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This March, we are getting a ton of content from the much-anticipated release of the superhero action drama series Daredevil: Born Again on streaming to the release of Robert Pattinson‘s highly anticipated sci-fi dark comedy film Mickey 17. This upcoming month will see the release of many great movies, so we thought of compiling a list of all the best movies that are coming straight to streaming.

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Picture This is an upcoming British romantic comedy film directed by Prarthana Mohan from a screenplay by Nikita Lalwani. Based on the 2024 Australian film Five Blind Dates by Shawn Seet, the Prime Video film follows Pia, a struggling photographer who is told by a spiritual guru that she will find true love and success in her career in the next five dates she goes on.

Marvel fans aren't new to the name Gwen Stacy: Spider-Man's first love, whose tragic death shaped his life and relationships for years and decades to come. Gwen Stacy was on the "stays dead" list of Marvel characters for around 50 years—the kind of characters whose deaths are so impactful, resurrecting them would prove a disservice to the continuity. The list used to include the likes of Bucky Barnes and Jason Todd, but nowadays, it seems only the people who died on Spider-Man actually stay dead. So no Uncle Ben, no Captain Stacy, and no Gwen.

Sure, we'll give her an alternate universe revival in the form of Ghost-Spider, but an Earth-616 restoration? Unlikely, right? Until now!

Before we can go forward, we have to move back. To Gwenpool.

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Once Upon a Time puts many unique spins on classic fairy tale characters. Once Upon a Time's concept is creative: the Evil Queen casts a Dark Curse that sends fairy tale characters to Storybrooke, Maine. Snow White and Prince Charming's daughter, Emma Swan, is destined to break this curse when she is 28. Emma arrives in Storybrooke because Henry, her son, finds her. However, the Evil Queen — Regina Mills in Storybrooke — adopted Henry when Emma gave him up at birth. This immediately establishes a complex family tree in Once Upon a Time, containing many surprises, twists, and turns.

And the Evil Queen is not the only character with a new identity in the real world. Marco and Archie Hopper exist: two characters formerly known as Geppetto and Jiminy Cricket from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. Another example includes Ashley Boyd, known as the titular character from Charles Perrault's Cendrillon (Cinderella). In fact,...

Long before Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande signed on to star in Wicked, several other big stars were considered for the lead roles in the film adaptation of the book and musical.

According to Variety, Wicked was nearly adapted for the big screen with Ghost and G.I. Jane star Demi Moore considered for the lead role of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West. Wicked producer Marc Platt explained that the project had been with Universal for decades before finally making it to the screen in 2024. Platt shared, “I am going to try and get the timeline right if I can remember, but I believe when I became the president of production at Universal, the project was already here. It had been optioned initially by Demi Moore’s company.” Gregory Maguire, author of the 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, was reportedly interested...

Dragon Ball Gt is absolutely the most divisive entry of Akira Toriyama’s hit martial arts series. Taking place directly after the events of Dbz’s finale, Gt starts out as a return to form to early Dragon Ball’s more adventure-oriented Journey To The West inspired arcs, before the latter half ends up leaning into the epic action and immeasurable power levels that made Dbz an international icon. This lack of personal identity makes Gt very hit-or-miss among fans. Its earlier arcs are usually heavily criticized, while the latter arcs are at least enjoyed for memorable concepts like SSJ4 and villains like Baby Vegeta.

That mix-match of styles, combined with the fact that Gt isn’t a part of the canonical Dragon Ball storyline, makes it the black sheep of the Dragon Ball franchise. That doesn’t mean Gt is entirely irredeemable, though. There’s a lot to love about the anime,...

Whether it was inventing the "walk-and-talk" camera technique or just remaining one of the best television shows to grace the small screen, The West Wing reveled in doing the unexpected. Case in point, creator and head writer Aaron Sorkin used the yearly holiday episodes common to TV at the time as just a tinsel-studded backdrop against which to examine sociological issues even more piercingly than was the show's custom. Although the White House sets were decorated to the nines with the requisite bright lights and ornamented trees, Sorkin's storylines in these episodes acknowledged the truth that America's capitalist structure is all too happy to ignore: that the winter holidays are far from a unanimously happy time. For as many people who draw joy from the affectations and traditions of Christmas, there are as many or more wounded by them for countless reasons. Season 2, Episode 10, "Noël," excels with this concept through a searingly accurate,...

