It became quite clear early on thatRidley Scott’sHouse of Gucciwould generate hype and chatter after its much-anticipated premiere on November 25. However, not every voice had praise for the finished product. Widely-renowned fashion designerTom Ford, who also served as creative director for the House and was playedReeve Carneyin the film, was incredibly outspoken in his criticisms of Scott’s motion picture. Ford is not your everyday critic or any outsider looking in....

Jim Jarmuschcan take the most generic tropes of film and put his own magically unique twist on them. His 2019 movieThe Dead Don’t Dieis a bit of an outlier. Jarmusch is widely regarded as the king ofindependent film, so getting a star-studded ensemble that includes A-listers likeBill Murray,Adam Driver,Tilda Swinton, with cameos byDune: Part Two’sFeyd-Rautha Harkonnenhimself,Austin Butler, withSteve Buscemi,Selena Gomez, Carol Kane,andDanny Glovermakes this a very different project for the director....

In the latest episode ofLast Week Tonight,John Olivertalks about how drug overdoses in the U.S. have been rising and what could be done to prevent that. This weekend, the late-night show aired concurrently with the Academy Awards broadcast — and for those who missed the show, it is worth going back to watch. Oliver puts forth a solid argument about what can be done to mitigate the harm caused by recreational drug use....

Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for House of the Dragon Season 2 Episode 1 and some spoilers for the book Fire & Blood. The House of the DragonSeason 2 premiere saw the return of many iconic characters, like Daemon (Matt Smith) and Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy). Still, it also introduced some new players to theGame of Thronesuniverse. Lord Cregan Stark (Tom Taylor), along withHugh Hammer(Kieran Bew) and thelong-awaited Blood (Sam C....

[This is a repost of myWhose Streets?review from the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. The movie opens in limited release on August 11th.] I chose, maybe fittingly, to start off the 2017 Sundance Film Festival with a “depressing documentary double feature” ofAn Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Powerand the Ferguson docWhose Streets?To add insult to injury, I saw both of these films on the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration, and I’m writing this review as Trump is being sworn in as the 45th president of the United States....

We finally know whenFamily Guywill be making its way back to the screen. Fox has announced that the acclaimed animated comedy series will return on May 29 at 9 PM. The summer schedule might seem unusual for long-time fans, but this is only due to live sports taking over Sunday nights for the season. The Griffin family will be seen on Thursdays in the meantime. Once the major sports seasons are over, animated comedies will return to the spot on the schedule they have held over the course of many years....

Episode 5 ofThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s final season picks up right where it left things with the premiere—with another jarring jump into the future. While it feels like these time jumps were designed to provide fans with some degree of closure, they end up delivering more dread than joy. In fact, they essentially derail the episode right from the get-go, which is unfortunate, especially when “The Pirate Queen” is a fairly fun episode....

AndorSeason 2 is set to arrive on Disney+ tomorrow, but early reviews for the series are already pouring in. After the first season ofAndorwas universally lauded as one of the bestStar Warsprojects ever, fans everywhere have been on pins and needles waiting to see how Season 2 follows it up. Now, enoughearly reviewshave come in thatAndorhas been given a strong 97% rating onRotten Tomatoes, even higher than the 96% score earned by its preceding season....

Desert Roadtakes its title from its single, solitary setting: a stretch of dusty highway running through the middle of nowhere California. There are a couple of points of interest — a small gas station that’s almost certainly the last pit stop for a hundred miles and a fenced-off factory where laborers toil away deep inside making god knows what — but otherwise it’s nothing but barren landscapes on either side of the road, with sand dunes stretching as far as the eye can see....

You know it’s the spooky season whenMike Flanaganreturns for another round offantastic storytelling. While we’ve loved his feature-length projects likeOculus,Hush, andDoctor Sleep, the critically acclaimed filmmaker raked in an entirely new set of fans when he began teaming up with Netflix on a handful of horror series. What started with 2018’sThe Haunting of Hill Househas turned into an (almost) yearly churning out of jump-scare-filled bingeable episodic installments. This year, Flanagan is setting his sights on an adaptation ofEdgar Allan Poe’sThe Fall of the House of Usher....

June 2 officially marked a changing of the guard atNBC Nightly Newsafter long-time anchorLester Holthanded the reins over toTom Llamas. In the wake of the seismic shift in news, the ratings for the new host are in, and it’s been a mixed bag so far. For his first few shows settling in, Llamas came in behindABC’s ever-dominantWorld News Tonight with David Muir, which topped both it andCBS Evening Newson the charts per TV Insider....

AsStar Warsnext Disney+ series,The Acolyte, inches closer to release, another upcoming show set in a Galaxy Far, Far Away just got an exciting new update. DirectorJon Wattsrevealed during an interview at CCXP thatSkeleton Crewwill be released on Disney+ around Christmas. It’s been a packed year forStar Warsseries, withThe Bad Batchrecently airing itsseries finale, andThe Acolyteset to premiere its first two episodes on June 4. The franchise may have taken a break from the big screen followingThe Rise of Skywalker, but it’s showing no sign of slowing down in the television department....

Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for X-Men ‘97. WithX-Men ‘97, Marvel’s favorite mutants have found a new lease on life. TheX-Men: The Animated Seriesrevival has pushed these heroes back into the limelight where they belong, just in time for the upcomingDeadpool & Wolverine. Restoring one of the most classic iterations of the team to their prime, we can’t help but be ecstatic at the idea of more X-Men stories going forward....