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Leonard Engelman, the esteemed makeup artist who worked on films including Rocky IV, The Princess Diaries, Batman & Robin and How the Grinch Stole Christmas and did Cher’s makeup for more than 30 years, has died. He was 83.

Engelman died Thursday at Northridge Hospital Medical Center, his wife of 42 years, artist Esther Engelman, told The Hollywood Reporter. The cause of death is unclear, she said.

The son of a Hollywood makeup artist, Engelman labored for a long time to convince the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to install a makeup branch, as those artisans had always been “at-large” members. And when it did so in 2006, he was elected its first governor. Later, he worked to have hairstylists added.

He also served as an Academy vice president and board member for many years.

Engelman received Emmy nominations in 1972 for an episode of Night Gallery and in 2001 for the miniseries Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis,...

After ending the premiere season of The Ark with such a solid close and abounding cliffhanger, the series is ready to pick things up where it left off with The Ark Season 2.

With more than a year between seasons, it looks like the series is moving in the right direction. Many feel the best episode so far has been The Ark Season 1 Episode 12.

With Season 2 just a month away, Syfy has made great strides to give audiences anything and everything about the next season to whet their appetites.

Every cast member for characters who survived the first season is set to return with their continuing storylines and arcs.

Related: The Ark Season 1 Episode 12 Review: Everybody Wins

Check out the trailer below and see all the exciting action and drama that will set the galaxy on fire with a cast of characters who have become like family, ready to find themselves a home.

Jeremy Thomas with Anne-Katrin Titze on his next mission, Christopher Hampton’s adaptation of Jonathan Coe’s Mr. Wilder and Me to be directed by Stephen Frears and starring Christoph Waltz as Billy Wilder: “We’ve got all the locations in Corfu and Paris where the drama is set. Now I’m looking for eight million dollars more …”

In the first instalment with producer extraordinaire Jeremy Thomas we discuss his work and admiration for Nicolas Roeg, Wim Wenders, and Matteo Garrone.

Jeremy Thomas with Glenn Kenny and Michael Almereyda at the Posteritati Gallery reception Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Karel Reisz’s Everybody Wins (written by Arthur Miller) came to Jeremy’s mind; the connection between Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor (winning nine Oscars), Paul Bowles and The Sheltering Sky; Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast) plus Glazer’s Martin Amis adaption of The Zone Of Interest (a Main Slate selection of...

[Warning: The below contains spoilers from The Ark’s Season 1 finale Everybody Wins.] To say the crew of Ark One has been through some stuff since their unexpected early wake-up call is an understatement. We’re talking about a lack of supplies, mechanical issues, asteroids, attempted coups and mutinies, murders, and mysterious illnesses. Out of catastrophe and immeasurable loss, friendships and romantic relationships were severed and formed. Set 100 years in the future, The Ark sees a colonization mission to save the human race go awry. Leadership aboard Ark One perished from a disastrous breach in their chamber. Awaking prematurely from their cryo-pods, lieutenants Sharon Garnet (Christie Burke), Spencer Lane (Reece Ritchie), James Brice (Richard Fleeshaman), and Felix Strickland (Pavle Jerinić) must find a way to ensure their remaining crew’s survival. By the finale, Garnet had taken on the role of captain with things seemingly moving in the right direction after a deal was brokered with...

Exclusive: Jeremy Thomas’s Brit sales and production firm HanWay is rebranding catalog label HanWay Select to The Collections as part of a drive to highlight and propel its significant library of more than 350 movies.

HanWay has struck a deal with UK distributor Arrow Films to handle distribution and restorations in the UK of the Jeremy Thomas collection, with films including multi-Oscar winning epic The Last Emperor, John Malkovich-Debra Winger romance The Sheltering Sky and David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch. Arrow recently re-released HanWay’s David Bowie-starrer Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence.

HanWay is currently restoring around five titles a year with recent updates including David Cronenberg’s Crash, which screened at Venice. Upcoming is Gary Oldman’s Nil By Mouth.

We also understand the company is close to striking a deal with a well known filmmaker to bring around 20 movies into The Collections fold.

The catalog drive...

Exclusive: UTA has signed Portuguese actress Alba Baptista, who has the lead role in upcoming Netflix fantasy series Warrior Nun.

Lisbon-born Baptista most recently starred in Marco Pontecorvo’s upcoming feature Fatima opposite Harvey Keitel, as well as Gonçalo Waddington’s drama Patrick, which was in competition at San Sebastián.