Unfortunately, there are several great TV show characters whose exits are far more anticlimactic than they deserve. It’s not unusual for a character to depart mid-way through a show’s run, and many of the best TV shows of all time feature an exit from one of their most beloved figures. However, not all of these storylines are necessarily well written, or even make any sense.

There are plenty of examples of TV show exits that are out of character, but they are still dramatic and interesting enough to keep audiences engaged. For some actors, their departure storylines don’t do their character justice, and after years of starring in their respective shows, their final scenes fall flat. A bad or boring TV character exit is often annoying, but an anticlimactic one is often a lot worse.

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The best episodes of The West Wing showcase why Aaron Sorkin’s political drama is still considered one of the highest quality TV shows to ever be broadcast. Running across 7 seasons from 1999 to 2006 on NBC, The West Wing focused on the presidency of Jed Bartlet (Martin Sheen) and the staff supporting him. It remains a hugely influential show, with many still citing it as one of the best written dramas of the last few decades. In fact, it was so well written that some real world governments such as Myanmar used it to study democracy (via NY Magazine).

Given the consistent quality of the show, competition for the best episode of The West Wing is fierce. When it comes to accolades, The West Wing was nominated for a staggering 289 awards across its run, winning 100. This includes 20 Golden Globe nominations and 2 wins, as well as 27 Emmys from an astounding 98 nominations. The...

Wicked added another $20 million to its box office take on the Thanksgiving holiday and in less than a week after its theatrical release, passed another box office turning point. Per Collider, with the extra $20 million, the movie passed the $150 million mark in domestic theaters and has gone over the $200 million milestone worldwide. With those numbers, Wicked made Thanksgiving Day the second-biggest day at the theaters since July 26, after Deadpool & Wolverine.

This weekend alone, the John M. Chu-directed Wicked, starring Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, and Jeff Goldblum, is expected to earn another $60 million. Stretch that figure over the five-day holiday weekend, and that number goes up even further to nearly $100 million.

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This article contains spoilers for "Wicked."

When Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman's stage musical adaptation of Gregory Maguire's novel "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" made its Broadway debut in 2003, few could have anticipated what an international sensation "Wicked" would become. The story is told from the perspective of two witches, Elphaba and Galinda, who will later become The Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda The Good, respectively.

It takes place before and after Dorothy Gale's arrival in the magical land of Oz, explaining how both women would end up down their inevitable paths. With gorgeous spectacle evoking the technicolor brilliance of Victor Fleming's classic 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz," and some of the most memorable songs in the entire Broadway canon, "Wicked" took the world by storm. The show went on to win three Tony Awards, seven Drama Desk Awards,...

Marvel Studios has confirmed the development of What If...? season 3, though details about the next animated MCU installment have been scarce. Based on Marvel Comics' popular and expansive What If...? series, Marvel Studios Animation's anthology series explores how the MCU would be different if past storylines had occurred differently, with each episode taking place in a new alternate reality across the McU's multiverse - a concept first introduced in Phase 4's Loki season 1.

What If...? season 1 premiered on August 11, 2021, marking the return of more than 50 actors from the MCU, reprising their roles in nine episodes. Season 1 debuted variant heroes including Captain Carter, T'Challa's Star-Lord, and a villainous Strange Supreme, while What If...? season 2 introduces more, such as 1988's Avengers, a Sakaaran Iron Man, and original MCU superhero Kahhori. What If...? season 2 premiered on December 22, 2023, and ran for nine consecutive days over the Holiday period. All the series' adventures are...

Sam Raimis 2013 fantasy adventure Oz the Great and Powerful will get a new streaming home later this month. On Nov. 29, the movie, starring James Franco, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz, and Mila Kunis will hit Disney+, per Discussing Film.

The big-budget family pseudo-sequel to the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland and based on the Oz book series by L. Frank Baum.

The Raimi-directed film follows Oscar Diggs, a magician and conman of sorts, played by Franco. While working at a traveling circus, hes swept away by a tornado which takes him to the magical land of Oz. While in Oz, Diggs encounters three witches, Theodora (Kunis), Evanora (Weisz), and Glinda (Williams). Zach Braff costars as a CGI flying monkey named Finley, and Raimis longtime friend, Bruce Campbell makes an appearance as the Winkie Gate Keeper.

