Critics Are Calling Captain America: Civil War Marvels Best Movie Yet

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1287 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Less than a month after the release of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, a new movie about superheroes fighting each other has critics talking. The only difference? This time, they actually have good things to say. After its early screenings, Captain America: Civil War has received almost uniformly positive reviews, with many critics saying that the longest Marvel movie ever is also one of the best. (Those Disney checks are paying off! [Read More]

Curb Your Enthusiasm Recap: No Happy Ending

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  11 minutes  |  2172 words  |  Janel Helmers

Curb Your Enthusiasm Ken/Kendra Season 12 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Curb Your Enthusiasm Ken/Kendra Season 12 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » No one likes an incomplete massage. You’re naked, you’ve hit the off switch on a flickering mind, and with the mounting pressure of the masseuse’s knuckles on your limbs, there’s an increasing expectation that you will leave the session feeling, if not transformed, reset, de-knotted, satisfied. [Read More]

Dakota Johnson Confirms Her Grandma Tippi Hedren Still Lives With, Oh, 13 or 14 Lions and Tigers

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  263 words  |  Janel Helmers

Is Dakota Johnson extremely mellow about the sheer number of big cats owned by her grandmother, The Birds and Marnie star Tippi Hedren, because she’s so used to being around lions and tigers, or is that just Dakota Johnson’s whole vibe? Maybe she learned her mellowness from a lifetime of being around lions and tigers, because, as the actress told Graham Norton on The Graham Norton Show, Hedren is currently down to a reasonable “13 or 14 lions and tigers” from her original sixty. [Read More]

Dark Matter Recap: The Blair Caplan Project

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  10 minutes  |  1999 words  |  Elina Uphoff

Dark Matter The Box Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Dark Matter The Box Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Dark Matter is a show with its fingers in so many sci-fi pies — alternate timelines, unfamiliar beings in familiar bodies, reality-altering psychoactive drugs — that it’s tough to discern, a third of the way through its run, whether the show represents a creative evolution of any of these concepts or just a stew of familiarity. [Read More]

David E. Kelley and Sanjay Gupta Do Medical Drama

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  122 words  |  Aldo Pusey

David E. Kelly It’s been seventeen years since Chicago Hope, but now that David E. Kelley has swapped Mandy Patinkin with an actual neurosurgeon, it seems he’s finally ready to return to the medical genre. TNT is making a pilot for Chelsea General, a hospital drama written by Kelley that’s based on Monday Mornings, the upcoming novel by CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. The series, Kelley’s first for cable, will focus on five surgeons and their struggles, both at work and at home. [Read More]

David Letterman Is the Only Straight Man Allowed at Miley Cyruss Private Shows

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  285 words  |  Zora Stowers

Flowers for the queen. The person on My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman who presumably needs the least introduction is the titular host, Letterman himself. Nevertheless, in the show’s latest season, out today on Netflix, the host is reintroduced to the audience by Miley Cyrus, who brings Letterman onstage during an intimate concert she is performing at Chateau Marmont. Putting on shows for family and friends at Chateau Marmont, Cyrus explains to Letterman in the episode’s interview, is a tradition she started last November as a “birthday gift” to herself to reclaim “her love of performance and music. [Read More]

Dear Courtney Love, Maybe Twitter Isnt the Right Medium for You

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  12 minutes  |  2492 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Like everyone else who woke up and checked their Twitter feeds this morning, we were amused and somewhat surprised to discover that our TweetDeck was chock-full of nothing but Courtney Love. As longtime fans of the eccentric Stevie Nicks disciple, we had been anxious to see how she would tailor her patented long-form stream-of-consciousness rants that she used to post on her MySpace page to fit Twitter’s strict 140-character limit. [Read More]

Dear Edward Recap: When the Fairy Tale Is Over

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1769 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Dear Edward Folklore Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Dear Edward Folklore Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Ooooh baby, this episode of Dear Edward has a little bit of everything: We’ve got romance, we’ve got breakups, we’ve got truly dickish dads showing up, we’ve got emotionally loaded dumplings, and yes, we’ve got $3,500 dollar bottles of Champagne being drunk with sugar cubes in them. [Read More]

Dear New York Times, Please Tell Us Which Expletives Lena Headey Prefers

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  274 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Lena [expletive] Headey. To quote the New York Times, “Are you [expletive] serious right now?” Today the paper published a profile of Lena Headey, which, like all Game of Thrones profiles, can’t say much about the plot of the show she stars in, and so instead focuses more on her professional and personal life outside of it. Unfortunately, it’s hard to get a great sense of Lena Headey as a person, because, per the paper’s longtime style, the New York Times also bleeps out all the expletives she says. [Read More]

Did Frank Ocean Even Want to Be at Coachella?

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  451 words  |  Janel Helmers

Frank Ocean, not at Coachella. Frank Ocean appeared to arrive at Coachella on Sunday without a plan. Three years after his 2020 headlining appearance was canceled owing to COVID — and six years after his last official performance — Ocean put on the kind of show where it felt as if he wanted to be anywhere else. After an hour-long delay, he kicked things off with “Novacane” while hidden behind some scaffolding designed to look like an intimate home studio. [Read More]