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One of the greatest services a comedy can provide is to let its performers be unbridled. Give talented actors the chance to play to their purest strengths and you’re already well on your way to an entertaining time at the movies. The biggest risk with that move is that without reins on either story or performer, things can get out of hand in a hurry. “Fist Fight,” the latest buddy comedy starring Charlie Day and Ice Cube, stands firmly on the other side of that divide. Even though it’s able to play to some of the strengths of its central characters, by the time the film arrives at its advertised confrontation, the story limps along when it should be hard-charging.

From the movie’s outset, Andy Campbell (Day) and Ron Strickland (Ice Cube) are set up as convenient opposites. Campbell is an English teacher, pottering around high school hallways,...

12 seasons in, “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” is still going strong. The irreverent comedy, which first aired on FX before migrating to the newer Fxx, remains surprisingly consistent. As indicated by the title, next week’s episode, “Making Dennis Reynolds a Murderer,” finds the Gang in true-crime mode as they endeavor to discover who might be responsible for the death of Dennis’ ex-wife. Watch below.

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Dennis is, of course, the primary suspect, and the episode finds the increasingly sociopathic character on the defensive. “Did I kill Maureen? No,” he insists. “Am I glad she’s dead? Sure.” Maureen is one of the show’s stranger characters, which is saying a lot: Over the course of several seasons, she’d undergone several surgeries to make herself more cat-like before her untimely death.

Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, and Charlie Day have never been afraid to get a little meta with “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.” From “The Gang Recycles Their Trash” (in which plot points from previous episodes were repurposed) to “The Gang Misses the Boat” (a Season 10 episode where the people of Paddy’s Pub decide they’ve drifted too far from their roots), episodes crop up where the “It’s Always Sunny” gang is doing more than comment on society: They’re talking about themselves.

What could come across as unappealingly egocentric is instead charmingly apt considering “Sunny” is all about selfish assholes, and the topic of this week’s episode channels such narcissistic villainy toward a new purpose: highlighting the difference between half-hour comedies and manipulative sitcoms. Similar to the brilliant deconstruction of classic sitcom structuring in “The Gang Tries Desperately to Win an Award” (the lighting! the romantic pairings!

“The Young Pope” is not what you think. It’s not dripping with self-importance, adherent to the weight many assign its sensitive topic. Nor is Paolo Sorrentino’s serialized debut a monstrous affront to Catholicism, throwing stones at a centuries-old institution from the outside. Even after two hours with “The Young Pope,” the Italian director of “The Great Beauty” and “Youth” holds back the defining visual summation of his show.

But when it hits (early in Episode 3), you’ll know it. And you’ll laugh.

It’s not as though people haven’t been laughing already. Much has been made of HBO’s foreign acquisition in the past week, when the show’s title went viral well before the season premiere. Social media users came out in force with memes, song parodies, and sharp jabs at the stodgy ol’ church, all building a brand around a show not yet released...

There have been a lot of takes on “The Wizard of Oz,” a lot of different points-of-view on the fantastical world originally created by the novels of L. Frank Baum in 1900. But NBC’s “Emerald City” is, to the best of my knowledge, the first one that transforms the flying monkeys of the classic 1939 musical adaptation into steampunk drones. They’re still recognizably flying monkeys, but to the residents of Oz, they’re just a random bit of technology, accepted as normal in a world that’s anything but.

There is something genuinely special about NBC’s “Emerald City,” premiering tonight — and not just because of its complicated journey to television, which included at least one total shutdown during the development phase before being reborn as a 10-episode series directed in its totality by Tarsem Singh, in a wide variety of exotic locations around the world.

