This was a terrific episode of Legion: An exciting jailbreak, a mindfuck of a desert journey, and some intriguingly elusive telepathic trickery all came into play. Unfortunately, then it stopped dead in its tracks for a hoary after-school special about the danger of cell phones. It may be time to retire Jon Hamm’s…
The irony of the current situation on Legion, as the Shadow King points out in this episode, is absolutely delicious. “The villain is a hero and the hero is the villain?” he purrs, the words rolling off his tongue like whiskey mixed with honey. It’s enough to make even a man desperately trying to find his own body…
Fox Searchlight has quietly put together an impressive team for its upcoming astronaut drama, Pale Blue Dot. Once attached to star, Reese Witherspoon is now producing the film with her Pacific Standard partner Bruna Papandrea. Legion creator Noah Hawley is venturing to the other side of the Fox lot to direct the film…
Like something you might find tucked away in an attic or a basement, Mark Pellington’s Nostalgia is a plainly personal curiosity. Handmade with care and also a touch of clumsiness, it probably means a lot to those who have lived with it, so to speak, even if there are also plenty who will look at it and see only the…
American Gods season two isn’t the only Neil Gaiman TV adaptation on the horizon at the moment; Amazon has been working for a while now on a version of Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s collaborative apocalypse comedy Good Omens, with occasional details—like the top-notch casting of Michael Sheen and David Tennant as the…
A stellar cast gathers to narrate Stinker Lets Loose, the purportedly resurfaced novelization of a supposedly beloved ’70s trucker film of the same name. The story is part Smokey And The Bandit trilogy, part Every Which Way But Loose; the titular Stinker leads lawmen on a wild chase that apparently includes a chimp.…
Neil Gaiman adaptations are all over TV and streaming platforms now—on the heels of the first season of American Gods, the author wrote the short anthology series Likely Stories, which is based on some of his lesser known stories, for Shutter. Amazon also seized on the horror-fantasy momentum, ordering an adaptation…
The upcoming Star Wars short story collection From A Certain Point Of View will feature stories about supporting characters from the universe from a number of relatively big-name and fan-favorite writers, including Gary Whitta (who actually wrote a Star Wars), Meg Cabot, Nnedi Okorofor, Wil Wheaton, Kelly Sue…
Sensing someone, somewhere, saying something mean about his daddy, Donald Trump Jr. leapt into the online fray this week, defending his sweet papa from accusations of being insufficiently “alpha”. Trump’s Daddy Sense was activated by a recent New York Times interview with actor Jon Hamm, who described a brief…
Sci-fi effects extravaganzas are a dime a dozen, but bona-fide sci-fi films—that is, movies that exemplify the so-called literature of ideas and not just the sci-fi aesthetic—are rare. Marjorie Prime, the offbeat indie stalwart Michael Almereyda’s thoughtful adaptation of a Pulitzer-nominated play by Jordan Harrison,…
Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver was finally released this past weekend, meaning America need no longer suffer under the terrible yoke of not knowing what it would look like if the co-star of The Fault In Our Stars was also the world’s greatest getaway driver. And Wright—when not busy winning trivia competitions for us—can…
In Edgar Wright’s exhilarating genre pastiche Baby Driver, lanes of traffic become dance floors for swerving vehicles, gunshots ring out like bebop punctuation, and even the tough-guy patter has a musical quality, a rat-a-tat rhythm. Wright, the director of Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz, and a couple other peerless…
Jon Hamm is ready to get his inner manchild on, signing on to the cast of New Line’s 2018 “grown men play playground games with each other” comedy, Tag. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Hamm joins a cast that includes Jeremy Renner, Ed Helms, Jake Johnson, Hannibal Buress, Annabelle Wallis, and Rashida Jones.
I had almost forgotten the feeling of perpetually gasping for breath that watching an episode of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt induces. With its endless, zippy jokes, the show barely allows room for breathing between laughs. It has some of the best straight-up joke writing on television, up there with Veep in sheer joke…
As Donald Trump continues to overstep his authority by doing everything he can to spit on the Constitution, a lot of people in this country are beginning to realize just how important the American Civil Liberties Union is. Evidently, a lot of the rights and freedoms that Americans value aren’t just granted to us by…
Every year since 2009, comedian Jimmy Pardo and the rest of the Never Not Funny crew have come together for the Pardcast-a-Thon, a telethon-style podcasting marathon raising money for Smile Train, a charity that focuses on giving cleft palate surgery to children in developing countries. Over the past eight years,…
Ever the money-hungry businessman, Mr. Krabs is expanding his burger empire with the help of Jon Hamm’s ad man. As we reported last September, Hamm guest stars in SpongeBob SquarePants’ “Goodbye, Krabby Patty?” as Don Grouper of the Grouper, Goby & Koi ad agency, mastermind behind the Krusty Krab’s expansion into the…
For more proof that we’ll be debating the ending of Mad Men until the apocalypse hits, look no further than this interview Jon Hamm did on The Rich Eisen Show. According to Hamm, Don Draper would not be alive in 2017, because he would have definitely left Esalen to resume his boozing, smoking, self-destructive ways.…
Normally, the composer chosen to work the score of an upcoming science-fiction film project wouldn’t be considered particularly newsworthy. But Mica Levi’s involvement makes this an understandable exception. The 29-year-old Surrey-born experimental pop musician (she originally gained notoriety with her band Micachu &…
Billy Eichner just might love Hollywood more than anyone else on the planet, but now he’s decided to take a break from screaming at New Yorkers about celebrities to actually try and save the movie industry. To do that, he’s enlisted the help of Andy Samberg to pitch people on some new characters and brands that could…