In Simon Barry’s (Ghost Wars) Warrior Nun, which is inspired by Manga novels, she will play a 19-year-old woman who wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back. She discovers she is part of an ancient order that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth, and powerful forces representing both heaven and hell want to find and control her.

Additionally, Baptista has appeared in Edgar Pêra’s film Caminhos Magnétyko, Hugo Diogo’s Imagens Proibidas and had a recurring role in Portuguese telenovela Jogo Duplo.

She continues...

Now in Region A — One of the best releases from the early- ’50s 3-D boom. Millionaire Robert Ryan is abandoned to die in the desert by his wife Rhonda Fleming and her lover; the ‘useless’ executive earns self-respect by focusing on the problem of survival. Ryan’s terrific, and the depth effects in the attractive desert locations are great, thanks to cinematographer Lucien Ballard.

Inferno 3-D

3-D + 2-D Blu-ray

Twilight Time

1953 / Color / 1:33 flat / 83 min. / Street Date May 16, 2017 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store 29.95

Starring: Robert Ryan, Rhonda Fleming, William Lundigan, Henry Hull, Carl Betz, Larry Keating, Robert Burton.

Cinematography: Lucien Ballard

Editor: Robert L. Simpson

Original Music: Paul Sawtell

Written by Francis M. Cockrell from his story The Waterhole

Produced by William Bloom

Directed by Roy (Ward) Baker

I just reviewed an Inferno 3-D disc not four months ago, but U.S. viewers will want the facts (all the facts!

Standin’ at the station, don’t know what to say? Starin’ out the window as you’re rollin’ away? Don’t worry — we can always come back to TVLine Mixtape: This Is Us edition.

RelatedThis Is Us @ PaleyFest: The Cast on That Finale Fight and Jack’s Death

In a single season, NBC’s hit drama managed to deliver a wide range of heart-wrenching, gut-punching emotions. We laughed, we cried, we obsessively searched for fan theories. And the show’s music played an integral role in warming our hearts (and exhausting our Kleenex reserves).

If you’re ready to...

Glinwood worked with Roman Polanski, Jeremy Thomas, Karel Reisz and Terry Jones.

UK industry veteran Terry Glinwood has died aged 82 following complications from surgery for a minor complaint.

Glinwood’s career spanned fifty years as a producer and sales executive during which time he worked closely with some of the European industry’s leading figures.

He entered the business in the 1960s as a production controller working on Roman Polanski films Repulsion and Cul-De-Sac.

In the 1970’s he would work closely with fellow-producers Ned Sherrin and Beryl Vertue and director Bob Kellett on a string of UK comedies including Up Pompeii and The Alf Garnett Saga as well with UK producer John Heyman and Grease and Saturday Night Fever producer Robert Stigwood.

In the same decade Glinwood struck up a fertile collaboration with Rpc boss Jeremy Thomas for whom he would work in a sales and financing capacity on Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, The Last Emperor and [link...

[[tmz:video id="0_hrze967v"]] Dwyane Wade wasn't an All-Star this season ... but that didn't stop him from livin' it up like one with his old teammate, Chris Bosh, and their wives on a boat trip in Miami!! The Bulls star didn't make the team for the first time in 12 seasons, but it clearly doesn't look like he had a case of Fomo ... especially with his gorgeous wife, Gabrielle Union, showing off her killer bikini bod. Bosh also got the...

Inferno

3-D Region B (+A ) Blu-ray

Panamint Cinema (UK)

1953 / Color / 1:33 flat / 83 min. / Street Date August 10, 2014 / Available from Amazon UK / £19.99

Starring: Robert Ryan, Rhonda Fleming, William Lundigan, Henry Hull, Carl Betz, Larry Keating, Robert Burton.

Cinematography: Lucien Ballard

Editor: Robert L. Simpson

Original Music: Paul Sawtell

Written by: Francis M. Cockrell, from his story The Waterhole :

Produced by: William Bloom

Directed by Roy (Ward) Baker

(Note, 1.18.17: Twilight Time will be releasing a domestic disc of

this title on May 16, licensed for U.S. distribution.)

A fine 20th Fox entry for the 3-D craze of 1953, the adventure thriller Inferno is often labeled a film noir in the desert. Despite the presence of a scheming, murderous wife, the noir quotient here is minimal — it’s just a straight survival tale with a homicidal twist. An odd UK-only release licensed by a small independent company, the Blu-ray 3-D is well encoded...

