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You can stall Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey), but you can never keep him down! Production on House of Cards Season 3 has been delayed, despite recently being renewed for a spring start date. It will instead begin shooting mid-June. The series is awaiting the outcome of two different bills in the Maryland Legislature that will ensure lucrative state tax breaks for House of Cards, which is shot on location in and around the state, with its Washington, D....

Spoiler Warning: Apple TV’s Roar Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s groundbreaking tragicomedy, Fleabag, raises a pertinent point at one juncture. At a feminist lecture, the Fleabag (played by Waller Bridge’s character) remarks to her sister Claire (Sian Clifford) how they are bad feminists for wanting the so-called perfect bodies in exchange for five years of their lives. There is no right way to be a feminist. And being a woman does not really come with a guidebook on how to be one in the perfect way....

Horror can be used as a tool to gauge a piercing insight into human anxieties, a sense of isolation, and above all, grief. Anvita Dutt’s 2022 psychological drama Qala holds up a mirror to misogyny through a neo-expressionist lens with its distorted shadows and angles. From Amit Trivedi’s music to Siddharth Diwan’s cinematography, Qala weaves a beautiful but harrowing and tragic tale of loss, grief, and desire that starts off in the snowy moors of Shimla and ends in a burnished manor of Calcutta....

Obi-Wan Kenobi, the new Disney+ series, drops on May 27th, and there has been a steady stream of leaked information and mounting excitement for fans. Along with the slowly revealed details, there has been a rise in fan theories of where the series could possibly go. Along the lines of some of those possibilities, there exists healthy room for exploration. Obi-Wan Kenobi could birth new spin-off series in the same way that The Mandalorian gave rise to The Book of Boba Fett....

The year is 2017. The New York Times has just released a piece regarding film industry mogul Harvey Weinstein, detailing dozens upon dozens of sexual harassment and assault cases in which women working directly under or vying for a position in Weinstein’s company were coerced or forced into sexual acts in order to keep or gain their place. Promptly imprisoned and dismissed from his production company, Weinstein’s case ushered in a new era of not only Hollywood but the American workplace....

With just a few weeks left until the Fear the Walking Dead Season 3 premiere debuts on Sunday, June 4, AMC has released a new trailer for this upcoming season. None of our favorite main characters seem to be in a good spot in this trailer, with Nick (Frank Dillane) emerging from a tunnel only to find a huge horde of walkers waiting for him. Meanwhile, Madison (Kim Dickens), Travis (Cliff Curtis) and Alicia (Alycia Debnam Carey) have been captured by a dangerous militia group, and we hear an unspecified character reveal that their compound is “the safest place to live in a world gone mad....

Iain Morris Talks The Inbetweeners, in select theaters Friday, September 7th The Inbetweeners movie, a continuation of the hugely popular U.K. television series of the same name (not to be confused with the American version currently airing on MTV), is finally coming to our shores this Friday, September 7th, for a limited engagement run. The story follows four best friends (Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison, Joe Thomas) who go on a lads’ holiday just after high school graduation in search of sex and booze, but instead, they end up falling in love and discovering the true meaning of friendship....

James Cameron has made himself a reputation for getting what he wants when it comes to his movies, whether it is the epic runtime of Avatar, or, it seems, his leading lady in Aliens. According to the director he was more than willing to walk away from his action-packed follow-up to Ridley Scott’s Alien if Sigourney Weaver had not signed on to reprise her role as Ellen Ripley. While it seems now like the idea of Aliens not continuing the story of Ripley was never going to be considered, it appears that Cameron felt that to be true from the start....

James Kyson Lee talks about the upcoming season four finale and the fate of Heroes’s fifth season James Kyson Lee has portrayed Ando Masahashi on the popular NBC drama Heroes for four seasons and counting. He is currently working his way through Volume Five of the Series, known to fans as Redemtion. Lee got his start on the show as a recurring cast member and sidekick to Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka)....

We reported yesterday that Colin Farrell had signed on to a new comedy and it seems that cast could be growing by three more. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia star Charlie Day are in talks to join the cast of Horrible Bosses. The film will focus on three longtime friends who all become so fed up with their jobs they decide to kill their bosses....

