We wish we could manifest, in our day-to-day lives, the same joyfuloptimism with which Sony makes movies set in the Spider-Man universe, in which Spider-Man himself does not actually appear. (Except, possibly, as a baby, lacking the proportional strength and agility of even the tiniest of spiders.) Despite what has…Read more...

We only get one really major David Cross/Bob Odenkirk project once a decade or so—with the Mr. Show duo coming back together most recently for Netflix’s W/ Bob And David in 2015. We would have been on track to get another one pretty soon, but, according to Cross, Paramount+’s “marketing and analytics department”…Read more...

When we recently started codifying the concept of the Friday Night TV Murder Pile—the Hollywood trend that sees TV networks dump the news that they’re canceling modestly performing “bubble” shows in the last hours before the weekend, presumably to cut down on the shouting—it was mostly as a joke. “Certainly,” we…Read more...

What, exactly, would it feel like, to suddenly have Pauly Shore insert himself into your life? It’s the kind of question that haunts most of us merely in the hypothetical. But for mostly-retired fitness guru Richard Simmons, it’s become a very real concern of late. Simmons—who people just cannot be normal about,…Read more...

Few celebrities, when accused of sexual assault or misconduct by multiple people, have reacted it to in a stranger fashion than actor Kevin Spacey. A full timeline of Spacey’s public weirdnesses since 2017, when Star Trek: Discovery star Anthony Rapp accused the actor of making unwanted sexual advances against him…Read more...

If you plan to see Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers this weekend, be prepared to be knocked on your ass by its propulsive score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Their synthwave-inspired compositions add an energy not just to the action on the tennis court, but to more intimate scenes between the characters as well.…Read more...