Synopsis – A washed-up tennis pro tries to save a club by reluctantly playing pickleball to earn his father’s respect. My Take – While the world continues to rally behind giants like soccer, basketball, cricket, baseball, and tennis, a new contender has quietly surged into the spotlight. Pickleball’s meteoric rise stems from its accessibility, social appeal, and pandemic-era boost. With a near-zero learning curve, beginners … Continue reading The Dink (2026) Review!!
Following the announcement last week that Chloe Fineman was leaving NBC’s Saturday Night Live, she has officially set up her next role. Fineman will star opposite Jabari Banks in his first major show since the conclusion of Peacock’s Bel-Air and Jamie McShane (Task, Wednesday) in Netflix‘s Myron Bolitar in series regular roles. Ben McKenzie (Everyone is Lying to You for Money, Gotham) also joins the … Continue reading Myron Bolitar’s Netflix Series Adaptation Adds Chloe Fineman, Ben McKenzie & More!!
Synopsis – A washed-up tennis pro tries to save a club by reluctantly playing pickleball to earn his father’s respect. Directed – Josh Greenbaum Starring – Jake Johnson, Ben Stiller, Mary Steenburgen Check out the trailer: Continue reading ‘The Dink’ Trailer Sees Jake Johnson Get Prescribed Pickleball By Ben Stiller!! Check It Out!!
Apple TV is about to take the court for a game of pickleball with Jake Johnson and Mary Steenburgen. During the streamer’s press day, the first image of the new sports comedy The Dink was unveiled, casting the New Girl favorite as a washed-up tennis prodigy who gets caught up in the craze taking over his father’s country club. Initially opposed to pickleball’s rise, he … Continue reading ‘The Dink’: First Images Tease the Ben Stiller Produced Sports Comedy About Pickleball!! Check It Out!!
It’s another heartbreaking day for lovers of television as Peacock has just killed off one of its most promising shows. Laid, a romantic-comedy drama starring Everything Everywhere All At Once star Stephanie Hsu, has been cancelled on the streamer after just one season. The series premiered with all eight episodes on Peacock on December 19. Laid was a hit with audiences and the critics as … Continue reading ‘Laid’ Cancelled After One Season!!
Synopsis – Abby seeks to impress her crush by learning a specific sexual position, enlisting a stripper’s help. However, she realizes true self-discovery and lasting friendship are more valuable. My Take – Though I have often found former Saturday Night Live writer and comic performer Jillian Bell mostly hit-and-miss when it comes to her delivery in the multiple roles she has appeared in, but for … Continue reading Summer of 69 (2025) Review!!
Synopsis – Abby seeks to impress her crush by learning a specific sexual position, enlisting a stripper’s help. However, she realizes true self-discovery and lasting friendship are more valuable. Directed – Jillian Bell Starring – Chloe Fineman, Sam Morelos, Charlie Day Check out the trailer: Continue reading ‘Summer of 69’ Trailer Teases Jillian Bell’s Raunchy & Hilarious Directorial Debut!! Check It Out!!
Peacock has just dropped the new trailer for its dark and twisted romantic comedy, Laid, which features Academy Award nominee Stephanie Hsu in the lead role. Now, we’ve said that Laid is a dark and twisted romantic comedy, and that’s probably an understatement if we’re being honest with you. The series follows Ruby (Hsu), a woman whose quest for love is derailed when she discovers … Continue reading ‘Laid’ Trailer Sees Stephanie Hsu Play a Deadly Ex-Girlfriend!! Check It Out!!
If you currently find yourself in this nightmare situation that we call dating in 2024, there’s no doubt that you’ve experienced your fair share of weird exchanges with total strangers. But Stephanie Hsu’s (Everything Everywhere All at Once) character in Peacock’s upcoming series, Laid, might just have you beat – well, hopefully. The series centers on one woman’s literal body count after the people who … Continue reading ‘Laid’ Teaser Finds Stephanie Hsu in a Deadly Situation with her Lovers!! Check It Out!!