Every actor has to start somewhere. That’s a pretty common phrase in the entertainment industry. It is appropriate then, that this was John Boyega’s response when faced with the memory of one of his earliest roles – promoting puberty to teenagers. Yes, long before he became a Hollywood star, Boyega made a little money for a day’s work having photos taken for promotional material used in school. The photo in question was shared on social media by a fan who recognized the smiling face of the Star Wars actor and wanted to ask him why he was in their child’s puberty class lecture....

John Malkovich discusses his role of Lucien Lucern in Secretariat Disney’s true-story drama Secretariat will arrive on Blu-ray and DVD on January 25. The movie chronicles the journey of the 1973 Triple Crown-winning horse and John Malkovich portrays Lucien Lucern, the trainer who brought the horse to glory. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment provided us with an interview with John Malkovich, who discussed his role in this drama. Here’s what he had to say below:...

Although nothing is set in stone yet, FX is currently planning their exit strategy for the hit drama series Justified. Season 5 kicked off earlier this week with “A Murder of Crowes”, and while the Season 6 renewal has not been officially announced yet, FX president Nick Grad revealed that, “the plan right now” is to end the hit drama series after Season 6. Here’s what the network president had to say about ending a show at the right time....

In a tweet sent on August 12, 2022, Kate Mulgrew vowed not to cause any temporal anomalies when she visits Bloomington, Indiana, this October. But can the actor who portrayed Star Trek: Voyager’s Captain Kathryn Janeway follow through with the promise not to violate the Temporal Prime Directive, or will she find herself going against her word, like so many Starfleet commanders before her? The tweet was sent in response to a letter to the editor in an Indiana newsletter, a picture of which was included alongside Mulgrew’s vow....

Almost a year after the tragic passing of Bob Saget, his widow, Kelly Rizzo, wants to remind everyone to “cherish every moment.” Saget, a comedy legend known for Full House and America’s Funniest Home Videos, passed away on Jan. 9, 2022 after performing stand-up in Florida. Police say the 65-year-old died of head trauma, likely from a fall in his hotel room. Rizzo, who’d been married to Saget since 2018, took to Instagram to share some photos of the two together celebrating Christmas....

Candace Cameron Bure and brother Kirk Cameron will finally appear on-screen together again for the first time in over three decades. With the fifth and final season of Fuller House set to premiere on Netflix starting Dec. 6, Cameron Bure has been dishing some details on the show’s curtain call as the date comes closer. In a new interview with Closer Weekly, Cameron Bure revealed Kirk will be featured in an episode of the final season, which will also include musician Lisa Loeb....

Prepare to duck on July 31! Comedy and martial arts collide as director Stephen Chow (Shaolin Soccer) takes it up a notch with the Golden Globe-nominated (Best Foreign Language Film, 2006) comedic martial-arts adventure, Kung Fu Hustle Axe-Kickin’ Edition. The action-packed DVD will be available from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on July 31. Set in 1940’s Shanghai, where the streets are overruled by gangs, the harder-than-jade residents of Pig Sty Alley help turn a wannabe gangster, Sing (Chow), into an unlikely kung fu hero....

It’s been 44 years since Roots premiered on ABC in 1977, and star LeVar Burton celebrated the occasion by sharing some behind-the-scenes stories from the iconic miniseries. Based on the novel by Alex Haley, Roots starred Burton in one of his very first roles as Kunta Kinte, an African teenager captured and sold as a slave in 18th century America. The performance instantly turned Burton into a star and even put him up for the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama or Comedy Series....

Multiple award-winning actor, playwright and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda (Broadway’s Hamilton, Disney’s Moana) has joined the voice cast of the new DuckTales series debuting this summer on Disney XD. A lifelong DuckTales aficionado, Miranda will provide the voice of fan-favorite character Gizmoduck, a Duckburg hero whose true identity is Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera, a brilliant young intern working for Scrooge McDuck’s personal mad scientist, Gyro Gearloose. Here’s what Co-producer and story editor Francisco Angones said in a statement....

HBO has released an all-new teaser trailer for Game of Thrones as fans eagerly await the final 6 episodes set to debut this spring. We also get a new poster that accompanies this latest sneak peek at the grueling and emotional end to one of the greatest fantasy series ever produced for the small screen. The poster and teaser are both titled ‘Aftermath’. And we get to see what one of the biggest battles has wrought....