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Released in 2005, Into the West is a special kind of Western. Most examples of Western movies and shows feature characters exploring the great American West. They tackle manifest destiny, a journey to the frontier, and conflict between the Indigenous and the colonizing community. Some non-traditional productions twist that trope. Still, they all generally revolve around the same idea of an intruder wandering into native territory and preparing for a fight of some kind. Sometimes, they fight against their own people. Sometimes, they fight against the native people. In most cases, there is certainly a fight of some kind.

Yet not all Westerns tackle those same concepts. There are some cases where the story does not take place in the new frontier,...

It's difficult to believe that The West Wing is celebrating its 25th anniversary -- because the show's pilot doesn't feel like it's 25 years old. The first episode of the NBC drama is the master class in how to write a TV pilot. Not only does it offer a strong story, but it makes strides toward character development and world-building that normally take a half-season elsewhere. That's fitting for a show that moves at breakneck pace, and yet doesn't lose anything in the shuffle.

In "Pilot," audiences meet the senior staff of the Bartlet White House on an incredibly hectic day. Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman is about to be fired for insulting a member of the Christian right on a TV show, Deputy Communications Director Sam Seaborn learns that the woman he slept with happens to be a call girl, and over a thousand Cubans are heading toward Florida seeking asylum.

The West Wingcreator Aaron Sorkin is no stranger to thoughts of rebooting the beloved political drama, especially given fans' continued enthusiasm for the show nearly two decades after its conclusion. But after a visit to the White House in celebration of The West Wing's 25th anniversary last week, Sorkin reports that he's now seriously considering a revival.

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Speaking to Variety after the 25th anniversary celebration of The West Wing which included an official tour of the White House and a formal ceremony in the Rose Garden with remarks by First Lady Jill Biden Sorkin discussed his past hesitation regarding a West Wing reboot. "I suspect that a new president would have a hard time living up to peoples memories of Martin," he said, in reference to actor Martin Sheen's legendary portrayal of President Jed Bartlet in the show. Sorkin also added that the viewers might...

Exclusive: Vice President Kamala Harris will headline a fundraiser in Los Angeles on September 29, her first such appearance in the area since announcing her presidential campaign.

Details are to be announced, but the event will be an afternoon reception, per an invite.

Tickets for the event start at $500 per person, and rise to $1 million. The latter price includes four tickets, a chair’s reception with Harris, a luncheon and a photo, according to the invite.

Proceeds to the event will go to the Harris Victory Fund, a joint committee of the Harris campaign, the Democratic National Committee and state parties.

Harris’ campaign has held a number of fundraisers in Los Angeles since she launched her campaign, and one is scheduled next Friday with former President Barack Obama. But there’s been a great deal of anticipation over Harris making her own appearance.

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The upcoming episode of “The West Coast Hustle,” titled “Fashion Week Mom,” promises to be an exciting ride for fans. This episode centers around Dom’s birthday, which takes a special turn when Chanel decides to surprise him during New York Fashion Week. The excitement of the fashion scene combined with the personal touch of a birthday celebration sets the stage for a memorable experience.

As the episode unfolds, Dom finds himself feeling nervous about meeting some of Chanel’s family. This added pressure could lead to some interesting moments, as family dynamics often bring both joy and tension. Viewers might see how Dom navigates this new territory, balancing his feelings while trying to make a good impression.

Meanwhile, Chanel and her friends encounter unexpected trouble on their way to Dom’s first New York Fashion Week show.

Neil Patrick Harris' role in "A Million Ways to Die in the West" pays tribute to his iconic character Barney Stinson from How I Met Your Mother. Foy's character in the film resembles Barney with similar mannerisms, love of pursuit, and hypermasculine persona. Fans of Barney and his quirky personality in How I Met Your Mother can find similarities in Foy's character, making it a logical next viewing option.

While starring in How I Met Your Mother, Neil Patrick Harris acted in an often-forgotten film, playing a character that paid tribute to his role in the show. For How I Met Your Mothers nine-season run, Harris played Barney Stinson, the well-dressed womanizer. Barney lives according to a playbook, following his own rules on women, dating, and love. Though Barneys job is comically mysterious, hes rarely caught dressed in anything other than a suit. Among the show's five main characters,...

Updated with complete winners list: Despite being up for four acting category awards, The Crown‘s final season left the BAFTA TV Awards empty handed tonight in London.

