Whether you want it or not, it’s time to face the facts: this Wonka movie is really happening. A lot of us were in denial and just went along with it for a while before the daunting realization settled in that this movie is actually done and they didn’t just quit when those photos of Timothee Chalamet prancing around on set were released nearly two years ago. It’s actually a full-length film and not a weird Super Bowl ad. I know! We were all thinking it.
Wonka will make its grand debut in December, and today another trailer was released, this time highlighting what will no doubt be the best part of the film: Hugh Grant as a “lofty” Oompa Loompa sidekick.
The movie will show the humble beginnings of Wonka and how the quirky chocolatier made a name for himself and his famous treats, while also making some enemies along the way. You know, like the guy who would pop up out of nowhere and legitimately ruin your childhood.
Chalamet stars as Willy alongside Keegan-Michael Key, Calah Lane, Matt Lucas, Sally Hawkins, Olivia Colman, and Rowan Atkinson (literally Mr. Bean, for those of you who are familiar). The musical is from Paul King, the King who gave the world Paddington, so there has to be some real heart here.
Wonka will prance into theaters and give you cavities on December 15th. Check out the trailer above.
(Trigger Warning: Discussion of sexual assault will be found below.)
There are toxic relationships of many varieties. Then there’s the relationship at the heart of Netflix’sFair Play, which feels cartoonish and amped-up at times, but that’s to be expected when the couple happens to live in a heightened reality of cutthroat hedge funding. Let’s just say that there are layers, which at first beckon towards fans of romantic thrillers. Yet what transpires, ultimately, is anything but romantic, and both Phoebe Dynevor (Bridgerton) and Alden Ehrenreich (Cocaine Bear) give it their all while troubling motives unfold throughout this film that debuted at Sundance.
First-time director Chloe Domont also wrote the screenplay, which she described as an exorcism of sorts. On that note, she drew from the experience of “specifically dating men who I felt were threatened by either my ambition or any little bits of accomplishments.” That’s exactly what goes down throughout the film, which follows Emily (Dynevor) and Luke (Ehrenreich), who are engaged in a romantic relationship (and they literally become engaged to marry) that is prohibited due to policies at their mutual employer. Soon enough, we learn that Emily is better at the job than Luke, and when she receives a promotion (which Luke believed that he was going to receive), this does not go over well despite his initially feigned reaction.
This leads to the twisting of already twisted relationship power dynamics, which is exactly what Emily does not need when it’s been difficult to succeed in a male-dominated workplace. The relationship rapidly begins to deteriorate once she is promoted, and eventually, the passive aggression turns to real aggression. Luke cannot handle that Emily would be more powerful than him at work, and he claims his power over her in a violent way. That includes a scene — at their surprise engagement party — where Luke rapes Emily, but before that happened, he attempted to sabotage her career by revealing their relationship to the boss.
In the end, Emily manages to turn the situation around in a bit of “fair play” at work, but more importantly, she deals with him on a personal level. He later surfaces in their apartment, where he tells her about his new, better job (which is far away), as though he’s simply moving onto better pastures. Of course, Emily is no longer “in it” and simply wants him to admit what he did to her and to cry, but his adherence to toxic masculinity just won’t let him go there. She slashes his arm with a knife, and he eventually relents with an apology and admission of rape. He also admits to being a monster, which is what she needed to hear. And now… closure.
Latto and Sexyy Red recently remixed Young Nudy’s “Peaches & Eggplants,” and Latto just aligned with food-related subject matter in a much more literal sense. On Thursday, October 12, Latto and Christina Aguilera joined forces for a Just Eat ad that must have had an extraordinary budget.
In an Instagram Reel posted by Latto and Just Eat, a UK-based online food delivery brand, Latto and Aguilera are swimming in Victorian-esque gowns and icy jewels while singing in a mansion that could also easily pass for a museum. Latto raps in her always-confident flow, which is complemented by Aguilera’s bonkers operatic range.
