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Friends arrived in the 1990s to change the sitcom genre and has an incomparable legacy, but it was almost sued due to how similar it is to a 1992 rom-com with 79% on Rotten Tomatoes. The 1990s is home to some of the most memorable and successful sitcoms, all of them offering something unique and fun. Friends premiered on NBC in 1994 and became one of the most successful TV shows ever, running for a total of 10 seasons and ending in 2004. Friends broke various records and continues to be regarded as one of the greatest TV shows ever made.

The concept of Friends is simple, but was very effective as it deeply connected with the audience: six friends with different personalities, goals, and backgrounds navigate adulthood together. Throughout 10 seasons, Monica (Courteney Cox), Chandler (Matthew Perry), Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow), Joey (Matt LeBlanc), Rachel (Jennifer Aniston), and Ross (David Schwimmer) won the audience over with...

Glassman's final storyline on The Good Doctor hits hard due to his daughter's tragic story mirroring his patient's. The emotional impact of Glassman's character is heightened by his real-life daughter playing a key role in the show. Schiff and Kelley's powerful performances add an extra layer of intensity and emotion to The Good Doctor's final episodes.

Glassman's final story on The Good Doctor packs even more of an emotional punch because of a behind-the-scenes fact. Dr, Aaron Glassman (Richard Schiff) has been Shaun's mentor and surrogate father since The Good Doctor began. Throughout the series' seven-season run, Glassman has had many emotional stories, including his battle with brain cancer during season 1 and a rift between him and Shaun during season 6 after Shaun's interference demonstrated that Glassman was no longer capable of performing surgery. The Good Doctor is ending after season 7 but has given Glassman one final story.

In the 1995 movie "Waterworld," Kevin Costner was the draw in more ways than one. To much of the audience, he was still the glamorous movie star who had managed to pull off a blockbuster "Robin Hood" movie despite his inability to successfully nail an English accent. To others, he seemed like he might be a potential trainwreck on the verge of derailment. "Waterworld" had fallen victim to many behind-the-scenes tales of sinking sets, director fights, and Costner rewriting the script to make himself look better. Ultimately, for one reason or another, enough people were curious about the film that it turned a profit. However difficult he may have been behind the scenes, the star turned out to still have it.

Within the movie, however, the person everyone wants to see is Enola, a nine year-old girl whose back tattoo features an encoded map to the last bit of dry land on a post-climate change world.

All 172 episodes of the classic ’80s legal drama L.A. Law, created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, will be available to stream on Hulu on November 3.

All original commercial licensed music was kept intact and upgraded. The episdodes have also been newly remastered by Disney in HD with 16:9 aspect ratio from the original film source,

L.A. Law is a one-hour drama detailing the intertwined personal and private lives of the employees of Los Angeles law firm McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney & Kuzak. The long-running and popular series was the recipient of numerous awards, including five Emmy Awards and seven more nominations, as well as four Golden Globe Awards and five more nominations.

The cast included Harry Hamlin, Jill Eikenberry, Michele Greene, Alan Rachins, Jimmy Smits, Michael Tucker, Richard Dysart, Corbin Bernsen, Susan Dey, Susan Ruttan, Blair Underwood, Larry Drake, Amanda Donohoe, John Spencer, Cecil Hoffman, Sheila Kelley, Conchata Ferrell, A. Martinez,...

Classic ’80s legal drama “L.A. Law” is coming to Hulu — with an upgrade.

All eight seasons of the show, comprising 172 episodes total, have been newly remastered by Disney in HD with 16:9 aspect ratio from the original film source for streaming on Hulu. “L.A. Law” will be available on Hulu starting Nov. 3. According to Hulu, all original commercial licensed music was kept intact and also upgraded.

Hulu, which is majority owned by Disney, does not have exclusive streaming rights to “L.A. Law”; the eight seasons of the show also are currently available on Amazon’s Prime Video.

“L.A. Law” originally aired from 1986-1994 on NBC. The show stars Harry Hamlin, Jimmy Smits, Blair Underwood and Susan Dey among the ensemble cast that also includes Jill Eikenberry, Michele Greene, Alan Rachins, Michael Tucker, Richard Dysart, Corbin Bernsen, Susan Ruttan, Larry Drake, Amanda Donohoe, John Spencer, Cecil Hoffman, Sheila Kelley, Conchata Ferrell,...

