The 2022 Emmy nominations are here, with plenty of hit programs being recognized. Succession leads the way with 25 nominations, while Ted Lasso and The White Lotus received 20 each. Squid Game also makes history by becoming the first non-English drama nominated for best drama, landing 14 nominations in total. …
Read More »Vecna, Stranger Things season 4 villain, surprising origins explained
Having fought Demogorgons, the Mind Flayer and a bunch of villainous Russians in previous chapters, Eleven and the gang find themselves up against a new enemy in Stranger Things season 4: Vecna. Across the latest installment’s nine episodes, it is revealed that the powerful big bad has a complicated history …
Read More »Westworld season 4: Who is Evan Rachel Woods Christina? Is she Dolores?
Evan Rachel Wood is back in Westworld season 4, but not as Dolores Abernathy. At the end of the last season, the avenging android was killed when villain Serac hooked her up to Rehoboam, the world-controlling AI machine, and erased all of her memories in his pursuit of the encryption …
Read More »29 Best shows on Amazon Prime Video right now
The best shows on Amazon Prime Video aren’t hard to come by. However, that does beg the question: what should you watch next? That’s where we come in, as we’ve narrowed down everything on the platform to just 29 of the best series. While we wait for The Lord of …
Read More »The Handmaids Tale season 5 gets release date and first look images
The Handmaid’s Tale season 5 officially has a release date – the first two episodes of the new season will air on Hulu on September 14, with subsequent new episodes releasing every Wednesday. Hulu has also released an official synopsis for the series, which reads: “June faces consequences for killing …
Read More »Every Netflix show thats been canceled in 2022 (so far)
Netflix has built up a reputation for cancelling shows early, and this year has already seen a fair few TV series scrapped by the streamer. The most recent casualty is The Midnight Gospel, a critically acclaimed show that will be ending with just one season. Also falling to Netflix’s axe …
Read More »Alexis Bledel exits The Handmaids Tale ahead of season 5
Alexis Bledel has left the cast of The Handmaid’s Tale ahead of the series’ upcoming fifth season, Variety (opens in new tab) reports. She played Emily in the Hulu series, a former handmaid who escaped to Canada, appearing in all four seasons of the show that have aired so far. …
Read More »The Midwich Cuckoos creators talk differences between Village of the Damned and new Sky series
The Midwich Cuckoos creator David Farr and director Alice Troughton have opened up about the key differences between John Wyndham’s classic sci-fi novel, Village of the Damned, and their brand new adaptation. Ahead of the Sky show’s UK premiere on Thursday (June 2), the pair also talked about why they …
Read More »Close review, Cannes: “The closest thing we’ve seen to a breakout arthouse hit”
Though there have been plenty of eye-catching films among this year’s competition titles (Holy Spider, Decision To Leave, the divisive Triangle Of Sadness), none have really had the heft of a worthy Palme d’Or recipient. None too have felt like the sort of picture that goes on to have a …
Read More »Funny Pages review, Cannes: Safdie-produced A24 comedy “appears to have a direct line to the nervous energy of early ’70s cinema”
A budding young cartoonist’s picaresque rite of passage forms an entertaining foundation for this lo-fi feature debut from New York director Owen Kline, a protégé of the Safdie brothers who appears to have a direct line to the scrappy, nervous energy of early ’70s cinema. Playing in the Directors’ Fortnight …
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