After almost a decade in front of the camera, actress and comedian Jillian Bell is officially getting behind the camera. The Brittany Runs a Marathon star will be making her directorial debut with the Hulu comedy Summer of 69, according to Deadline. The upcoming project’s cast will be led by none other than Saturday Night Live’s Chloe Fineman, for whom this will mark her seventh … Continue reading ‘Summer of 69’: Jillian Bell Directorial Debut Sets Huge Cast!!
A new poster for Despicable Me 4 has been released by Illumination, teasing this summer’s sequel and how it will change the family dynamic. After years of attempting to become the greatest villain in history, Gru (Steve Carell) will continue to raise his children alongside Lucy Wilde (Kristen Wiig) and the Minions. But the new sequel will introduce a new member of the family in … Continue reading ‘Despicable Me 4’ Gets a New Poster!! Check It Out!!
Anthony Mackie surprised fans at the 2023 Game Awards. He didn’t just come out to announce the award for Best Ongoing Game (Cyberpunk 2077 won the category), but he also revealed that Twisted Metal was returning for a second season on Peacock. The TV series was also nominated at the Game Awards for Best Adaptation, but it lost to The Last of Us. Mackie arrived on … Continue reading ‘Twisted Metal’ Renewed for Season 2!!
Get ready to start your engines with a new featurette from Twisted Metal, Peacock‘s television adaptation of the classic 1995 video game where twelve different vehicles fight in a brutal war, only to name a winner at the end of each encounter. Anthony Mackie and Stephanie Beatriz will star in the upcoming show, playing characters that will help connect the humor and style of the … Continue reading ‘Twisted Metal’: New Featurette Sees Anthony Mackie and Stephanie Beatriz Playing the Game!! Check It Out!!
The post-apocalyptic open road awaits Anthony Mackie in a new trailer for Peacock‘s upcoming comedy Twisted Metal. Mackie plays John Doe, a motor-mouthed outsider whose life is about to change for the better so long as he can deliver a mysterious package across the wasteland. It should be simple, especially with a car with mounted machine guns, but that’s without accounting for a murderous clown, … Continue reading ‘Twisted Metal’ Trailer Promises a High Octane Adaption Filled with Punchlines!! Check It Out!!
The world of Twisted Metal is most certainly a dangerous one. In a post-apocalyptic land where nearly everyone has a vehicle kitted out with a terrifying amount of weaponry, there’s still one threat that stands out among the rest though – Sweet Tooth. He’s the mascot of PlayStation‘s destruction derby game and completely insane to boot with a flaming mane, a deadly ice cream truck, … Continue reading ‘Twisted Metal’ Clip Sees Anthony Mackie Escaping Sweet Tooth’s Grasp!! Check It Out!!
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines and put on your best driving tunes. Peacock has released the first teaser trailer for Twisted Metal which has Anthony Mackie locking, loading, and revving up for some vehicular carnage. The new video game adaptation features the Captain America: New World Order star as John Doe, a motor-mouthed outsider destined for a better life, assuming he can survive the … Continue reading ‘Twisted Metal’ Series Adaption Gets a First Teaser!! Check It Out!!
American rap artist Cardi B will lend her voice to the upcoming animated film spin-off Baby Shark’s Big Movie! According to a recent article by Variety, she will join the original voice cast of the Nickelodeon series, Baby Shark’s Big Show as well as other stars, including High School Musical’s Ashley Tisdale. Baby Shark’s Big Movie is set to premiere in this year’s holiday season … Continue reading ‘Baby Shark’s Big Movie’: Cardi B Joins Voice Cast!!
Academy Award winner Ariana DeBose, Emmy Award winner Amanda Seyfried, Chloe Fineman and Megan Stalter are set to lead My Ex-Friend’s Wedding, a new comedy from Blockers director Kay Cannon. Per Variety, My Ex-Friend’s Wedding will find the four actresses playing childhood best friends. After a fifth, estranged member of the group leaves them a drunken voicemail in which she admits that her impending wedding … Continue reading ‘My Ex-Friend’s Wedding’: Ariana DeBose, Amanda Seyfried to Lead New Comedy from ‘Blockers’ Director!!