Favorite director Bill Forsyth lends his knack for droll understatement to a screenplay by John Sayles, a crime tale that opts for keen character study and doesn’t stretch credibility. Burt Reynolds has a gem of a role as a career burglar doing his bit for the next generation, showing a ‘new guy’ the ins and outs of thievery; Casey Siemaszko is his thick-headed but resolutely faithful assistant on several outrageous heists. The criminal life almost doesn’t seem too terrible — except for the going-to-prison part. The disc commentary with Forsyth and Sayles is a great listen.

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Welcome back to a new Let’s Scare Bryan to Death! This month we’re talking to Lindsay Traves, a horror/Batman/lotsa stuff expert who has bylines all over town, including Comics Gaming Magazine, Bloody Disgusting, Grim Journal, and of course right here at Daily Dead. She’s also stepped into co-hosting duties for The Pod and the Pendulum, a “weekly podcast covering every horror movie franchise, one movie and one episode at a time.”

For this month’s movie, Traves finally got me to dive into a film with a rabid following and a Gif that serves as Thirst Twitter’s answer to “do you read Sutter Cane?” I’m talking, of course, about Adam Wingard’s 2014 action/slasher hybrid, The Guest. The film follows a mysterious soldier named David (Dan Stevens), who shows up at the doorstep of the Peterson family claiming to be a friend of their late son Caleb,...

Nadia Mitri says it was her experience on the dance floor in a Hawaii hotel ballroom with a veteran Hollywood actress that led to the darkest interlude of her life.

In 2015, at a wellness retreat in Kona, Mitri danced to Damien Rice’s “Cheers Darlin’ ” for Sheila Kelley, a self-styled “feminine embodiment leader” who has acted in L.A. Law, Gossip Girl and Lost and in 2001 opened the pole dancing fitness studio S Factor. A hundred women, who like Mitri had paid several thousand dollars to spend five days under Kelley’s guidance, watched the pair.

By Mitri’...

Nadia Mitri says it was her experience on the dance floor in a Hawaii hotel ballroom with a veteran Hollywood actress that led to the darkest interlude of her life.

In 2015, at a wellness retreat in Kona, Mitri danced to Damien Rice’s “Cheers Darlin’ ” for Sheila Kelley, a self-styled “feminine embodiment leader” who has acted in L.A. Law, Gossip Girl and Lost and in 2001 opened the pole dancing fitness studio S Factor. A hundred women, who like Mitri had paid several thousand dollars to spend five days under Kelley’s guidance, watched the pair.

By Mitri’...

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about dozens of shows including Master of None, NCIS: Los Angeles, Chicago Fire and The Handmaid’s Tale!

1 | Is one of SNL Season 46’s legacies that it made some very questionable calls about which sketches to “cut for time”? Such as Anya Taylor-Joy being pitched wonderfully absurd Queen’s Gambit sketch ideas?

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Warning: The following contains spoilers from the May 24 episode of The Good Doctor.

The Good Doctor‘s mentor is heading to divorce court.

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During Monday’s episode of the ABC medical drama, Glassman’s wife Debbie (played by Richard Schiff’s real-life spouse Sheila Kelley) called it quits — less than two years after they got married.

The third-to-last episode of Season 4 saw Glassman return home from...

In “Strip Down, Rise Up,” an attendee of S Factor’s beginning pole dance course admits to her fellow students that the class is nothing like what she thought it would be. “When I showed up, I wasn’t scared,” the woman tells those gathered in a circle. “Now I’m a little scared.” In her welcoming remarks, S Factor founder Sheila Kelley promised that might happen. Whether Amber, the pert, fit newbie, will stick with the L.A. studio’s six-month course remains to be seen.

She’s right, though. The class at the heart of “Strip Down, Rise Up,” upends expectations. So does director-producer Michèle Ohayon’s cinema verité movie. Debuting on Netflix, the doc is poignant, surprising and deftly reawakens questions about “patriarchy” — not by being a pole-dancing polemic but by foregrounding its characters’ experiences.

The strip club and its pole have become a de rigueur gesture in U.