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Best Drama Series

Nominees:

“The Crown” (Netflix)

“Game of Thrones” (HBO)

“Stranger Things” (Netflix)

“This Is Us” (NBC)

“Westworld” (HBO)

Will Win: “The Crown”

Could Win: “This Is Us”

Should Win: “The Crown”

A new champion will be crowned, and we’re betting on Netflix royalty. After the 2016 winner, “Mr. Robot,” missed the cut in 2017, the doors were thrown open, as four freshman dramas stepped in for their shot at Best Drama Series. The two HBO entries may split the vote, considering they appeal to an identical demographic, and “This Is Us” feels a bit too sentimental for the dark taste of the HFPA. Though “Stranger Things” has the buzz, Netflix made “The Crown” to bring home the gold. So odds are the network’s weight is behind its prestige period piece.

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“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” returned this week with one of its most ambitious seasons yet, opening an unprecedented 12th year with “The Gang Turns Black,” an episode in which the gang takes on racial prejudice from a brand new perspective. It’s an storyline that found its most brilliant touches, the creators admitted, after they decided to do the “hard” version of it.

For a full spoiler review of “The Gang Turns Black,” TV Critic Ben Travers has you covered. But IndieWire was also on the “Sunny” set during the episode’s production, speaking with the cast between takes in Paddy’s Bar (a set which star Kaitlin Olson later admitted, after 12 years, feels like home).

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From there, we could hear the gang belt out the opening number,...

You don’t need Beyoncé‘s voice to shine like the powerhouse star.

Her makeup artist, L’Oreal brand ambassador Sir John, reveals the secret behind Beyonce’s amazing glow is a touch of gold, like the jaw-dropping metallic makeup look she often wears (like at last year’s Super Bowl). Luckily, we had the chance to hang out with the makeup artist himself, and he taught us exactly how to score the look for the How It’s Done video above. Trust us — it’s beyond easy.

When Beyonce’s performs during “golden hour,” or when the sun begins to set,...

When producers Alysia Reiner and Sarah Megan Thomas cooked up the idea to make the first female-driven Wall Street movie, their mandate for the feature was clear: It would be written by female screenwriter, directed by a female director and lead by a very strong female cast. The duo put years of work into researching the feature, shoring up investors and making sure that what would become “Equity” retained their original vision from top to bottom.

The film follows hard-driving investment banker Naomi Bishop (Anna Gunn) as she embarks on the biggest deal of her career – shepherding a rising Silicon Valley company that smacks of Facebook and Snapchat to its initial public offering – a task she’s made her speciality during a mostly successful career. Burnt by a previous deal that went awry and newly passed over for a major promotion, Naomi is dedicated to doing her job flawlessly. But...

Read More: Watch: Beauty is Razor Sharp in Action-Packed 'The Assassin' U.S. Trailer Hou Hsiao-hsien’s latest film, "The Assassin," is the 68-year-old Taiwanese filmmaker’s first foray into the wuxia genre, a Chinese fiction favorite dealing with martial arts, chivalry and sorcery. The drama tells the story of a princess-turned-assassin (played by Shu Qi) who was trained to murder corrupt politicians by a nun in exile. After struggling to complete one of her assignments, she is sent to kill her cousin, a military leader, as a punishment intended to toughen her up. The film's simple premise is rendered in gorgeous fashion, as Hou's ornamental visual style, exquisite framing and methodical filmmaking imbue one of the oldest genres in Chinese literature and cinema with an unparalleled degree of artistry and grace. Following the screening, Hou discussed the making of the film and how he maintained his...

“You want hearts and flowers? That’s not something I know.”

In Michael Haffner’s 2-of-5-Star review of Fifty Shades Of Grey here at We Are Movie Geeks, he wrote “….with all the script and story issues and its misrepresentation of cultural aspects within a sexual community, Fifty Shades is still the most sex we’ve seen from a major studio film at the multiplex in quite some time. That’s not a bad thing. It’s a dumb escapist sex fantasy…… Let the fans of the books enjoy their fantasies, and maybe if this Grey phenomenon continues to grow something better or at least more memorable might come along.” (read all of Michael’s review Here)

I thought Michael was generous. I found Fifty Shades to be a bondage movie with little perversion, a love story with little passion, and because of the nature and reception of the book,...

