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8 hours ago

A review of the Better Call Saul season finale coming up just as soon as I'm doing something un-hospital-y... "Well, you finally got me where you want me." -Chuck Over the course of its first two seasons, Better Call Saul has essentially been two shows squeezed into one. The stories of Jimmy and Mike are joined in their accounting of how each man is traveling down a slippery moral slope that will eventually put them in business with each other and Walter White, but they're often so separate in tone and supporting cast that it's a small miracle Gilligan and Gould are able to make it all feel coherent. Rarely, though, has the contrast between the show's two halves looked starker than it does throughout "Klick," where Mike is deep in Breaking Bad country — to the point where his story for the season doesn't have a proper payoff unless you »

- Alan Sepinwall

11 hours ago

Netflix unveiled the second season of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt this weekend, and it was glorious. Originally produced for NBC -- and then rejected -- Kimmy Schmidt found a home at Netflix. As the series headed into its sophomore season -- now producing specifically for Netflix -- many wondered if or how it might change. Here, Alan Sepinwall and Roth Cornet review the second season of Kimmy Schmidt and ask if there was any other another place for it than Netflix. Take a look in the player above or below and chat with us here or on Twitter. You can also read Alan's review here. Alan: @Sepinwall Roth: @RothCornet »

- Roth Cornet

12 hours ago

One of the first questions that fans ask after a successful comic book movie is: "What do we want to see next?" When Deadpool took audiences by storm, we began thinking about where the character might go next. One of the first fantasies I had was a long-shot: a Spider-Man/Deadpool crossover. Well, it looks like I'm not alone. While promoting the Blu-ray release of the film, Deadpool director Tim Miller told Superherohype that not only was he interested in a crossover, but he's talked to 20th Century Fox about it. Here's what the director said: With all of the deals that have recently started happening, we asked if they could get visitation rights to Sony‘s friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. I would love to see it. Both of us are close with [Marvel’s] Kevin [Feige], we respect and love Kevin. If it were even remotely possible, we will find a way ’cause »

- Roth Cornet

13 hours ago

Supergirl's Mehcad Brooks (Jimmy Olsen) drops by Fandemonium to crack us up and tease a big  appearance on an upcoming episode of Supergirl!  Superman himself may be showing up in a bigger way, as it turns out, and soon! Brooks also talks about the show's chances for Season 2, what's happening with Jimmy and Kara, future crossover possibilities and what he makes of the Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice Jimmy Olsen controversy. He also teases tonight's big finale! We also play some super stump me trivia games! And learn about the link he has with Cookie Monster. Take a look in the player above or below and chat with us here or on Twitter. Chat with us here or on Twitter. Mehcad: @MehcadBrooks Roth: @RothCornet Clarke: @ClarkeWolfe Watch Supergirl Monday at 8/7c on CBS! »

- Roth Cornet

14 hours ago

When Girls began its fifth season, I feared it was struggling at least as much as its characters in the transition from carefree youth to mature adulthood. The early episodes had their moments, particularly our first glimpse of Shoshanna's new life in Japan, but the spark of the series' first few seasons wasn't quite there as Hannah and her friends fumbled around with new jobs, new relationships, and new responsibilities. (Season spoilers coming up just as soon as there's a pretty picture of me in the Financial Times round-up of books of the year...) But sometime around either the fifth episode (split between Hannah going on a spa retreat with her mom and another Shoshanna Tokyo interlude) or the sixth (which somehow made a spotlight on the usually loathsome Marnie into one of the show's best episodes ever), that newfound maturity turned out to be a feature, not a bug. »

- Alan Sepinwall

14 hours ago

It seems like a lot of you went to see The Jungle Book this weekend. Good decision. My kids were quite taken with it, and when they got to my house on Saturday, they found a copy of The Art Of The Jungle Book on my coffee table. Like I was at his age, Toshi is smitten with behind-the-scenes books and magazines about movies. Insight Editions is one of the companies that consistently produces beautiful, well-written books about the production process. There’s nothing like having an oversized book, allowing you to really take in a piece of production art. And with a film like this, you’re talking about page after page of lush beautiful imagery. Every time I’ve ever visited a set, and specifically on big-canvass giant-budget studio fantasy movies, one of the best parts of the day is the time I spend in the art department. »

