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Jd Pardo as Ez Reyes in ‘Mayans M.C.’ season 5 episode 10 (Photo Cr: Prashant Gupta/FX)

FX’s Mayans M.C. season five episode 10 – the series finale – is, hands down, the best episode of the entire series. Amid all the blood and deaths, questions are answered, and dues are stamped paid. Not every character deserves their fate, but every death is, in its own way, justified.

Sons of Anarchy was Hamlet with motorcycles. Mayans M.C. is also a Shakespearean tragedy, complete with betrayals, love, loyalty, and murder.

Season five episode 10, “Slow to Bleed Fair Son,” begins with confirmation that Felipe has died. His funeral is the opening scene, with Angel (Clayton Cardenas) holding Maverick and Ez (Jd Pardo) solemnly staring straight ahead as “Were You There When They Crucified My Lord” is sung.

Sadly, the service has very few people other than Mayans in attendance. When the song ends, Angel and Ez...

Jd Pardo as Ez Reyes in ‘Mayans Mc’ season 5 episode 8 (Photo Credit: Prashant Gupta / FX)

Still haven’t recovered from FX’s Mayans M.C. season five episode seven? Neither have I. But buckle up because episode eight – “Her Blacks Crackle and Drag” – doesn’t let up. The episode finds the Mayans saying goodbye to Creeper, Angel lost without Adelita, and Hope taking drastic measures to ensure Isaac can never hurt her or Letty again.

But, most importantly, the episode’s explosive ending might spell the end of Ez’s short reign over the prisons.

Episode eight opens with Downer (Angel Oquendo) and Guero (Andrew Jacobs) transporting the dead bodies of Diaz and Jinx. Guero’s justifiably worried after killing Oakland’s president in cold blood, which forced Bishop to take out the VP. But Downer assures him the club knows why he did it. It wasn’t a smart move,...

Clayton Cardenas as Angel Reyes in ‘Mayans Mc’ season 5 episode 2 (Photo by Prashant Gupta/FX)

FX’s Mayans M.C. season five episode one ended with Creeper being repeatedly stabbed in prison. Episode two, “Lord Help My Poor Soul,” opens with Santo Padre meeting to discuss the attack. Angel (Clayton Cardenas) knows half the guards belong to Iron War, and Gilly (Vincent Vargas) believes the attack happened right after he finished visiting with Creeper.

They don’t know Creeper’s condition, but the attack was brutal.

Kate (Stella Maeve) visits Creeper (Joseph Raymond Lucero) at the hospital, where he’s handcuffed and hooked up to machines. He’s conscious and orders her to leave, and she wants to put him in protective custody. He refuses, and Kate confesses she wishes she’d never accepted this assignment. They toss insults at each other, and finally, Creeper cuts to the chase. If she wants to help him,...

"Everybody's talking about you, dude!" Disney has revealed an official trailer for a new high school sports movie called Chang Dan Dunk, the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Jing Yi Shao. The movie will be streaming on Disney+ starting in early March, which is really the ideal place for something like this to premiere." Freshman Chang is no more. Chang 2.0 is here!" Bloom Li stars as 16-year-old Asian-American Chang, who is an unpopular high schooler who loves basketball, but is always underestimated. Though his peers treat him as though he is insignificant, he becomes obsessed with learning how to slam dunk. Chang is determined to best the high school's all-star named Matt, all while hopefully winning the adoration of his romantic interest, Kristy. Also starring Ben Wang, Chase Liefeld, Eric Anthony Lopez, Nile Bullock, Zoe Renee, Mardy Ma, and Angel Oquendo as "Coach". This actually looks pretty good! Worth a watch.

Disney+ has unveiled the trailer for “Chang Can Dunk” from filmmaker Jingyi Shao, one of Variety’s “10 Directors to Watch” for 2023.

