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‘Russian Doll’ Trailer: Natasha Lyonne Gets Her Own ‘Groundhog Day’ With A Lethally Clumsy Twist Groundhog Dayis the cornerstone of movies that repeat a certain event over and over again. Movies likeSource Code, Edge of Tomorrow, Happy Death Dayand more have run with the formula and put fun twists on it. But we’ve rarely seen that formula applied to an entire series (ABC’s canceledDay Breakcomes to mind), and now it’s Netflix’s turn to take a crack at reliving the say day over and over again....

‘The Fate Of The Furious’ Featurette: This Is ‘‘A Whole New Start To The Franchise’’ Buckle up, fam: theFastfamily is about to be torn apart in a big way. Universal has just released a new featurette forThe Fate of the Furious, the eighth installment in the long-running franchise which will seeVin Diesel’sfamily-obsessed patriarch Dominic Toretto face off against his accomplices – including his wife, Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) – and align with the mysterious Cypher (Charlize Theron), who’s described as “the fiercest villain the franchise has ever seen....

‘The Man In The High Castle’ Visual Effects Video, Or How To Build An Alternate History Nazi-Ruled America The most impressive visual effects are the visual effects you never notice, and television is quickly becoming home to atonof visual effects you never notice. While some shows get to show office massive CGI dragons, others use computer effects to modify skylines, extend sets, and quietly manipulate environments so they look like another time and place....

‘Unexpected’ Trailer: Cobie Smulders And Anders Holm Get Pregnant After playing the 2015 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, plenty of indies will be headed to theaters as the year goes on. This summer will bring quite a few as counter-programming to the big studio projects crowding the multiplexes, and one of those films is the charming comedic dramaUnexpected. The film starsCobie Smulders(How I Met Your Mother, Avengers: Age of Ultron) andAnders Holm(Workaholics) as a couple dealing with an unplanned pregnancy....

30 Years Later, ‘Willow’ Remains Charming, Empowering, Flawed Fantasy (Welcome toNostalgia Bomb, a series where we take a look back on beloved childhood favorites and discern whether or not they’re actually any good. In this edition:Willowturns 30 and we take a look back.) Every summer, my great Aunt Nancy would come to visit my family all the way from Hoboken, New Jersey. She would smell of tub roses, wear long sleeved cardigans in 80 degree weather, and refused to sit in the driver’s seat of a car....

5 Best Louie Anderson Roles And Where You Can Watch Them Once again, the world finds itself mourning the loss of a comedic legend, this time in the form of Louie Anderson (whose death was confirmedthis morning). Born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, Anderson made his network debut as a comedian on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” in 1984. He would go on to appear on other late-night talk shows and lead his own standup comedy specials starting in the late ’80s....

Aline Review: The Unofficial Celine Dion Biopic Is Officially One Of The Most Uncanny Cinematic Experiences “Aline” might truly be one of the most bizarre movies to come out of the arthouse circuit. A biopic that’s not a biopic, a movie that manages to gain the rights to the artist’s music but refuses to lavish any attention on the beloved songs or how they were made. A movie where the 57-year-old director stars as a Céline Dion surrogate from 5 years old to 40 years old, her face eerily pasted onto a tiny child’s body like some kind of malformed hobbit....

Aw, Nerds! ‘30 Rock’ And ‘How I Met Your Mother’ Are Leaving Netflix This Fall The more time goes by and the moreNetflixgets invested in their own original programming, the more titles that have been part of the streaming services library for years will be disappearing. Earlier this year,Futuramafans were annoyed to learn that nearlythe entire series was leavingthe streaming service along with several other staple FOX programs likeThe X-Files,American Dad!...

Best Picture Winner ‘Parasite’ Heading To IMAX Theaters For A Week Hot off its Best Picture win at the Academy Awards,Bong Joon-ho’s incredible genre-bending social thrillerParasitewasgiven a wide release into 2,000 theatersin the United States, essentially doubling its theatrical reach even though the film has been available on home video since the end of January. But now, the film can be seen in an even bigger and better way: in IMAX....

Casting Bits: Nicole Kidman Options ‘The Family Fang’, Olivia Wilde, Jessica Biel, Judy Greer, Etc. Shortlisted For ‘Burt Wonderstone’, Shiloh Fernandez Joins ‘The East’ Nicole Kidman’s Blossom Films and Olympus Films have teamed up to acquire the movie rights forKevin Wilson’s bestselling bookThe Family Fang, which they plan to develop as a starring vehicle for Kidman. The two companies previously collaborated onRabbit Hole, for which Kidman received a Best Actress Oscar nomination....

Comedian Tom Segura On Always Improving And Why Auditioning Is The Worst [Interview] Tom Segurais one of the best comedians out there right now. The Cincinnati native released his first Netflix special,Completely Normal, back in 2014, and in the five years since, his skills as a storyteller have only sharpened. Segura’s jokes continue to grow longer and funnier, making for some of the most consistently funny Netflix comedy specials available. You can often find him at The Comedy Store in West Hollywood and, most recently, all over the country and Europe for his recent tour, “Take It Down....

Dead Poets Society Was A War Of Attrition Between Robin Williams And Ethan Hawke Ethan Hawke is one of the most renowned actors in Hollywood today, but even a storied career like his has to start somewhere. In this case, it was on the set of the 1989 coming-of-age film “Dead Poets Society,” where he was subject to a little bit of friendly hazing by the film’s star, Robin Williams....

Disneyland’s Halloween Time Returns Just In Time For A Spooktacular Fall Halloween 2020 was, for theme-park fans, a particularly scary holiday, but for all the wrong reasons. The devastating COVID-19 pandemic was ravaging the world last fall, making it so many of the more frivolous pursuits, like spending the holiday at a theme park, completely untenable and fully closed. Well, as 2021 returns us to a new normal, theDisneyland Resortis bringing back one of its standby seasons:Halloween Timeat the Disneyland Resort....