TV amp; Movies

Four months after Stephen Colbert joked on The Late Show about a nu-metal band’s crowdsourcing efforts to buy a new tour van, the late-night show host not only helped purchase the vehicle but also starred in the group’s new music video. Colbert first mentioned Louisville, Kentucky’s Flaw in a March …

Twelve years after Deadwood last aired on HBO, the network finally announced plans to revive the gritty Western series as a feature-length film. Plans for a Deadwood movie have routinely sputtered in the dozen years since the David Milch-produced show ended abruptly after its third season. However, HBO president Casey …

The Purge spreads from multiplexes to the small screen this fall with a television series based on the horror franchise. USA Network, which will air the 10-part event this September, unveiled the first trailer for the series at Comic-Con. “Set in a dystopian America ruled by a totalitarian political party, …

Denzel Washington playing a Lyft driver? No one could have predicted that casting choice. But in The Equalizer 2 – the first sequel ever in the 63-year-old star’s career – the actor gets behind the wheel and picks up customers in the Boston area. God help you if you piss …

On the surface, it sounds like one of those true-life, triumph-over-adversity tearjerkers that Hollywood spoon-feeds folks with numbing frequency. But thankfully, Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot approaches the cliff of sentiment without going over the edge. Based on the 1989 memoir by Portland, Oregon cartoonist John Callahan, …

Jerry Seinfeld and the late Jerry Lewistease a diner waitress in the teaser for the new season of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, which premieres July 6th on Netflix. Seinfeld filmed his interview with Lewis months before the legendary comedian died last year. Still, Lewis had his wits about him …

It’s risky calling a movie a work of art – the phrase can make audiences think they’ll be taking medicine, swallowing something good for them when they’d rather be gorging on multiplex junk food. But there’s no better term to describe the urgency and unbridled emotion of Leave No Trace.You …

Netflix has a big summer ahead of them, with some of their most popular series facing down the sophomore slump (how ya been, Glow? How’re things, Luke Cage?). But they’ll have plenty of competition: Amazon‘s got a marquee miniseries straight from the BBC; CBS is going online with a delectably …

It was the best of worlds, it was the worst of worlds. Like no episode before it, this week’s voyage to Westworld (“Les Écorchés”) was the proverbial non-stop action thrill ride – a carnival midway of cool sci-fi/horror imagery and visceral combat. It had James Marden’s Teddy going full Terminator, …

Remember when summer used to be the dead zone for TV programming? Ha! Now it’s the time when a young upstart like Paramount Network (R.I.P., Spike TV) can drop two swing-for-the-fences shows – one set in the modern Wild West, the other in swingin’ Seventies SoCal – featuring glossy production …