The coming-of-age sports film — which begins streaming March 10 — follows Chang (Bloom Li), an unpopular high schooler who loves basketball and Pokémon. Chang finds himself wagering a bet with the school’s all-star player, Matt (Chase Liefeld), that he will be able to make a slam dunk — in 12 weeks time.

The film also stars Zoe Renee, Ben Wang, Dexter Darden, Anthony Lopez, Nile Bullock, Mardy Ma and Angel Oquendo.

“I was really inspired by early ’90s coming-of-age films, but specifically sports-coming-of-age films like ‘Mighty Ducks,’” Shao tells Variety of his feature directorial debut.

The film examines teenage social hierarchies and family dynamics from the perspective of people of color living in communities where they’re a minority population.

“In a town where there aren’t a lot of other Asian American families,...

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official awards predictions for the upcoming Oscars and Emmys ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis; Awards Circuit Column, a weekly analysis dissecting the trends and contenders by television editor Michael Schneider (for Emmys) and Davis (for Oscars); Awards Circuit Podcast, a weekly interview series with talent and an expert roundtable discussion; and Awards Circuit Video analyzes various categories and contenders by Variety's leading awards pundits. Variety's unmatched coverage gives its readership unbeatable exposure in print and online, as well as provide inside reports on all the contenders in this year's awards season races.

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It’s only when we hit our lowest point that we’re open to the greatest change. At least, that’s how the old saying goes, and it’s one that very much applies to Lightning McQueen’s journey in Cars 3, the animated threequel from Pixar and director Brian Fee that’s booked in for release on June 16th.

Hot off the unveiling of Nathan Fillion’s suave charmer, Sterling, the Pixar Brian Trust has today lifted the tarpaulin on the new (and potentially final) Cars 3 trailer in which we find Armie Hammer’s boisterous newcomer Jackson Storm cementing his place as the hottest stock car on the circuit. However, that blistering rise to fame comes at the expense of Owen Wilson’s Lightning McQueen, who finds his once ironclad legacy hanging in the balance.

Previous Cars movies have toyed with the idea of the hotshot versus the old guard,...

It's been a long while since last we talked to you about the indie film Gold Rush, but alas! The film is nearly complete, and on tap right now we have the trailer and more!

From the Press Release

Post-production for the supernatural thriller Gold Rush is near completion. Directed by Debbie Bledsoe, terror strikes in the heart of Gold Rush Country, Northern California, when a team of modern-day paranormal experts investigate an evil presence at a collector’s estate filled with antiques from a gold mining ghost town.

The location of the film is, according to paranormal experts, authentically haunted. It’s a private property with preserved artifacts from the Gold Rush era.

"There’s no need to pretend it’s eerie here with all the dangerous mining tools: axes, picks, drills, and creepy sledgehammers. There’s real history here," said director Debbie Bledsoe. "The poker table has bullet holes.

Yes, the West was wild. If toothless, creepy 49ers panning for gold isn't enough to give you the chills, how about ghosts of toothless, creepy 49ers? The filmmakers behind the upcoming project Gold Rush are going all in to scare the bejesus out of you!

The cast of Gold Rush is full of fresh faces on the rise including Angel Oquendo ("Dexter," "House MD," Oceans 13), Kristin DeLuca ("Femme Fatales"), and William Mark McCullough (The Trials of Cate McCullough) as well as Debbie Bledsoe, Lydia Castro, Desmon Heck, Michael John Lane, Valerie Lucas, Maria Picaso, Richard Scott, Caroline Beilskis, Shelly Insheiwat, and Michael Buonomo. The film is expected to be released the beginning of 2013.

From the Press Release

Pre-production for a paranormal thriller feature film is under way, and the filmmakers are going the extra mile for authenticity. Gold Rush will begin shooting at the end of June on a 40-acre...

Chicago – In our latest edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: TV, we have 25 admit-two VIP screening passes up for grabs to the exclusive Chicago screening party for season two of the new TNT drama “Raising the Bar”. The series comes from 10-time Emmy-winning producer Steven Bochco of “L.A. Law” and “NYPD Blue”.

