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Photo: Frazer Harrison (Getty Images) Close your eyes and picture yourself in a movie theater (while also reading this article). There’s a trailer playing on the screen, one of those old-fashioned ones where it’s just exciting words and phrases flying at the screen. Each word is more exciting than the last, and by the end of the imaginary trailer you’re practically throwing your popcorn in the air in excitement. As for the words flying at the screen, here you go: Phil Lord. Chris Miller. ...

Advertisement Oh, to be a dog romping through the hills of Northern Italy in autumn. The clouds are swollen and gray, and the grass is damp and green, and the smell that wafts up as the rain mixes with the chemicals in the earth has to be overwhelming. Oh, the odors: of wet dirt, of dead leaves, of birds in the trees and rabbits in the bushes, of the wool sweater on the old man who hand-feeds you chunks of meat every night. You take off, furry little feet barely touching the ground as you run ...

Alerts For his comic book debut, Keanu Reeves embraces the medium’s long history of taking established concepts, filing off the serial numbers, and presenting them as something new. BRZRKR #1 (Boom!) introduces an immortal hero who will remind readers of a lot of different characters: Wolverine, Vandal Savage, Eternal Warrior, the soldiers of The Old Guard. He’s gruff and doesn’t say much, has been around for millennia, and dedicates his life to violence, currently performing black-ops ...

Photo: Netflix In a 2018 post on Instagram, Jennifer Garner appears in a red jumpsuit, dangling from a T-bar as it slowly lifts her above a large aluminum slide in some upscale indoor playplace. “Oh, I wish I hadn’t done this,” she mutters to her onlooking family. “I hate this so much. Why’d I do this?” Though she may have some misgivings about the zany position she’s in, Garner soon loosens her grip and, with a deep breath of composure, slips down onto a cushioned landing pad. It...

Mr. Wilford is a terrifying sci-fi villain. When he’s first introduced in season two of Snowpiercer, his cruelty is obvious but it also feels a little one-note. He’s almost too broadly Bad, more of a symbol for capitalism at its worst than a real character. In “Our Answer For Everything” though, the extent of Wilford’s evil is not only on full display, but it feels more specific, sharper, instantly more disturbing. He’s a master manipulator, a master abuser. His cruelty works to in...

For a short time, HBO Max users who tried to watch the new Tom And Jerry movie got Zack Snyder's Justice League instead, 10 days before it's supposed to come out

Get ready to be scandalized all over again, so-called Deadline, D.H. Lawrence’s The Mustang’s Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre and Life Of Pi screenwriter David Magee, with Emma Corrin (fresh off of starring in The Crown, which also scandalized fancy British society) starring. The original book, published back in the ‘20s, is about an upperclass British woman whose cold and neglectful husband is paralyzed from the waist down due to a war injury, forcing her to seek solace in the arms of a ...

Would I Lie To You? and Killer Camp, with the network also picking up the rights to two seasons of the original Would I Lie To You? to help introduce American viewers to the show (and to the dry subtleties of British humor, which relies more on withering glances than American humor and its emphasis on football injuries). Advertisement If you can’t wait for that, though, here’s a primer on both shows: The original Would I Lie To You? is hosted by Rob Brydon (of Gavin & Stacy) and featur...

In Special Guest Star, Gwen Ihnat takes a look at a standout turn by a performer in a TV series, noting what effect the appearance had on the actor, the series, and the TV landscape overall.  Advertisement “The Dinner Party,” season four, episode 10 (1973) The Mary Tyler Moore Show was a landmark television series. It established the template for the workplace sitcom and featured a single woman whose life revolved around her friends—not a man or her family—fitting right into the wome...

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror - The only thing better than actual folk horror is a documentary that takes fans through the entire history of the creepy, woodsy, genre starting in the 1960s. Advertisement Executive Order - Blending intense social issues with a bit of sci-fi dystopia, a new world order forces all people of African descent to move back to the continent which, as you can imagine, doesn’t go over well. It’s a Brazilian film and Alfred Enoch (Dean T...