“Did somebody say just eat?” Latto spits. “Oh, you thought it was just burgers and fries? / They got more flavors than you tasted or you heard in your life / Ooh, this is what the app do / It ain’t only fast food / Switchin’ styles like opera to rap, too / Yummy!”
Latto continues to impressively make Just Eat’s expansion into grocery delivery sound like any of her past hard bars about much more compelling things and inserts her playful lyricism with lines like “I’m a bad girl but my takeout badder / What you mean, dude? I could cop a taco platter.” To top it off, Aguilera’s final falsetto shatters a chandelier. In other words, money well spent by Just Eat.
Each week our staff of film and TV experts surveys the entertainment landscape to select the ten best new/newish shows available for you to stream at home. We put a lot of thought into our selections, and our debates on what to include and what not to include can sometimes get a little heated and feelings may get hurt, but so be it, this is an important service for you, our readers. With that said, here are our selections for this week.
Naked Attraction is a lot like every other dating show. Except for the part where the contestants barely meet each other. And the part where someone chooses a mate based almost entirely on comparing their nude body to a bunch of other also-nude bodies. And the part where there are just a ton of exposed dongs. So… maybe it’s not like the other dating shows you’ve seen. But it sure does exist. Go there now and look if you don’t believe us.
LaKeith Stanfield heads into the horror realm in this adaptation of Victor LaValle’s acclaimed novel. The show promises to be a grown-up fairytale begins in a New York City library and heads into a version of the Big Apple that usually remains closed from human eyes. It’s also a parenthood fable, and yes, it truly feels like the scariest horror stories often revolve around kids, whether they happen to be good or evil. Given Stanfield’s ability to showcase the surreal in various other projects, one can bet that this quality adds to the spooks in this series.
What we have on our hands here is a Bachelor spinoff about an older gentleman looking for love from a group of similarly aged ladies. Which is… honestly kind of adorable. Good for them. And good for us, too, especially if one of the episodes features a date where they eat dinner at a diner at 4:45 and then go watch an episode of Columbo in matching recliners. This was written as a joke but honestly sounds kind of wonderful. That’s true love right there, people.
Is The Morning Show the best drama on TV in a world absent Better Call Saul and Succession? Well, no, but it’s definitely the dramaest drama on TV, leaning on its star power to cut through moments that might be eye-roll-inducing if you weren’t so captivated by the screen presence of Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Billy Crudup, and Jon Hamm, who joins this season as a handsome version of Elon Musk. Backstabbing, front-stabbing, walk and talks, politics, high tension, and ripped-from-the-headlines storylines all come together, yet again, with our news and media power players moving more fully toward the game of mergers, acquisitions, and boardroom battles where the real prizes can be found.
The only “solo” spinoff of AMC’s post-apocalyptic world is upon us. Daryl is most entertaining character to send to France, and he’s also the least religious of the bunch, which makes it awfully funny to see him hanging with a bunch of nuns after waking up in France like “WTF?” Most of all, though, Daryl earns his “Big Ass Kicker” nickname and we also get a lovely character study of the most loyal and industrious survivor of Rick’s old bunch. The action also delivers, so get ready for crossbows and total chaos at Parisian landmarks. Pssst, we also chose the most essential to watch before this spinoff.
The important information here is that this is a docuseries about how Juul kind of took over the world for a minute or two and it led to a nationwide nicotine crisis the likes of which we haven’t seen since the days when cigarettes were advertised on every major television show on all three of the networks that existed at the time, but it’s also worth noting that “Big Vape” would be an incredible nickname for like a beefy power forward on small-school college basketball team. So there is a lot to consider here.
Dan Harmon’s long-gestating cartoon take on Ancient Greece is here. He’s had big success in the world of animation before with both Solar Opposites and Rick and Morty, so there’s reason for optimism even if the reviews of the first few episodes are a little dicey. You have time. Don’t pretend like you don’t. You’re not fooling anyone, Derek. (This works better if your name is Derek.)