This is a sad day for me. We are losing a president with curiosity and interest in people different from himself to one who might not be able to read at all.

Yes, I’m that kind of elitist. I prefer to admire (and, if possible, hang out with) people with imaginations, people who like to be challenged, people who appreciate the arts. All the evidence (this, for example) suggests that our newly installed Commander-in-Chief has no such interests.

Tough times, such as those I imagine to be ahead of us, can be opportunities for great art. The 1960s, with its civil rights marches, police riots and unjust wars, brought us brilliant music, film, theater, dance and literature, even comics. It is the responsibility of the artist to make us question our perceptions, and the best do this in a way that lasts well beyond the topical concerns of their times.

The Daily Show booked TheBlaze’s Tomi Lahren as its guest last night. Host Trevor Noah and Lahren, who talks super-fast and has therefore become an online star with her takes on Colin Kaepernick and Black Lives Matter, slugged it out, as hoped. Reporters Who Cover Television bit; the video went viral. Everybody wins. Lahren kicked things off by noting she had entered the lion’s den, in appearing on the Comedy Central late-night show. Noah made an Africa joke, and the the…...

Now that her baby is 3 months old, Jillian Harris is officially getting into the swing of motherhood.

“The first three months were tough,” the former Bachelorette, 36, tells People of life with son Leo George Tiziano.

But eventually, the blogger and host of Hgtv’s Love it or List it, Too started “figuring it all out.”

Says Harris, “I literally felt like a new person and was learning everything all over again!”

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Now back to work full time,...

I'm just going to come right out with it:

I think a Van Helsing film series is a brilliant concept.

That said, I don't have faith in anyone getting it right after that unruly mess of a Hugh Jackman movie in 2004. I think the concept is fantastic, though. You have a main character- a monster hunter (!!!)- that can, essentially, navigate his way throughout an entire shared, cinematic universe. And the universe he lives in is inhabited by legendary monsters like Dracula, The Wolf Man, The Invisible Man, Frankenstein, and The Mummy! And one of the things that made those monsters legendary was the mystique surrounding them, and the way they could be used sparingly to create maximum tension and anticipation. Therefore, the idea of making the star of those movies a single, human protagonist means you don't have to over-expose your famous beasts!

Everybody wins, right? Van Helsing can be a gold mine,...

Let's be clear to start, here: The Met Gala is full of try-hards. And that's a very good thing! The annual party (or, should we say, charity fundraiser) is a huge deal and deserves to be treated as such. Everybody wins when celebs go all out to look (and be) their best at the Met Gala. We, the fans and the press and everyone else, get to ooh and ahh over all the sneak peek shots of glam squads in anticipation of the big reveal, and then again as we watch all the beautiful people parade down the red carpet looking just jazzed to be attending the fanciest event in town. The celebrities win because, well, they look fabulous and get to be jazzed about attending the fanciest even in town. Which...

If you never thanked your folks for your boring, nothing-interesting-ever-happens childhood, this week’s Grey’s Anatomy probably made you (or at least made you want to).

While Grey Sloan’s docs worked feverishly to save an 8-year-old named Brandon who’d been accidentally shot with his mother’s gun, little Sofia seemed poised to become the prize in a Calzona custody battle. (And just when Japril had begun being civil to one another again, too!)

Did Brandon pull through? Did Sofia’s moms arrive at a compromise? Read on, and together, we’ll search for a little bit of “happy” in “Trigger Happy.

We've all been that person watching a movie and torturing our friends with a bunch of "why don't they just to this" and "they should have just done that" comments. (No? Just us?) In any case, there are certain movies that just about everyone agrees played fast and loose with logic for the sake of drama. (For example, a certain film about a giant, ill-fated cruise ship - see below.) Here, we examine Titanic and six more movies that totally would have gone down differently had we been the characters. And before we get a million "Because there wouldn't be...

We've all been that person watching a movie and torturing our friends with a bunch of "why don't they just to this" and "they should have just done that" comments. (No? Just us?) In any case, there are certain movies that just about everyone agrees played fast and loose with logic for the sake of drama. (For example, a certain film about a giant, ill-fated cruise ship - see below.) Here, we examine Titanic and six more movies that totally would have gone down differently had we been the characters. And before we get a million "Because there wouldn't be...