Elizabeth Debicki, Lesley Manville, Salim Daw and Dominic West were all snubbed, as the the likes of Matthew Macfadyen, Jasmine Jobson, Timothy Spall and Sarah Lancashire all triumphed and the Netflix show went out quietly.

There was also a major surprise in the International category, where little-known French drama Class Act beat the likes of Beef, The Bear and The Last of Us to win the prize. Among the most shocked was the show’s star Laurent Lafitte, who urged the audience to find and watch his show — to the amusement of the audience.

The first award of the night saw Jobson beat off competition from actresses from The Crown, Succession and The Last of Us to win Best Supporting Actress for...

Andrew Rannells and Katie Brayben will reprise their roles in the musical Tammy Faye on Broadway this fall.

The production, which features music by Elton John, will play the newly renovated Palace Theater starting Oct. 19, with an opening night on Nov. 14. This is the first full production announced for the refurbished theater, which closed in 2018 for renovations and has since been raised 30 feet in the air and refurbished with a new lobby, marquee and backstage area.

Ben Platt is scheduled to play a three-week concert at the theater from May 28 through June 15.

Brayben won an Olivier Award for her portrayal of televangelist Tammy Faye in London. She also won an Olivier for her role in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical and appeared in Girl From the North Country and King Charles III on the West End, among other stage roles.

Rannells, known for his starring role in The Book of Mormon and recently in Gutenberg!

Professional basketball player Kevin Durant recently made headlines when he was seen hugging rapper Yung Miami in a video. The video had fans buzzing about a potential romance between the two as the NBA legend was also seen making googly eyes at the musician. While Durant eyed the rapper for a quick second, the Internet was quick to come to conclusions.

Durant has never been married, and while he has had some high-profile girlfriends before, the basketball player has not been seen with anyone in the recent past. However, rapper Yung Miami was in a relationship with fellow rapper Diddy until 2023. Diddy was reportedly accused of sexual harassment and several lawsuits were filed against the rapper.

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Professional dancer Robin Windsor, best known to TV audiences for his four-season stint on the UK’s Strictly Come Dancing, has died at the age of 44. A cause of death has not been disclosed.

His death was first announced by the official Facebook page of Burn the Floor, a dance company he founded in 1997:

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More than eight decades after The Wizard of Oz changed the landscape of the entire film industry, a new Funko Pop! collection based on the movie has been announced to celebrate the classic's 85th anniversary. First shared by ComicBook, new Funkos of Dorothy (Judy Garland), the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) and even the titular Wizard (Frank Morgan) will be a part of the collection, which is currently available for pre-order on Amazon and on Entertainment Earth. The unforgettable legacy of The Wizard of Us continues through the new Funko Pop! collection, which is currently scheduled to start shipping around June.

A crew member working on Marvel’s Wonder Man television series has died in an on-set accident.

The unnamed rigger fell off the rafters while at Radford Studio Center, located in Studio City in Los Angeles, California, on Tuesday morning, Rolling Stone has confirmed. The series was not filming at the time of the incident, but production on the series was immediately halted.

“Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with his family and friends, and our support is behind the investigation into the circumstances of this accident,” a Marvel spokesperson said in a statement.

A White House veteran is headed to The Diplomat for season two. Alison Janney will guest star in the series, reuniting her with fellow West Wing alum Debora Cahn. Cahn began her career as a writer and producer on the later seasons of The West Wing and created The Diplomat.

Starring Keri Russell, Rufus Sewell, David Gyasi, Ali Ahn, Rory Kinnear, and Ato Essandoh, the Netflix drama follows a newly appointed ambassador, Katherine "Kate" Wyler (Russell), assigned to the United Kingdom. While there, she diffuses an international crisis and makes strategic alliances while adjusting to her new place in the spotlight. Her husband, Hal (Sewell), is the former US ambassador to Lebanon. He struggles with his lack of a posting and the couple's marriage deteriorates.

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The new Mean Girls film is a hit at the US box office – but the marketing has not been going out of its way to reveal the movie is a musical.

Last week in the US and this coming weekend in the UK it’s the turn of the new Mean Girls film to try and draw people into cinemas. In the US as well, it’s certainly worked: a $28m opening weekend is a good return, and Paramount will be rather chuffed with that.

