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What’s Streaming on Netflix in May 2021
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-21T20:05:15+00:00“>April 21, 2021 | 4:05pm ET April showers bring a load of new original content to Netflix in May 2021. After nearly four years and some personal controversy, Aziz Ansari is returning with a third season of Master of None. Other Netflix Originals coming back include Selena: The Series, The Kominsky Method, Lucifer, and a new volume of Love, Death & Robots. The new series Jupiter’s Legacy, an adaptation of the comic book my Mark Millar (Kick-Ass, Kingsman: The Secret Service), is also set to make its debut, as will HALSTON, Ryan Murphy’s limited series with Ewan McGregor. Related Video On the film front, Zack Snyder’s&nb...
Ozzy Osbourne, Robert Plant, Liam Gallagher, More Star in New Documentary Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-21T20:48:22+00:00“>April 21, 2021 | 4:48pm ET Ozzy Osbourne, Robert Plant, Liam Gallagher, and more star in the new documentary Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm, arriving as a digital release on May 14th. The film tells the story of the famed recording studio in the Welsh countryside through decades of behind-the-scenes archival footage. Over the years, major UK bands such as Black Sabbath, Queen, Oasis, and Coldplay have recorded at Rockfield, established 50 years ago as one of the first residential recording studios. Osbourne, Plant, Gallagher, and Coldplay’s Chris Martin, among others, are all interviewed, reflecting on their experience at Rockfield. The documentary is direct...
HBO Max Shares Opening Seven Minutes of Mortal Kombat Movie: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-20T19:01:14+00:00“>April 20, 2021 | 3:01pm ET The live-action reboot of Mortal Kombat doesn’t premiere until Friday, but HBO Max has shared the first seven minutes of the martial arts film. Watch the preview below. The movie’s opening scene reveals the origin story of Scorpion, aka Hanzo Hasashi ((Hiroyuki Sanada). In the clip, members of a rival ninja clan attack Hasashi’s village while he is away. Bi Han, aka Sub-Zero (Joe Taslim), attacks Hasashi’s wife and son and uses his freezing abilities when they won’t reveal his whereabouts, Upon encountering their dead bodies, Hasashi savagely fends off the remaining attackers with a ninja sword, but it isn’t too long before he br...
Kelsey Grammer Plays a Washed-Up Rocker in The Space Between: Watch Trailer
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-20T17:08:52+00:00“>April 20, 2021 | 1:08pm ET Paramount has shared the trailer for a new flick called The Space Between. It stars Frasier‘s Kelsey Grammer as a washed-up rocker who’s trying to rekindle his creative spirit later in life, and it features a soundtrack from Rivers Cuomo. The story follows Micky Adams (Grammer) as a one-time chart-topping rockstar who’s at risk of getting dropped by his record label because of the unmarketable experimental albums he keeps turning in. Eventually, the label sends a young-and-hungry mailroom worker, Charlie Porter (Jackson White), to travel to Adams’ remote beach home and convince him to willfully drop out of the contract. Howe...
Rob Zombie Directing The Munsters Movie for Peacock and Theatrical Release: Report
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-19T20:41:01+00:00“>April 19, 2021 | 4:41pm ET Rob Zombie is set to direct a new movie adaptation of the 1960s TV series The Munsters, according to multiple reports. The film apparently will premiere on NBCUniversal’s new Peacock streaming service and open in theaters on the same day. While there has been no confirmation, a number of key details of the film have already emerged. The movie news site Murphy’s Multiverse first reported on Zombie’s attachment to the film last month, and now Bloody Disgusting has added more weight to the story with the rumored news of Peacock’s involvement. The movie will purportedly be a Peacock streaming exclusive with a day-and-date opening in theat...
Vin Diesel to Star in Live-Action Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots Movie
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-19T18:43:19+00:00“>April 19, 2021 | 2:43pm ET Three bruising stars will share the silver screen for the first time, as Vin Diesel joins a cast that already includes [checks notes] Red Rocker and Blue Bomber. As Deadline reports, Diesel will be co-producing a live-action Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots movie based on the once-popular tabletop boxing game. Launched in 1966, Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots had a simple premise which could be summed up as ‘robot smash.’ Players helmed either Red Rocker or Blue Rocker and mashed buttons until either one robot’s head popped off or an angry sibling hurled the board across the room. The controls were wonky, the end of matches unsat...
