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Paramount+ has unveiled the premiere date and debut trailer for its thrilling espionage series, Special Ops: Lioness. In this high-stakes drama, Zoe Saldaña takes the lead as she spearheads a mission for the CIA's war on terror, only to face unexpected challenges behind enemy lines. The trailer introduces Morgan Freeman as
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Add Liam Neeson to the impressive list of leading men who have played Raymond Chandler's laconic antihero gumshoe Philip Marlowe, a roster highlighted by Dick Powell in Murder, My Sweet (1944), Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep (1946), Robert Montgomery in Lady in the Lake (1947), James Garner in Marlowe
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When the original Magic Mike was released in 2012, I distinctly remember NOT saying, "That was a lot of fun, but there's clearly so much more nuance and complexity to the Magic Mike saga, we're going to need at least a trilogy to tell the whole story!" Not to disparage Steven
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As we eagerly await the sometime-this-spring drop of Ted Lasso Season Three, you can get your fix of comedy with heart in the new Apple TV+ series Shrinking, which covers a very different world but has the same winning formula of giving us irresistibly quirky characters who deliver quote-worthy dialogue
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The thing about house parties in the movies is, they're usually entertaining as hell for us as viewers, but for the participants, they often seem more stressful and chaotic and cringe-inducing than actual big-time fun fests. Whether it's The Great Gatsby or Sixteen Candles, Animal House or Superbad, Risky Business
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If I'm putting together a Mount Creepmore of the most terrifying Horror Movie Dolls of all time, here's the roster: Fats in Magic (1978) The clown doll in Poltergeist (1982) Chucky from Child's Play (1988) Annabelle from The Conjuring (2013) The title character from the wickedly funny, cheerfully dark and fantastically preposterous M3GAN isn't quite
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We kick off our annual "Best Movies of the Year" tribute with the long and impressive list of films that fell short of making the cut but are well worth your time, and this year's group is one of the strongest in recent memory, including: Avatar: The Way of Water, Violent
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When compiling the list of my favorite TV series of 2022, I've opted not to include continuation seasons in favor of spotlighting shows that debuted this year. 10. We Own This City (HBO and HBO Max) The creative team behind The Wire and many of the cast members of that seminal
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A series that premiered Dec. 18 on Paramount Network and Paramount+. Subsequent episodes begin streaming Jan. 1 on Paramount+. "Violence has always haunted this family ... where it doesn't follow, we hunt it down, we seek it." -- Voice-over narration in the pilot episode of 1923. Truer words have never been spoken
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If I had two separate categories to judge James Cameron's motion-capture epic Avatar: The Way of Water, I'd give it four stars for Visuals and two and a half for Story, and I'm in charge of the math here, so I'm awarding three and a half stars to TWAW for
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After the resounding success of Die Hard in 1988, we saw a slew of variations on the theme of a lone antihero in a single setting saving the day, e.g., Under Siege was Die Hard on a ship, Speed was Die Hard on a bus, Executive Decision was Die Hard
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If Hollywood delivered a decades-later sequel titled It's Still a Wonderful Life that picked up the story of Zuzu Bailey as a middle-aged florist undergoing her own existential crisis, or Another Miracle on 34th Street, with Susan Walker all grown up and having forgotten she once believed in Kris Kringle,
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Prince Charles rarely comes off as a sympathetic figure in television and film adaptations about the royal family, but you do feel a certain measure of sympathy for him on a few occasions in season five of Netflix's The Crown, as he asks anyone who will listen, including the Queen
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The majestic Anthony Hopkins nearly saves the well-intentioned but dour and heavy-handed American family portrait film Armageddon Time in a single, elegantly constructed scene in which Hopkins' family patriarch, Aaron, is in the park with his grandson Paul (Banks Repeta), who tells Grandpa at his new private school, "Sometimes kids
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Cate Blanchett is such a blazing and commanding force in Tar, we almost instantly believe she's been the title character her entire life: one Lydia Tar, a globally renowned classical conductor who is a generational genius, a fiercely protective mother, a passionate lover, an influential mentor, a generous benefactor, a
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We're only about 20 minutes into the half-baked, ultra-lightweight, almost instantly forgettable rom-com Ticket to Paradise when our hearts start to sink, as we realize this big-screen reteaming of Julia Roberts and George Clooney is quite likely going to be sideswiped and eventually sunk by a leaden screenplay that doesn't
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We won't bury the lead: The ABC journalism drama Alaska Daily is a solid, impressively credentialed and entertaining albeit conventional series that plays like a comfort-viewing, hourlong show from the 1990s. With a fish-out-of-water premise, an ongoing mystery plot that will no doubt play out over the course of the
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We often speak of that almost ethereal and magical thing called "chemistry" between actors in memorable films - but there are also movies in which the undeniably talented cast members never seem to click, for myriad reasons. In the case of David O. Russell's jaw-droppingly terrible, aggressively tasteless, profoundly unfunny
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What a shiny con job. Olivia Wilde's follow-up to her dazzling directorial debut Booksmart (2019) is the retro psychological thriller Don't Worry Darling, which is one of the best-looking movies of the year and has an intriguing premise that cribs quite liberally from films ranging from Rosemary's Baby to The Stepford
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It's funny how we often see mini-similarities in two movies that just happen to be opening at the same time, as is the case this week with Confess, Fletch and See How They Run. The former is a light and breezy murder mystery featuring a world-weary veteran detective (Roy Wood