Dolores Hart, Pamela Tiffin and Lois Nettleton are flight attendants aiming to snag three attractive, wealthy husbands right out of the air -- Karl Boehm, Hugh O'Brien and Karl Malden. There's more social comment in this 'coffee, tea or me' romantic comedy than can be found in a graduate thesis about the sexual habits of liberated stewardesses. And Hey, Frankie Avalon warbles the classy title tune! Come Fly with Me DVD-r The Warner Archive Collection 1963 / Color / 2:35 enhanced widescreen / 109 min. / Street Date June 30, 2015 / available through the WBshop / 18.49 Starring Dolores Hart, Hugh O'Brian, Karlheinz Bohm, Pamela Tiffin, Lois Nettleton, Karl Malden, Dawn Addams, Richard Wattis, Andrew Cruickshank, James Dobson, Lois Maxwell, John Crawford, Robert Easton, Maurice Marsac, George Coulouris, Ferdy Mayne. Cinematography Oswald Morris Film Editor Frank Clarke Original Music Lyn Murray Written by William Roberts from a book by Bernard Glemser Produced by Anatole De Grunwald Directed by Henry Levin

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

What?...

Everybody wins when the Dallas Cowboys visit the New York Giants — except for Fox’s primetime competition. (And last night, Dallas.) Thanks to the huge lead-in of the highly anticipated Nfc East rematch overrun, Fox’s following sitcoms soared, handing the network a comfortable second place finish in the key 18-49 demographic. CBS was fourth in the demo, but still managed to top Fox as runner-up among total viewers. NBC finished first of course, thanks to broadcast TV’s top program, “Sunday Night Football.” Also Read: Yahoo's First NFL Game Kicks Off to 15.2 Million Unique Viewers NBC was first in...

New mystery thriller Wayward Pines feat. Matt Dillon arrives today on Fox. Here are a few reasons you might want to watch it...

“Welcome to Wayward Pines, where paradise is home”.

The louder a fictional small town shouts about being heaven on Earth, the higher the probability that it is in fact, an axis of evil. As a rule, if the town sign features a beaming family and a cheery slogan, you’ll be lucky to make it to sundown without being kidnapped, cannibalised or having your severed spine used as a xylophone in the local middle school’s ossuary orchestra.

(It’s all a matter of irony. Small towns with dark secrets love irony in a town slogan. It gives them a pleasant break from all that ritualised murder and alien probing.)

Joining the likes of Woodbury, Trinity, and the daddy of them all, Twin Peaks, is Wayward Pines,...

It’s funny that this week’s installment of The Good Wife makes multiple references to Spider-Man (and its head-scratching number of reboots). Because as Alicia Florrick so cruelly learns, it can be a silly and treacherous thing to place one’s fate in a white knight upon a fiery steed.

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If you’ll recall, at the end of last week’s hour, Alicia found herself accused of election fraud by TV journalist Petra Moritz. And this week, she puts an imprudent amount of trust in the hands...

There are two types of Nicholas Sparks adaptations. The first is much more common, being the boring, sappy romances where love is the most powerful force in the world and people cry and die (i.e. The Notebook). The second is the stupid, cuckoo bananas romance, terribly pulling in other genre elements to make a hodgepodge bit of nonsense (i.e. Safe Haven). The second is so much more fun to watch, and anytime I start a Sparks film I am hoping for that film. Unfortunately, The Longest Ride, the most recent Sparks adaptation, falls into the first category, and it made me fall in love... with my watch (nailed it!). In the ancient past of 2007, Britt Robertson, whose character's name escapes me (an IMDb search reveals it's Sophia Danko) and it was all I could to do remember she was "not Jennifer Lawrence", is studying art at Wake Forest.

Everybody wins! While Calvin Harris was getting affectionate with his new girlfriend Taylor Swift at the Haim concert in Los Angeles on Thursday, April 3, his ex-girlfriend Rita Ora was having an equally good time at the happiest place on earth in Paris with her beau Ricky Hilfiger. Ora, who dated Harris for over a year until splitting in June 2014, jetted off to France to support Tommy Hilfiger’s store opening (the famed designer is Ricky’s dad) earlier this week. The couple, who have been dating for [...]...

