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Need to take a break from Christmas movies and not sure what to watch on Netflix this month? We’ve got you covered. As usual, Netflix has a whole lot of new shows streaming in December 2020, from its ever-growing arsenal of originals to some slept-on network shows making their way to streaming for the first time, and even the all-time comfort-watch that isJeopardy!And heck, if you really want to stick with the holiday vibe, but you’ve already watched all your seasonal favorites, you may dig into the making of two holiday movie classics withThe Holiday Movies That Made Us....

With the first three episodesThe BoysSeason 2 now streaming on Amazon, before going weekly for the rest of the season, I recently spoke toKaren Fukuhara(Kimiko Miyashiro) andTomer Capon(Frenchie) about making the highly anticipated second season. Before doing the interview, I’d watched the first three episodes of Season 2, but since then I’ve seen the entire second season and can assure you it’s fantastic andloadedwith crazy WTF moments and plenty of twists and turns you won’t see coming....

The bond between fathers and sons is a sacred institution of the American ideal. In the Rockwellian archetype, that bond conjures potent imagery – playing catch, frank conversations about the facts of life, and teaching your boy the family business. But there’s also a less picturesque side to the tradition of inherited masculinity. There are the fathers who beat their sons, teaching them to channel anger through violence, those who oppress their sons less conventional desires in favor of maintaining their pride, the dads who profess piousness and purity while reveling in a life of sin....

It has been eight years since the final movie inThe Hobbittrilogy was released in theaters. Though the series came with mixed reactions, it was still an adventurous look back at the history before Frodo and his Fellowship for lovers of the world of Middle-earth andThe Lord of the Rings. When Amazon Studios announced that they would be creating a series based on the Second Age history of Middle-earth, fans were once again reinvigorated to look into the world ofJ....

In the past few years, the legacy ofSpider-Manhas expanded across film and television. BothSpider-Man: Into the Spider-VerseandSpider-Man: No Way Homefeature multiple web-slingers uniting across time and space — and they happen to be critical and commercial successes to boot! On top of that, Sony is continuing to flesh out the Spider-Verse with twonew Prime Video series based on SilkandSpider-Man Noir, although the latter will be quite different fromNicolas Cage’s take on the private eye turned wall-crawler....

It’s officially official:True Detectiveis back. While HBOhit something of a pause buttonafter the critically derided second season, buzz aboutTrue DetectiveSeason 3 started surfacing earlier this year, suggesting the show wasn’t entirely dead. Indeed, creator/showrunnerNic Pizzolattowas teamed up with HBO veteranDavid Milch(Deadwood,Luck) to come up with a story for a third season of the anthology series, and Oscar-winningMoonlightactorMahershala Alisigned on to star this summer. Now HBO has given the official greenlight toTrue DetectiveSeason 3, perTHR, announcing thatGreen RoomandBlue RuinfilmmakerJeremy Saulnierwill direct alongside Pizzolatto, who will make his directorial debut on the third season....

Based on Blizzard Entertainment’s global phenomenonWorld of Warcraft, played by more than 100 million people since its inception, the epic sagaWarcraftsees the peaceful realm of Azeroth on the brink of war, as it faces invasion by orc warriors who are fleeing their dying home to colonize another. As one army faces the other, two heroes – human commander Anduin Lothar (Travis Fimmel) and orc chieftain Durotan (Toby Kebbell) – are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their people and their home....

Not everyone at NBC is going soft onDonald Trump. Following backlash againstJimmy Fallonfor not only hosting the vile Republican Presidential Nominee onThe Tonight Showlast week but also refusing to ask him a single question of substance,Seth Meyerslast night took aim at the loathsome politician and it’s quite possibly the angriest we’ve ever seen him onLate Night with Seth Meyers. Taking down Trump is nothing new for Meyers—he straight up destroyed the human orange dreamsicle at the White House Correspondents Dinner in 2011 and, earlier this year, cheekily announced that Trump wasnot allowed to come onLate Nightafter Trump banned the Washington Post from covering his campaign....

It was averyquiet weekend at the box office as moviegoers appear to be saving up their hard-earned money for multiple trips to seeAvengers: Endgamenext weekend. The Warner Bros./New Line horror filmThe Curse of La Lloronatopped the weekend with a solid $26.5 million—above expectations—but overall it was the slowest Easter weekend since 2005, when theAshton Kutcher-ledGuess Who’s Coming to Dinnerremake topped the charts. Remember that one? No? Alrighty then. La Lloronais a 70s-set horror thriller produced byJames Wanwith tangential ties toThe Conjuringuniverse, but while it suffered pretty negative reviews, audiences didn’t seem to mind all that much (see also:The Nun)....

It is a long-touted maxim, passed down through generations, that women love bad boys. Nice guys finished last. Attraction and repulsion, desire and disgust, fear and eroticism – the parallel pleasures of toxic romance live on both sides of a razor’s edge, and few screen love stories have ever captured the can’t-turn-away-from-the-wreckage thrall of seductive obsession likeYou. The Lifetime series turned Netflix sensation surprised when it landed on the streaming service after meeting middling success on basic cable and absolutely blew up on streaming, proving its depraved delights were a perfect match for the compulsive catharsis of Netflix’s signature binge-viewing format....

While many would’ve wondered if it was wise of Universal to releaseTwistersjust a week beforeDeadpool & Wolverine— a movie that was guaranteed to break box office records — the decision appears to have paid off, at least domestically. The disaster action movie has delivered an excellent performance over the last several weeks, and on its 34th day of release,Twisterspassed a crucial personal milestone. The movie has nowovertaken the lifetime domestic gross of directorJan de Bont’s original film,Twister, which debuted back in 1996....

Desperate Housewivesput some of our favorite television leading ladies all together on Wisteria Lane. And nowKerry Washington’s production company is bringing us anew show about the iconic cul-de-sac.Washington’s production company is working with 20th Television under Onyx Collectiveto bring usWisteria Lane. The series will be written byNatalie Chaidez. Now, Washington, who is promoting her new movie,Shadow Force,is talking about what the series will bring for fans of the original show....

Revenge flicks like those intheDeath Wishseriesare usually brutally violent, and that’s always been part of the appeal, for better or for worse.Female-led revenge horroroften centers around sexual assault that’s shown in disturbingly graphic detail,I Spit on Your Gravebeing one of the most infamous examples. Part of the appeal of these movies isthe catharsis of seeing terrible people get their comeuppance, but they can easily become exploitative themselves when such an emphasis is placed on depicting the abuse of the women rather than just their revenge....