The horniest kids in Britain are back and ready to go out with a bang – a lot of banging, actually. The fourth season of this Netflix comedy is set to be its last, but before the goodbyes Otis, Eric, Maeve, Aimee, and the rest of the students from Moordale have some growing up to do. While Maeva studies under an eccentric author in America (hello Dan Levy), Otis and Eric struggle to climb the social hierarchy of their new school – one that’s so progressive, they’ve already filled his position of “student sex therapist.”
This 2023 movie goes back to the 1973 short story by Stephen King as the perfect streaming lead-in to nightmares about Halloween season. This is not a true tale, but perhaps thinking of it that way can increase the terror. The story explores the enduring Boogeyman/Bogeyman folklore that has persisted around the globe for centuries. We’ve got a distracted father not paying enough attention to a pair of sisters, who begin to experience horrors that could trigger any lingering fears you’ve ever had about monsters lurking in your bedroom closet. The cast includes Sophie Thatcher, David Dastmalchian, and Chris Messina.
RL Stine’s Goosebumps series was the catalyst for plenty of children’s nightmares in the 90s and Disney+ is hoping to continue that reign of terror with their latest reboot. The kids have aged up – they’re high schoolers with hormonal angst seeping from their pores now. And the mystery isn’t anthologized, instead spread out over the course of 10 episodes. But you can still feel Stine’s evil genius working as murder investigations and suspicious parents and cursed artifacts open up a bigger world of supernatural secrets.
Well, guess what: Spooky season is here and, with it, a whole bunch of creepy horror-adjacent things to watch. Like, for example, this one, starring Lil Rel Howery and described thusly by Hulu: “A businessman mysteriously wakes up in an open-air prison cell with only an old grist mill. Forced to work as a beast of burden, he must find a way to escape before the birth of his child.” We’ve all been there, you know?
Brie Larson has never shied away from speaking out for feminist causes, and in this series, she stars in the adaptation of Bonnie Garmus’ bestselling novel, Lessons In Chemistry. Garmus became an overnight “a literary rock star” at age 66 for this impressive debut novel that is all the rage in book clubs everywhere. That will give the show a built-in audience as Larson portrays a brilliant chemist who is fired for a sexist double standard. This leads to an unexpected career change as a cooking show host. This high-profile new platform allows her to sandwich in other nuggets of wisdom for housewives as well as demonstrating how to bake yummy cookies.
Come for the dong jokes, and stay for the dong jokes. Much like The Boys, this spinoff does not skim on the raunch, and it also gives us a whole new roster of Supes who might feel differently about Vought International’s motives. This series seemingly pulls off the impossible by managing to be as appealing as the flagship series without the presence of its most shining and degraded beacon, Homelander. This franchise shows no sign of wearing out or fatiguing its audience as both the MCU and DCU have managed to do, which might be the most heroic feat of all in the present entertainment realm.
The official description here reads as follows: “Willie E. Gary, an unconventional lawyer, helps Jeremiah Joseph O’Keefe, a funeral home owner with financial troubles, save his family business from a corporate behemoth.” And that’s nice. But the real story here is that we have Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones in a movie together that you can watch on the same website where you can order a new blender. That’s… it’s kind of incredible. The future is weird but not always in bad ways.
When we last left Loki, the title character (Tom Hiddleston) had traveled to an alternate version of the Time Variance Authority where no one remembers him and there are statues of Kang (Jonathan Majors) everywhere. This second season picks up where we left off, only Loki soon discovers he’s being thrust back and forth not to an alternate timeline, but the past and present of his current timeline. Seeking the help of the present-day Mobius (Owen Wilson, the past’s version doesn’t know Loki) the two seek out Ke Huy Quan’ Ouroboros (or OB for short), a fellow who has been around a long time and seems to know how to do everything, to stop Loki from doing these involuntary jumps back and forth through time.