Winners will enjoy complimentary appetizers and an advance screening of the first episode of season two before it airs! Winners will also have the chance to win a season-one DVD of the series!

To win your free pass to the VIP “Raising the Bar” screening party in Chicago courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, all you need to do is be one of the first 25 people to submit a comment in this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup. That’s it!

The party will be held on June 4, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and immediately...

If you click on over to Bdtv you can watch the trailer and an exclusive featurette from Sony Home Entertainment's forthcoming release of Vacancy 2: The First Cut, which stars Trevor Wright, Agnes Bruckner, Lola Davidson, Angel Oquendo, David Moscow, Nelson Lee, Brian Klugman and Gwendoline Yeo. In the Eric Bross directed prequel, experience the gruesome beginnings of Mr. Smith and his homicidal obsession in this prequel to the horrifying Screen Gems film, Vacancy. When three young travelers check into a roadside motel, they soon realize that they are the prey of a psychopathic killer and his two greedy accomplices who torture and murder their guests on film for profit. You can pick this up at retailers everywhere January 20th.

If you click on over to Bdtv you can watch the trailer for Sony Home Entertainment's Vacancy 2: The First Cut, which arrives on DVD in January 20, 2009. The trailer features a lot of footage of Kate Beckinsale and Luke Wilson in the first film, setting up what would be footage from the prequel starring Agnes Bruckner, Lola Davidson, Angel Oquendo and David Moscow. YOu can also click the title above for a long synopsis and more info on the project, which I've heard turned out pretty damn chilling (I guess we'll know soon enough). When Jessica, her fiancé Caleb and Caleb's buddy Taner check into the lonely Meadow View Inn in the middle of rural nowhere, they have no idea that the motel is run by a homicidal maniac and two vicious greedheads who are making a bloody dollar by selling snuff films on the black market...

Trevor Wright (Shelter) has been cast in a starring role in Screen Gems Vacancy 2, which was helmed by Eric Bross. He joins Agnes Bruckner, Lola Davidson, Angel Oquendo, David Moscow, Nelson Lee, Brian Klugman and Gwendoline Yeo in the film, which has already wrapped production. When Jessica, her fiancé Caleb and Caleb's buddy Tanner check into the lonely Meadow View Inn in the middle of rural nowhere, they have no idea that the motel is run by a homicidal maniac and two vicious greedheads who are making a bloody dollar by selling snuff films on the black market. The film arrives on DVD later this year from Sony Stage 6 Productions.

We broke the news on various casting for Sony Stage 6 Films' Vacancy Prequel, today the full line-up was revealed as Agnes Bruckner, Lola Davidson, Angel Oquendo, David Moscow, Nelson Lee, Brian Klugman and Gwendoline Yeo. Directed by Eric Bross for a direct to DVD/Blu-ray release, when Jessica, her fiancé Caleb and Caleb's buddy Tanner check into the lonely Meadow View Inn in the middle of rural nowhere, they have no idea that the motel is run by a homicidal maniac and two vicious greedheads who are making a bloody dollar by selling snuff films on the black market...

B-d reader Joey M. sent us a link to Agnes Bruckner's (pictured inside) MySpace page where she confirms that she will topline Sony Screen Gems' direct-to-dvd release of Vacancy 2, which will be helmed by Eric Bross. We also learned that Lola Davidson (The Caretaker), Angel Oquendo (Haunted Echoes) and Jeryl Prescott (The Skeleton Key) will also star. Brucker has starred in various horror projects such as Kill Theory, Blood & Chocolate, The Woods and Venom. When Jessica, her fiancé Caleb and Caleb's buddy Tanner check into the lonely Meadow View Inn in the middle of rural nowhere, they have no idea that the motel is run by a homicidal maniac and two vicious greedheads who are making a bloody dollar by selling snuff films on the black market...