Jerry Seinfeld is back behind the wheel of a lot of fancy cars (and it looks like one moped?) as the next installment of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee drops on Friday. Bridget Everett, Eddie Murphy, Matthew Broderick, Jamie Foxx and Seth Rogen are all part of the innocuous, low-commitment froth this time around.…
Post-July 4th, things get disgusting, weather-wise, in much of the U.S. In New York City, where I and much of Team Lifehacker live, we spend a lot of time outside, shuffling through the humid, hot-dog-scented soup that is summer in a crowded, polluted metropolis. And so we become indoor cats, taking refuge indoors,…
Mary Poppins Returns (Tuesday) is actually supposed to be good, so I’m going to suggest you give it a whirl before you assume it’s too PG or too family-oriented for you. That Emily Blunt is delightful and we all know it.
Netflix is giving you precisely one decent new thing to watch over the 4th of July holiday and that is the third season of Stranger Things (Thursday). Not a fan? Looks like it’s going to be a double feature of Caddyshack and Caddyshack 2: Who Knew? for you.
Can’t wait for Spider-Man: Far From Home to hit theaters on July 5? Get your summer spidey-fix this week with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Wednesday), the highly acclaimed animated feature from 2018. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film and critics loved it. I, of course, have not seen it and…
Thank god for The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu, because Netflix’s offerings this week are, at first glance, garbage. If you were a fan of the first seasons of The Casketeers, Girls Incarcerated, GO! Live Your Way, Dark, or The Confession Tapes, you’re in luck as the second seasons of all these shows hit the ‘Flix this…
Weird weather we’re having, right? I don’t know where you live, but I’m assuming it’s on the same planet as I do, and here in the northeastern U.S., a “typical” day includes a tantrum of rain in the morning, hot and humid around mid-day, then cold and possibly hailing by the evening commute. The unpredictability of…
Did you see the transcendent Martin Scorsese documentary Shine a Light, about the Rolling Stones? You don’t even have to be a Stones fan in order to love this movie. Well, Scorsese’s got another rock doc hitting Netflix, and this time it’s about Bob Dylan. Rolling Thunder Revue (Wednesday) is about Dylan’s poorly…
Is there one show everyone agrees is stellar? Yes, and that show is Black Mirror. And Season 5 (there have been four seasons?! We are getting old, friends) drops on Wednesday. Wednesday! A weird day of the week to debut a highly anticipated series! Start coughing and complaining of chills on Monday and your calling in…
We’re officially entering summer blockbuster season, which means a lot of superheroes and sequels in the theaters. You could see Ma or Rocketman, or you could follow our indoor person’s guide to what to watch this weekend.
You hear a lot of things about how to change habits—it’s going to take you 21 days! You are going to have to make small changes before you can make big changes! Reward yourself! Deny yourself! Grit your teeth! Just do it!
Let’s give a little credit to Allison Williams (a phrase you don’t hear often) for successfully shedding the role of Girls’ Marnie Michaels for horror movie lead. Or maybe we should thank Jordan Peele? I have to thank someone for the terror inflicted on us this week in the form of The Perfection. Williams plays a…
Life is hard, and for this reason, you deserve something nice, which is why I got you Nailed It!: Season 3 (Friday). There’s a lady with Iris Apfel glasses this season!
You could have set your watch by it: As soon as Netflix struck gold with Orange Is the New Black, someone had the bright idea that to make a reality show about a women’s prison. Jailbirds (Friday) looks like what would happen if the geniuses with that bright idea were the creators of Jersey Shore, which is to say that…
It’s May, and your cup runneth over—if not in all areas of your life, then at least the most important one: the area in which you recline on your sectional, eating Pop Corners while alternately watching TV and playing on your phone (some call this area the “living room”; I prefer “salon” or “parlour”). We’ve got Knock…
Two words for May, Netflixsters: Mister. Mom.
Whatever is going on in the calamitous phantasmagoria known as I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson (Tuesday) is both frightening and intriguing, and it’s the best you’re going to do on Netflix this week. Allegedly, it’s a sketch comedy show brought to you by The Lonely Island, starring Robinson, of Comedy…
The executive producers of Bridesmaids are bringing us rom-com Someone Great this weekend, and it really better be something great because I don’t watch Game of Thrones. Jane the Virgin’s Gina Rodriguez stars as a music journalist who has one last blowout with her besties before she leaves NYC. It looks funny and…
This week, Bear Grylls is literally between a rock and a hard place, and you get to choose his own adventure in the dumbly-titled interactive series You vs. Wild (Wednesday). Should he climb to the top of the cliff he’s dangling from and face the hungry mountain lion, or jump down into the rocky abyss? Should he eat…
