“What if I just showed you four episodes of This Is Us, without explanation?” Jordan Peele asked, and most of the crowd in Austin’s Paramount Theatre cracked up. As for the rest of the patrons, you could almost feel them shudder — this portion of the audience wasn’t just here …
Read More »Trailers of the Week: 'Aladdin,' 'Ma,' 'Frozen 2,' 'Yesterday'
When it rains, it pours: Ever since an am-I-blue Will Smith showed up during a commercial in between Grammy no-shows, there’s been a deluge of trailers that have hit the internet. In a little under a week, we got peeks at George Clooney’s upcoming adaptation of Catch-22 for Hulu, the …
Read More »Best Movies to See in Sept.: Michael Moore on Trump, M.I.A. Doc and 'The Predator'
September brings the merciful end of blockbuster season and a beginning to the merciless onslaught of awards season. That means you get Robert Redford’s final performance, Matthew McConaughey aiming for Oscar-sanctified sleaziness and the makers of TV’s This Is Us letting a host of famous names mount a full-frontal assault …
Read More »'The Walking Dead' Recap: Blind Faith
It’s been a while since The Walking Dead delivered an episode as fundamentally entertaining as this week’s installment, titled “Dead or Alive Or.” Yes, the show’s still committed to a bleak and tedious war story for probably the rest of this season; no, it doesn’t seem like these characters are …
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