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Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Friday, March 22 and Saturday, March 23. All times are Eastern.
Broad City always brims with callbacks, a testament to its makers’ improvisation backgrounds, the specificity of its world, and the inside-jokey nature of its central friendship. But in this final season, those callbacks have an extra layer of nostalgia to them, each beat of this final chapter soaked in familiar,…
Every now and then, we in the film news world stumble across a movie premise so obviously, beautifully deranged that only one explanation can easily come to mind: “This is a Nicolas Cage role, right?”
“I’M a guy’s girl. And I’m a girl’s girl.”
The overwhelming top pick in this week’s lawn game Co-Op was Lawn Darts, a game so dangerous that it’s no longer allowed to be sold, though you may be able to find a set on eBay or at a garage sale. There’s also a modern version that uses weighted darts, rather than metal spikes that could go through someone’s skull,…
Last week, I praised Star Trek: Discovery for how it handled a crew member’s death. While not making up for the show’s frustrating reluctance to develop its secondary characters, “If Memory Serves” at least offered us a chance to care about Airiam before shooting her out of an airlock. Not everyone agreed with me, and…
Drag is an incredibly varied art form, but there is one aspect all drag shares: It is inherently political. Whether a queen centers their performance on politics and social justice or distances themselves from current events entirely, the act of getting up on stage in drag is a bold statement, challenging societal…
Netflix is famously one of the most cash-happy entertainment companies in the world. Only Disney spends more per year on acquiring and producing content, with the streamer expected to spend something on the order of $15 billion on new shows and movies in 2019 alone. Now that insatiable hunger for Grade-A entertainment…
Questlove is a polymath—musician, teacher, television personality, author, seemingly cool-ass dude—now he’s joining the club of America’s newest celebrity food entrepreneur. The Philadelphia native is taking his hometown’s most-famous culinary export, the cheesesteak, and coming out with a plant-based version through…
I’m so, so sorry to remind you of this, but your phone is disgusting. Just think about how many things you touch in a day. Now think about how many times you touch your phone in a day. Chances are, your mobile device is not only your main mode of communication with the world, but also your own personal germ-covered…
Halfway through “The One Inspired by Roy Cohn,” Cush Jumbo as Luca Quinn delivers a lengthy, gripping, emotionally potent monologue to her small infant son, splayed next to her, unable of course to understand a word she’s saying. She talks through her options, through unnerved confusion about how drawn to motherhood…
That also didn’t take very long; just a day after finalizing plans for its $71.3 billion deal to acquire 21st Century Fox and its various TV and film-producing subsidiaries, Disney has already started making some serious cuts to the venerable studio. The first casualty: Fox 2000, a.k.a. the studio behind well-regarded…
Though we’re still not entirely sure why anyone would think this is a good idea, Legendary announced back in December that it had picked up the rights to do a reboot of iconic Troma series The Toxic Avenger. Legendary reportedly wanted to make a new Toxic Avenger series, presumably without being as gross or…
It’s unclear now if anybody other than Luca Guadagnino really thinks a sequel to his 2017 movie adaptation of Call me By Your Name is a good idea, but André Aciman—who wrote the original Call Me By Your Name novel—at least has an idea for a sequel of his own. Back in December, he teased that he was writing a sequel to…
Oh, Jesus: It’s not just one of our favorite exclamations of existential despair; it’s also a handy reminder when you’re trying to remember all the parts that actor Joaquin Phoenix is currently on the hook to play. You’d be forgiven for forgetting that Phoenix had signed on to try his hand at the ol’ serene Nazarene,…
We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
A couple years ago, word first started to spread about a planned TV series set in the megalopolis that the ruthless keeper of the peace Judge Dredd calls home, Mega-City One. Since then, a few details have trickled out, including the fact that a pilot script has been written and two seasons’ worth of storylines have…
Vampire Weekend is a band of clean-cut Ivy Leaguers who make beautiful, complex pop-rock. Post Malone is a grungy, face-tattooed rapper that confounds just about everybody older than 26. They’re both massively popular, though it’s unlikely you’ll find a huge crossover in terms of their audiences. Vampire Weekend just…
Last September, Conan O’Brien teased the upcoming 25th anniversary of his various TV gigs by releasing the very first episode of Late Night With Conan O’Brien online. As fun as that was, it was really just a tease for O’Brien’s real scheme: Putting the entirety of his hosting work, from Late Night to The Tonight Show…
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