The new original documentary feature "Strip Down, Rise Up", directed by Michèle Ohayon, features Sheila Kelley, Amy Bond, Jenyne Butterfly, Patricia Buck and Evelyn Oshita as "...women who come together to heal through sensual movement, specifically pole dance", with music from Coldplay, streaming February 5, 2021 on Netflix:

"...the vérité-style film follows a diverse group of women of all ages, ethnic backgrounds and body types, who reclaim themselves through pole dance either as a sport, an art, or as a way of unlocking their body in order to heal from trauma, release shame and restore self acceptance. 

"Shot by an all-female crew with rare access, 'Strip Down Rise Up", offers an emotionally gratifying, visually astounding and unexpected look at the fascinating behind-the-scenes world of pole artistry and expression..."

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The Good Doctor‘s Sheila Kelley dabbles in a very different kind of healing as one of the central figures in Strip Down, Rise Up, Netflix’s upcoming documentary about the restorative power of pole dance.

Premiering Friday, Feb. 5, and directed by Academy Award–nominated director/producer Michèle Ohayon, the vérité-style film follows a diverse group of women of all ages, ethnic backgrounds and body types, who reclaim themselves through pole dance either as a sport, an art, or as a way of unlocking their body — in order to heal from trauma, release shame and restore self acceptance.

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A week after he was released from the hospital for Covid-19, The Good Actor and The West Wing actor Richard Schiff used his personal experience as a warning.

“You don’t want this,” Schiff said, speaking to fellow The West Wing actor, Lawrence O’Donnell on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.

On November 3, Schiff and his wife Sheila Kelley revealed that they had tested positive for the coronavirus. Schiff was hospitalized for the infectious disease less than two weeks after his diagnosis.

The actor clarified on the The Last Word that he did not receive the virus while working on The Good Doctor set in Vancouver. He noted that despite all his and his wife’s vigilant effort to keep themselves safe from the infectious disease, he contracted Covid-19.

“It’s like trying to walk away from the sun,” he said. “It seems to be everywhere.”

He explained to...

2nd Update, Thursday, 3:15 Pm: A day after he was taken off oxygen, The Good Doctor star Richard Schiff has been discharged from the hospital where he underwent treatment for Covid-19.

“I’m aware of how lucky I am. So many still struggling,” Schiff wrote on Twitter, thanking the nurses and doctors who cared for him at the hospital as well as everyone who sent him well-wishes over the past week.

Covid update.

Released from hospital. As we speak. @thesheilakelley picking me up. I’m so grateful for all the love and support. It’s overwhelmingly moving and touches me deeply. Thanks to fantastic nurses and docs. I’m aware of how lucky I am. So many still struggling.

Love! https://t.co/wTYFDrTCQz

— Richard Schiff (@Richard_Schiff) November 19, 2020

Update, Wednesday 3 Pm: The Good Doctor star Richard Schiff, who was hospitalized last week and treated with Remdesivir, oxygen and steroids,...

Los Angeles, Nov 17 (Ians) Actor Richard Schiff, known for shows such as The Good Doctor and The West Wing, has revealed that he has been hospitalised for Covid-19, and assured fans that he is showing improvement every day.

Schiff had first tweeted on November 10 that he and his wife, Sheila Kelley, who has a recurring role on The Good Doctor, had tested positive for the virus on Election Day, November 3.

Quoting his November 10 post, Schiff tweeted on Monday: "Covid update. Thank you all for so much love and support. You're making it so much easier for @thesheilakelley and me. I am in the hospital on Remdesivir, O2 and steroids showing some improvement every day. Sheila is home and doing better but still fairly ill. Love you all."

Meanwhile, variety.com reported that production of The Good Doctor has continued in Vancouver. The shoot schedule has been adjusted in the absence of Schiff and Kelley.

“The Good Doctor” and “West Wing” star Richard Schiff revealed on Monday that he has been hospitalized for Covid-19, but maintained that he is “showing some improvement every day.”

Schiff had previously tweeted on Nov. 10 that he and his wife, Sheila Kelley — who also has a recurring role on “The Good Doctor” — had tested positive for the virus on Election Day, Nov. 3.

On Monday, in a tweet quoting his Nov. 10 post, Schiff wrote: “Covid update. Thank you all for so much love and support. You’re making it so much easier for @thesheilakelley and me. I am in the hospital on Remdesivir, O2 and steroids showing some improvement every day. Sheila is home and doing better but still fairly ill. Love you all.”

Covid update.

Thank you all for so much love and support. You’re making it so much easier for @thesheilakelley and me.

