Bob Odenkirk Looking Regal in New Adult Swim Pilot

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  119 words  |  Zora Stowers

As reported late last week, the killing-it geniuses over at Adult Swim have ordered Bob Odenkirk’s new pilot Regal Productions, which Mr. Show’s Odenkirk will direct, produce and star in with Brian Jarvis and Jim Freeman. The half-hour live-action comedy revolves around Regal Productions, a store “in a strip mall in North Hollywood, [that] churns out wedding videos, Internet ads, low-budget infomercials and even feature films for ‘ancillary’ markets.” Add this news to Black Dynamite and the new season of Delocated and Adult Swim is looking fit for a king, or for when you stay up so late your mind loses all need for sleep. [Read More]

BoJack Horseman Recap: Bobo the Angsty Zebra

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1515 words  |  Zora Stowers

Bojack Horseman INT. SUB Season 5 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Bojack Horseman INT. SUB Season 5 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » A lot of TV shows will attempt zany conceits, from format shake-ups, to exotic locations, to live episodes. [Read More]

Boman Martinez-Reid Turns TikToks Into Reality-TV Epics

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  12 minutes  |  2464 words  |  Janel Helmers

Even if you’re not addicted to TikTok — or to Keeping Up With the Kardashians — chances are you’ve seen a parody video from Boman Martinez-Reid, a.k.a. @Bomanizer. It’s on that app that he’s built an audience of 2.1 million followers (and another half a million on Instagram) with his “Bodashians” series that expertly spoofs America’s most famous family (argue with the wall!) and the other soapy reality dramas that have become some of our culture’s most sacred texts. [Read More]

Bottoms Is an Exercise in Kamikaze Feminism

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  871 words  |  Janel Helmers

Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennott’s comedy argues that true equality means that everyone should get a chance to be a dirtbag. Midway through Bottoms, Josie (Ayo Edebiri) and PJ (Rachel Sennott) reluctantly come around to the fact that the half-baked high-school fight club — sorry, women’s self-defense class — they started has become meaningful to its other members. PJ and Josie, outcasts who founded the club with vague hopes it would get them laid, find themselves under pressure to transform it from just a place where they practice hitting one another into a place where they might actually get to know each other, too. [Read More]

BPM Is a Vital Testament to Public Action

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  807 words  |  Zora Stowers

The title of the stark French AIDS-crisis drama BPM stands for “beats per minute,” which can evoke a heartbeat or a discotheque, both of which figure in the film. What you also might think of is a clock ticking down, as the main characters — virtually all of them HIV-positive — rage against the dying of the light. Directed and co-written (with Philippe Mangeot) by the Morocco-born Robin Campillo, the film takes place in 1989 and centers on the Paris branch of ACT UP, whose members devise stunts to call attention to government’s and pharmaceutical companies’ foot-dragging in the fight against a near-genocidal epidemic. [Read More]

BrainDead Recap: The Party of Adults

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1189 words  |  Janel Helmers

BrainDead Goring Oxes: How You Can Survive the War on Government Through Five Easy Steps Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » BrainDead Goring Oxes: How You Can Survive the War on Government Through Five Easy Steps Season 1 Episode 3 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Laurel, Johnny Ray Gill as Gustav. [Read More]

Brett Gelman Punched and Kicked His Way to Becoming Stranger Things Action Hero

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  11 minutes  |  2313 words  |  Aldo Pusey

My fingers are like arrows! My arms, like iron! My feet, like spears! With no disrespect to Vecna and his 001 tattoo, the biggest surprise in Stranger Things 4 was the reveal that Murray, the show’s resident conspiracy theorist with a fondness for kimonos, wasn’t bullshitting about his karate prowess: He whoops the ass of a Russian smuggler 10,000 feet in the air in the fifth episode, kicking off his metamorphosis into an unflinching action hero. [Read More]

Brian Cox Has a Lot of Respect for Successions Logan Roy

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  255 words  |  Janel Helmers

Brian Cox has thoughts on everything, so naturally that includes his Succession character. In a recent interview with London’s The Times, Cox shared that he has “a lot of respect for” Logan Roy. While he initially had qualms about playing the ruthless patriarch of the HBO series, he said he eventually realized that Roy is “not a horrible man at all. He’s a very misunderstood man.” Every character who has been subjected to one of his many insults might not necessarily agree, but hey, to each their own. [Read More]

Brno in Fake-Prostitute Scandal

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  214 words  |  Elina Uphoff

First there was his rehearsed-in-advanced crotch attack on Eminem at the MTV awards. Then Monday we found out the baby in Brüno’s hot-tub sex scene was added digitally. Today, in a probable first in major-studio promotional stuntery, Sacha Baron Cohen made an in-character appearance at the grand opening of a male brothel in Amersterdam — surrounded by fake male prostitutes. “For too long, guys coming here from around the world have been forced to have sex with women,” he told the assembled crowd in front of the building. [Read More]

Bryan Cranston and Your Other Faves Are Standing by for Your Call on The Late Shows Celeb Hotline

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  137 words  |  Zora Stowers

If you can put down your hoagie for two goddamn seconds, and lord knows you can’t, then pick up the phone with those mayo-covered hands of yours and dial The Late Show’s Celebrity Chat Line. The actual hotline, which you can reach at 1-844-600-LATE, will connect you with any number of breathy pre-recorded messages from a host of celebrities or, if two calls suggest a pattern, just Tituss Burgess. While the parody video plays on the titillating prospect of hearing behind-the-scenes dirt from your favorite stars in a comically sexy fashion, the truth is you could actually masturbate to it, if you really wanted to. [Read More]