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After a whirlwind of (new) controversy surrounding the actions ofRoseanne Barrtoday, ABC PresidentChanning Dungeyreleased a statement saying: “Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show.” Short and to the point! Earlier today, Barr went on a Twitter rant (not her first, and unlikely her last) in which she referred to a former top Obama aide, Valerie Jarrett, by saying “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj....

The MTV seriesScreamis back for Season 2, picking up when Emma (Willa Fitzgerald) returns to Lakewood after several months away, in an attempt to recover from the horrors she survived. With everyone walking on eggshells around her, questioning whether she has truly gotten over the Killer’s crimes, Lakewood’s murderous past is once again brought into focus, as another Killer’s psychotic mind-game becomes intent on bringing the heroes down. During this exclusive phone interview with Collider, new showrunnersMichael GansandRichard Registertalked about their love for theScreamfranchise, looking back at Season 1 to move forward, brutal storytelling, developing a kick-ass cold opening, balancing the horror with the humor, how the gore of Season 2 compares, and why they see this as a never-ending story....

With directorKaryn Kusama’sDestroyernow playing in limited release, I recently sat down withSebastian Stanto talk about making the film. During the wide-ranging interview, Stan talked about filming the bank sequence and trying to make it authentic, why having a limited shooting schedule can be a good thing, his look in the film (including getting a tattoo of his mom), what the past few years have been like working on projects likeI, Tonya,The BronzeandDestroyer, and more....

With the world in the midst of a global pandemic, fabled international animation festival Annecy has been forced to move online, with a number of high-profile presentations available to viewright now. One of those presentations is for Sony Pictures Animation’sConnected. The animated feature, co-written and directed byGravity Fallssecret weaponMike Rianda, and concerns an average, mildly dysfunctional American family that is forced to deal with the robot uprising (you hate to use the word “apocalypse” when describing a family movie)....

This November,Star Wars: The Force Awakenswill try to dip into your wallet again withStar Wars: The Force Awakens3D Collector’s Edition. This new edition containsJ.J. Abramscommentaryas well as new deleted scenes that weren’t included on the previous release because they knew they could get you to shell out more money if they held them for this new version, and I’m willing to bet there are evenmoredeleted scenes sitting around waiting to be released on the inevitable super-duper Sequel Trilogy box set that will be released sometime in 2020....

Sterling K. Brownwill always be known for his role as Randall Pearson inThis Is Us, the romantic comedy series that ran for six seasons and is currently streaming on Hulu, but now the Academy Award nominee is back with another project for the streamer that’s become a major hit. Brown stars alongsideSonicandX-MenveteranJames MarsdeninParadise, the gritty political thriller series that has aired four episodes in its first season.Paradisepremiered on January 28, and the show has wasted no time climbing to the top of Hulu’s charts,sitting at #1 at the time of writing....

Warning: Spoilers forSuicide Squadfollow. If you haven’t seen the movie, turn back now. The Warner Bros. DC Comics adaptationSuicide Squadis notable in the realm of the DC Extended Universe for a few reasons, one being that it’s the firstnotdirected byZack Snyder. Indeed, Snyder kicked things off with his Superman rebootMan of Steeland upped the ante with this year’sBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, but for the third movie in the DCEU, Warner Bros....

The gentlemen behindThe Expanseare, as you’ll see below, delightfully frank about what it’s been like to produce five seasons of the epic sci-fi drama. WritersDaniel AbrahamandTy Franck(who wrote the source material as novels under the pen nameJames S.A. Corey), as well as showrunnerNaren Shankar, have weathered the show’s dramatic history for years now — from being canceled by Syfy after Season 3, to being revived by Amazon for Season 4, to now working up to the planned conclusion in Season 6....

As we continue to debate whether or notThe Flash’s fourth season is actually good or just better than Season 3, one thing that we should all be in agreement over is how the show successfully rehabilitatedCandice Patton’s character Iris West (now West-Allen). In fact, Iris’ journey from Barry’s sister/love interest to forgotten non-meta to leader of Team Flash may be the show’s best course-correction. One of Season 3’s major problems (and there were quite a few) was that it sidelined Iris not only in her career as a journalist, but spent half a season making her watch the team flail in trying to figure out how to prevent her death....

Amazon’s four-part docuseriesThe Last Narcis now available on the streaming service, for which directorTiller Russelltook great risks in telling the story of the most notorious murder in the history of the DEA — the 1985 kidnapping and murder of DEA AgentEnrique “Kiki” Camarena. The Last NarcfollowsHector Berrellez, a highly decorated special agent who was assigned to lead the DEA’s investigation of Camarena’s murder. With the help of several corrupt cops who once served as bodyguards to Mexico’s legendary drug lords, Hector digs deep to uncover the frightening truth about a conspiracy involving top cartel leaders and the CIA....

In 2009, the zombie craze that would soon overrun the country hadn’t really started yet. There were some undead hits here and there like the 2004 reboot ofDawn of the DeadandShaun of the Dead, but it wouldn’t be until 2010, with the premiere ofThe Walking Dead, that zombies started to overwhelm every corner of pop culture. So in 2009, whenRuben Fleischer’s first feature film, the horror comedyZombieland, hit theaters, there wasn’t a great amount of anticipation....

WhenShana Feste’s take on a date gone wrong premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020, it was critically panned for its surreal conceptual twist that dramatized the truckload of underdeveloped thematic concerns already infused in the film.Some critics claimedthat maintaining the film’s initial realism would have upheld the integrity of its themes — but that so isn’t the point ofRun Sweetheart Run. It’s a film worth revisiting because its brief social exploration is really just the jumping-off point for Feste’s spiral into an unhinged yet thrilling revenge film....

One of the most jarring aspects ofthe uneven new Marvel movie,Thor: Love and Thunder,are its visual effects. While there have been plenty of clunky CGI constructions in other superhero stories in the franchise that have raised eyebrows, this film has emerged as one of its most poorly constructed to date. It is an element that had set the Internet on fire when the trailer first dropped as viewers clearly noticed something was off in many of the visuals....