In a modern world ablaze with buffoonery, where is a clown left to stand? Such a query is pondered aloud — partly — by the failing, fumbling wannabe artiste Chip Baskets (Zach Galifianakis) in Baskets' extraordinarily disconsolate, yet darkly dreamy second season. Permeated with pathos, pain, pointed pity, poignancy and pinched pleasure, FX's continuously exceptional sophomore dramedy is at once a vivaciously vicious series and a sincerely sensitive one. As compassionate as it is cruel, as meaningful miserable as it is strange and specifically hilarious, Baskets is nothing short of beautiful. Even in a clownish world, there's always room for a maestro.
Despite a fairly dependable cast, Frontier fails to give Jason Momoa the rugged, reckless and wild television series the future Aquaman deserves. In almost every conceivable way, it fails to break new ground and is as dull as it is dreary.
Disney's upcoming, untitled young Han Solo spin-off is shaping up nicely. Phil Lord and Chris Miller are set to direct. Hail, Caesar! standout Alden Ehrenreich is in the lead role. Donald Glover is playing young Lando Calrissian, while Emilia Clarke and now Woody Harrelson signed onto the Star Wars prequel in undetermined roles. In the months leading up to its 2018 release date, we'll hopefully hear more good things set to come for the soon-to-shoot film, and Harrelson isn't afraid to gush his praises for the new space-based film. Who can blame him?
Today is a delightfully miserable day. Netflix has released the full first season of their much-anticipated Lemony Snicket adaptation A Series of Unfortunate Events, and the response thus far as been quite kind. After an underwhelming film adaptation from 2004, this newest, extended TV version should serve fans well. Among other things, praise can directed towards the show's theme song, a delightfully cheeky rendition performed by Neil Patrick Harris, who also plays the cruel and menacing Count Olaf.
Showtime has been very secretive with their third season of Twin Peaks thus far, but they're finally starting to peel back the lid. The 18-episode outing, which is set to premiere on May 21 at 9 PM, will be welcomed with a sure to be explosive two-hour premiere. With the show quickly approaching, the marketing team is moving at full speed and today, they've dropped a new trailer which sees the return of Kyle MacLachlan's Special Agent Dale Cooper.
Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick made their names with 2009's Zombieland, but it was last year's Deadpool that truly proved their worth. Sizzling with wit, cleverness and pop culture references for days, the screenwriters became some of the most celebrated pens of 2016, and their talents weren't ignored by 20th Century Fox. They were quickly re-assigned to pen Deadpool 2, and they've got some bigger challenges ahead. For instance, they're going to help usher in the X-Force, notably Domino and Cable, into the X-Men cinematic universe, and in a recent interview, they discussed how they'll approach the matter.
Keanu Reeves is about to get lit. Relit, that is. That's because he's returning to the titular role of John Wick in next month's John Wick: Chapter 2, and to promote its release, the studio has now dropped a smoldering new poster which sees the actor draped in red and looking smoking mad and ready to kill once again.
Last year, much to everyone's shock and distaste, it was announced that Joseph Fiennes would play Michael Jackson in the forthcoming anthology series Urban Myths. As seen in the recently-released trailer, the actor stars as Jackson opposite Stockard Channing's Elizabeth Taylor and Brian Cox's Marlon Brando, as they recount the urban legend of their road trip together just after the tragedy of 9/11. As you can imagine, the first look was not met warmly, and UK channel Sky Arts, who'll air the series, pulled the upcoming episode from their schedule following concerns from Jackson's family.
Netflix will get its own version of The Avengers later this year with The Defenders, which collects Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist together for a summer event unlike any other on television. Not much is known about the grounded superhero series so far, but as we get closer to its premiere, showrunner Marco Ramirez has begun teasing what's in store for us.
People had mixed thoughts on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Some loved it and some positively hated it. Whatever your feelings on the spinoff may be, it seems that one of the most celebrated/contested scenes in the space-based blockbuster was its final Darth Vader lightsaber battle, which was either one of the most awesome Star Wars moment ever, or one of its most pointless and detrimental. Either way, you probably won't be too surprised to learn that it was, in fact, a reshoot.
