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Ed would have grumbled about Lenya’s party for the crew of the Sojourner-T (now preparing for a new mission to Titan), but he understood the gesture. Lenya got the idea from her memories of launch parties Tasha used to attend in Star City. It was also a clever way to distract the residents of Happy Valley from the recent drama surrounding Lee’s escape and refocus them on their jobs. Lenya and Tasha, with their focus on the working class, reminded Ed a little too much of the wealthy industrialists of the past.

She has a remarkable talent: she’s taught herself to sing “The Winner Takes It All” exactly like Meryl Streep in the movie Mamma Mia! She claims she can recreate the entire performance, mirroring every nuance. When the song starts, she explains she imagines Pierce Brosnan is performing with her, then flawlessly adopts Streep’s vocal style and posture. It’s a meticulously crafted impersonation, complete with subtle details like pretending to adjust and run with a scarf during the instrumental break. Afterwards, she playfully declares it “the performance of a generation,” especially praising her rendition of the line, “I don’t wanna talk.”

In the eighth episode of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2, Godzilla plays a key role, directly joining the battle against Titan X. He’s drawn to Australia by a device created by Suzuki, which allows communication with Titans, and enters a conflict that has been developing throughout the season.

Fantasy stories often explore similar ideas, like fighting against unfair rules, starting revolutions, and completely overturning broken systems. Like fantasy in general, dystopian fiction has become very popular recently, thanks to successful series like The Hunger Games and The Handmaid’s Tale. Whether the story features dragons or oppressive leaders, the most popular ones are often based on bestselling novels. Netflix’s Shadow and Bone follows this trend, but also stands out with its exceptionally well-developed magic system.

While promoting the live-action Moana at CinemaCon, Dwayne Johnson shared his thoughts on how men should be portrayed in stories today.

It does eventually happen, but it takes a very long time. This Mummy movie is a ridiculously over-the-top, gross-out film that oddly tries to be a slow, thoughtful experience. (I hesitate to even use its full title, Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, which seems unnecessary considering the other Mummy films starring Tom Cruise and Brendan Fraser. It makes it sound like director Lee Cronin, known for Evil Dead Rise, is a major celebrity.) But the film doesn’t offer enough substance to justify its slow pace, as it moves from Egypt to the desert of the American Southwest, where the Cannon family – including teenager Sebastián and young Maud – are trying to rebuild their lives. It’s not nearly as unsettling or emotionally resonant as Hereditary, either in its portrayal of something deeply wrong within the family’s New Mexico home, or in its exploration of parental guilt and grief. By the time the movie finally embraces its wild side with peeling skin, reanimated corpses, and a scorpion attack, it’s already lost most of the audience’s patience.

The new film You, Me, & Tuscany highlights how much we need more romantic comedies with Black leads. Luckily, many of these films are genuinely enjoyable – some are well-loved classics, and others are delightful discoveries.

NBC has renewed Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for a 28th season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. This means Olivia Benson and her team will be back for another year, and the show will continue its run as the longest-running live-action primetime drama series in American television history. The renewal was announced on April 16th.

After Netflix secured the rights to continue the Benoit Blanc mysteries created by Rian Johnson, the films became known as the Knives Out series. Each new movie takes Blanc to a completely new location and presents him with a different murder to solve. As long as Daniel Craig wants to continue playing the charmingly Southern detective, Netflix can keep making and profiting from these “A Knives Out Mystery” films, potentially creating a long-running franchise.

The Julio Torres who was sitting next to me in his big bright Greenpoint studio is only sort of like that. He’s boyish but not at all naïve — he knows exactly what he is doing. He is so good at playing the wise fool that I realized that’s who I expected to meet. Julio Torres is “an unconscious construct,” he explained, when I asked the obvious question. “It’s like when you have a service job and you do your customer-service voice. ‘How’s everything tasting?’ That person’s not rehearsing in the mirror before they go to work. But they ask in a way that they have landed on so that the answer is ‘great.’ We all do it. There’s a version of ourselves that we put on when we go to work. My persona is as much of a persona as those.”