Synopsis – Set in Hollywood during the transition from silent films to talkies, focusing on a mixture of historical & fictional characters. My Take – With films like Whiplash (2014) and La La Land (2016) behind him, filmmaker Damien Chazelle, the youngest-ever Oscar winner for Best Director, has become comfortable in a position from which he could choose any subject to helm and cast any actor/actress … Continue reading Babylon (2022) Review!!
Paramount Pictures‘ Babylon, the epic period film about the early days of Hollywood from director Damien Chazelle, is no small feat, with the project’s final runtime clocking in at 189 minutes – more than three hours long. However, it was recently revealed that Chazelle actually has a much shorter cut of the film – that he shot on his iPhone. During a pre-release press conference … Continue reading ‘Babylon’: Director Damien Chazelle Shot Shot a Two-Hour Version on His iPhone!!
The Damien Chazelle-directed epic period film, Babylon, follows the tale of the rise and fall of several ambitious dreamers during a time of uncontrolled excess and wickedness in 1920s Hollywood. With a film tackling early Hollywood, it’s reasonable that the director chose well-known names from the modern era, boasting ensemble casts like Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, and Tobey Maguire, who—in retrospect—don’t need much introduction for … Continue reading ‘Babylon’: New Featurette Focuses on the Ensemble Cast!! Check It Out!!
Synopsis – Set in Hollywood during the transition from silent films to talkies, focusing on a mixture of historical & fictional characters. Directed – Damien Chazelle Starring – Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Tobey Maguire Check out the trailers: Continue reading ‘Babylon’ Gets New Naughty and Nice Trailers!! Check It Out!!
Paramount Pictures just released a new featurette that gives audiences the chance to listen to the score for the upcoming Damien Chazelle epic Babylon. The Academy Award-winning composer Justin Hurwitz, who is best known for his imaginative and original score for 2016’s La La Land, revealed how the sounds of a screaming sax and wailing trumpet of jazz mixed with modern elements created what star … Continue reading ‘Babylon’: New Featurette Focuses on Justin Hurwitz’s Score!! Check It Out!!
Synopsis – Set in Hollywood during the transition from silent films to talkies, focusing on a mixture of historical & fictional characters. Directed – Damien Chazelle Starring – Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Tobey Maguire Check out the trailer: Continue reading ‘Babylon’: New Trailer Promises a Dazzling and Chaotic Journey!! Check It Out!!
A new featurette for director Damien Chazelle’s upcoming epic Babylon highlights the “depravity and debauchery” of early Hollywood. In the two-minute video, titled “Welcome to Babylon” and shared by Paramount Pictures, Chazelle describes the film as “the biggest thing” that he has ever attempted. Babylon marks another leveling-up for the Oscar-winning filmmaker, who broke out with the intense drama Whiplash, and attained icon status with … Continue reading ‘Babylon’: New Featurette Welcomes Us to Early Hollywood!! Check It Out!!
Paramount‘s Babylon is shifting release dates, abandoning its plans to open in limited release at Christmas, and instead heading to a wide release on December 23, releasing in the wake of Avatar: The Way of Water. The film was originally planned to go wide on January 6 before the changes. Babylon is Damien Chazelle‘s latest work, following the critical acclaim and accolades that followed his previous films, Whiplash, La La … Continue reading ‘Babylon’: Damien Chazelle’s Glittering Hollywood Epic to Go Wide from Dec 23rd!!
Synopsis – Set in Hollywood during the transition from silent films to talkies, focusing on a mixture of historical & fictional characters. Directed – Damien Chazelle Starring – Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Tobey Maguire Check out the trailer: Continue reading ‘Babylon’ Trailer Teases Damien Chazelle’s Glittering Hollywood Epic!! Check It Out!!