I am in the hospital on Remdesivir,...

One week after going public with his Covid-19 battle, The Good Doctor‘s Richard Schiff is offering a guardedly optimistic update on his recovery.

“Thank you all for so much love and support,” the actor tweeted early Monday. “I am in the hospital on Remdesivir, O2 and steroids, [and] showing some improvement every day.”

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Two stars of ABC's The Good Doctor have tested positive for Covid-19.

Richard Schiff announced Tuesday that he tested positive for the virus on Election Day.

He also announced that his wife, Sheila Kelley, has also tested positive.

"This has been the most bizarre week of our lives," Schiff, who plays Aaron Glassman, wrote on Twitter.

"This is tough. We are determined to find a way to health again. We root for everyone out there who are struggling with this thing. Love from here."

Kelley, who also stars on the series as Debbie Wexler, opened up about the pair being diagnosed via Instagram.

"Richard and I have some news. We have both tested positive for Covid-19," she shared.

"We‘re quarantined in our home in Vancouver, recovering. This virus is a slippery sucker," she detailed.

"One minute you feel almost fine and the next you can’t catch your breath.

Richard Schiff, star of ABC’s The Good Doctor, and his wife, actress Sheila Kelley, who is recurring on the ABC medical drama, have tested positive for Covid-19, the two revealed on social media Tuesday.

Schiff said that his positive result came a week ago, on November 3.

“We‘re quarantined in our home in Vancouver, recovering,” Kelley wrote.

According to sources, production on The Good Doctor in Vancouver has continued while Schiff and Kelley are self-isolating, with the filming schedule reworked to accommodate their temporary absence.

The duo are believed to have contracted the virus outside of work; an on-set Covid transmission automatically triggers a production shutdown.

Both Schiff and Kelley spoke of the toll fighting Covid-19 is taking on them.

“This virus is a slippery sucker,” Kelley wrote. “One minute you feel almost fine and the next you can’t catch your breath. Symptoms change radically daily even hourly.

The Good Doctor‘s Richard Schiff announced late Tuesday that he has tested positive for Covid-19. The actor’s wife, Sheila Kelley — who co-stars on the ABC drama as the spouse of Schiff’s Dr. Glassman — has similarly tested positive.

“On Election Day I tested positive for Covid-19,” Schiff revealed on Twitter. “This has been the most bizarre week of our lives. Sheila Kelley is also positive. This is tough. We are determined to find a way to health again. We root for everyone out there who are struggling with this thing. Love from here.”

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Spoiler Alert: This article contains details from tonight’s episode of ABC’s The Good Doctor.

In The Good Doctor’s two-part Season 4 opener, the residents of St. Bonaventure Hospital are thrust onto the “Frontline” of the coronavirus pandemic.

Spanning a number of months, the episodes pick up early in 2020, when little was known about Covid-19, watching as the virus comes to meet San Jose with deadly force. “This episode of The Good Doctor is a made-up story about a real battle still being fought,” the opening title cards read. “Honor the heroes … many of whom have given their lives. Do your part. Wear a mask.”

Premiering tonight, “Frontline, Part 1” examines the exhaustion, stress and frustration that comes with working on the front lines of a pandemic. While Dr. Lim (Christina Chang) struggles to produce the Covid tests, PPE and other medical supplies needed to confront the health crisis, Dr.

The Good Doctor Season 4 has yet to begin, but we're already worried about our favorite characters.

ABC has dropped the first plot details for The Good Doctor Season 4, and it sounds like an emotional season for all of the characters.

The season premiere is a two-parter according to the network, and it finds the characters facing the global pandemic called Covid-19.

"Dr. Shaun Murphy treats a patient with an illness that is not only unpredictable in nature, but also unlike anything he or the team at San Jose St. Bonaventure has ever seen before, reads the logline for the November 2 premiere.

"As safety protocols and quarantines increase due to the global pandemic, Lea and Shaun’s new relationship will become tested," the synopsis continues.

If you watch The Good Doctor online, you know Will Yun Lee's Alex Park was gearing up to exit the hospital on The Good Doctor Season 3.

Unfortunately for fans,...

