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‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Review: ‘The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not For The Lamb’s Cry’ – Or, Why Does Everyone On This Ship Hate Each Other? In this week’s episode ofStar Trek:Discovery,aptly-titled “The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry,” the unofficial theme was definitely “Who’s got it worse?” Because there were plenty of losers in this episode. The most definite loser — aside from the poor folks who died in the space mines—was the poor mega-tardigrade....

‘Summer Of ‘84’ Trailer: What If ‘Stranger Things’ Had To Deal With A Serial Killer? The 2018 Sundance Film Festival is nearly upon us, and we’ll soon have coverage of the newest indie movies on the scene making their debut in the mountains of Park City, Utah. One of our more anticipated movies in the line-up has just debuted an awesome new teaser trailer. Summer of ‘84is the latest film fromRKSS(orFrançois Simard, Anouk Whissell, andYoann-Karl Whissell), the filmmakers behind the cult favoriteTurbo Kid, and the first teaser trailer paints a picture that is clearly going for aStranger Thingsvibe, but with a little more of a sinister style....

‘The Deuce’ Review: Episode 5 Asks ‘What Kind Of Bad?’ (We’re going to kickstart our weekly discussion of HBO’sThe Deuceby answering one simple question: who or what is the “best bet” in this week’s episode?) A lot of this week’s episode ofThe Deuceis set-up for what’s to come later on. Luckily,The Deuceisn’t the kind of show for which that’s an indictment. We’ve spent enough time with these characters by now that even set-up is rewarding, and it helps that the cast is dynamite through and through....

‘The Meyerowitz Stories’ Trailer Gives Adam Sandler An Excuse To Act Again Every once in a while,Adam Sandlerdecides to stop making paid vacations disguised as movies and turn in a genuinely good performance. The best example is his work in Paul Thomas Anderson’sPunch-Drunk Love, which proved Sandler could turn his short-tempered man-child routine into something genuinely compelling. Now Sandler is at it again withNoah Baumbach’sThe Meyerowitz Stories. Baumbach has surrounded Sandler with quite a cast, and you get a better glimpse of them all, as well as Sandler’s performance, in the newThe Meyerowitz Storiestrailer....

‘Villains’ Trailer: Bill Skarsgärd And Maika Monroe Broke Into The Wrong House A young couple (It’sBill SkarsgärdandIt Follows’Maika Monroe) robs a gas station and scores enough cash to start a new life in Florida, but wouldn’t you know it: their getaway car runs out of gas. When they break into a fancy house looking for another vehicle to take them the rest of the way, they end up stumbling on much more than they bargained for in the new thrillerVillains....

‘When The Bough Breaks’ Trailer: Morris Chestnut Fights To Get His Baby Back Screen Gems likes being in theMorris Chestnutbusiness. Back in 2014, the actor signed a three-picture deal with Sony’s Screen Gems. Their last picture headlined by Chestnut,The Perfect Guy, made close to $60 million at the box office, which isn’t too shabby for a movie that cost $12 million. Understandably, the studio wants this collaboration to keep going. Their newest thriller,When the Bough Breaks, is both executive produced by and stars Chestnut....

Ben Affleck Open To Reuniting With Kevin Smith For ‘Jay And Silent Bob Reboot’, But It Might Be Too Late This month,Kevin Smithhas been busy shootingJay and Silent Bob Reboot. The film will act as a reboot/remake/sequel toJay and Silent Bob Strike Back, but as we’ve seen invarious set photo revelationsandproduction diaries, this is also a way for Kevin Smith to revisit his old movies and friends from the View Askewniverse (includingClerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma,andClerks II)....

Best Stories Of The Week: Jurassic World, Halloween, Inside Out, Maleficent 2 And More If you’re not too distracted by the little voices inside your head from this weekend’s release of Pixar’sInside Out, then it’s time to catch up on some entertainment news with theBest Stories of the Week. This time we’ve got updates on Fox’s mutant spin-offGambitwithChanning Tatum, development ofPitch Perfect 3, casting forStar Wars: Rogue OneandFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Themand new details on theGhostbustersreboot....

Casting Notes: Gael Garcia Bernal, Josh Lucas And LeBron James Join New Projects Huh? LeBron James? Yeah, you read that right. Today might be the slowest news day I can remember in 2009, I’m still not going to break each of these into their own story. Because how much do you really need to know about romances and fantasy basketball movies? Exactly this much. Not sure we’ve mentionedEarthboundbefore; it’s the film whereKate Hudson, as a terminally ill patient, falls for her doctor....

Chadwick Boseman Hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’ With Cardi B As Musical Guest The king of Wakanda is coming to Studio 8H. On this weekend’s episode ofSaturday Night Live, NBC announced thatChadwick Boseman, the star of Marvel Studios’mega-hitBlack Panther, is going to host the live sketch show for the first time onApril 7, 2018. Read on to find out who will be joining as that episode’s musical guest. Chadwick Boseman Hosting Saturday Night Live After the announcement was made during the most recent episode ofSNL, Boseman excitedly tweeted it out to his fans:...

Cobra Kai Season 4 Landed That Major Cameo Due To Some Fangirl Tweets There areSPOILERSahead for “Cobra Kai” season 4, so be prepared. I will show you no mercy! “Cobra Kai” is known for its cameos. Throughout the Netflix series' four seasons, we’ve had appearances from most of the big names from the movies. Some of them have moved the plot along and become main characters like Thomas Ian Griffith’s Terry Silver, while others have come and gone like Elisabeth Shue’s Ali Mills Schwarber and Tamlyn Tomita’s Kumiko....

Disney Announces 2009 Release Schedule Last weekParamountandFoxannounced major post-writers strike schedule shuffles. I speculated that because of ‘the rule of threes’, that one more studio would announce a reshuffled calendar by Friday. And here we are on Wednesday, with a bunch of new dates from Disney. Let’s take a look at the new Disney schedule: The big screen adaptation of the popular video gamePrince of Persia: The Sands of Time, has been moved forward from mid-June to July 10th 2009....

Disney’s Spider-Man Plans Might Face Trouble Thanks To The U.S. Supreme Court “Spider-Man: No Way Home” is coming off arecord-breaking opening weekend, which has some people hoping this forestalls the demise of theaters and others just hoping for more Spider-Man movies. What makes the latter hope potentially more complicated is the ongoing copyright battle over the rights to some big-gun Marvel characters, including Spidey and Doctor Strange — both of whom appear in “No Way Home” — and Avengers like Iron Man and Thor....