Tom Cruise’s Mission Accomplished With ‘MI: The Final Reckoning’
Tom Cruise has done it again. The preeminent movie star of the last 40 years and its most recent savior of box office bucks has scored bigtime with the eighth and final installment of the Mission Impossible series. The Final Reckoning earned a whopping $200 million over its Memorial Day weekend opening. Along with a record take for Lilo and Stitch, it was the biggest Memorial Day movie weekend in history. The actor shared his delight...
‘The Last of Us’ Season Finale: A Huge Perspective Shift
As fans of the game well know, anything can happen on HBO’s hit adaptation of The Last of Us. And it did at the close of the Season 2 finale, as the audience is led to believe that the entire point of view will shift when the third season comes around– which is thought to be a very long time from now. Sigh. But here’s some good news. Just a few days before the season finale ran on Sunday night, creators Craig Mazin and Neil...
It’s Pee-wee Herman As You’ve Never Imagined Him in New HBO Documentary
After interviewing his subject for more than 40 hours, director Matt Wolf may know more about Paul Reubens than the actor/comedian more widely known as Pee-wee Herman knew about himself. During a preview screening event at the Museum of Modern Art in New York for the first episode of the new HBO original documentary, Pee-wee as Himself, Wolf confessed the hard realization, however, that he did not know during the production that...
Television Upfronts: Some Big Developments!
All over New York City during the week of May 12, many people were saying the same thing: “Upfronts aren’t what they used to be.” Until it was decimated by the pandemic and then the writers and actors strikes, TV upfront week was known as a nearly non-stop party at top venues throughout the city. But still, there were some major developments revealed during presentations going on from Monday through Wednesday. Perhaps the biggest,...
New Lies, Hard Truths on Season 2 of ‘Poker Face’
Cynthia Erivo as a DJ. Cynthia Erivo as a mixed-media artist living off the grid. Cynthia Erico as an…apple picker? Those are just three of the six personas she inhabits in the first episode of Season 2 of Poker Face, and it’s up to Natasha Lyonne’s character Charlie Cale to figure it all out. Because as in every chapter of Peacock’s hit series co-created by Lyonne and Rian Johnson, there’s a murder involved, and one of the Cynthia...
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