You'd think people would be happy with the finale this past Sunday of HBO's docu-series "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst," Not only did the six-episode true-crime drama end with the kind of neat apparent-confession that real life seldom drops into the laps of journalists, but the episode was preceded by less than 24 hours by the actual arrest of its subject on a murder charge related to the crimes discussed on the show. Viewers got a bang-up ending, and the victims' families finally get to see the alleged killer face a court of law. Everybody wins, right?

And yet, there's been nothing but handwringing over the ethical questions raised by the conduct of filmmakers Andrew Jarecki and Marc Smerling and the fortuitous timing of the arrest. Jarecki and Smerling taped Durst's seemingly self-incriminating remarks ("What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.") during a 2012 interview,...

You'd think people would be happy with the finale this past Sunday of HBO's docu-series "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst," Not only did the six-episode true-crime drama end with the kind of neat apparent-confession that real life seldom drops into the laps of journalists, but the episode was preceded by less than 24 hours by the actual arrest of its subject on a murder charge related to the crimes discussed on the show. Viewers got a bang-up ending, and the victims' families finally get to see the alleged killer face a court of law. Everybody wins, right?

And yet, there's been nothing but handwringing over the ethical questions raised by the conduct of filmmakers Andrew Jarecki and Marc Smerling and the fortuitous timing of the arrest. Jarecki and Smerling taped Durst's seemingly self-incriminating remarks ("What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.") during a 2012 interview,...

All hell is breaking loose -- again!

After last week's visually stunning, and darkly manipulative episode, we're now left with a Vampire Diaries first: Both Caroline (Candice Accola) and Stefan (Paul Wesley) have embraced their blood-thirsty and emotionless sides, and they're a potentially deadly combination for Mystic Falls trouble.

Luckily, it appears that Damon (Ian Somerhalder) has the perfect plan to flip their humanity switches – and only ETonline has your exclusive sneak peek.

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"We need Kai to get to 1903, and we need Bennett blood to do the damn spell," Damon explains to an extremely pissed-off Bonnie (Kat Graham). "Listen, we do in, we grab my mom, she flips Stefan's switch, he triggers Caroline. Emotional dominoes — Yay! Everybody wins."

But will Damon's seemingly perfect plan work on the first try? Of course not – this is Tvd, people! But it will certainly make for some amazing entertainment to watch...

Found under the ice of Fortitude by Dci Morton, The Mid-Season Replacements return with a two-part episode originally thought lost to the gods of podcasting. Two episodes thought vanished, have survived the extreme weather of the Northeast, and have finally arrive, in the form of The Mid-Season Replacement’s Great Lost Mega-Sode!

Part I of the Mega-Sode (henceforth known as “Episode 14″) takes us back to the elder days of February 2015, hours after the NBA trade deadline, which has Randy and Sean reacting in real time to. They also dig into the then-recent (but still painful) cancellation of Ground Floor, talk about Banshee, Fresh Off The Boat‘s racial undertones, and other shows like Schitt’s Creek, NBC’s failed 2010 sitcom Friends with Benefits, and the delay of Hannibal.

Episode 15 (or “Part II”, if you want to be fancy) is a relic from March 5th, 2015, when the guys had just seen...

Marvel Studios

It’s testament to the strength of Marvel’s name that “There’s a new Spider-Man reboot” has been treated as something akin to the second coming. In case you haven’t heard, Spider-Man is coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, paying off months of speculation following the disappointment of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and those leaked Sony emails.

Now there’s no denying that this is a pretty cool development. Spider-Man is one of the most iconic superheroes ever created and there’s no franchise bigger than the McU. It’s certainly great news for Sony, who have been flailing wildly with the series since Spider-Man 3, and promises fans a truly faithful representation if Peter Parker. Everybody wins.

Well, almost everyone. The one party in this whole deal you feel is getting short-changed is Marvel. They’re already running massive series which really doesn’t need Spider-Man,...

If you pull a loose thread on a piece of clothing, the entire thing can unravel in minutes. And on Tuesday’s episode of Sons of Anarchy, Gemma found that to be true for more than just a fall sweater.

Indeed, the numerous lies that Gemma has told to save her own behind this season began to blow up in her face, leading her to a vulnerable place that we haven’t seen Mama Teller go to in a long time (and I’m not just talking about those 12 miles she walked in spiked boots).

What’s interesting about this...

