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Nancy Drew, a supernatural take on the sleuth and her tight-knit group of friends currently airing on The CW, has had a relatively strong start. The first season quickly introduced the town of Horseshoe Bay and the many mysteries it held, including the secrets of Lucy Sable whose story became legend years after her sudden death. However, while the show has excelled in many other ways, the one major fault of the show is its lack of focus on Bess Turani a....

David Simon’s upcoming HBO seriesThe Deuceis a 1970s New York-set drama about the rise of the porn industry. Who better to be the face of such a project thanJames Francoand his era-appropriate mustache? Well, hold onto your butts because Franco is pulling double duty in this one, playing a set of twins. His characters have been revealed in new images from the series along withMaggie Gyllenhaal’s prostitute, Candy. Franco leadsThe Deuceas both Vincent Martino, a struggling bartender, and Frankie Martino, his ne’er-do-well brother....

Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, the sprawling, 14-acreStar Wars-themed experience at both Disneyland and Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World, is a remarkable accomplishment in many ways, with highly themed elements and a rich (if somewhat cumbersome) mythology. But one of the more frustrating aspects of the land is how specifically it’s wedged intoStar Warscanon: everything you see and do is set in the very narrow amount of time in betweenThe Last JediandThe Rise of Skywalker....

The Megsnagged $45 million opening weekend at the domestic box office back in 2018 and ultimately went on to secure $530 million worldwide on a reported $130 million production budget. A sequel quickly became a no-brainer. But while there’s been sequel rumblings for a few years, plans to actually film the movie are only first coming into focus now. (Which likely has something to do with the significant amount of release and production delays during the pandemic....

Few genres have been as reliable throughout the history of cinema asthe prison break movie, fromThe Great Escape,toEscape from Alcatraz,toThe Shawshank Redemption.Yet few have felt as authentic asJacques Becker’sLe Trou,translated in English asThe Hole.Becker spared no expense infaithfully recreating the 1947 escape attemptat France’s La Santé Prison, going so far as to cast one of the real inmates,Roland Barbat, to play himself. Barbat, appearing under the stage nameJean Keraudy, also served as a technical consultant, and he endorses the veracity of everything portrayed in a prologue, telling the audience, “This is my story....

Oscarsare the single most recognizable trophy that a film can earn, with nearly a century of cinema history intertwined with the prestigious award. Making sure to accommodate all the different aspects of a film’s production, there’s an Oscar for everything from acting, directing, writing, costume design, editing, and further, all giving recognition to the many talented performers and crew that come together to make a movie work. Perhaps the most sought-after award in the whole ceremony, the Best Picture award is one of the highest accomplishments that a movie can attain....

Because time is a flat circle and humanity is doomed to repeat its greatest failures,True Detectivelives on. The third season of writerNic Pizzolato’s surly crime anthology, now starringMahershala Ali, is set to debut January 13, and with a whole pizzo-lot-o' intrigue in the air, I revisited all eight episodes of the much-maligned season 2, to see if we judged it too harshly back in those halcyon days of 2015. Reader, I was shocked to discover that…no, it’s still pretty bad, occasionally on an embarrassing level, but in a much, much more fascinating way than I remember....

After a long two years,Uploadfinally returns with a second and abbreviated shorter season. With more ridiculous and terrifying technical advancements and a deeper exploration of the world, the sophomore season of this sci-fi rom-com series is a bit too short but still just as sweet. Created byGreg Daniels, the second season picks up right where the first one left off with Nora (Andy Allo) leaving the city to live off the grid and Nathan (Robbie Amell) trapped in the 2 gig room after Ingrid (Allegra Edwards) has just told him that she uploaded for him....

Vinegar Syndrome, the iconic restoration company focused on independent films and horror, is celebrating its tenth anniversary in grand style. Besides promising to expand its horror restorations catalog with Asian films, Vinegar Syndrome is also offering an exclusive subscription for only the first week of 2023. Vinegar Syndrome was founded in 2012 byJoe RubinandRyan Emersonto restore old X-rated movies that were no longer available to the public. The company grew steadily over the years, expanding its restoration work toward all movies that were otherwise unavailable....

Skydance Interactive is celebrating the one-year anniversary of its hitThe Walking Deadgame in a big way; details from the press release, including just when “The Trial” mode will arrive in VR on Oculus Quest, follow: Today, the company “announced thatThe Walking Dead: Saints & Sinnerssurpassed more than $29 million in revenue on all platforms since its initial launch on June 23, 2025, making it one of the best selling VR games of the year....

With the ten-part seriesYellowstonenow airing on the Paramount Network (formerly SpikeTV) on Wednesday nights, I recently sat down with actorsLuke GrimesandKelsey Asbilleto talk about making Oscar-nominated screenwriterTaylor Sheridan’s(Wind River,Hell or High WaterandSicario) first TV series. If you aren’t familiar with the show, the series follows the violent world of the Dutton family, who control the largest contiguous ranch in the United States. Led by their patriarch John Dutton (Kevin Costner), the family defends their property against constant attack by land developers, an Indian reservation along its borders, and America’s first National Park....

[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Season 17 of Criminal Minds: Evolution.] The Season 17 finale of theParamount+seriesCriminal Minds: Evolutionwrapped up the Gold Star storyline as the final puzzle piece fell into place when the last member was revealed. Emily Prentiss (Paget Brewster) had to confront Jade and her newest partner, in order to unravel the conspiracy they’d convinced themselves of, with the hope that the truth would save the BAU....

Ask someone to name their favorite Stephen King film adaptationand you’re going to get a variety of answers. While not every one of King’s works has found success on the big screen, there are 40-plus years of big hits to be found, fromBrian DePalma’s version ofCarriein 1976 to the dual box office smashes from thetwoItfilmsa few years ago. One of the betterStephen Kingadaptations isCujo, the 1981 novel turned into a feature film just two years later....