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MST3K: Ping pong balls Crow and Tom Servo get Joel to say 'ping pong balls....' and like in Captain Kangaroo, down they come. Tom is really getting off on it!

Samuel L Jackson has criticised the casting of black British actors in roles about American race relations. In an interview with the New York radio station Hot 97, Jackson suggested that Jordan Peele’s satirical horror film Get Out, which starred British actor Daniel Kaluuya as an African-American man falling victim to white liberal racism, could have benefited from having an American actor as its lead.

"Outlaw" Ron Bass, who wrestled from 1971 to 1989, and had a prominent run in the WWF, has died in Florida. He had been hospitalized last week with an apparent burst appendix, and died on Tuesday.

If she could change any one event in all of world history — including possibly going back in time to thwart genocidal dictators — former Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester would choose to ensure Donald Trump lost the 2016 presidential election.

osh Gad has branded Beauty and the Beast as a film about 'unity'. The 36-year-old actor stars as LeFou in the live-action remake of the 1991 Disney animated classic, and has praised the movie for touching on the importance of 'inclusiveness' after it was revealed his character – who is the bumbling sidekick of antagonist Gaston, played by Luke Evans – would be the first openly gay character in Disney history. Speaking to People magazine, Josh said: 'What I would say is that this film is one of inclusiveness. It's one that has something to offer everyone.

Thankfully not taking itself seriously at all, the latest cinematic incarnation of the King Kong legend, Warner Bros’ Kong: Skull Island, takes the story right back to its roots and leaves it there. Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts clearly has an affection for a kind of all-out monster movie mash that is given new life in an A-plus production of a B-movie concept. As I say in my video review (click the link above to watch), this reminded me of the kind of Jules Verne adventures I loved, such as Journey to the Center of the Earth or Mysterious Island, mixed with...

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast doesn’t open for another 11 days, however, Fandango today indicated that the live-action feature adaptation of the Oscar-winning 1991 animated pic is already beating the pre-sales of both Captain America: Civil War and Finding Dory.

The End of a Beautiful FriendshipWhy America fell for Casablanca, and why the classic film is losing its hold on movie lovers.In 1957, the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square kicked off its Humphrey Bogart series with the 1942 classic Casablanca.* Bogart himself had just died, and the response to the film was rapturous. By the fourth or fifth screening, “the audience began to chant the lines,” the theater’s then-manager told Noah Isenberg, author of We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie. It was the dawn of the art-house era, the moment when film...

Actress Emma Watson fired back at her online critics this week after coming under fire for a racy photoshoot in the latest issue of Vanity Fair. The 26-year-old featured on the cover, but a photograph inside caught the Internet’s attention; the shot featured Watson looking right at the camera while posing in a crocheted white top with nothing on underneath. On social media, critics demanded to know how Watson — a self-styled feminist and a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador — could post for a photograph they claimed objectified her body. “Emma Watson: Feminism, feminism, gender wage gap, why oh why am...

The Last Man on Earth is a show I loved. For those who don't know, it's set a few years in the future after a virus wiped out most of the people of earth. Looking at Wikipedia, it appears the virus hit in 2019. So, last night, they had a flashback episode to the start of the virus. The first sign of trouble is when Kristen Wiig had Alexa read the headlines and one of them involved President Pence. Leftist fantasy #1: Donald Trump didn't serve out his full first term. Then, it gets really disturbing. Images of a motorcade...

Film historian Robert Osborne, the effervescent primetime host of Turner Classic Movies since the cabler's inception in 1994, has died. He was 84. TCM released a statement saying, "All of us at Turner Classic Movies are deeply saddened by the death of Robert Osborne. Robert was a beloved member of the Turner family for more than 23 years." Osborne was an irrepressible advocate for the films of Hollywood's golden era who wrote the Motion Picture Academy-sanctioned "50 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards" in 1978 and a number of updates ending in 2008 with "80...

TCM’s general manager Jennifer Dorian released a statement saying, “All of us at Turner Classic Movies are deeply saddened by the death of Robert Osborne. Robert was a beloved member of the Turner family for more than 23 years. He joined us as an expert on classic film and grew to be our cherished colleague and esteemed ambassador for TCM.

Disney's original Mary Poppins has long been an enduring classic - watched repeatedly by fans the world over - since it was first released in 1964. And there's big hopes that Emily Blunt will enjoy similar success with her starring turn in Mary Poppins Returns, which will see her taking over the reins from Dame Julie Andrews. On Sunday, the 34-year-old actress was spotted shooting the for a third day, as she took to the streets of central London in a red 1930s-inspired tailored jacket and coordinating midi skirt.

What do you see here? The current political bruhahas and the way they are interpreted by both the news media and political watchers is no doubt going to divide the country in a way that few people will be left to honestly assess the truth. You'll be in one of two camps believing in a series of "truths" you can't prove. If you are on the political Left, which includes most of the news media, you see a deranged and out-of-control president who is paranoid, delusional, unfit for office and alienating everyone around him with wild claims of conspiracies...

There seems to be no keeping Harrison Ford out of the sky. Less than two weeks after nearly colliding with a passenger plane while coming in to land at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, the 74-year-old actor returned to the skies once again on Saturday. Dressed in dark blue jeans, brown boots and a beige T-shirt, the Indiana Jones star was seen inspecting his helicopter at Santa Monica Airport in LA, shortly before taking off in the aircraft.

7TH Update, Sunday 10:56 PM: Logan is getting larger. Rival estimates tonight see the Hugh Jackman movie on course for an $87.56M opening after a $23.2M Sunday. That’s 10% higher than the $21M Fox was expecting today, with Wolverine’s third day down just 26% from Saturday’s $31.3M.

Beauty And The Beast (PG) This starry, eagerly awaited live-action remake, also by Disney, has much to live up to. Mostly, alas, it fails to do so. For all its energy, and the conspicuous effort to replicate the cartoon version, the magic of the original is somehow missing. Too often, it whimpers where it should roar, phuts where it should fizz. Part of the problem lies in the casting of Emma Watson as Belle. Now, Miss Watson seems like an admirable young woman, and hats off to her for reportedly declining to wear a figure-altering corset in this film. She...

Singer and actress Barbra Streisand once promised she would leave the United States if Donald Trump were elected president — instead she is drowning her discontent in syrup and pancakes. This weekend on Twitter the entertainer blamed her weight gain on Trump-induced pancake consumption. “Donald Trump is making me gain weight. I start the day with liquids, but after the morning news, I eat pancakes smothered in maple syrup!” she tweeted. Streisand was a Hillary Clinton supporter during the 2016 presidential election and has not shied away from criticizing the new administration. Sponsored Content What Happened To Jenna Jameson? We...

Much like his comedy muse Donald Trump, Alec Baldwin has a predilection for Twitter fights. Instead of fighting with Trump himself though, Baldwin spent a chunk of Wednesday feuding with a fellow Donald Trump impersonator, Anthony Atamanuik. The trouble started when Baldwin discussed the White House CorrespondentsÂ’ Dinner on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, specifically explaining that while he is not actively lobbying to play Trump at the gig, some Trump impersonators are. Atamanuik, who portrayed Trump on Midnight throughout the election and has a pinned tweet of the show discussing Mark Hamill endorsing him for the WHCD job, took BaldwinÂ’s remarks...