Also, Loki and Mobius are charged with finding one of Kang’s variants, for reasons that are too complicated to explain here. So the pair travel to 19th-century Chicago to find an inventor and con man named Victor Timely. The problem is other people with the ability to jump through time are also after Timely and his fate has repercussions on multiple timelines.
This show is a lot, which is by design, but it’s still a lot. The first season played as good fun, and this second season is also fun, though maybe just a little less so (at least through four episodes), but while watching it’s hard to forget the real world where one of the main cast members is on trial for assault.
Kaitlyn Dever has been killing it since her Justified days (Team Loretta), and her Dopesick, Unbelievable, and Booksmart performances sealed the deal. Here, she stays nearly silent — much harder than it sounds, once you see what she goes through — in this story that puts an extraterrestrial twist on home-invasion horror. Before you watch, be sure to pull those blinds and double lock those doors because you’re in for a hell of a good-scary time
Mike Flanagan fans, get ready. The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass showrunner is back along with Carla Gugino, who will spook your soul right out of your bod and deliver a “consequential” evening to “a collection of stunted hearts” that is the Usher family. Yikes. Do not expect a literal adaptation of the Edgar Allen Poe short story. The story focuses here on the hell created by ruthless siblings Roderick and Madeline Usher, who built Fortunato Pharmaceuticals into an empire of wealth, privilege, and power. Horrible secrets shall surface when the heirs to the Usher dynasty start dying at the hands of a mysterious woman, portrayed with glee by Gugino.
Rick and Morty used to take notoriously long breaks between seasons, but not this time. Season seven of the animated sci-fi comedy series returns less than a year after the season six finale. There have been big changes behind the scenes, however: co-creator Justin Roiland, who also voiced the title characters, was fired from the show. Tricky line to straddle going forward, but the show has rarely let us down before.
Hey, here’s a fun one. We’ve got Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi and everyone is a pirate and most of them are gay. This show has been an unexpected blast for a while now and it’s always nice when those are in our lives. Treat yourself. Have some fun. Watch some gay pirates on the high seas. You deserve it.
Netflix snagged the rights to this movie after it lit up Sundance and it’s easy to see why. The erotic thriller “follows a young couple whose relationship starts to unravel following an unexpected promotion at a cutthroat hedge fund firm,” which is already classic Netflix-bait, but it was also generally received well by critics who saw it. Steamy and classy. Best of both worlds.
Rudolph Isley, a founding member of The Isley Brothers, is dead at 84 years old, TMZ reports. The publication says he passed away in Illinois on Wednesday, October 11. The cause of death has not yet been confirmed.
At some point, most likely between the ages of seven and ten, you probably had a class pet hanging out in the back of your classroom. Maybe it was a fish or a gerbil or a little hamster named Cheez-It who eventually got lost inside the pipes on a cold winter day but the point is that he was still a part of the classroom ecosystem (may he rest in peace and I’m sorry that I let him out). Imagine all of the gross and/or boring stories that those class pets could tell! This was the basic inspiration behind Leo, Netflix‘s latest animated feature. Who else would play an old, jaded lizard better than Adam Sandler?
Sandler stars as the titular Leo who has been in the classroom for over 70 years, watching students come and go and witnessing historic events through the eyes of a bunch of fifth graders. Leo wants to explore the outside, and it seems like this group of students might be his ticket to freedom. Here is the official synopsis:
Actor and comedian Adam Sandler (Hotel Transylvania, The Wedding Singer) delivers signature laughs in this coming-of-age animated musical comedy about the last year of elementary school – as seen through the eyes of a class pet. Jaded 74-year-old lizard Leo (Sandler) has been stuck in the same Florida classroom for decades with his terrarium-mate turtle (Bill Burr). When he learns he only has one year left to live, he plans to escape to experience life on the outside but instead gets caught up in the problems of his anxious students — including an impossibly mean substitute teacher. It ends up being the strangest but most rewarding bucket list ever…
For the second time this year, Sandler stars alongside his daughters Sadie and Sunny and wife Jackie. The family previously shared the screen in the Netflix comedy You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah which showed that nepotism can actually pay off sometimes. Leo also stars a handful of other comedians, including Cecily Strong, Jason Alexander, Rob Schneider, Heidi Gardner, Nick Swardson, Nicholas Turturro, Robert Smigel, Jo Koy and Stephanie Hsu.
