Disney’s Lion King remake seems kind of soulless, with our own A.A. Dowd noting in his review that the elaborate, animal-stacking “I Just Can’t Wait To Be King” sequence from the original has been replaced with a little romp through a stream, but at least we can still count on Beyoncé to bring the visual panache that…

Chris Evans’ Captain America suffered a traumatic loss in Avengers: Endgame when he—spoiler alert—decided to shave his fabulous Infinity War beard. The rest of the movie was fine, but it was hard not to miss his whiskers when he was smashing Thanos with Mjolnir. Luckily, Netflix is here to take us back to a world…

Good news, podcast fans: Things are going to get slightly more unpleasant for you! Yes, you already have to put up with a lot of ads for companies that mail uncooked food to your house and the basic indignity of having to say the words “it’s a podcast” when someone asks what song you’re listening to, but those are…

Everybody who’s anybody is trying to ride the heat from Lil Nas X’s instant-classic “Old Town Road,” especially after he brought in Billy Ray Cyrus of all people to teach the Billboard charts a lesson. Since then, Diplo made a remix, some actual horses got involved, a few famous people made cameos in the video, then …

Well, it looks like Space Jam 2 really is happening, with LeBron James filling the Michael Jordan role, Sonequa Martin-Green possibly playing his wife, and Don Cheadle playing some third character, and now Deadline says that director Terence Nance has made an “amicable” departure from the film, with Warner Bros.…

Hulu is dropping its biggest release of the summer this month, with the new season of Veronica Mars coming next week, so that doesn’t leave very much excitement for August, but August should really be used to that by now. It’s one of those transition months, landing between the barbecues of July and the new school…

According to Variety, Lakeith Stanfield (best known for Atlanta and Sorry To Bother You, though he’s been everywhere lately) is set to star in a movie adaptation of Notes From A Young Black Chef, the memoir written by former Top Chef contestant—and celebrated American-Nigerian chef—Kwame Onwuachi. The film will be…

Tonight, free TV streaming platform Pluto TV has announced that has picked up the rights to all four seasons of Bajillion Dollar Propertie$—one of the flagship shows of the long-dead Seeso service. Only three of those seasons actually made it to air before Seeso got sent to live at a nice farm upstate, leaving the…

There are a lot of big changes coming to The CW’s DC shows this season, with flagship series Arrow coming to an end and Crisis On Infinite Earths coming along to—if the original comic is any indication—wipe out the entire multiverse, but one of the biggest changes is coming to Supergirl (not really, because Arrow is…

According to Variety, Amazon just picked up the rights to make a TV series based on Lee Child’s Jack Reacher books, with Scorpion’s Nick Santora writing, executive producing, and showrunning. This, naturally, will be unrelated to the Jack Reacher movies that Tom Cruise made, with the most recent entry—Jack Reacher:…

According to The Wrap, Warner Bros. and Mattel have somehow convinced Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach—two legitimately talented and accomplished people—to write that Barbie movie with Margot Robbie. Gerwig is even being “eyed” to direct the film, which (no offense to Mattel or Gerwig or the generations of Barbie fans)…

We’ve all heard of podcasts about murder and podcasts about bad movies, but we seem to be witnessing the birth of a third podcast genre now in the form of discussions about the creative process. Ted Leo and Aimee Mann launched The Art Of Process earlier this year, and now Joseph Gordon-Levitt is getting ready to…

According to an unverified report from The Daily Mail, Daniel Craig may be getting some competition at MI6 in the upcoming Bond 25. Now, before we get into this, it’s worth reiterating that this is an unverified report from a “movie insider,” and The Daily Mail isn’t exactly the most unimpeachable news outlet, so it…

If the huge response to the news that Friends will eventually be leaving Netflix for WarnerMedia’s upcoming HBO Max streaming service wasn’t a clear enough indication that the show still has a weirdly enormous level of culture value, this news should make it effectively inarguable: As reported by People, upscale…

Earlier this year, we picked up on some pretty clear evidence that Elisabeth Moss would be starring in a post-Dark Universe attempt to remake The Invisible Man, this time with the horror experts at Blumhouse taking the lead. Moss herself noted that it was an “incredible story” that “maybe needs to be retold” and…

Yesterday, some comments from an interview that Scarlett Johansson gave to As If magazine came out, resurrecting a few controversies that she’s been involved with in the last couple years—specifically her role as the traditionally Asian character Major Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost In The Shell and her backlash-prompted…

A couple days ago, new Ghostbusters director Jason Reitman shared a photo on Twitter of him, his dad Ivan Reitman (who made the original Ghostbusters), and new stars Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, and McKenna Grace, along with the caption “the family’s all here.” It’s pretty straightforward and doesn’t feature any old…

In a casting announcement that sounds almost too good for what we’ve come to expect from the Space Jam brand, Deadline is reporting that Don Cheadle has joined the cast of the long-rumored, now-finally-happening reboot with LeBron James. We don’t know who he’ll be playing, but assuming he’s not a Looney Tune and that…