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A father catfishes his own son. That isn’t just the one-line synopsis of writer-director-starJames Morosini’s SXSW entry,I Love My Dad. It’s also something he actually went through in real life. I Love My Dadis based on Morosini’s personal experience. He stars in the film as Franklin, a young adult who’s going through a tough time. His father Chuck (Patton Oswalt) is eager to help, but due to their turbulent relationship, Franklin opts to cut his dad out of his life entirely....

FromCapotetoPunch Drunk Love,Philip Seymour Hoffmanproved that he had limitless range when it came to the scope and breadth of the characters he plays. Maybe his most emotional role of all is in a film that you might have skipped over back in 1999 when he played a gay drag queen named Rusty oppositeRobert De NiroinFlawless. Though the film was not one of Hoffman’s most widely seen projects, his heart-rendering story of a flamboyant drag queen awaiting gender reassignment surgery is one of the most poignant roles of his career....

This March marks the beginning of the end of an era for one of the wildest shows on television. The CW announced thatRiverdale’s seventh and final season will premiere Wednesday, March 29 at 9 p.m. ET. Its series finale is scheduled to air on August 23 and will be paired with the series finale forNancy Drew. Riverdalefirst began its run in 2017 and followed its core crew as high schoolers as they set out to solve a murder....

IfSherlock’s second episode of the season “The Lying Detective,” made us sure of anything, it’s that only Sherlock matters. That’s notterrible.BenedictCumberbatchis outstanding, and in an episode like this one he was at peak performance. Sherlock once again played with his drug addiction to manipulate those around him, and got the desired results, showing how much of a pawn everyone is in his life. This is particularly true of John Watson, who was not only manipulated again by Sherlock, but also by his deceased wife,andthe missing Holmes sibling....

Last month, we reported that Marvel/Disney and Sony were splitting ways overSpider-Man. Sony still wanted to makeSpider-Manmovies, naturally, but Marvel Studios headKevin Feigewould no longer be the head creative. The split came down to money with Disney wanting a 50/50 co-financing deal on future Spider-Man projects as opposed to the previous deal where they only got 5%. Granted, going from 5% to 50% is a lot, especially for one of Sony’s biggest properties, but I would argue that 50% of a movie people want is better than 100% of a movie people don’t want....

AfterStar Wars: The Force Awakensopens, we will be inundated with not only reviews, but also a multitude of thinkpieces as sites try to wring every last drop from this hit-licious fruit Disney has delivered to us. But few observations will be as stinging and as telling as whatGeorge Lucashad to say about the movie. While he didn’t go into specifics, when he was asked about his opinion on the film at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington on Sunday, he replied [viaVulture]:...

Welcome to theSaturday Mourning Cartoonspodcast, the weekly show for all things animation, including news, reviews, and interviews, from co-hostsDave TrumboreandSean Paul Ellis. This week, Dave recaps animation news out of D23 and reviews the new Cartoon Network special,Steven Universe: The Movie. The first movie, and a musical one at that, arrives on Cartoon Network this Labor Day, Monday, September 2nd at 6/5c. But never fear; this is aspoiler-freereview, so you can listen to find out if checking out the acclaimed cartoon’s first movie is worth your while....

A24 has released a new trailer for its much-anticipated fantasy filmThe Green Knight, starringDev Patelin the role of the legendary Sir Gawain and inspired by the centuries-old Arthurian legend. The new trailer dropped a day after a character-specific posterfeaturing Patel’s Gawain, as well as a teasing tweet from A24 confirming that fans would very soon have a new look at the upcoming movie directed and written byDavid Lowery(A Ghost Story,Peter Pan & Wendy)....

Adelaide Clemensfaces a difficult romantic decision in a new Collider exclusive trailer for the musical romance filmThe Swearing Jar. Hailing from directorLindsay MacKay(Wet Bum), the film stars Clemens as Carey, a music teacher who throws a birthday concert for her husband, reflecting on all the happy memories and tribulations they faced over their years together including the birth of their child and a lie that threatens their marriage. In the process, she establishes a connection with the guitarist Owen (Douglas Smith), leaving her torn between two separate love stories that are due to collide on stage....

Vanderpump Rulesbad boyTom SandovaltoldAmerica’s Got Talentcameras he was nervous to take the stage in a post-Scandoval world — but the reality is, those nerves weren’t about hisreputation as a reality TV villain. Sandoval became persona non grata when theMay 2023 cheating scandal exploded, affecting both his TV image and his personal life with ex-girlfriend Ariana Madix. After it was revealed Sandoval had a year-long affair with Madix’s close friendRaquel Leviss, he became globally excommunicated....

There’s no partnership quite like depression and anxiety. Like any other dynamic duo, the two complement one another, make each other brighter and more vivid. Each feeds into the other, growing, ebbing, flowing, taking turns, working in tandem to ensure you, the human vessel acting as their playground, are completely miserable. No television show gets that quite likeBig Mouth, and no show comes close to depicting it as accurately. By taking these big, heavy, emotional concepts and making them tangible beings of their own,Big Mouthallows them to feel real in a way our own minds refuse to let us....

[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Season 4 of What We Do in the Shadows.]The events of Season 4 of the FX seriesWhat We Do in the Shadowshave been quite a wild ride, with the mansion crumbling, Nandor’s (Kayvan Novak) love life not living up to expectations, Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) becoming disillusioned with his current life status, Nadja’s (Natasia Demetriou) vampire club turning out to be less than successful, and Laszlo (Matt Berry) not knowing how to handle Baby Colin Robinson’s growth spurts....

We do not want or need athirdxXxmovie, and yet because theFast & Furiousfranchise had to go and be so damn successful, here we are, back in what may as well be 2002 withVin Dieselable to command a few franchises despite his extremely limited acting range and charisma. In 2002,xXxwas supposed to be the answer to James Bond, and it was so laughably bad that even Diesel fled the sequel,xXx: State of the Union, a film I have seen and yet can’t properly articulate why....