Leo hits Netflix on November 21st. Check out the trailer above.
Rudolph Isley, a founding member of The Isley Brothers, is dead at 84 years old, TMZ reports. The publication says he passed away in Illinois on Wednesday, October 11. The cause of death has not yet been confirmed.
At some point, most likely between the ages of seven and ten, you probably had a class pet hanging out in the back of your classroom. Maybe it was a fish or a gerbil or a little hamster named Cheez-It who eventually got lost inside the pipes on a cold winter day but the point is that he was still a part of the classroom ecosystem (may he rest in peace and I’m sorry that I let him out). Imagine all of the gross and/or boring stories that those class pets could tell! This was the basic inspiration behind Leo, Netflix‘s latest animated feature. Who else would play an old, jaded lizard better than Adam Sandler?
Sandler stars as the titular Leo who has been in the classroom for over 70 years, watching students come and go and witnessing historic events through the eyes of a bunch of fifth graders. Leo wants to explore the outside, and it seems like this group of students might be his ticket to freedom. Here is the official synopsis:
Actor and comedian Adam Sandler (Hotel Transylvania, The Wedding Singer) delivers signature laughs in this coming-of-age animated musical comedy about the last year of elementary school – as seen through the eyes of a class pet. Jaded 74-year-old lizard Leo (Sandler) has been stuck in the same Florida classroom for decades with his terrarium-mate turtle (Bill Burr). When he learns he only has one year left to live, he plans to escape to experience life on the outside but instead gets caught up in the problems of his anxious students — including an impossibly mean substitute teacher. It ends up being the strangest but most rewarding bucket list ever…
For the second time this year, Sandler stars alongside his daughters Sadie and Sunny and wife Jackie. The family previously shared the screen in the Netflix comedy You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah which showed that nepotism can actually pay off sometimes. Leo also stars a handful of other comedians, including Cecily Strong, Jason Alexander, Rob Schneider, Heidi Gardner, Nick Swardson, Nicholas Turturro, Robert Smigel, Jo Koy and Stephanie Hsu.
Leo hits Netflix on November 21st. Check out the trailer above.
At this point, Merriam-Webster would be well within its right to tweak the definition of “surprise” to include Taylor Swift. Then again, at what point should we all stop being surprised by Swift’s latest good ideas and power moves? Perhaps it speaks to her bottomless innovation that she still manages to raise eyebrows 17 years into her unprecedented career.
Per Billboard, Swift performed “Our Song” (from her self-titled debut album) on March 24 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas and again on August 4 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. The performance in the film is from the SoFi show. “You’re On Your Own, Kid” (from Midnights, the song given the heralded “Track 5” honor) was also a rare double-dip surprise song on April 14 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, and then filmed for the movie on August 5 at SoFi.
At this point, Merriam-Webster would be well within its right to tweak the definition of “surprise” to include Taylor Swift. Then again, at what point should we all stop being surprised by Swift’s latest good ideas and power moves? Perhaps it speaks to her bottomless innovation that she still manages to raise eyebrows 17 years into her unprecedented career.
Per Billboard, Swift performed “Our Song” (from her self-titled debut album) on March 24 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas and again on August 4 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. The performance in the film is from the SoFi show. “You’re On Your Own, Kid” (from Midnights, the song given the heralded “Track 5” honor) was also a rare double-dip surprise song on April 14 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, and then filmed for the movie on August 5 at SoFi.
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