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During its celebrated eight-season run, critics and audiences alike were certainly high on Showtimes Weeds. Starring Mary-Louise Parker in one of her most acclaimed performances, along with Justin Kirk, Elizabeth Perkins, and Kevin Nealon in supporting turns, this darkly comedic series from Weeds 4.20, which is now in development. With the announcement of this decade-later continuation, we asked ourselves, "What is the Weeds cast doing now?" Lets take a look and find out! Mary-Louise Parker ...

‘Amplifying Black Voices in Hollywood’ Debuts DMD Speaker Series A focus on topics ranging from lack of Black representation on writing staffs to the distorted perspectives of TV crime dramas. The program on Friday, Feb. 19, is the first in the 2021 speakers series. (Image courtesy of the Department of Digital Media and Design). Copy Link UConn’s Digital Media & Design Department will host the inaugural event in its Diverse Perspectives in Digital Media & Design: 202...

In 2003’s The Corporation, B.C. filmmakers Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott warned us that if the modern corporation was put through a psychological assessment, it’d be diagnosed a psychopath. In 2020, they returned with a sequel that admits an awful truth: the psychopaths won. The New Corporation recaps the ensuing years of economic collapses and global decay, even incorporating COVID-19 into its narrative as both a technical obstacle to be worked through and the inevitable result of corpo...

GLEN WELDON, HOST: "Lupin" - or if you want to get technical, "Lupin" - is a smart and twisty French series thats new to Netflix. Its about a young Parisian man named Assane who molds his life on classic French tales about a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise named Arsene Lupin AISHA HARRIS, BYLINE: Theres more to it, of course. Assane is the son of a Senegalese immigrant who died after being accused of a crime. We soon learn that whats really driving Assanes intricately plotted...