with conflict than accord. It requires less imagination to depict soon-to-be…

Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson’s massive character study of interconnected lives, may be the most divisive film of his career. A sprawling look at multiple troubled characters scattered throughout California’s San Fernando Valley, the film received multiple Oscar nominations and widespread praise, but over time has…

Partway through their four-segment interview/catchup session on Wednesday’s Late Show, Jon Stewart mused to Stephen Colbert, “As ridiculous as it is for two old white dudes to be sitting around going, ‘The problem with racism in this country . . . ’” And while Stewart isn’t wrong that it’s more than time for old…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, June 25. All times are Eastern.

Two weeks after announcing that it was temporarily removing contentious Hollywood classic Gone With The Wind from its cinematic library, HBO Max has now returned the film to its roster—with a few additions. Per Variety, the content of Victor Fleming’s 1939 Oscar-winner remains untouched, but it’s now accompanied by…