Grudge Match is set for release in the UK January 24th and if you’ve not seen or heard anything about it, have a watch of the video below! We’ve seen a couple of trailers for the movie bringing together Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro which if you’ve missed can be seen here. Grudge Match plays on two of the most well known boxing movies of all time in the form of Raging Bull and the Rocky franchise to pit the two boxing legends together.

This new featurette presents a fake documentary (“mocumentary”) style storyline with a slightly more substantial take on the history between former light heavyweight champions “Kid” (Robert De Niro) and “Razor Sharp” (Sylvester Stallone). It has interviews with the likes of Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield talking about the two former fighters coming back together after such a long time and what we...

Ah, they grow up so fast! It seem like only yesterday that Channing Tatum and his lovely wife, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, welcomed their daughter Everly into the world. But as the hunky actor reminded us all during his appearance on Friday's Ellen, it's already been "six months" since he became a father. "She just got her first tooth," Tatum told Ellen DeGeneres via satellite. "It's the cutest thing. Razor sharp. I think she's going to be cutting me very soon, but it's as cute as can be." The 33-year-old star couldn't be there in person to chat with DeGeneres as he is currently shooting the sequel to 21 Jump Street in New Orleans with Jonah Hill, conveniently...

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Zoinks! Aliya provides a rundown of 10 enjoyable Scooby-Doo animated movies. Scrappy isn't invited...

For a Great Dane, Scooby-Doo has had an impressive innings. He’s now 44 years old, and has been through a number of mediums: TV series, videogames, stage plays, and many movies. In all that time the Us version of Scooby has been voiced by only five actors (the original actor, Don Messick, played him from 1969 to 1994), and there remains something so familiar and reassuring about Scooby, even as the storylines and the entanglements of the Scooby gang change around him. Nowadays in Mystery Incorporated Velma may be on/off dating Shaggy, and Fred and Daphne may be having problems with their relationship, but Scooby remains as cowardly and hungry as ever.

The big screen movie escapade of Scooby-Doo (2002) involved Sarah Michelle Gellar as a black-belted Daphne and Rowan Atkinson as the main (okay,...

Don’t know about you, but we’re totally interested in Grudge Match, an upcoming boxing drama which comes from director Peter Segal and stars Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro. As you probably remember, these legends play two retired boxers who decide to settle a long-standing beef by heading back into the ring. Not much of a quality, but we still think this video deserves your full attention, head inside to check it out… [removed by studio request] So, as we previously reported, De Niro stars as Billy The Kid McDonnen, while Stallone plays Henry Razor Sharp, two guys who (back in the day) were the...

Click to read original and full article: Witness A Fight: Promo Trailer For Grudge Match, Starring Sylvester Stallone & Robert De Niro on http://www.filmofilia.com...

If you follow the indie horror scene youll know that one of the best indie franchises out there is Eamon Hardimans Porkchop. Well the Razor Sharp Studio crew is looking to get some help to create the spin-off, Pig Girl. They have set up a page on Indiegogo and are asking for a very modest $1,000 to get this thing made. Below youll find the link again as well as a statement from Eamon.. Hey folks, Im Eamon Hardiman, the director of Porckhop…...

Holy cow, this looks interesting! We finally have the first look at Raging Bull and Rocky, or if you prefer – Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone who star as aging boxers in the upcoming Grudge Match movie! Say what you want, but one thing is for sure – they’re both in a pretty good shape! First, let me remind you that the movie comes from director Peter Segal, and is written by Doug Ellin, Tim Kelleher and Bill Gerber. It centers on retired boxers Billy The Kid McGuigan and Henry Razor Sharp, lifelong bitter rivals who are coaxed out of retirement and into the...

Director Thiagarajan Kumararaja’s feature Aaranya Kaandam (Anima and Persona), starring Jackie Shroff, Sampath Raj, Yasmin Ponnappa and Ravi Krishna has won the Western Union Audience Award at the 3rd London Indian Film Festival (Liff, June 20 – July 3). Sp Charan’s Capital Film Works produced the film.