Reviewed by Kevin Scott

Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985)

Written by: Martin Kitrosser, David Cohen, Danny Steinmann

Directed by: Danny Steinmann

Cast: Shavar Ross (Reggie), Melanie Kinnaman (Pam), John Shepherd (Tommy Jarvis), Richard Young (Matt), Debisue Voorhees (Tina), John Robert Dixon (Eddie), Juliette Cummins (Robin), Jerry Pavlon (Jake), Dominick Brascia (Joey), Tiffany Helm (Violet), Mark Venturini (Vic), Miguel A. Nunez Jr. (Demon)

This film was the very first one that I wrote any kind review for on an online platform. That was the first brave step in my cause for championing this film. Albeit, it was a small step, because maybe two people probably stumbled across it. Either way, I did it and I’m not ashamed. Matter of fact, I’m taking it to the big show by including it here. All of my feelings for this bastard child of the series just happened to resurface...

Cheers’ Rhea Perlman as Danny’s mother, Annette, ladies and gentlemen! Sometime in the ’90s — I’m thinking that Friends really popularized this, though other shows did it to varying degrees before that — all sitcom characters started getting parents played by big names of the past, usually from sitcom history. It’s become a kind of TV parlor game: Who will play so-and-so’s mom or dad, whenever he or she eventually shows up? To be clear, I’m not complaining: It means we get to see masters of the form, and it provides a nice little post-massive-fame, pre-retirement income stream for sitcom vets. Everybody wins. And! Fun fact from sitcom history: Dan Hedaya, who plays Danny’s dad, also played Nick Tortelli, the slovenly ex-husband of Perlman’s Carla, on Cheers. She is particularly welcome in this case, as Danny’s Staten Island single mom shows up at Danny...

Ah, the summer of 2014: It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times. Though mostly, let’s face it, it was the worst. Yet even as horrific violence and heartbreakingly premature deaths and hemorrhagic fevers have marred the past few months, there have also been a few spots of levity. And most are thanks to butts.

True, the humble hiney is no stranger to celebration, especially when it’s warm outside. (You may, however, be shocked to learn that Sisquo’s “Thong Song” was actually released in January.) But this summer went above and beyond, prominently featuring ladies’ posteriors in movies,...

Let’s blow up some stereotypes.

There is a popular and enduring image of what a “gamer” looks like: mostly male, mostly juvenile, mostly white. That image is false, and has been for a long time now.

According to a survey from the Entertainment Software Association, there are significantly more adult women playing video games than adolescent males—just like there were last year. Why does this matter? Because the “gamer culture” propagated by industry marketing and perpetuated elsewhere does not reflect reality, and it has created an environment that is unwelcoming to anyone who does not fit this “norm.

According to the New York Times, PBS is adding a shorter, half-hour version of Sesame Street to its lineup. While the hour-long version will continue to air in the mornings, starting September 1st, there will also be a shorter episode airing in the afternoon block. Select half-hour episodes will also stream on PBS's website, mobile app, and Roku channel. PBS's general manager of children’s programming Lesli Rotenberg explains that the condensed episodes are designed to appeal specifically to mobile viewers ("The hour-long show didn’t lend itself as well to that," she says) while also targeting kids' short attention spans. Meanwhile, those kids with extra long attention spans and the ability to delay gratification will have a bonus half hour to add to their Sesame binge-watching queue each day. Everybody wins!

Every episode of "Naked and Afraid" is tough, but this week's may be the most hellacious I remember seeing that didn't involve a medical intervention. The worst part, though, is that so many of the obstacles Jeff and Eva face are of their own making. Actually, most of them are of Jeff's making, but we'll get into that in a moment. Jeff and Eva are not what you would call a natural pairing. Jeff is a devout Mormon from Idaho and loves to climb stuff. He's also a hunter and feels animals are meant to be "used." He wants to fight Mother Nature and beat her.  Eva, on the other hand, wants to go to a commune with Mother Nature and feed her cookies. This is going to be awesome! When they both prepare to meet in their resplendent nakedness, Jeff worries he's going to have to let his new pal down easy.

Hey, remember the Firewall & Iceberg video show? Well, after a variety of technical and medical mishaps has put the show on the shelf since early January, Dan and I were finally back in action yesterday (though for various boring reasons, we had to wait til today to publish, so don't be confused by Dan's "Happy Tuesday, boys and girls!"), and more bearded than ever before! On this week's show, we talked about the Oscar telecast, the Alfonso Cuaron-directed pilot for NBC's "Believe," the return of "Cosmos" to Fox, FX's George Lopez sitcom "Saint George," and a variety of reader questions that allowed Dan and I to object to "Dads," "Mixology" and "How I Met Your Mother" all in the same segment. Everybody wins! The rundown: 00:00 - 06:02 - Oscar Talk 06:02 - 11:03 - 'Believe' Preview 12:07 - 22:05 - Viewer Mail 23:10 - 28:01 -...

