Better Call Saul TV Episode Recaps & News

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  455 words  |  Elina Uphoff

Soon after the final chapter in the saga of Walter White wrapped, Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan joined forces with writer-producer Peter Gould to create another comic epic of corruption and crime in the American Southwest, making what some considered a counterintuitive choice of protagonist. Better Call Saul takes a minor character in the story of Walter White, his hilariously amoral lawyer Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk), shows his origin as hustler turned law clerk “Slippin’” Jimmy McGill, and observes his mutation into the character we met in Breaking Bad, a man who never met a norm he couldn’t flout, a law he couldn’t bend, or a promise he couldn’t break. [Read More]

Big Freedia on Slaying Beyoncs Formation and Being Surprised by Its Release

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  965 words  |  Janel Helmers

Beyoncé may lead the formation in her latest world-stopping event, the surprise release of “Formation” one day before she performed it at the Super Bowl, but she isn’t the only southern queen whose voice you’ll hear on the song. She’s joined by New Orleans’s Queen of Bounce, Big Freedia, who arrives midway through the song to reinforce Bey’s hot-sauce-carrying swag with some slay-spo of her own: “I did not come to play with you hos! [Read More]

BillionsRecap: Strings Attached

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1441 words  |  Janel Helmers

Billions Napoleon’s Hat Season 6 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Billions Napoleon’s Hat Season 6 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » I can’t say I have ever wanted to live in the Billions universe, and now that it’s a world where New York City is hosting the 2028 Olympics, it sounds like an absolute nightmare. [Read More]

Black Panthers Costume Designer on 8 of the Films Iconic Looks

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  13 minutes  |  2682 words  |  Zora Stowers

Black Panther. When you think of Wakanda, the futuristic African country that is the setting of Ryan Coogler’s smash-hit superhero movie Black Panther, you can’t help but picture its fabulously dressed citizens. Two-time Oscar nominee Ruth E. Carter is the costume designer responsible for Wakanda’s sartorial splendor, and she’s loving the audience response to her work: Whether it’s at Comic-Con or at the movie theater, people are dressing up as young king T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), as well as his friends and foes. [Read More]

Black Swan Is a Hanukkah Movie

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1607 words  |  Aldo Pusey

And I will prove it. It has become trendy over the past decade or so for consumers and critics of culture to pick out a violent and/or disturbing movie that is tangentially related to Christmas and declare it a Christmas movie. I, too, have participated in this sort of thing. It’s fun to feel irreverent and blasphemous by saying things like, “Eyes Wide Shut, in which Tom Cruise incidentally attends a murderous sex-cult party, is a film meant in many ways to honor the birth of Jesus,” or, “My favorite holiday tradition is watching The Snowtown Murders. [Read More]

Black-ish Recap: The Bunny Magnet

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1373 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Black-ish Being Bow-racial Season 3 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Black-ish Being Bow-racial Season 3 Episode 8 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Anthony Anderson as Dre. It’s been a while since we’ve had such a perfect episode of Black-ish, but “Being Bow-racial” was worth the wait. [Read More]

Bob the Drag Queen On Winning RuPauls Drag Race, Self-Confidence, and Leading Purse First

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1824 words  |  Elina Uphoff

Bob the Drag Queen walked onto to the dais at Stage 48 last night in a floor-length brown sequined dress. Violet Chachki, last year’s winner, pinned a crown to her wig, as he learned along with the rest of America that he’d won season eight of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Tears streamed down his cheeks as he thanked his friends and family, and reminded everyone to buy his new single on iTunes, “Purse First. [Read More]

BrainDead Series Premiere Recap: The Ants Go Marching

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1159 words  |  Sherie Connelly

BrainDead The Insanity Principle: How Extremism in Politics Is Threatening Democracy in the 21st Century Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » BrainDead The Insanity Principle: How Extremism in Politics Is Threatening Democracy in the 21st Century Season 1 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Previous Next» « Previous Episode NextEpisode » Danny Pino as Luke Healy, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Laurel Healy. [Read More]

Bravo Superfan Jennifer Lawrence Will Be a Real(-ish) Housewife

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  274 words  |  Zora Stowers

We’re betting that Jennifer Lawrence would have found it difficult to have no hard feelings if she didn’t get this role.Per Variety, JLaw will star in The Wives, a murder mystery inspired by the Real Housewives franchise. It is currently in development as an A24 and Apple Original Films co-production. As a reminder, Lawrence is a Bravo fan who once said she would give her Oscar away to the women of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City for what she called the “best reality TV finale, I think, ever. [Read More]