- Drew McWeeny

16 hours ago

On April 26th, 20th Century Fox and Alamo Drafthouse will screen Alien and Aliens in theaters across the country (buy tickets here), and in advance of that date -- recently dubbed "Alien Day" by the powers-that-be -- I hopped on the phone with Aliens star Jenette Goldstein, who played hardened marine Private Jenette Vasquez in James Cameron's explosive 1986 sequel. Thanks to Cameron's script and direction, the character challenged every long-held notion of what a woman could be in an action film; Vasquez was brawny, deep-voiced and completely unapologetic about her unconventional manner and appearance. In that vein, Goldstein -- who in conversation is distinctly unlike the tough-talking soldier she played -- offered one particularly apropos anecdote from the film's extensive production period.  "I had psoriasis, and I had this big outbreak on my knee that looked like I had fallen off a motorcycle," she told me. "Like, red on my legs. »

- Chris Eggertsen

17 hours ago

For Jared Leto, who stars as the Joker in the upcoming movie Suicide Squad, playing this character presented a whole series of challenges. Of course there’s being able to overcome its storied history. But there’s also simply being able to get to the root of what makes the Joker so erratic, volatile and dangerous. To do that, Leto did some research with those who understand these types of people. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Leto explained he met with “people that were experts, doctors, psychiatrists that dealt with psychopaths and people who had committed horrendous crimes…I spent some time with those people themselves, people who have been institutionalized.” But Leto’s challenge of making the Joker authentic wasn’t the only issue he faced.  He needed to differentiate it from Jack Nicholson’s and Heath Ledger’s interpretation of the comic book criminal. “There had been »

- David Eckstein

17 hours ago

My first political memory is of Watergate. I was too young to truly understand what was happening, but I was aware that the President of the United States had done something wrong, and the country was upset because of it. That may be why I’ve grown up with a healthy sense of skepticism towards authority, particularly when it comes to the idea that authority is always right. I’ve never believed that, and that attitude has served me well. Truth be told, I wish that was not the case. I wish I could believe that our elected officials have our best interests at heart. I wish I believed that all policemen truly wanted to serve and protect our entire population equally. I wish I believed that the banks were designed to help us all financially. I wish I believed that the system was set up to allow all of »

- Drew McWeeny

19 hours ago

When Equals premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year (see HitFix's own Drew McWeeny's review here!) it did so without a U.S. theatrical release date. Now it has one (July 15), and here's the trailer to accompany it as makes the Tribeca Film Festival rounds this week. Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart live in a future that is somehow free of emotions, and any display of them is illegal. So, of course, they fall in love.   »

- Sara Morrison

20 hours ago

Remember a few months ago, when we finally realized how full of lead Flint, Michigan's water was, and everyone was angry and sad? John Oliver does, and wants you to know that our work is far from done here. The multitude of problems that have and will continue to arise from Flint's lead poisoning disaster are bad enough, but Last Week Tonight went a little deeper for its main segment to tell us how the entire country is full of lead pipes that are too expensive to simply remove and replace. But those aren't the biggest problem: it's the lead-paint-encrusted homes that pose a greater threat to our children, and three Republican congressmen who were so concerned about the Flint lead poisoning actually voted for a bill that would reduce funding for lead paint abatement in lower income homes.  So, Oliver went to Sesame Street and enlisted Elmo, Rosita, and »

- Sara Morrison

21 hours ago

Netflix released the whole second season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt on Friday, and I'm going to offer some overall thoughts on the season, followed by specific takes on each episode, coming up just as soon as I ask whether Cate Blanchett is really a great actress, or just tall... Netflix made the first six episodes available to critics, and while I enjoyed most of those early installments, the back half of the season was by far the stronger part, and the phase of things where the shift from making episodes for NBC to making them for Netflix was much more apparent. Season 1 also turned more serialized towards the end, with the trial of the Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne, and it had its emotional moments as Kimmy faced down her captor. But the later episodes of season 2 felt darker and more complicated in their attempt to address Kimmy's emotional damage. »

- Alan Sepinwall

17 April 2016 7:00 PM, PDT

The year's still young, but it's safe to call HBO's Vinyl one of its biggest TV disappointments. Whether you're looking at ratings (where viewership for the initial Sunday night airing keeps coming in at well under 1 million), reviews (my lukewarm initial appraisal was kinder than many), or buzz, the show hasn't remotely been what either viewers or HBO executives might have hoped for from the team-up of Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger, and Terence Winter, who was fired as showrunner after this season wrapped. (He'll be replaced by The informant! and Bourne Ultimatum writer Scott Z. Burns, in his first real TV job.) For HBO to take such an aggressive move with Winter, who created Boardwalk Empire and was David Chase's top lieutenant for virtually all of The Sopranos, speaks both to a tenuous moment for the pay cable giant — which hasn't been able to turn a drama other than »

- Alan Sepinwall

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