Oh look, another snow storm. Awesome. If someone could kindly give Mother Nature some Midol and a chocolate bar, I'd really appreciate it because her Pms is getting obnoxious. I started my day by looking up vacations in tropical locations since I'm about to pull my hair out. If you are rich and feel bad for me, please feel free to sponsor my trip to Miami or Puerto Rico. You can come too I'll tell you sassy stories and sing you showtunes in exchange. Everybody wins.

It's not merely an honor just to be nominated. It's downright lucrative! As they applaud politely for the winner while silently mourning what might have been, the 2014 Oscar nominees whose names aren't called during the March 2 broadcast will still have quite the consolation prize to lift their spirits - a $55,000 gift bag stuffed with heavenly treats. According to Variety, the "Everybody Wins" swag bags from Distinctive Assets include the following: • A wine/chocolate flight pairing from Chicago-based Chocolatines • A Swiss-made Slow Watch • Jan Lewis Designs bangle bracelets • Luxury vacation packages to the Canadian Rockies, Mexico and Japan • Spa treatments • Charity...

A gooey nostalgic look back at that time a young boy’s mom fell in love with their kidnapper, presented under a sexy sweltering summer haze. I’m “biast” (pro): love Reitman, Brolin, and Winslet

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

I have not read the source material

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

Ladies! Single? Lonely? Starved for human touch? Why not get yourself kidnapped and held hostage by an escaped convict? Guaranteed relationship starter!

I kinda couldn’t believe this is where Labor Day goes. I’m kinda dumbfounded it does so without the teensiest sense of irony or even a hint of awareness that this could be problematic. Stockholm syndrome as actually, genuinely, for-reals romantic? Are they kidding us?

They are not kidding us.

I… I can’t even.

It’s Labor Day weekend in 1987, and single mom — and very likely clinically depressed...

NBC has found its Rosemary for the network's upcoming 4-hour redux of Rosemary's Baby! The always wonderful Zoe Saldana has signed up for birthing duties, much to the chagrin of racist morons who will no doubt complain that Rosemary was originally Caucasian!

Actually, given the fact that Rosemary's Baby was originally a book, Rosemary was black and white! See? Everybody wins!

According to Variety, Saldana will play Rosemary, the iconic young wife and would-be mother who, with her husband, moves into a Paris apartment that has a darkly storied past. After finally getting pregnant, she becomes increasingly suspicious that both her husband and their mysterious neighbors have ulterior motives about the future of her child.

NBC announced the “Rosemary’s Baby” mini in December with Lionsgate TV attached to produce. The project is based on Ira Levin’s 1967 horror novel and is being penned by Scott Abbott and James Wong.

Kim Basinger proves that she’s still got it, Katie Couric‘s show gets the ax, and Steve Carell gives Paul Rudd a fateful warning.

Julia Roberts is a huge fan of TV’s reality stars, but not necessarily because she loves guilty pleasures. The actress feels like there’s less of a tabloid focus on her personal life, mostly due to the fact that the likes of the Kardashians have taken over. Everybody wins! [Perez Hilton] Kim Basinger has just given hope to us all by signing a modeling contract at 60. She’ll be joining her daughter at Img. [Huffington Post] Katie Couric’s talk show experiment is now over. The former newswoman’s daytime show, Katie, has been canceled. Episodes will air through next year, but production won’t begin on a third season. [Los Angeles Times] Despite being a part of a news team in Anchorman 2, it seems like Steve Carell is a little wary of the media.

Review Kylie Peters 25 Oct 2013 - 07:03

Kylie notes a marked improvement in this week's episode of Once Upon A Time In Wonderland...

This review contains spoilers.

1.3 Forget Me Not

A little mystery goes a long way. Once Upon a Time in Wonderland proves that in an episode that ramps up the interest level by supplementing its straightforward adventure/romance plot with a tantalizing set of flashbacks about the Knave of Hearts.

