Earlier this year, NBA star Draymond Green courted the wrath of female athletes and fans of women’s sports everywhere by suggesting that pro women’s leagues haven’t done enough to court corporate dollars, adding that they can’t complain about the pay gap between men and women’s pro sports until they do. Green’s… Read more…
Jared Harris stars as Hari Seldon, who has developed a mathematical approach to sociology he calls “psychohistory” that enables him to predict the future of large populations. [credit: Apple TV+ ] This fall is shaping up to be a good one for fans of classic science fiction. Not only are we getting Denis Villeneuve’s film […]
Simu Liu as Shang-Chi, a skilled martial artist who was trained at a young age to be an assassin by his father Wenwu (Tony Leung). [credit: YouTube/Marvel Studios ] Marvel’s official trailer for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is here, giving us a bit more of the title character’s backstory. It also serves up […]
Enlarge / Omar Sy returns as Assane Diop, who seeks to avenge his father’s death by drawing inspiration from fictional gentleman thief Arsene Lupin. (credit: Netflix) French actor Omar Sy returns in another knockout turn as self-styled “gentleman thief” Assane Diop in Part 2 of Netflix’s surprise French hit series Lupin. In my review earlier this […]
It’s Jia Courtney’s smiling Aussie face, introducing the latest trailer for The Suicide Squad, in which he reprises his role as Captain Boomerang. [credit: YouTube/Warner Bros. ] Australian actor Jai Courtney introduces a new “early access” trailer from Warner Bros. for director James Gunn’s forthcoming The Suicide Squad, in which Courtney reprises his role as Captain Boomerang […]
The NBA is thinking about expanding. The likely destinations? Seattle and Las Vegas. Both make sense for a myriad of reasons. Seattle, once home to the SuperSonics, has been without an NBA franchise since 2008, and just got its first NHL team, the Kraken. Vegas, meanwhile, is a growing haven for pro sports. The Vegas… […]
Ryan Reynolds, Samuel Jackson, and Salma Hayek reunite for more madcap hijinks in The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard. It took a little while for Ryan Reynolds to find his true cinematic niche—one that makes good use of his rare combination of leading-man looks, self-deprecating amiability, and smartly sardonic sense of humor. He was sheer perfection in […]
Patrick Stewart returns as Jean-Luc Picard in the second season of Picard, coming to Paramount+ in 2022. We aren’t getting a second season of Picard until next year due to the pandemic delaying production, but Paramount+ has been dribbling out images and short teasers in the meantime. The latest teaser gives us our first look […]
Sci-fi drama Invasion follows multiple storylines across different continents, providing “a global look at how one alien invasion would affect us all.” Apple TV+ has a solid hit with its alternative-history sci-fi drama For All Mankind, which just wrapped its second season, and the streaming platform clearly hopes to repeat that success with a new […]
Jared Harris as Hari Seldon, a mathematician whose “psychohistory” approach predicts the collapse of the Galactic Empire. [credit: YouTube/Apple TV ] Last summer, we got our first glimpse of Apple TV’s hotly anticipated adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series of novels when the streamer dropped a teaser trailer during the 2020 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Production […]