Netflix premiered the trailer for ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads, an original documentary film on the life and death of legendary blues guitarist Robert Johnson. As the trailer details, Johnson was a little-known musician and juke joint performer in Mississippi during the early 1930s, before mysteriously disappearing for a year …
Read More »'The Boys': Watch Vigilantes Battle Corrupt Superheroes in Wild New Trailer
A group of un-super humans try to take down a corrupt cadre of superheroes in the trailer for the new Amazon series, The Boys. The show will premiere April 29th at the Tribeca Film Festival before arriving on Amazon July 26th. Based on Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s comic of …
Read More »Fab 5 Freddy Explores War on Drugs With Snoop Dogg in 'Grass is Greener' Trailer
Hip-hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy explores the racially-charged history of the War on Drugs, specifically marijuana, in his directorial debut, Grass Is Greener, set to premiere on Netflix — fittingly — April 20th. The new trailer for the documentary opens with Freddy examining the connection between music and marijuana, with …
Read More »'Fleabag' Gets Closer to God in Season Two Trailer
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s self-destructive, sex-addicted Fleabag tries to find salvation, or something close to it, in the new trailer for Season Two of Fleabag, returning to Amazon Prime Video May 17th. Season Two finds Fleabag doing her best to improve her stock in life, suffering through dinners with her family, attending …
Read More »The 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' Swan Song Was Pitch-Perfect
(This post contains full spoilers for the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend series finale, and for the show as a whole.) “Romantic love is not an ending, not for me and not for anyone else here. It’s just a part of your story.” These are the words Rebecca Bunch tells her open-mic night …
Read More »Samantha Bee Goes to Washington
On April 27th, TBS will air Samantha Bee’s second-ever Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. While historian Ron Chernow regales guests at the real event in Washington, D.C. — after a furor about jokes made at Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ expense last year, he is the first host in 16 years …
Read More »Salt-N-Pepa Miniseries, the Clark Sisters Biopic In Works
Lifetime has given the greenlight to two music-related projects, a miniseries on rap group Salt-N-Pepa and a biopic on gospel group the Clark Sisters. Queen Latifah is an executive producer for both projects via her Flavor Unit production company, with Mary J. Blige and Missy Elliott among the executive producers …
Read More »Aparna Nancherla Tackles Social Media Anxiety in Hilarious 'Colbert' Set
Comedian Aparna Nancherla vented about social media anxiety and the absurdities of therapy sessions in her stand-up set from Wednesday’s Late Show With Stephen Colbert. “I am on my phone too much,” she said as an overture. “I don’t think I am the only one. But I had a rock-bottom …
Read More »'SNL': Pete Davidson Compares R. Kelly Sex Abuse Allegations to Catholic Church
Saturday Night Live‘s Pete Davidson has never been afraid of pushing people’s buttons. On the latest episode of SNL, he doubled down on his efforts when he stopped by “Weekend Update” to give his thoughts on the R. Kelly and Michael Jackson sexual abuse claims. “If you support the Catholic …
Read More »Alex Trebek Reveals Stage 4 Cancer Diagnosis
Alex Trebek, the longtime host of Jeopardy!, revealed that he has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer in a video statement released Wednesday. “Now, just like 50,000 other people in the United States each year, this week I was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer,” Trebek said. “Now normally, …
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