You don’t need to be a perfect show to produce a perfect scene – and tonight episode ofThe Deuce(titled “What Kind of Bad?”) proved it. The problems that keep David Simon and George Pelecanos’s behemoth of a period piece from reaching escape velocity are all still there, to be sure. …
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Two brothers (Owen Wilson, Ed Helms) find out that the father they thought was dead may actually be alive, so they set out to find him in the upcoming comedy movie,Father Figures. But their quest leads to discovering more about their mother Helen Baxter (Glenn Close) than they ever wanted …
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Daniel Dae Kim found a semblance of redemption this week after Variety reported that he is in talks to join the cast of the upcoming Hellboy reboot, taking Ed Skrein’s place as Major Ben Aimio. Skrein dropped out of the film project last month amid claims that the film was …
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For the past 15 years, ABC’s The Bachelor franchise has beguiled America with its blend of sponsored fantasy and structured reality, while also being glaringly white. At best, its relationship with race has been noncommital and, at worst, toxic. If people of color do make it past casting – some …
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