This Is UsRecap: Mustache Origin Story

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1544 words  |  Janel Helmers

This Is Us Day of the Wedding Season 6 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This Is Us Day of the Wedding Season 6 Episode 13 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We knew that in the final season of This Is Us, we’d get answers to some of the most enduring mysteries, but never in my wildest dreams did I think we’d get the definitive answer to a question I was too nervous, too overwhelmed, too horny even to ask: In “Day of the Wedding,” we finally learn how Jack Pearson went from full beard to just ’stache in the late 1980s. [Read More]

This Lip Sync Battle Between Randy Couture and Gabriel Iglesias Is the Worst But Also Kind of the Be

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  421 words  |  Janel Helmers

Imagine you’re drunk at 4 a.m. in a karaoke bar in K-Town. One guy is passed out on the corner, two of your friends just took a very long bathroom break, and someone is trying to sing R. Kelly’s “Ignition” — only it’s not the remix version, because they never have the remix at this place, but someone always forgets. Your vision blurs as the mini-light display flutters across your eyes, and you look at the thimble-size cup in your hand and ask yourself, Why am I still drinking this soju? [Read More]

This Was The Fast & the Furious But One of the Cars Is a Bear

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1809 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Cocaine Bear director Elizabeth Banks breaks down the “scientific precision” of that mostly-improvised ambulance chase. This piece was first published in March. We are recirculating it timed to Cocaine Bear’s streaming debut on Peacock. Over its opening weekend in theaters, the low-concept animal-attack horror-comedy Cocaine Bear snorted up a surprisingly robust $23 million in ticket sales to become the second-highest-grossing movie in wide release (behind Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania). [Read More]

Tilda Swinton Wanted a Pigs Nose in Snowpiercer

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  203 words  |  Elina Uphoff

In Snowpiercer, Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s first Hollywood film, Tilda Swinton plays Minister Mason, the phlegmy, sniveling mouthpiece of the “front of the train.” While she might already look unrecognizable with her prosthetic nose, dentures, and wig, Swinton originally wanted a more severe getup, according to her director. “Even that was the result of having stopped her! She had something weirder on,” Bong told Vulture in Korean at the film’s premiere at the Museum of Modern Art. [Read More]

Tim Allen Cant Stay Ho-ho-home in The Santa Clauses Trailer

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  251 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Could Santa be a stay-at-home dad? According to Disney+’s trailer for The Santa Clauses, no … or at least not for long. In the six-part series, which is a spinoff of The Santa Clause films, Tim Allen reprises his role as Scott Calvin, a.k.a. Santa Claus. He discovers that the kids he once visited have grown into adults who don’t take so kindly to breaking and entering. But instead of updating his destination list, he decides to retire “for the good of Christmas. [Read More]

Time for a Sugar Rush

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  871 words  |  Sherie Connelly

The best part of Sugar is the moment when all the things that seem wrong about it suddenly snap into place. Apple TV+’s Sugar is not the best TV show I’ve seen this year, but it did give me my favorite TV moment so far this year. It was somewhere in the middle of episode three when it suddenly hit me: Wait. That can’t be what this show is about. [Read More]

Timothe Chalamets Eternal Online Boyhood

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1325 words  |  Zora Stowers

There’s Something About Timothée Six years ago, he became the most in-demand young actor in Hollywood. What makes him so irresistible? There’s Something About Timothée Six years ago, he became the most in-demand young actor in Hollywood. What makes him so irresistible? A generation’s biggest movie star grew up vagueposting. On February 5, 2018, Timothée Chalamet emerged from a two-month Twitter hiatus to announce, “big day :)”. He’d been less quiet on Instagram, where he wished Kid Cudi and his grandmother happy birthdays on either side of a photo of his own shoe. [Read More]

To Fly Is Human. To Air, Divine.

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1136 words  |  Zora Stowers

Ben Affleck’s Air might as well be a faith-based film about Nike’s signing of Michael Jordan. This review was originally published in April. We are recirculating it now that Air is available to stream on Prime Video. We never see the face of the actor playing Michael Jordan in Air. A newcomer named Damian Delano Young, he hovers on the edges of a handful of shots and only utters a couple of brief lines. [Read More]

Tom Scharpling & Hollywood Handbook Made Anti-Comedy for the Ages

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1157 words  |  Janel Helmers

Pod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time. The elaborate mythology of The Best Show has been lovingly established through the years to the point where Tom Scharpling’s revered comic institution is less a podcast than a sprawling fictional comic universe. The more you listen to The Best Show, the more you get out of it, and Scharpling brought some of that genius for conceptual comedy and affinity for world-building with him during his regular visits to Hollywood Handbook. [Read More]

Tony Robbinss Documentary I Am Not Your Guru to Heal You on Netflix July 15

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  116 words  |  Sherie Connelly

In between episodes of 30 Rock you’ve seen a thousand times and Paranormal Activity knockoffs from 2012 that literally no human has ever watched, you can now get a behind-the-scenes look at Tony Robbins’s motivational seminars in the upcoming documentary I Am Not Your Guru. Joe Berlinger followed the inspirational speaker at his “Date With Destiny” workshop in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where Robbins directs life-coaching exercises and holds “interventions” for his attendees. [Read More]