Let Netflix'sBling Empiretrailer fill theSelling Sunset-shaped hole in your heart

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May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 22 words · Andrew Lewis

Let's break down that mind-blowingBlack Mirrorseason 6 premiere

Salma Hayek and Annie Murphy discuss the many levels of “Joan Is Awful.” It’s also one of the most “meta” episodes ofBlack Mirrorever. So let’s break it down! Ben Barnes and Salma Hayek in ‘Black Mirror.'.Netflix “Joan Is Awful” operates on multiple levels of fictional reality. This doesn’t sit well with the real Hayek, who is also a character in the episode. “I had previously identifiedBlack Mirrorwith horror,” Hayek tells EW....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 285 words · Julie Conway

Let's break down the snubs and surprises of the 2021 Grammy nominations

From T-Swifts redemption to the Weeknd getting shut out. The re-emergence ofTaylor Swift. The attempted rehabilitation of Dr. Luke. Credit: Michael Kovac/FilmMagic; Kevin Winter/Getty Images; Scott Dudelson/WireImage The annual Grammy nominations announcement can be as cathartic and maddening as the ceremony itself. Leave it to the Recording Academy to throw a little chaos into an already chaotic year of pop culture. 1 and a Record of the Year nomination. He’s also been a mainstay on late-night television during the pandemic, turning in unique, boundary-pushing performances....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 164 words · Carol Escobar

Let's make a Christmas TV movie! (...Or not?)

(140-plus this year!) We honored the tropes of this Emmy-allergic comfort-food genre while taking several calculated risks. (A male protagonist? THEO WARGO/GETTY IMAGES;MICHAEL KOVAC/GETTY IMAGES; DIMITRIOS KAMBOURIS/ GETTY IMAGES; JEAN BAPTISTE LACROIX/WIREIMAGE; MICHAEL KOVAC/GETTY IMAGES In a movie about Christmas movies? That’s set in summer?) All we needed now were a few powerful people to believe in the miracle of our Christmas. THEO WARGO/GETTY IMAGES;MICHAEL KOVAC/GETTY IMAGES; DIMITRIOS KAMBOURIS/ GETTY IMAGES; JEAN BAPTISTE LACROIX/WIREIMAGE; MICHAEL KOVAC/GETTY IMAGES...

May 1, 2025 · 5 min · 942 words · Cody Smith

Let's rank every X-Man ever

TheX-Menhave been around for more than 50 years. They multiply: rapidly, frequently, endlessly. With one very obvious exception and a few other arguable exceptions, the X-Men aren’t Solo-Star people. Credit: Marvel Entertainment They are a team. Or rather,teams. I grew up reading comic books in the ’90s. I read all of Grant Morrison’s 2000sX-Menrun and have only occasionally kept up since then. I got to 60, counting “that guy with the face fromX-Men 2099....

May 1, 2025 · 11 min · 2160 words · Jim Luna

Let's take a moment to appreciate Matt Smith dancing inMorbius

Plus: a ranking of his best onscreen gyrations. “I just pushed him to go for it,” saysMorbiusdirector Daniel Espinosa about the scene. In honor of Smith’s smooth moves, EW ranks the star’s best onscreen dance moments. Matt Smith in ‘Morbius’.Sony Pictures 1.Morbius Is there anything more exciting than the prospect of new, well, blood? “He’s a mix between Sid Vicious and someone super refined,” says Espinosa. 4.Doctor Who TheEleventh Doctorgetting down on the long-running sci-fi series is a sight to behold indeed....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 114 words · April Whitehead

Let's talk about thoseThor: Love and Thunderpost-credits scenes

Warning: Spoilers ahead. Warning: This story contains spoilers forThor: Love and Thunder. The film has not one but two end-credits scenes, with appearances by a few familiar faces. Brett Goldstein in ‘Ted Lasso’.Apple TV+ (Major spoilers ahead!) Thor ultimately defeats and humiliates Zeus, and the first end-credits scene finds Crowe’s god out for revenge. Still, now I need to see Goldstein sing"Go The Distance.") Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth in ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 114 words · Katherine Cameron

Let's talk MODOK: How Corey Stoll returned as a giant floating head inQuantumania

Warning: This story contains spoilers forAnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Eight years ago,Corey Stollstarred in the originalAnt-Man,facing off againstPaul Rudd’smicroscopic hero. Now, the actor is making his surprise return to theMarvel Cinematic Universe in a very,verydifferent-looking role. Corey Stoll stars as MODOK in ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’.Marvel Studios; Inset: Phillip Faraone/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images Stoll appears in the sequelAnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,reprising his role as the villainous Darren Cross....

May 1, 2025 · 4 min · 700 words · Cristian West

Letterkennydirector on how success has (or hasn't) changed the small-town Canadian comedy

Writer-director Jacob Tierney sits down to chirp about making Hulu’s cult-hit sitcom. “Our show has grown at its own pace, which is really nice. We’re left alone to do our own thing.” Jared Keeso as Wayne, K. Trevor Wilson as Squirrelly Dan, and Nathan Dales as Dary on ‘Letterkenny’.Lindsay Sarazin/Hulu Is this not funny?' Sometimes we’ve definitely looked at each other and been like, ‘Are we gonna do more? Okay, let’s do more....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 544 words · Sean Davis

LeVar Burton on his Emmy award,Reading Rainbow, and the authors that changed his life

“How do we more effectively submit that relationship between an emerging reader and the written word? And television was a very counterintuitive medium to enlist as an aid in this process.” That’s a pretty good moment." Louis MONIER/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Reading Rainbowconcluded in 2006 with 155 episodes and a lifetime of memories for children. LeVar Burton himself also has enough reason to be cemented in history. Even though the show ended, LeVar Burton still finds ways to inspire readers in his life....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 152 words · Sarah Garcia

LGBTQ authors recommend books that spark queer joy

Robbie Couch, Meryl Wilsner, and more pick books by other queer writers that bring them joy. Add some joy to your bookshelf! We asked LGBTQ authors to pick books by other queer authors that bring them joy. HarperTeen And I mean that literally because this book follows a merperson. Need I say more? Perhaps it was too white or too straight for me. Kokila The book is a coming of age story for when you’re already an adult....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 183 words · Derrick Holmes

Liam Neeson criticizes 'uncomfortable' interview onThe View: 'It's just a bit embarrassing'

Neeson said he wasn’t impressed by Joy Behar’s discussion about her long-standing crush on him. Liam Neesonwas, apparently, taken aback by his recent appearance onThe View. They’re talking about gun violence in America, and I agree that it’s an American problem. Liam Neeson criticized his appearance ‘The View’ as ‘embarrassing.'.ABC “Joy, you received the checks?” “It’s just a bit embarrassing.” EW has reached out to a representative forThe Viewfor comment....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 85 words · Michael Edwards

Liam Neeson originally thought his iconicTakenphone call scene was 'corny'

“Its nice to be proven wrong.” That includes his character’s now-legendary phone call speech, which Neeson originally thought was just plain cheesy. “I certainly did sound scary, but I thought it was corny,” Neeson recently toldVanity Fair. Liam Neeson in ‘Taken’.Europa Corp/Kobal/Shutterstock “It was a cornball. I really did feel that. It’s nice to be proven wrong.” “I thought, ‘Well, this is going to go straight-to-video. I remember the first weekend it came in at No....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 137 words · Nicholas Webb