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For better or worse, Adam Brody will always be remembered as Seth Cohen from The O.C. The affable and awkward teen is easy to find inside the weathered and wiser 37-year-old Brody, but the San Diego native might never be able to shake his early-aughts pop culture iconography. Despite that infamous role, Brody has had a pretty consistent career over the last two decades, playing opposite Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Mr. & Mrs. Smith, being directed by famed playwright Neil Labute and making guest appearances on beloved TV shows like House of Lies and The League. This month, he’s in the buddy comedy Big Bear, where he gets to sport a pretty mean mustache, and returns with the second season of StartUp on Crackle.

With two such diverse roles coming out in the same month and nostalgia for shows like Gilmore Girls and The O.C. at an all-time high, Brody sits down...

AMC is turning the Black Lives Matter movement into a TV drama.

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The cable network is developing a scripted series based on the bestselling nonfiction book They Can’t Kill Us All, according to our sister site Deadline. The book, by Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery, looks at how decades of racial bias against African-Americans tie into the recent accusations of police abuse and rioting in Ferguson and Baltimore and led to the formation of the Black Lives Matter protest movement.

Into the Badlands writer Latoya Morgan...

[Editor’s note: Spoilers follow for “The Handmaid’s Tale” Season 1, Episode 10, “Night.”]

The first season finale of “The Handmaid’s Tale” was rich with one of the show’s best traits: its ability to find human and relatable moments within these extraordinary yet awful circumstances.

And the emotion captured is as diverse as it is heart-wrenching. Offred/June (Elisabeth Moss), upon learning she’s pregnant, snapping at Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski): “You think I prayed to bring a baby into this house?” Nick’s (Max Minghella) quiet acknowledgement that it is, technically, his child. Moira (Samira Wiley) discovering via a license plate that she’d made it to freedom, and later stunned by the depth of human kindness that would greet her in Canada. Serena Joy snapping at her husband: “I know the law. I helped write it.” And of course, June opening the package smuggled to her from Jezebel’s, discovering something truly dangerous inside: the words of women like her,...

Chicago – Universal Studio’s “Dark Universe,” which is centered around its stable of classic movie monsters, isn’t a bad idea. But in the darkly inauspicious debut feature called “The Mummy,” everything unravels. This is a mixed, muddled, marvel of a mess that contains an assembly of special effects, but precious little life.

Someone apparently forgot to tell those involved, in this exercise in building a blockbuster, that monsters can be fun.

Rating: 1.5/5.0

Tom Cruise’s character of Nick aims for irresistible rogue, but can’t quite hit the mark. He’s an American soldier with a profitable side job ripping off antiquities to be sold on the black market. After an airstrike in modern day Iraq (played for laughs) he uncovers an ancient Egyptian tomb. Turns out an ancient princess (Sofia Boutella) went on a murderous spree when she learned she wouldn’t get to be queen, and massacred her father,...

Nick Harley Mar 16, 2017

Legion offers intriguing insights into where this all could be heading in another delightfully twisted episode...

This review contains spoilers.

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1.6 Chapter Six

Primarily I’ve had nothing but positive things to say about Legion’s addictively disorienting first season, but I have criticised the show in the past for stalling the story. That ends tonight; this episode’s recess from the plot while David, Syd, and the Summerland crew are trapped inside David’s mind with The Devil with the Yellow Eyes is not only full of the stylistic flourishes that make the series great, but it’s also illuminating. This episode begs the viewer to look at the series from a different perspective while delivering key pieces of information and hints about where things might be heading.

Nick Harley Mar 9, 2017

Our villain's true nature is finally revealed on a spellbinding new episode of FX's Legion. Read our spoiler-filled review here...

This review contains spoilers.

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1.5 Chapter Five

Legion is unreal. No other show on air is taking narrative and stylistic risks like this, and who would have ever thought such invention was possible with a Marvel property? Certainly an almost 80 year history of amazing fantasies, cosmic adventures, and elaborate science fiction in the comics proves that there’s a wealth of mind-bending source material available, but for all intents and purposes it would be much easier and safer to make a series like Netflix’s new, bland Iron Fist than to create something as challenging and visionary as Legion. Kudos to Noah Hawley and the kind folks at FX, take a bow.

Anyway, Legion...

Nick Harley Mar 2, 2017

Legion keeps reminding us that memory can't be trusted, so is that why we feel like we've seen this all before?

This review contains spoilers.