Paramount Pictures has just released new character posters for the upcoming Damien Chazelle Hollywood epic Babylon, and you might want to grab some streamers and a gin martini because the new posters will have you wishing for a good old-fashioned party. Babylon is set to premiere in a limited theatrical release on December 25, 2022, and will have its wide release on January 6, 2023. … Continue reading ‘Babylon’: New Posters Teases Damien Chazelle’s Glittering Hollywood Epic!! Check It Out!!
How much is too much? There is no such thing, at least according to Damien Chazelle’s new epic Old Hollywood film Babylon. You can take a look at all the glamour for yourself as Vanity Fair just released new first-look images for the film. Babylon is set to be released to theaters on a limited basis on December 25, 2022. A wide theatrical release will … Continue reading ‘Babylon’: First Images Teases Damien Chazelle’s Star Studded Next!! Check It Out!!
It seems that one of Peacock‘s upcoming series will go fast and furious into post-production soon: This weekend, Twisted Metal writer and executive producer Michael Jonathan Smith (Cobra Kai) took to Twitter to announce that filming has wrapped on the post-apocalyptic show. He also shared a photo of a Twisted Metal glass trophy. The action-comedy series is based on a successful video game franchise that … Continue reading ‘Twisted Metal’ Season 1 Wraps Production!!
Synopsis – A father’s coming to grips with his daughter’s upcoming wedding through the prism of multiple relationships within a big, sprawling Cuban-American clan. My Take – Often considered as one of best 90s family comedies, Father of the Bride (1991) and its sequel, Father of the Bride Part II (1995), remain sketched in audiences’ mind particularly due to winning performances from Steve Martin, Diane Keaton … Continue reading Father of the Bride (2022) Review!!
After its June 16 release, Father of the Bride found its niche with families looking for a fitting watch this Father’s Day weekend. Now, the third film adaptation of Edward Streeter’s 1949 novel of the same name is the biggest HBO Max movie premiere, specifically for a title exclusively made for the streaming service. The revamped romantic-comedy led by Andy Garcia and Gloria Estefan sat … Continue reading ‘Father of the Bride’ Remake Has Become HBO Max’s Most-Watched Original Movie!!
Synopsis – A father’s coming to grips with his daughter’s upcoming wedding through the prism of multiple relationships within a big, sprawling Cuban-American clan. Directed – Gary Alazraki Starring – Adria Arjona, Isabela Merced, Andy Garcia Check out the trailer: Continue reading ‘Father of the Bride’ Trailer Reveals the HBO Max Re-Imagining!! Check It Out!!
Based on CinemaCon footage, it’s been confirmed that Tobey Maguire will be playing silent film icon Charlie Chaplin in Damien Chazelle‘s upcoming film, Babylon. Prior to now, it was not known who Maguire would be playing in the film. The role is particularly exciting not just for Maguire‘s versatility and talent as an actor, but also the momentum he’s currently riding from reprising his role … Continue reading ‘Babylon’: Tobey Maguire Is Playing Charlie Chaplin in Damien Chazelle’s Next!!
Filming has wrapped on director Damien Chazelle’s period drama Babylon, crew member Bryan Mendoza revealed in a tweet. Mendoza’s picture also showed a period-appropriate clapperboard bearing the names of Chazelle and his regular cinematographer Linus Sandgren, who recently shot Daniel Craig’s final James Bond film, No Time to Die. In Mendoza‘s words: “And that’s a wrap on Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, easily one of the toughest … Continue reading ‘Babylon’: Damien Chazelle’s Next Wraps Filming!!
Director Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, a period drama set in the Golden Age of Hollywood, has added three new cast members, per Deadline. Chloe Fineman, Jeff Garlin, and Troy Metcalf will join a sprawling ensemble led by Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie. Robbie and Pitt previously collaborated on another partially fictional Tinseltown tale, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, directed by Quentin Tarantino. Babylon is also … Continue reading ‘Babylon’: Damien Chazelle’s Next Adds Chloe Fineman, Jeff Garlin, and Troy Metcalf to Cast!!