Not least because its marketing campaign has clearly paid dividends here. As we’ve discussed on this very site before, it selected the folder marked ‘market a musical, but don’t tell anyone it’s a musical’. The new Mean Girls is, after all, an adaptation of the stage musical, which in turn is based on the wonderful 2004 film.

Marc Weinstock is the global marketing boss at Paramount,...

Fans of Dragon Ball Super certainly know that the series originally was inspired by the Chinese classic, Journey to the West, with Goku being a direct parallel to that story's Sun Wukong. Few, however, realize that the trend of drawing from Journey to the West even applies to characters from Dragon Ball Super, in particular Goku Black.

Many original Dragon Ball characters, such as Oolong, Puar, and even Bulma were counterparts to Journey to the West characters which shared similar roles. As Dragon Ball gradually became its own thing, these similarities diminished, but the characters who were drawn from the classic tale remained a part of the world. By the time of Dragon Ball Z, the story had completely diverged, and it seemed no other elements of Journey to the West would likely make it into the series. However, as it turns out, Dragon Ball Super's villain Goku Black...

Wicked director Jon M. Chu provides an update on the movie after filming was shut down due to the actors strike. The director behind Crazy Rich Asians and In the Heights, Wicked will be a two-part adaptation of the stage musical of the same name which is based on the novel that features characters from The Wizard of Oz.

In light of the recent SAG-AFTRA strike, Jon M. Chu took to Twitter to provide an update on the Wicked movie. Check it out below:

Not done yet. Just paused until the strike is over and we can finish the last pieces of the movie. We were only a few days away from being done so we were So close. It’s been very painful to put a halt to it all but we will be back! And we will finish properly strong when the… — Jon M. Chu (@jonmchu) July...

Television has been living in a Golden Age for a few decades now, and the advent of streaming has only increased the number of prestigious and high-profile series to generate headlines. With many people cutting the cord and switching to streaming, it seemed like the linear network model was going out the door. While it has had to be reworked in some respects, many successful series still draw viewers to live television, and no show has exemplified that more than Yellowstone.

Updated July 11, 2023: This article has been updated following the news that Kevin Costner will be leaving Yellowstone.

Created by Taylor Sheridan, Yellowstone follows the Dutton Family, who own the Yellowstone Ranch, which is the largest ranch in Montana. The patriarch of the family, John Dutton (Kevin Costner), is the sixth generation Dutton to own the ranch and leads his family through difficult times with developers, the national park,...

Quentin Tarantino is a filmmaker well-versed in the Western genre. He has verbally voiced this in many instances, but his love for these films is more than evident in the way he quotes it with his style of filmmaking with callbacks to some of the greatest films in the genre. His reverence eventually bore fruit when he finally made his first true Western with Django Unchained in 2012, which was soon followed by another Western with The Hateful Eight in 2015.

Where Django received much-deserved praise, some saw The Hateful Eight as a weaker film in Tarantino's filmography, causing the movie to be disregarded in some circles. Not only is The Hateful Eight a wonderful Tarantino film, but it's also a masterpiece of the Western genre that should be celebrated for its incredible artistic value. Here are five reasons why The Hateful Eight is one of the greatest Westerns ever made.

MasterChef fans, we’ve got a fresh off the press preview for the new Season 21 Episode 3 episode titled Regional Auditions — The West!

Find out everything you need to know about the Regional Auditions — The West episode of MasterChef, including a full preview, videos, release date, cast information and how to watch!

MasterChef Regional Auditions — The West Season 21 Episode 3 Preview

In this episode, the West takes the spotlight as a group of talented chefs go head-to-head, showcasing their culinary prowess and unique flavors. Each contestant has 45 minutes to prepare a signature dish that will leave the judges in awe. As the clock ticks, tensions rise, and the kitchen heats up, the chefs must demonstrate their skills, creativity, and ability to deliver under pressure.

The talented chefs from the West region come from diverse culinary backgrounds, representing a wide range of flavors, techniques, and cultural influences. From aspiring home cooks to seasoned professionals,...

In August 2021, the fall of Kabul was seen in news coverage taking place in real time, as the Taliban took hold of Afghanistan’s capital only a few days after the American armed forces pulled out of the country following a two-decade-long presence. After 20 years of hard-won gains, under Taliban rule, women in the country were almost immediately barred from education after the sixth grade, could not leave their homes without a male chaperone and were barred from working.

