The writers behind Blade Runner 2049, Batman Returns, the John Wick sequels, and more on their toughest franchise gigs. 2equels W3ek 4ise5 Presented by Photo: Zade Rosenthal/Warner Bros/Dc Comics/Kobal/Shutterstock 2equels W3ek 4ise5 Presented by There are two types of sequel writers: those who’ve earned the opportunity to build on their previous work and those who are hired to take existing characters or worlds and do something new with them.

The Haunting of Hill House The Twin Thing Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Haunting of Hill House The Twin Thing Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » For the first time maybe ever, during this episode I found myself whispering at the screen: “Don’t do it.

As hard as it is to admit, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has lost a lot of star power in recent years. The mediocre 2005 movie killed dozens of years of fan speculation and interest. And the less said about And Another Thing…, the 2009 non-Douglas Adams sequel, the better. Without the magic of Douglas Adams behind it, The Hitchhiker’s Guide series became a bland imitation of itself, all wackiness and no heart.

Katnis Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), an emotional mess after two grueling Hunger Games, opens her eyes in a hospital at the start of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1, one of the grimmer dystopian movies in a decade lousy with them. Seriously, stuff this bleak used to be in German or Japanese, but now it’s lapped up by American kids who’ve finally gotten the message that whatever’s coming isn’t good.

We used to be a monoculture, folks. Over 100 million people watched the series finale of M*A*S*H in 1983. Today, a show like The Good Doctor can be on for six seasons (renewed for a seventh) and people will have no clue. Like the M*A*S*H finale, The Good Doctor has at least one scene of the lead doctor absolutely losing his shit. This time, instead of screaming “It was a baby!

This week on The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show, Jeff talks to Dan Parent, a comic book writer and artist probably best known for his work with Archie Comics. He talks to him about Kevin Keller, the first gay character in the Archie universe and a character that Dan pitched, the different universes of Archie Comics, what it’s like at the Kubert school, and what we can expect from the upcoming Archie movie.

I once made the mistake of starting an interview with a famous actor by saying that it must have been a dream come true to have gotten a chance to play a glamorous lounge singer. It wasn’t a question, just an attempt at an icebreaker before we launched into the warped simulacrum of a conversation that is a press-day Q&A. It had never occurred to me, until the actor responded with an excruciating stretch of chilly silence and a flat “okay?

Saint West. The Kardashian family went all out for Halloween this year, as is their way. But even Kim and her sisters dressed as Victoria’s Secret Angels (read: in their actual underwear) weren’t quite enough to pull focus from their adorable kids and their entirely correct and good costumes. On Wednesday, Kardashian posted photos of Saint West, along with his cousin Reign Disick, posing in the costumes from the video for Kanye’s single “I Love It” featuring Lil Pump.

The Knick Start Calling Me Dad Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The Knick Start Calling Me Dad Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » A nugget of wisdom, from his memoir On Writing, by Stephen King: “Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

First there was Psycho. Then there was Home Alone. Now, Lady Bird. One could reasonably argue that when somebody makes a pilgrimage to your movie’s fictional house, you’ve done a damn good job as a filmmaker with your “world building” and all that jazz — which is exactly what’s happening to the fine folks living in Sacramento’s posh Lady Bird house. “I think they’re okay, but I feel so badly, because I didn’t know, and certainly couldn’t have known that this is what would end up happening,” Greta Gerwig explained on The Late Late Show.