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This post contains spoilers for the whole first season of Obi-Wan Kenobi (now streaming on Disney+) and the season to date of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (now streaming on Paramount+). There’s plenty of overlap between the audiences for Star Wars and Star Trek, yet for decades the two fan …

Jennifer Lopez and Shakira‘s halftime performance at the 2020 Super Bowl became one of the most memorable shows in modern history — Sixth best on Rolling Stone‘s all-time ranking. Two years later, J.Lo is reflecting on the massive lead-up to that iconic night through her new documentary, Halftime, out on …

The Sopranos lives! Or, at least, Meadow and AJ Soprano still do, in a Super Bowl commercial helmed by none other than Sopranos creator David Chase, in which Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Robert Iler reprise their roles as Tony Soprano’s children, Meadow and AJ. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bZYqFsU72Y&t=1s The involvement of Chase (and, for …

When filmmaker Joel Coen emailed Kathryn Hunter, an actress with deep roots in Shakespeare who has taken revolutionary turns playing the lead roles in the Bard’s King Lear and Timon of Athens, and asked if she would portray “the witches” — all three of them — in his adaptation of …

Former Silicon Valley star Kumail Nanjiani would really like everyone to see his MCU debut as Kingo, an immortal superhero/Bollywood star, in November 5th’s Eternals — if only because he hopes it’ll give fans something to talk about besides how jacked he is these days. (“I don’t think the movie …

The Many Saints of Newark, the Sopranos prequel film premiering October 1st (in theaters and on HBO Max), was designed to make sense to fans of the series as well as those who’ve never seen a single frame. But given that The Sopranos is one of the greatest and most …

Marielle Heller had tried everything. She was nearly a year into her campaign to adapt The Diary of a Teenage Girl, cartoonist Phoebe Gloeckner’s semi-autobiographical graphic novel, into a play, and she was no closer to her goal. At the time, around 2007, Heller had zero writing or directing credits …

We’ve almost made it through an objectively terrible 2020 — and while you wait for this annus miserablis to finally end, there’s a lot of stuff to watch while you’re stuck at home, wishing you could be with loved ones and remembering better times. Need a holiday-centric special episode of …

Jeremy Strong is not a broken man. He comes from a good family full of empathy — his mom a hospice nurse, his father a social worker. He went to Yale and picked up tips from Daniel Day-Lewis while serving as the actor’s assistant. Strong knows what he’s doing. Professionally, …

Lin-Manuel Miranda is currently living in the past. Or maybe it’s that, at this particular moment in time, the past just seems to keep catching up with him, tapping him on the shoulder, nudging him in the ribs. The 40-year-old playwright/actor/director/producer has spent the previous week watching Hamilton — the …