Afghan filmmaker Sahra Mani had left her home a few days prior to Kabul’s collapse to attend a film festival in Europe. Unbeknownst to her, she would not return. “I never thought, ‘This will be the last time I pack my suitcase and close my door,’” says Mani, who is currently living in France. “Even now I don’t remember if I closed my window properly or not.”

Like many in the West,...

Kevin Costner caused a huge upset by stepping away from the Yellowstone franchise earlier this month, and it seems that fans are still unforgiving of his decision. The fallout of the actor’s departure from Paramount’s popular series could well end up impacting his new project, Horizon, which itself is an epic Western movie series. As Costner celebrated his new project with a post on Instagram, the comments section was bombarded with fans angry at the way his Yellowstone journey has ended and the fact that Costner is now keen to promote his own project in the same genre.

There seems to be many reasons why Kevin Costner decided to hang up his Yellowstone stetson, and while the franchise is continuing in other forms, there are many fans who are now abandoning the actor’s new project in the same way they feel he abandoned them. Costner shared an...

Kevin Costner, who plays the lead role of John Dutton on the hit TV series Yellowstone, will not be returning to the show after season 5, according Et. It has been previously reported that Costner and the show's co-creator, Taylor Sheridan, had disagreements over the actor's filming commitments for the remaining episodes of the current season. Additionally, there is still no update on when the cast and crew will return to Montana to finish shooting the episodes. Yellowstone has been a fan favorite in recent years, with millions of viewers tuning in for each episode. The show depicts the struggles of the Dutton family as they fight to protect their land and family from modern-day forces that threaten their traditional way of life.

This news comes after Paramount Network President Keith Cox addressed concerns regarding Kevin Costner's future with the show. During a recent panel discussion about the series, Cox stated...

Today sees the release of Netflix’s new political series The Diplomat. The reason to tune in to this one, apart from the strong cast, is Creator/Showrunner/Executive Producer Debora Cahn who has had a foothold in many sterling shows along the way before taking Homeland confortably on her shoudlers.

We have interviews from the New York premiere which was attended by Keri Russell (Kate Wyler/ EP), Rufus Sewell (Hal Wyler), David Gyasi (Austin Dennison – British Foreign Secretary), Ali Ahn (Eidra Park – Chief of the CIA London Station), Ato Essandoh (Stuart Hayford – Kate’s Deputy Chief of Mission) and Nana Mensah (Billie Appiah – White House Chief of Staff).

The series will be released on the 20th of April, 2023. Here are the interviews from the New York premiere held this week.

The Diplomat Premiere Interviews

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Kate Wyler (Keri Russell) is the new US Ambassador to the United Kingdom. She...

Plot: Kate Wyler is the new US Ambassador to the United Kingdom. She was supposed to go to Afghanistan. She’s great in a crisis zone. In a historic home… less so. War is brewing on one continent and boiling over on another. Kate will have to diffuse international crises, forge strategic alliances in London, and adjust to her new place in the spotlight — all while trying to survive her marriage to fellow career diplomat and political star Hal Wyler.

Review: Political series come in two distinct flavors. One is heavily action-oriented, with thrills rooted in espionage and chase sequences like The Night Agent. The other is the intricate palace intrigue housed within the halls of political machinations like House of Cards. Now and then, a third version comes into play that is not reliant on menace or action but manages to be engaging and aspirational, like in NBC’s acclaimed The West Wing.

Keri Russell is going from struggling with cocaine bears to struggling with international relations, as well as personal relations. Russell, who last starred in another politically charged series, The Americans on FX, returns in a new position within inter-country liaisons. Netflix has released the trailer for the drama, The Diplomat. The show’s first season will consist of eight episodes that run an hour long. The series was also filmed on location in London, Paris, and the Cotswolds. Co-starring with Russell is Rufus Sewell, who is seemingly having a ball stressing out Russell’s character as they play husband and wife.

The official synopsis from Netflix reads,

Kate Wyler (Keri Russell) is the new US Ambassador to the United Kingdom. She was supposed to go to Afghanistan. She’s great in a crisis zone. In a historic home… less so. War is brewing on one continent and boiling over on another.

Kevin Costner has landed a new series amid uncertainty surrounding his “Yellowstone” future. The actor will host and executive produce “Kevin Costner’s The West” (working title) for History Channel, the network announced Wednesday. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin will also executive produce.