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Hey,"The Good Doctor" fans. We are back with a brand new set of spoiler teasers for you guys in this article. ABC was very kind with their latest press release for the next, new episode 9. We've got a couple of episode 9 teaser descriptions from it. So, we're going to run them by you right now. Oh, we also have some new preview photos for episode 9. We'll go over those with you, and as always, we'll give you a link to them. So, let's get started. The brand new episode 9 has been given the official title, "Incomplete." Yep, they made it nice, short and to the point. It sounds like episode 9 will feature some very dramatic, emotional and super intense scenes as Shaun continues to struggle with intimacy issues and another personal issue! A life or death decision has to be made and more! We'll go ahead and start off...

Hey, "The Good Doctor" fans. We hope you guys enjoyed last night's episode 6 which finally aired after having a one-week delay. Now , we are back at you with the brand new spoiler scoops for next week's episode 7. Thanks to ABC, we've got a couple of teaser descriptions for episode 7 via ABC's press release. We've also got a couple of preview photos and a new preview clip for episode 7. So, let's get into it right now. To start, episode 7 has an official title. It is called, "Sfad." So, that's a really simple, four-letter title. It sounds like episode 7 will feature some very interesting, dramatic and intense scenes as Dr. Shaun Murphy discovers a unique ability he has with one of the patients. A couple of the doctors work on a kid that's about to lose his sight. Dr.Melendez and Dr. Audrey develop major tension and more! We'll go head and...

Hey, "The Good Doctor" fans. We have some very unfortunate news for you guys tonight. For some unknown reason, ABC has apparently decided not to air the new episode 6 of your favorite show tonight, October 28, 2019. To be honest,it will probably always be a mystery why they're not airing it. Although we do have our theories, none of them can be officially confirmed. What's important,now, is that we tell you when the new episode 6 will air. We're happy to tell you that it will be delayed for just one week. So, episode 6 will indeed air next Monday night, November 4, 2019 at approximately 9 pm central standard time right after "Dancing With The Stars" on ABC. So, be sure to mark down that very important date on your TV show calendars. What is ABC airing instead of "The Good Doctor" tonight? According to the TV Guide listings, ABC is actually airing "The Good Doctor.

Hey, "The Good Doctor" fans. We hope you guys enjoyed tonight's 4th episode of this current 3rd season. Now that it's all wrapped up and in the history books, it's time to see what next week's brand new episode 5 will deliver. Thanks to the awesome ABC folks, we do have a few teaser descriptions to tell you about via their episode 5 press release. So, let's dive right on in. For starters, next week's new episode 5 is officially named/titled, "First Case, Second Base." It sounds like episode 5 will feature some pretty interesting scenes as Dr. Shaun Murphy finally gets assigned his first surgery! Claire keeps avoiding emotions about her mother. Morgan and Claire find lots of doubts with a certain patient and more. We'll go ahead and start off this spoiler session with the Dr.Shaun Murphy first surgery situation. It turns out that this will certainly be a big episode for Shaun.

It's a The Good Doctor wedding and E! News has your exclusive first look. In the sneak peek photos below Dr. Aaron Glassman (Richard Schiff) takes a walk down the aisle with Debbie Wexler (Sheila Kelley) and Dr. Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore) is right there with him. To make this blessed event even better? Kelley and Schiff are married in real life. "This year I get to work a lot more with my real-life wife, Shelia Kelley, and I'm loving that," Schiff told E! News about the new season. The two previously worked together on Santa Fe, but weren't in the same scene, and in an AFI film years ago. "I love it," Schiff said about working with Kelley. "She's such a good...

“The most enjoyable moment was when I proposed to Debbie, played by my wife Sheila Kelley,” admits Richard Schiff of his work on “The Good Doctor.” Watch our exclusive video interview above where he adds, “We got to play the proposal scene all over again and (showrunner) David Shore was kind enough to let me rework that a little bit. My wife loves it whenever I pay attention to her. So when I pay attention to her on camera with that kind of intensity she was very pleased. There was a beautiful intensity that Sheila and I brought to that scene. She’s so alive in her acting. I adore working with her.”

ABC’s “The Good Doctor” tells the story of Dr. Shaun Murphy, played by Golden Globe nominee Freddie Highmore. He’s a surgical resident with autism at the San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital. The series was developed...

[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for “The Good Doctor” Season 2, Episode 18, “Trampoline.”]

