President Donald Trump provided late-night hosts with more fodder than usual Wednesday, when news broke that some Americans’ COVID-19 relief checks would be delayed because the president was insisting his name be printed on each of them. On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert‘s cold open was a faux infomercial for …
Read More »Tracy Morgan Says He's Roleplaying as the Scientist Who's Cured Coronavirus
“Me and my wife been quarantining here for like three weeks,” Tracy Morgan said Tuesday morning to Today Show anchor Hoda Kotb while filming a remote appearance. “So she’s pregnant three times. Every week, she got pregnant.” The comedian and actor has a long history of derailing live TV segments …
Read More »One Text Changes Domhnall Gleeson and Merritt Wever's Lives in 'Run' Trailer
Domhnall Gleeson and Merritt Wever star as old college sweethearts on a thrilling journey in Run, a half-hour comedy series coming to HBO and its auxiliary streaming platforms. The show premieres Sunday, April 12th at 10:30 p.m. ET. Wever portrays Ruby Richardson, a suburban resident who decides to upend her whole …
Read More »John Turturro on 'Plot Against America' and Resurrecting Jesus Quintana
Like a lot of actors who’ve had long, incredibly varied careers, John Turturro gets approached by a number of different folks when he’s out in public. The 63-year-old can usually tell what they recognize him from within a few seconds. “If they have kids, it’s almost always Transformers,” he says, …
Read More »Tribeca Film Festival Postponed Over Coronavirus Precautions
The Tribeca Film Festival has postponed its 2020 event due to the coronavirus pandemic. The annual fest was scheduled to run April 15th through the 26th in New York City and, for the first time, in New Jersey. However, a statement on the Tribeca site notes that organizers made their …
Read More »Watch Elizabeth Warren Make Surprise Cameo in 'SNL' Coronavirus Cold Open
Days after ending her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, Elizabeth Warren made a cameo on Saturday Night Live alongside Kate McKinnon, who portrayed the Massachusetts senator on the show. Warren’s cameo came at the end of a lengthy Fox News spoof about the coronavirus, where host Laura Ingraham (also …
Read More »Hackers Easily Breach U.S. Voting Machines in Chilling 'Kill Chain' Trailer
The vulnerabilities of the United States’ election system are highlighted in the unnerving new trailer for the documentary, Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections, debuting March 26th on HBO. The clip starts by taking on one of the major misconceptions about American voting machines — that concerns about …
Read More »'Corpus Christi' Review: There's a New Hot Priest in Town
If you were paying attention to this year’s Oscars‘ and its renamed Best International Film section — a category that could’ve easily been redubbed “Parasite, and Four Other Films Which Aren’t Parasite” — you might have spotted an outlier in the lineup. There was Bong Joon Ho’s juggernaut of a …
Read More »Oscars 2020 Predictions: Who Will Win, Who Should Win
It’s Oscar night on Sunday — a.k.a. Hollywood’s annual orgy of self congratulation. For 2020, there are nine nominees up for Best Picture with Little Women trying not to wipe out in an avalanche of movies about white dudes in crisis (see: Joker, The Irishman, Jojo Rabbit, Ford v Ferrari, …
Read More »The Joy and Heartbreak of 'Cheer'
Cheer, the six-part Netflix docuseries about an elite collegiate cheerleading squad, has a winning formula that’s made it TV’s first breakout hit of 2020: small-town athletics, Texas kitsch, and beautiful young girls in pain. In the three weeks since it premiered, coverage of the show has blanketed the internet and …
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