1.4 Chapter Four

After Legion’s confident, stylish pilot episode, I was immediately impressed with Noah Hawley’s slice of the Marvel universe. However, in that first review, I worried about Legion favouring style over substance and now four episodes in, that worry is starting to manifest itself. I’m a savvy viewer; I don’t need every plot detail spoon fed and I’m fine lingering in mystery, but that being said, I really feel like we’re spinning our wheels here. A lack of forward momentum seems to be shrouded by new questions, delivered in eye-catching ways, sure, but the rabbit hole is starting to look shallow.

A somewhat climactic ending aside, Chapter Four bides its time throwing small wrinkles into David’s story,...

Nick Harley Feb 24, 2017

When Legion leans into its horror influences, things get very interesting...

This review contains spoilers.

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1.3 Chapter Three

The best superhero stories experiment with genre. The Dark Knight is a crime drama, Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a classic espionage tale, Guardians Of The Galaxy is a space opera, and Deadpool is a satire. By using the conventions of other genres, these films told heroic tales that felt fresh in the face of superhero fatigue. Instead of Jessica Jones playing like a superhero show with noir elements, it stands apart as a detective series that just so happens to feature a super strong protagonist.

Legion has had a chance to try on a couple different hats in its early episodes, indulging in psychedelic surrealism,...

Who vacations in a pineapple under the sea? Holly Madison!

The Girls Next Door alum recently visited Nickelodeon Hotels & Resorts Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic, bringing husband Pasquale Rotella and their daughter Rainbow Aurora, 3½, along for the ride.

The family was snapped soaking up the rays on the property’s beach, taking turns playing with toys, building sand castles and splashing in the surf.

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Madison, 37, Rotella and Rainbow stayed in “The Pineapple,” the resort’s...

If she could, Kendra Wilkinson-Baskett would give Bridget Marquardt the ultimate gift for the holidays—one she wanted for years. "A baby," Kendra told E! News exclusively. "I would give her a baby. I would send her wishes and prayers to have a baby." The two co-starred with Holly Madison on the E! reality show The Girls Next Door when the three women lived together with Hugh Hefner at his Playboy Mansion more than eight years ago. Marquardt, 43, revealed this past May she and fiancé Nick Carpenter were undergoing IVF treatments to try and conceive their first child. She had had her eggs frozen in 2008, when she still lived at the...

Not all of The Voice‘s Battle Rounds are created equal.

Inevitably, coaches wind up pairing off two perfect apples — in the hopes that one gets stolen for a competing team — and then cooking up showdowns between two tangerines who’ve already passed their competitive expiration date.

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It’s enough to make a singing-competition junkie like myself wish that exec producer Mark Burnett would borrow a construct from Ncaa’s March Madness and seed the coaches teams 1-12 (based on their Blind Auditions), then force the lowest rated singers to work doubly hard to...

For the final week of November, horror and sci-fi fans have a few things to be thankful for, including some great films they can add to their home entertainment collections. With the holidays just right around the corner, Rlj Entertainment is releasing A Christmas Horror Story and Scream Factory is resurrecting a duo of classic films in HD on Tuesday as well—Ghost Story and Blood and Lace.

Other notable titles being released on November 24th include The Badger Game, The Last House, The Mask 3-D and The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant.

A Christmas Horror Story (Rlj Entertainment, Blu-ray & DVD)

It’s the season of joy, peace, and goodwill… unless you live in Bailey Downs. Last Christmas Eve, two teens came to a grisly end in a school basement. Now, one year later, a new set of horrors has come to town. As three friends explore the site of the massacre,...

Bridget Marquardt and her new sparkly spider engagement ring from fiancé Nick Carpenter fit right in at the 7th Annual L.A. Haunted Hayride at Griffith Park Zoo on Sunday, Oct. 4. The Girls Next Door alum gushed to Us Weekly exclusively at the spooky event that her longtime boyfriend’s proposal didn’t come so much as a surprise, but more so as a trick! “He took me hiking up to our favorite spot,” Hugh Hefner’s ex-girlfriend, 42, told Us. “Long story short, he faked me out! There was [...]...

All of the "Girls Next Door" are officially off the market! Bridget Marquardt is engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Nick Carpenter, and she took to Instagram to announce the happy news to her fans.  "Happy Oct. 1st!!!" the former Playboy playmate captioned a close-up of her ring. "Oh...and... Did I mention @nicholascarpenter and I are engaged?" While it could easily be a holiday joke, the blonde bombshell is a huge fan of Halloween -- and it would be very fitting for her have an engagement ring in the shape of a black widow. We eached out to her reps for official confirmation, but they weren't immediately available. The 42-year-old star met her beau when he directed her and fellow "Girls Next Door" star Holly Madison in the indie horror flick, "The Telling." They officially started dating in 2008. Marquardt is still close with Madison -- they even spent the day together on Wednesday at Disneyland.