Matthew McConaughey Crushing Greg Abbott in Texas Gubernatorial Poll
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-18T22:25:16+00:00“>April 18, 2021 | 6:25pm ET If Matthew McConaughey decides to actually run for Governor of Texas, he may have more than an alright, alright, alright chance of securing the political seat. A new poll conducted by The Dallas Morning News and the University of Texas at Tyler has the actor ahead of incumbent Gregg Abbott a whopping 45% to 33%. The poll surveyed 1,126 registered voters between April 6th and 13th. 22% of respondents said they’d vote for someone other than Abbott or McConaughey, and the margin of error was plus or minus 2.92%. While the numbers are certainly encouraging for the Academy Award-winning actor, the trick may be what party’s banner he d...
Alfred Molina Confirms Return as Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man: No Way Home
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-18T16:30:45+00:00“>April 18, 2021 | 12:30pm ET Alfred Molina has officially confirmed he will be reprising his Doctor Octopus role from 2004’s classic Spider-Man 2 in the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home. In an interview with Variety that will surely bristle Marvel head Kevin Feige, Molina described his involvement as “the worst kept secret in Hollywood” and detailed how his character fits into the new Tom Holland-starring movie. The veteran actor recalled asking No Way Home director Jon Watts how the film would resurrect Dr. Otto Octavius, who presumably died while stopping his own fusion reactor from destroying New York City ba...
The Passion of the Christ’s Jesus Christ Thinks Celebrities Are Harvesting Children’s Adrenaline
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-18T00:57:15+00:00“>April 17, 2021 | 8:57pm ET Who had Jesus from The Passion of the Christ becoming a card-carrying member of QAnon, subscribing to the batshit crazy conspiracy theory that celebrities are torturing and harvesting children for their adrenaline, on their 2021 Bingo card? As TheWrap points out, actor Jim Caviezel, who portrayed the titular character in Mel Gibson’s 2004 biblical blockbuster, appeared alongside other QAnon luminaries like Michael Flynn, Lin Wood, Sidney Powell, and My Pillow’s Mike Lindell at a COVID-19 “health and freedom” conference in Oklahoma on Friday night. When it was his turn to speak, Caviezel addressed “the adrenochroming of children.” “Ess...
Ryan Coogler Explains Why He’s Filming Black Panther 2 in Georgia Despite Restrictive Voting Laws
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-16T20:47:24+00:00“>April 16, 2021 | 4:47pm ET In response to Georgia’s restrictive new voting laws designed to target Black voters, director Ryan Coogler has doubled down on his commitment to filming Black Panther 2 in the Peach State. In a new op-ed published in Shadow and Act, the acclaimed filmmaker wrote that “many of the people employed by my film, including all the local vendors and businesses we engage, are the very same people who will bear the brunt of,” the new laws. The laws, which Governor Brian Kemp signed in March, are collectively known as SB202. Most concerning are the provisions that enable Republicans to seize control of election boards ...
Mads Mikkelsen Joins Cast of Indiana Jones 5
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-15T18:42:51+00:00“>April 15, 2021 | 2:42pm ET The mad cast of Indiana Jones 5 just got a little madder. According to The Hollywood Reporter, veteran actor Mads Mikkelsen has signed on to the starry sequel that already includes Harrison Ford and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. The 55-year-old Mikkelsen got his start in the Danish-language films of Nicolas Winding Refn, before breaking into Hollywood with his scene-stealing performance as Le Chiffre in the James Bond film Casino Royale. Since then he’s become a trusted guardian of beloved blockbuster IP, helping blow up the Death Star in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, threatening global destruction in Doctor Stra...
Borat Laments Over “Stolen Election” in Trailer for Borat Supplemental Reportings: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-15T19:21:36+00:00“>April 15, 2021 | 3:21pm ET Sacha Baron Cohen isn’t done with the Golden Globe-winning Borat Subsequent Moviefilm quite yet. Today, Amazon Prime Video released a surprise trailer for an extended cut entitled Borat Supplemental Reportings Retrieved From Floor of Stable Containing Editing Machine. Watch it below. Originally released in October 2020, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm sees Borat trying to curry favor with then Vice President Mike Pence by gifting him Johnny the Monkey, Kazakhstan’s Minister of Culture and No. 1 porn star. When things go awry, he offers up his daughter Tutar instead and all sorts of chaos ensues. The trailer for this new extended versi...