In “The Good Doctor” Season 2 finale, two characters have made breakthroughs in how they perceive Dr. Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore), the surgical resident at St. Bonaventure Hospital who has autism and savant syndrome. Both situations demonstrate that it’s not only the responsibility of the person with autism to try and fit into society, but for neurotypical people to also understand the benefits of perceiving the world through a very specific and less conventional point of view.

In the episode, Shaun gives the rather cryptic diagnosis of “trampoline” to a patient before he himself passes out from a medical condition. Dr. Claire Browne (Antonia Thomas) insists on standing in the same spot, at the same height in the hospital room as Shaun, hoping to understand what he meant to say. Oddly enough, the strategy works. She notices a symptom she had missed before and...

The Good Doctor Season 1's penultimate episode ended with a major cliffhanger, making me nervous and excited for the upcoming season finale!

On The Good Doctor Season 1 Episode 17, Shaun does not understand why a patient with facial paralysis wants to risk her life so she can finally smile. Meanwhile, Jared works with a patient he once treated for burns, and Shaun sets Dr. Glassman up on a date.

After talking with Dr. Andrews, Shaun went around smiling at people to see if it released endorphins. While the smile was quite unsettling, as Jared said, it was nice to see Shaun putting forth the effort.

Recently, we have seen Shaun research various things that he does not understand because of his autism.

Do you want to be a comedian? People getting your jokes must be very important to you if you think it’s worth the risk of dying during elective surgery.

Need to catch up? Check out the previous Good Doctor recap here.

This week on The Good Doctor, Jared reconnected with a former patient, while another MD suffered a major health scare.

The aforementioned Dr. Kalu was delighted to see Celeste, the woman whose third-degree burns previously took away most of her skin. At the time, the doctor applied tilapia scales as part of an experimental procedure that would allow her real skin to grow back over time. Five months later, she was back for a consult, and there was an obvious attraction between the patient and her physician.

Jared...

Shaun hopes to make a love connection during Monday’s penultimate Season 1 episode of The Good Doctor (ABC, 10/9c).

TVLine has your exclusive first look at the uncomfortable encounter, as Shaun attempts to set up Dr. Glassman with cafeteria barista Debbi (played by Lost vet Sheila Kelley, aka Richard Schiff’s real-life significant other).

“Debbi, you flirted with Dr. Glassman,” Shaun says to the unsuspecting counter girl. “I have a new friend, and he needs one, too.” He then pushes the hospital head towards Debbi, touting that her facial proportions are “close to optimal… and you should find her attractive.

By the time Cameron Crowe made Singles in 1992, the 35-year-old director was already a decade into his career's second act. A former journalist for Rolling Stone, he'd pivoted towards the movies after adapting his book about going undercover at a Los Angeles high school – Fast Times at Ridgemont High – for the screen in 1982. And his directorial debut, Say Anything... (1989), proved that he had a knack for capturing teen spirit.

Crowe, however, wanted his audience to grow up with him, so for his follow-up movie, he turned his attention to twentysomethings.

Melissa McCarthy is truly a gift to us all. And now, thanks to her work as Sean Spicer on the past season of Saturday Night Live, the comedic genius just nabbed this year’s outstanding guest actress in a comedy series Emmy.

These quick-and-beautiful McCarthy moments below are guaranteed to provide you with your daily fix of the giggles, and make you love the star even more than you already do (if that’s possible).

1. Her Sean Spicer impression.

In February, the funnywoman made a surprise Saturday Night Live appearance to deliver an uncanny portrayal of now-resigned White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer.

Stars: Martin Short, Danny Glover, Sheila Kelley, Sam Wanamaker, Scott Wilson, Harry Shearer, Jorge Russek | Written by Herschel Weingrod, Timothy Harris | Directed by Nadia Tass

Good god, it’s been what seems like a lifetime since I last saw Pure Luck. I’m not even sure it previously made the leap from VHS, where I first saw it back in the early 90s, to DVD here in the UK. Back when the film was first released both Danny Glover and Martin Short could do no wrong. Glover was riding high off the success of the Lethal Weapon franchise, scoring lead roles in Predator 2 and Flight of the Intruder; whilst Short had scored back-to-back hits with Innerspace and Three Fugitives… Well I say do no wrong, but maybe that should have read “could have” done no wrong, given the bad reception afforded this comedy…

Comedy in the early 90s was...