Brush up on your forensic jargon and crank the volume on The Who, because it’s nearly time to say goodbye to CSI.

After formally getting cancelled in May, the long-running mothership series will tie up loose ends with a two-hour movie event on Sunday, Sept. 27 (9/8c, CBS), which will involve almost every key player from the past 15 seasons.

Though some fans may be skeptical as to how Gil Grissom, Catherine Willows, et al. will return after being off the show for years, series creator Anthony E. Zuiker is confident that the finale’s plot will allow for a seamless blast from the past.

Chicago – In “Men, Women & Children,” director Jason Reitman not-so-audaciously reflects onto viewers their world of silent screens and awkward impersonal interactions. As many stories (“Don Jon,” “Disconnect”) have taken on the torch of showing how we are, gasp! — connected to the world yet disconnected from those close to us — Reitman’s tale is just another one for the batch.

Rating: 2.0/5.0

When the aliens of another planet excavate our digital ruins to understand what we thought of what we wrought, “Men, Women & Children” shall stand out as the film that angled the screen society through the lens of absurdities and perversions, more by the parents than their title kin. Jennifer Garner and Judy Greer portray parents who exhibit control over their kin, enabled by the connectivity and mass audiences awaiting a simple post on the internet. In an example of screen culture absurdity, a stoic Garner is a vehement watchdog over...

Many broken men populate Clint Eastwood’s knotty cinematic sandbox. An inciting action forces them to brazenly jump from normal life in search of revenge or salvation, burying themselves in self-righteousness and self-pity along the way. Still, despite this stubborn resolve their endgame often hinges on a homecoming of sorts, whether it’s written in blood or tears. By the end of 2014, Eastwood will have released two new films in very different genres that complicate this motif. Both Jersey Boys and American Sniper examine elite professionals whose work takes them on the road, away from the domestic confines of family and femininity to an isolated place where chaotic situations are common. But instead of doing everything in their power to return home, these men manipulate the classic “hero’s journey” as a selfish way to avoid the complex perspectives of those they’ve left behind or forgotten. Being on tour...

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including The Walking Dead, Jane the Virgin, Chicago Fire and How to Get Away With Murder!

1 | Has the absence of Once Upon a Time’s Ruby ever been more glaring than when Mary Margaret, David et al were tracking Emma? Is the mighty Sorcerer’s Hat’s “sucking” action not powerful enough to reach past a pair of doors? And what happened to Regina having exactly zero regrets, seeing as this life did bring her Henry?...

Nick, Hank: Meet your new co-worker.

Will Rothhaar, who portrayed Lee Harvey Oswald in National Geographic Channel’s Killing Kennedy, is joining Grimm as a cop with a dark side, TVLine has learned.

Rothhaar’s Officer Acker will debut in Episode 8 of the NBC drama’s upcoming fourth season, and he’ll be around for at least three episodes.

He joins previously announced Season 4 guest stars Elizabeth Rodriguez (Orange Is the New Black), Toni Trucks (Franklin & Bash) and Erick Avari (The Mentalist).

In addition to Killing Kennedy, Rothhaar’s TV resume includes stints on Reckless, Last Resort, Perception, CSI and Fringe.

It’s been a cruel, cruel summer for the lofties of Fox’s New Girl, who’ve endured wedding after wedding with little more than a refrigerator door full of save-the-dates to show for it.

But as Season 4 opens (Tuesday at 9/8c), the group’s long, nuptial nightmare is drawing to a much-desired close.

“We pick them up [as they're] about to attend the very last wedding of the season,” executive producer Brett Baer tells TVLine. And all of those champagne toasts and garter tosses have proven fertile romantic ground for some (Schmidt, Coach), not so much for others (Jess, Winston).

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Following last week’s first wave of programming announcements, the Fantasia International Film Festival has revealed its second wave of programming, which includes a screening of Ju-On: The Beginning of the End and a 40th anniversary screening of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, where Tobe Hooper will be presented with a lifetime achievement award:

“Official Closing Film – Abel Ferrara’s Welcome To New York

Fantasia will close its 2014 edition with the North American Premiere of Abel Ferrara’s Welcome To New York, the controversial latest from the legendary filmmaker behind such landmarks as Bad Lieutenant, King Of New York, New Rose Hotel and the recently re-released Ms 45.