In Wonderland, Alice and the Knave face Grendel from the classic saga Beowulf. Grendel possesses a clever contraption called the Forget-Me-Knot (I’m assuming that’s how it’s spelled?). It’s a rope that, when tied in a loop and looked through, shows whatever happened last in that particular spot. Some logic issues aside (what constitutes “the last thing that happened?” Does a branch falling count? A mosquito flying by? Does this mean Grendel never walked through that...

Cheaters never prosper, or so they say. And if they do, they’re probably biblical moralists or writers of film noir, the kind where desperate saps with immoral get-rich schemes get punished for their transgressive ambition one way or another, sooner or later. Double Indemnity. No Country for Old Men. And Breaking Bad, the extraordinary, many-things-at-once, neo-noir, desert-western, dark-comedy serial created by Vince Gilligan, which came to an end Sunday night. For five seasons, this bold and cold AMC series chronicled the downfall of a dying, dead-on-the-inside Everyman who sold out his principles (such as they were) to feel alive...

What's not to love? The awful production values, the silly one-liners, and the great mockery of it all on the internet

Sharknado, pundemic on Twitter, has restored the B-movie back to its rightful place in American life: cult summer blockbuster and universal inside joke. To join in you don't need a TV or even to have seen the movie. You only must appreciate absurdity (and tolerate portmanteaus:

As the nation laughed the night away at Sharknado, none could have predicted the looming Crabquake.

— Sean O'Neal (@seanoneal) July 12, 2013

In case the title left anything to doubt, a quick summary of the film: a tornado spews sharks into Los Angeles. One lands in Tara Reid's pool, another bounces off a barstool. Helicopters throw bombs at the weather. A character named 'Fin', played by a Chippendales dancer, leaps into the open jaws of a projectile Great White and chainsaws his way out of its rubber belly,...

From Being John Malkovich to Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Trip, actors increasingly find it liberating, even therapeutic, to play a version of themselves. This is the End is the latest film to mess around with movie star personas

The new comedy This is the End is less notable for its vision of Hollywood hit by the apocalypse than for the conceit of having its entire cast play themselves. It turns out that Jonah Hill is a prissy buffoon given to harping on about his Oscar nomination. Sweet, gentle Michael Cera is in fact a leering, cocaine-snorting lout who has toilet-stall threesomes with anyone who will oblige. Seth Rogen likes weed. And who on earth would have suspected that James Franco is gay?

Only the most credulous audience members will believe that the cast of This is the End are doing anything except performing, but there is still the tantalising...

Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul return in their Emmy-winning roles of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman. With Gus Fring dead, Walt’s transformation from a well-meaning family man to ruthless drug kingpin is nearly complete. When he begins to make a killing in the meth business, his murderous schemes are threatened by a new investigation led by his relentless brother-in-law Hank (Dean Norris). Executive produced by Vince Gilligan and Mark Johnson, the fifth season charts the murderous rise of Walter White as he reaches new highs…and new lows.

5×01 “Live Free or Die”

Stars: Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul, Dean Norris, Rj Mitte | Written by Vince Gilligan | Directed by Michael Slovis

“I won.”

And with those words, uttered with a grotesque smugness, shows us just how far Walter White has come. Those words, so simple and yet, full of weight, tell us everything about this man. A man who...

Star Trek Into Darkness premieres this Friday so Graham and Ryan have graciously allowed me to turn this into Star Trek Week!

Perhaps “allowed” isn’t the right word. Maybe “I didn’t ask them at all and they don’t know anything about it” would be better.

So starting on Monday I’ll begin posting my top ten favourite Star Trek episodes from each series. So get ready for The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise!

I’m sure my fellow Trekkies will find this fun and I hope you’ll let us know Your favourite episodes as well! For those of you who aren’t Trekkies…well…you should read these articles anyway and laugh about what a geek I am. Everybody wins!

Video games need villains, almost more than they need heroes. And villains need henchmen. Far too long have the henchmen been cast aside in order for their bosses to reap all the benefits of celebrity — but no more! I say it’s long overdue for some of video game history’s best henchmen to grab hold of the spotlight for once. I have thus decided to compile a list containing ten of the very best henchmen in gaming history.

But what makes a good henchman? For most it’s subservience but for others it’s something more. It’s a desire to one day be the boss on their own, one day. A patience to wait for the right moment and let their light shine. And for others it’s nothing more than being the hardest motherf!@#$r in the game.

I’ll promise you two things. First, this list will be diverse.