Hop into TV Series Finale's time machine and travel back to Monday, September 15, 1986. When L.A. Law first premiered on NBC, thirty years ago, today, viewers met the Los Angeles-based lawyers and staff of McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak. The legal drama series threaded its oddball humor throughout storylines featuring hot topics of the 1980s and '90s, including sexual harassment, gay rights, HIV, capital punishment, and abortion.L.A. Law's large ensemble cast included: Richard Dysart, Alan Rachins, Corbin Bernsen, Jill Eikenberry, Michael Tucker, Susan Ruttan, Harry Hamlin, Susan Dey, Jimmy Smits, Michele Greene, Blair Underwood, Larry Drake, and Sheila Kelly. Read More…...

Enjoying a healthy festival run after its premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, and a tour that brought it to SXSW and Toronto, Adam Wingard’s The Guest arrives on Blu-ray shortly after scoring a nod for Best Editing at the Independent Spirit Awards (though it’s unfortunate there wasn’t any room for some other awards love, such as for cinematography for Dan Stevens). Making their return to distribution, the Picturehouse folks grossed north of a quarter of a million at the box office, and the film had releases in multiple regions across the globe.

After contributing to several anthology films, including the V/H/S films and The ABCs of Death, director Wingard and screenwriter Simon Barrett return to their first feature since 2011’s You’re Next, (a film that finally hit theaters to warm reception in 2013) with The Guest. Adept talents for entertaining, tongue-in-cheek scenarios, Wingard and...

Chicago – As the classification of “cult hit” becomes a progressively mainstream notion considering the multitude of “The Room” screenings across our great nation every weekend or the universal quotability of “Troll 2,” “The Guest” arrives. It is a movie made with the degree of madness often found only at midnight, usually at film festivals, or during special events at indie movie houses like Chicago’s Music Box Theater.

And yet, through the ascending career of former Joe Swanberg collaborator Adam Wingard, it is gloriously opening without the cult following previously installed, groomed to unleash bloody hell on viewers who have set ideas either on the sweetness of “Downton Abbey” star Dan Stevens, or even what an action/horror film can currently offer.

Rating: 4.0/5.0

A contagious crux of the movie’s glee, Stevens has a visible and absurd amount of fun with his title character, a hilariously perfect cartoon of masculinity and the American war machine.

Stars: Dan Stevens, Maika Monroe, Ethan Embry, Joel David Moore, Candice Patton, Lance Reddick, Brendan Meyer, Jesse Luken | Written by Simon Barrett | Directed by Adam Wingard

You’re Next was my favourite films of last year, so I was very excited to see director Adam Wingard’s latest, The Guest. We’re introduced to the Petersons, a small-town family who lost a son in the war in the Middle East. David (Dan Stevens, apparently best known for appearing in Downton Abbey), a former member of the deceased’s squad turns up unannounced one day to pay his respects, stays the night and finds himself ingratiated into the family’s life, sticking up for the bullied younger brother, providing dad with a drinking buddy, keeping an eye out for gothy older sister and generally being very nice to mum. As you might well expect however, David is not all that he...

The Guest is a thriller that knows exactly what it wants to be. Playful, kinetic and riotously entertaining, it’s a slick throwback to the sexy, noirish actioners of generations past, a winking tribute to the films of John Carpenter and other ’80s horror directors, as soaked in blood as it is stylishly lit in colorful neon. Director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett, who so fruitfully toyed with the home invasion horror subgenre in You’re Next, have even more success tackling the action-thriller, emerging with an absolute blast of a film that could be held up as a new classic of the genre in a few years from now.

The kind of movie we’re in for is made clear from the get-go, as the title appears in bold, neon letters. We open on a man running down a country road, his movement brisk and almost robotic. There...

It's that time of the year again, when not-so-jolly critics start making those lists, checking them twice, to break down an entire year of movies in list form. Last year, I split up my year-end piece into three separate stories, Most Overrated, Most Underrated and my Top 10. This year, I'm changing things up again, ever so slightly, discarding the Overrated category entirely. It's a category I always seem to have trouble with it, and, this year, only two of my picks were wide releases, with another that hasn't even hit theaters yet. I'm also changing the Underrated list to "Overlooked," since it fits better with what I'm trying to say: that these five movies below are truly fantastic, but simply weren't given their just due in theaters.

That's not to say I'm completely surprised that this quintet is overlooked. After all, the "widest" release for all of these films was a whopping 63 theaters,...