The eight-episode documentary series explores the clichés and myths of the “Wild West” and features various perspectives that “capture the spirit of opportunity, adventure and peril through the diverse, complex characters and untold stories that defined the era and continue to shape our country today.”

“I am in love with history. I love the rich, heroic and harrowing stories of the West. The people and their stories have always held a fascination for me, but there’s an urgency today to put those times and the men and women who we think we know in perspective, in the context of their times, without judgement,” said Costner in a statement.

A&e Networks has revealed a slate of new projects, with more than 2,500 hours of programming and a star-studded cast on and off screen.

Among these projects, presented as part of the company’s Upfront presentation to advertisers, the History Channel announced a new initiative to reflect American history and stories in honor of the 250th anniversary of the United States, including Kevin Coster’s “The West.”

According to the show’s logline, the eight-episode documentary series will “transcend the clichés and myths of the ‘Wild West’ to capture the diverse, complex characters and untold stories that defined the era and continue to shape our country today.”

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The History Channel has unveiled its latest programming slate, featuring documentaries from top talent including Kevin Costner and Bradley Cooper.

The network has ordered five new projects as part of an initiative to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States in 2026.

These include Kevin Costner’s The West, Fdr from Cooper, Black Patriots: The 761st Battalion from Freeman, Five Families from Imperioli and The Unbelievable with Dan Aykroyd.

It comes as parent company A+E Networks is hosting its annual Upfronts event to advertisers. These projects join a slew of series at Lifetime and A&e.

Kevin Costner’s The West (w/t) is an eight-part series hosted by the Yellowstone star. It will explore the American frontier from the literal trailblazers to the law enforcers and the bloody battles for both land and freedom as well as explore how the stories of The West continue to impact the nation today.

Netflix on Thursday launched a trailer for “We Have a Ghost” starring

David Harbour haunts a family whose ghost stories go viral in a new trailer launched Thursday by Netflix for “We Have a Ghost,” starring Anthony Mackie, Jahi Winston, Tig Notaro, Erica Ash and Jennifer Coolidge.

From writer and director Christopher Landon, “We Have a Ghost” is led by Harbour as Ernest the Ghost, Anthony Mackie as the patriarch of Kevin’s family, Erica Ash as Kevin’s mother Melanie, Niles Fitch as Kevin’s brother Fulton, Tig Notaro as Dr. Leslie Monroe and Jennifer Coolidge as Judy Romano, The West Bay Medium.

Kevin’s family is looking for a fresh start when they move into their new home, but things quickly turn creepy when they learn that it is known as the “House of Death,” and rumors circulate claiming the house is haunted.

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Though an instantly recognizable face from films such as “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” “A Walk to Remember” and “Erin Brockovich,” it is Peter Coyote’s voice — a coolly authoritative baritone with a Zen master’s holy roll — that has endeared him to documentary lovers and makers. Alrhough director-writer Alex Gibney used Coyote’s wisened narration for “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,” and “The Pacific Century,” it is Ken Burns’ work where Coyote’s tones are most welcomed. In a collaboration that started with the 1992 documentary “The West,” Coyote has gone on to narrate 11 of Burns’ PBS film series, becoming almost a DeNiro to the documentarian’s Scorsese.

Being a musician and musical collector since his adolescence made Coyote an apt choice to narrate Burns’ epic new “Country Music” series. But it is the actor-writer’s activist past in the 1960s, cofounding the Diggers — the anarchist communal group that sought...

Struggling to forgive an absent Valentines card? Still seething at your friend who ‘wasn’t hungry’, then treated your cinema popcorn like a sharing bucket? We all hold grudges – although very few of them lead us to murder. But with a remake of one of the ultimate revenge movies, Death Wish, coming to our screens, we decided to reminisce on some of the most iconic and badass revenge-kills in cinematic history.

7. Sweet Sound of Revenge – Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)

You’ll be sitting through almost three hours of this infamous Western to see this climactic revenge kill. The motivation of the cryptically named ‘Harmonica’ is a mystery throughout the film – although it is clear he has his sights set on killing the odious Frank. Which seeing as Frank has murdered a man, killed his three children and sexually assaulted his wife before trying to buy her out...

