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Have yourself a melancholy little Christmas with Bill Murray. Netflix released a teaser on Friday for A Very Murray Christmas, which admittedly doesn’t tell us much. Murray, wearing a reindeer headpiece, stares out a window, before turning around, sighing a little and walking away. If this seems a little like Lost in Translation: The Christmas…
The first trailer has arrived for Fox’s Minority Report TV show, outlining the set-up for the sci-fi spin-off which follows on from the events of Steven Spielberg’s big screen smash. The new series is set 10 years after the end of Pre-crime in DC, and follows one of the programme’s Pre-cogs attempting to lead a…
On Thursday, former reality television personality turned Family Research Council executive director Josh Duggar resigned his position at the organization after admitting to sexually molesting several underage teenage girls 12 years ago, some of whom may have been his sisters. Duggar had been previously featured on TLC’s hit show 19 Kids and Counting, about a wholesome Christian family with many children. In Touch…
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Call from Oklahoma: I don’t know what’s going on in this world right now. Obama’s a Muslim and that’s all I’ve got to say. C-SPAN’s Steve Scully: Obama is not a Muslim, but thank you for making your comment. Call from Michigan: We need to get rid of every Muslim out of the country [sic],…
The Agents of SHIELD can stand down. Constantine can go to hell. Daredevil got the crap kicked out of it. And Arrow? You just got outshot by your little brother. The Flash finale wasn’t quite perfect, but it showed exactly why it’s the best comic book show currently on TV. I know I’m frequently guilty…
Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark and Alfie Allen as Theon Greyjoy in “Game of Thrones.” (Helen Sloan/HBO) Plenty of viewers have declared themselves done with “Game of Thrones” after the May 17 episode in which Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) was raped on her wedding night by her new husband, Ramsay Bolton (Iwan Rheon). They join the ranks of defectors…
She never leaves the Vale, continuing to live there as “Alayne”, the alleged illegitimate daughter of Petyr Baelish, aka Littlefinger. After the death of Lady Arryn, her aunt, she becomes the Lady of the Eyrie (in fact if not in name), and learns the ways of courtly intrigue from Petyr. 10. In the TV show,…
The best series finales ever “Newhart,” “The Last Newhart,” 1990 “Newhart,” in which Bob Newhart played a Vermont innkeeper, though amiable, was less memorable than its predecessor, “The Bob Newhart Show.” And, indeed, the show was, in its final minutes, dismissed as ancillary to “The Bob Newhart Show,” when Newhart woke up to his “Bob…
Look, movie villains’ plans never make perfect sense. That’s the price we pay so we can watch our heroes foil them with explosions and clever witticisms, and it’s a price we pay gladly. But while we don’t expect our bad guys to be infallible geniuses, we at least expect them to not be actively tripping…