I’ve been a fan of Adam Wingard since a friend of mine told me I needed to watch Home Sick. Good directors have a unique style that’s all their own, and is immediately recognizable to their fans; Adam Wingard’s is one of my favorite. No matter the size in scope of the story he’s telling, his films have a smaller, more personal feel to them. They tend to center around one or two characters, and never stray too far from them. It takes talent to make that kind of movie work, and Wingard nails it more times than not. You’re Next was one of my favorite movies of last year ( I didn’t get to see it until it got wide release), so my expectations for The Guest were pretty high going in. For the most part it delivered, but fell just short of being...

Soon after David arrives at the doorstep of the Peterson’s home, claiming to be a fellow solider and friend of their son who was killed while serving overseas, they benefit from his presence. But David is connected to a secretive past that could come knocking with plenty of firepower. All is not as it seems in Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett’s The Guest, coming out on home media this winter from Universal.

The Guest will come out in a Blu-ray combo pack complete with both a DVD and Digital HD copy on January 6th. We have a look at the cover art below, as well as the official press release with full details:

“Universal City, California – A mysterious stranger befriends a grieving family, but his hidden past soon puts them all in danger in the edgy, suspense film The Guest, coming to Blu-ray™ Combo Pack with DVD and...

The Guest opened in limited release last week and, after performing well, is platforming out into more theaters this weekend. The new film from director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett (You're Next, V/H/S/2, A Horrible Way to Die) is a lot of fun (as evidenced by this insanely cool trailer) and a big part of that is the swagger and southern charm that former Downton Abbey standout Dan Stevens brings to his role. He's an absolute badass here. You can get a glimpse of that in this exclusive clip of him talking about his approach to the part. Hit the jump to check out our exclusive clip for The Guest (and be sure to read Matt's review along with my interview with Wingard and Barrett). The film also stars Maika Monroe, Leland Orser, Sheila Kelley, Brendan Meyer, and Lance Reddick. The Guest is now playing and expands to additional cities this Friday,...

Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett are Fantastic Fest staples thanks to their surprise smash You're Next in 2011. The movie matched a cool, riotous attitude with a home invasion sub-genre that had been poking its head at horror audiences for years. Now they've again brought a cool, riotous attitude in droves. The Guest is more action than horror, but the edge is still there. Aided by Wingard's enormous talent for mood, an '80s vibe that isn't just pink neon and a synthesized score, and a rousing performance from Dan Stevens, The Guest delivers a sharp, swift punch to the chest of bland action and banal thrillers. Read on! Stevens plays David, a soldier just returning home from a long tour. His first stop upon returning to American soil is to the family of Caleb, a fellow soldier who died in combat and who David promised he would check in on his family.

The Guest

Written by Simon Barrett

Directed by Adam Wingard

USA, 2014

As soon as the title card interrupts an otherwise calm beginning, it’s clear that this film is going to be absolutely bonkers. More importantly, it’s going to be so much fun to watch. It delivers on that first impression and more, never letting up in its sense of genre-bending glee and always doubling down on its extremes while maintaining a level head aesthetic tension. This is a film that puts a wicked grin on the audience, similar to the wicked grin its mysterious central character sports.

The plot finds a soldier named David (Dan Stevens) appearing at the doorstep of a family and claims he was good friends with their son who died in action. They welcome him in as the whole family warms to him, but as strange murders occur across town the daughter Anna (Maika Monroe...

Films from notables Nick Cave, Kevin Smith and Terry Gilliam, and another featuring Downton Abbey vet Dan Stevens are helping fill this weekend’s box office, despite studio blockbuster debuts for The Maze Runner and This Is Where I Leave You.

In all, 14 specialty films are debuting this weekend, at the front edge of awards season and the time of year when “serious” films hit the screens left and right. We have The Guest, with Stevens; The Zero Theorem by Gilliam; Smith’s Tusk; Tracks, the latest from the producers of The King’s Speech; and Cave’s doc 20,000 Days On Earth.

And, like a TV informercial, there’s more: the doc Pump, boundary-jumper Stop The Pounding Heart; and Swim Little Fish Swim. Just to fill out the marquees, we also have Tribeca-winning doc Keep On Keepin’ On; Flamenco, Flamenco; Hector And The Search For Happiness; Iceman; Hollidaysburg; and Not Cool.