Kumararaja said: “I don’t know what to say. It’s nice to know that people in Europe loved the film and in fact, that people across continents love the film. It also worked with audiences in the Us and with the jury at the Indian National Awards. And it is appreciated now in Europe also. I’m thrilled.”

Charan said: “I’m happy and proud of Aaranya Kaandam’s success this year. On behalf of Capital Film Works and the crew of Aaranya Kaandam, I would like to first of all congratulate London Indian Film Festival on a successful event this year and...

If you’ve turned on the tv, read a newspaper or gone online in the last month, you know about the movie ‘Bridesmaids’ that hits theaters today. Now we’re telling you about the makeup kit that complements the flick!

Urban Decay makeup teamed up Bridesmaids to create a kit perfect for a bachelorette party or just a fabulous girls night out. With my own sister’s wedding coming up (hi Ariel!) on June 4, I know all about the fun, stressful, interesting, and adventurous things that go along with planning a wedding. Keep reading to take a peek at the kit!

The cute kit, called Urban Bride, includes the Urban Decay Razor Sharp Ultra Definition Finishing Powder, Marshmallow Sparkling Lickable Body Powder, Lip Junkie Lipgloss in Midnight Cowboy, Supercurl Curling Mascara, All Nighter Make-up Setting Spray and the Original Eyeshadow Primer Potion.

The products would be fun to use for...

It's coming. Razor sharp teeth and penetrating tentacles. Get ready to dig on the official Blu-ray and DVD trailer for the new flick from Roger Corman, Sharktopus!

From the Press Release

He was featured in Entertainment Weekly. He was responsible for the highest rated Syfy Channel creature-feature to premiere in September. Whether in print, or the web, merely saying his name out loud inspired terror and fear. Forget Jaws, here comes...Sharktopus! Produced by Roger (2009 Honorary Oscar®-winner) and Julie Corman, Sharktopus makes its DVD and Blu-ray™ debut on March 15, 2011 from Anchor Bay Entertainment. Starring Oscar®-nominee Eric Roberts (The Expendables, The Dark Knight), Sharktopus has already captivated the nation, as more than 2.5M viewers witnessed last September. Srp is $19.98 for the DVD, and $24.99 for the Blu-ray™, with pre-book on February 16th.

An eight-tentacled nightmare hybrid of shark and octopus, “S-11” was created by genetic scientist Nathan Sands (Roberts) as the U.

Do you have issues? Some people do when it comes to how women are portrayed in magazines. You make the call -- are these periodical covers sexy or sexist?

Top 10 Sexy (or Sexist) Magazine CoversSarah Palin's Leg Show

The former vice-presidential candidate isn't too happy about Newsweek "going rogue" by putting a picture of her, originally used for Runners World, on its November 23rd cover. Palin herself voiced her disapproval, criticizing the news magazine's choice as "out-of-context" and "sexist." Newsweek editor Jon Meacham defended his decision, saying it was "simply the most interesting image available."

Um, and he likes to sell magazines.

Bump and Grind(er)

In 1978, Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler, responded to claims that his magazine wassexist, demeaning, and misogynist by publishing a sexist, demeaning, and misogynistic image of a woman being put through a meat grinder. That'll show 'em.

Razor Sharp Gender Bender

Years before Ellen came out with her "Yep,...

I expect that even fans of Gossip Girl enjoy watching the show for all the backstabbing and criticism, and therefore don't even mind when a beloved character gets killed off or embarrassed or whatever else happens to rich, pretty people. So correct me if I'm wrong, but you'll be excited to see Jessica Szohr get eaten in Piranha 3D right? Szohr, also known as Vanessa Abrams on Gossip Girl, has been added to the movie's cast of the Dimension Films remake, which already includes Elisabeth Shue, Richard Dreyfuss, Ving Rhames, Adam Scott and Dina Meyers. Szohr will, true to form, play a co-ed who comes to town for spring break, but just like the beach beauties on Amity Island in Jaws, is apparently doomed to a grisly death. Shooting on the film begins this month in Arizona, and it will be released just in time for swimsuit season on March...