Geoffrey C. Ward, whose 150 hours of documentary writing on PBS include on Ken Burns’ The Civil War, Baseball, The West, Jazz and most recently WGA-nominated The Vietnam War, will be awarded the WGA East’s Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Career Achievement. The honor will be bestowed February 11 at the New York ceremony for the WGA Awards at the Edison Ballroom. Burns will be on hand to present the award to Ward, who also has written extensively for PBS’ American Experience…...

An electric chamber piece that couldn’t more perfectly complement “Dunkirk” if Christopher Nolan wrote it, “Darkest Hour” is as rousing and ferocious as Winston Churchill was himself. It’s also a hell of a lot more controlled. Unfolding with the clockwork precision of a Broadway play — director Joe Wright has always been at his best when he’s at his most theatrical — this tightly coiled retelling of Churchill’s first days in office is more than (yet another) passionate appeal to our collective goodness; it’s a deliciously unsubtle testament to the power of words and their infinite capacity to inspire.

That the film arrives at a time when words seem to have lost all their value only makes it that much more persuasive.

Hardly the first time that Wright has fetishized the sway of language and its ability to shape history (“Atonement” was so lost in letters that...

When he isn’t composing music for filmmakers like David Fincher (“The Social Network”), Peter Berg (“Patriots Day”) or Ken Burns (“The Vietnam War”), Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor does what a lot of artists do: rage against opinionated internet users. In a new interview with Yahoo! Music, Reznor does just that — especially since he thinks it results in “made to please, vegan restaurant patron-type shit.”

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“What has crept in is that everyone’s a commentator now,” Reznor laments. “The internet is giving voice to everybody thinking that someone gives a shit what they have to say and they have the right. I think, in general, that has created a toxic environment for artists and led to some very safe music. Artists are trying to make music to please the tastemakers that tell the sheep what to like.

NBC will get its money’s worth this Sunday when it airs the 2017 Golden Globe Awards. After years of watching the top TV prizes go to the (cable and streaming) competition, the Peacock net will walk off with several major trophies on Jan. 8, per my trusty kudos-obsessed crystal ball.

Yep, sources close to my gut tell me that the Hollywood Foreign Press Assoc. will name rookie smash This Is Us best drama series, while the drama’s breakout star Chrissy Metz will triumph in the supporting actress category. (Fun fact: The last time NBC took home top drama honors was in 2001 for The West Wing.

Part I. Anger, Suez and Archie Rice

“There they are,” George Devine told John Osborne, surveying The Entertainer‘s opening night audience. “All waiting for you…Same old pack of c***s, fashionable assholes. Just more of them than usual.” The Royal Court had arrived: no longer outcasts, they were London’s main attraction.

Look Back in Anger vindicated Devine’s model of a writer’s-based theater. Osborne’s success attracted a host of dramatists to Sloane Square. There’s Shelagh Delaney, whose A Taste of Honey featured a working-class girl pregnant from an interracial dalliance; Harold Pinter’s The Room, a bizarre “comedy of menace”; and John Arden’s Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance, which aimed a Gatling gun at its audience. Devine encouraged them, however bold or experimental. “You always knew he was on the writer’s side,” Osborne said.

Peter O’Toole called the Royal Court actors “an...

History class just got a little more interactive.

Ken Burns — the documentary filmmaker known for his style of using archival footage — partnered with digital agency Big Spaceship to create an app that curates his films into hour-long “mixtapes,” according to Wired.

The app, “Ken Burns,” allows users to surf a timeline year by year, seeing how clips from each film line up chronologically with each other. “Zoom in on 1869, for example, and a cloud of clips from The Civil War, The West, and The National Parks orbit in parallax formation around one another; swipe to 1930, and it’s clips from Jazz,...

Feature Paul Martinovic Jan 18, 2013

With Django Unchained out now in the UK, Paul looks back at Sergio Leone's classic Dollars trilogy that helped inspire it...

Howard Hawks, one of the most successful Western directors of all time and a key influence on Sergio Leone, once said a great movie can be defined as one with "three great scenes, and no bad ones." There can be few directors who understood the power of great scenes quite as strongly as Leone, the director of the Dollars trilogy and de facto godfather of the spaghetti western.

Some might argue his emphasis on great individual moments was to his detriment, as the MacGuffin-laden plots of his films seem to exist mainly as devices on which he can hang his elaborate setpieces, and were subsequently labeled as exercises in pure style. While the artistic and intellectual merits of the three films are up for debate,...