America’s greatest and most important sporting competition, the Puppy Bowl, will return this year, February 7th at 2 p.m. ET on Animal Planet and streaming via Discovery+. The annual Super Bowl counter-programming classic will feature 70 adoptable puppies from 22 shelters and rescues from around the Northeast United States. The …
Read More »'Elf' at 10: Jon Favreau Shares Buddy's Secrets
It’s hard to remember now, but there was a time before Elf was everywhere — on frequent cable rotation, Broadway, and everyone’s DVD shelf of classic Christmas movies. There was a time when Will Ferrell was not a surefire comedy movie star, and when Jon Favreau was the guy from …
Read More »Sir Ian McKellen Receives Covid-19 Vaccine: 'I Feel Very Lucky'
Sir Ian McKellen was among the first wave of people to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in the U.K., with the 81-year-old actor stating: “I feel very lucky to have had the vaccine. I would have no hesitation in recommending it to anyone.” In subsequent interviews after receiving the first …
Read More »'SNL' Weekend Update Mocks Trump's Supreme Court Lawsuit Dismissals
Weekend Update covered the Trump administration’s failed Supreme Court lawsuits as well as the Covid-19 vaccine rollout on the latest episode of Saturday Night Live. “This week, the Supreme Court dismissed two different Trump lawsuits to overturn the election results. They were the first rulings by the Supreme Court that …
Read More »'The Crown' Composer Martin Phipps Details the Pivotal Wedding Scene From Season 4
Season Four of The Crown, Peter Morgan’s historical Netflix series about Queen Elizabeth and the British royal family, marks the highly anticipated debut of Princess Diana (Emma Corrin) and covers the first nine years of her marriage to Prince Charles (Josh O’Connor). And, since it’s set in the 1980s, the …
Read More »'The Breakdown' With 'Run' Star Kiera Allen
Kiera Allen stars opposite Sarah Paulson in the new thriller Run (available now on Hulu), in which she portrays the wheelchair-bound daughter of Paulson’s manipulative mother character. As a wheelchair user herself, Allen was encouraged to audition for the role by how thoughtfully her physical disability was portrayed in the …
Read More »'The Breakdown' With Ron Howard
Ron Howard talked about the making of his new film Hillbilly Elegy for Rolling Stone‘s The Breakdown series, discussing how he came up with the idea to turn J.D. Vance’s 2016 memoir into an Appalachian family drama. “I liked that it was a conversation provoker — although I wasn’t interested …
Read More »'The First Time' With Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen has been a Hollywood actress for close to five decades now, but younger audiences might know her best fromBook Club, the 2018 rom-com she starred in alongside fellow veteran actresses Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, and Candice Bergen. On Rolling Stone‘s The First Time, Steenburgen described how the shoot …
Read More »'Fargo' Recap: Pulling Punches
A review of “Camp Elegance,” this week’s episode of Fargo, coming up just as soon as my dolls rise up and become citizens of this apartment… “I never got to choose.” —Rabbi Milligan There’s a scene midway through “Camp Elegance” where Loy Cannon is in his office, contemplating ways to …
Read More »John Oliver Offers 2020 Voting Advice as Trump, Republicans Try to Sow Confusion
John Oliver urged Americans to come up with a concrete voting plan after breaking down the ways President Donald Trump and other Republicans are trying to suppress votes or undermine confidence in the results. The Last Week Tonight episode aired Sunday, October 4th. Much of the segment focused on the …
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