Welcome To New York is loosely based on the Dsk scandal and stars the iconic Gérard Depardieu in one of the bravest performances of his career. Co-starring is the equally sensational Jacqueline Bisset.

Abel Ferrara will be on hand to host this special evening,...

We're back with more titles heading to the 2014 Fantasia Film Festival as well as a few new images and word on a Lifetime Achievement Award for Tobe Hooper. Read on for all the details!

From the Press Release:

Following last week’s first wave of programming announcements, the Fantasia International Film Festival is proud to unveil additional highlights to rev you up for our July 10th Press Conference, where our full 2014 film lineup will be revealed.

Official Closing Film - Abel Ferrara’s Welcome To New York

Fantasia will close its 2014 edition with the North American Premiere of Abel Ferrara’s Welcome To New York, the controversial latest from the legendary filmmaker behind such landmarks as Bad Lieutenant, King Of New York, New Rose Hotel and the recently re-released Ms 45.

Welcome To New York is loosely based on the Dsk scandal and stars the iconic Gérard Depardieu in one of...

The 18th Fantasia International Film Festival’s second lineup of films was unveiled Thursday, and it features the closing night film on August 5, Welcome to New York directed by Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant, Ms. 45).

Ferrara will be present to talk about his latest film, starring Gérard Depardieu and Jacqueline Bisset. The film was received with warm reviews after appearing out of competition at Cannes and at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

The Fantasia Film Fest runs July 17 to August 5 in Montreal, and the full lineup of films, in addition to the ones already announced, will be released July 10.

View the whole press release of second wave lineup announcements below.

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Fantasia Announces Second Wave

Of 2014 Programming Montreal, Thursday June 26, 2014 – Following last week’s first wave of programming announcements, the Fantasia International Film Festival is proud to unveil additional highlights to rev you up for our July 10th Press Conference, where...

The Legend of Korra is continuing… sooner than you might think.

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Nickelodeon’s animated hit will return with Book Three on June 27 at 7/6c, airing two new episodes back to back, IGN reports. A special presentation of Episode 3 will follow at 8 pm.

After that, new episodes will continue airing in Korra‘s regular timeslot (Fridays, 8 pm) beginning July 11.

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We’re back with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting the recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes DVD release details for Compound Fracture, trailers for Altergeist and Aftermath, first details on Danger Word, the Stage Fright call for submissions, and the lineup from Sci Fest in Los Angeles, a review of the second season of Holliston, and much more:

Compound Fracture DVD Release Details: “Level 33 Entertainment announced today the release of the highly anticipated horror feature film Compound Fracture coming to DVD and VOD on May 13, 2014. Bringing together three iconic figures in the horror pantheon, Compound Fracture stars Tyler Mane (Michael Myers in Rob Zombie’s Hallowee), Muse Watson (Ben Willis in I Know What You Did Last Summer), and Derek Mears (Jason Voorhees in the new Friday The 13th). The movie will be available at all major retail and rental outlets including Walmart,...

For regular viewers of Snick -- the legendary block of Saturday night programming on '90s Nickelodeon -- "All That" was the weekend cornerstone. The sketch series debuted April 16, 1994, and 20 years later it's safe to say we haven't given enough props to the silly, but often very funny show that showcased a broad range of talents (including Kenan Thompson and Jamie Lynn Spears) and some seriously grownup lessons. Here are six takeaways from the show that routinely dished out Vital Information For Our Everyday Lives. (I'm sticking to the early years of the 11-season series since, as a '90s Nick devotee, it's what I re-watched the most.) 1. Embrace your weirdness. Some billionaire will like you for it.  "Earboy" was a pretty wild idea. A kid with gigantic ears (Josh Server) is picked on for his strange features, and he's even friends with a literal Pizza Face and Four-Eyes.

Why are more and more Americans falling under the sudsy spell of South Korean dramas? One theory: These shows tend to come in self-contained 16- to 20-episode seasons, making them easily digestible. Another: If you don’t speak Korean, watching one demands your full attention (subtitles!), meaning you get sucked in that much more quickly.

And then there are the dramas themselves — endearingly theatrical and kooky, with a sweetness that can be tough to find in grittier American fare. “Their portrayal of love is a little more PG,” says Jacqueline Sia, senior content manager of massive international TV library DramaFever.

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The ratings for Duck Dynasty are down 40% from a year ago, but it can’t be blamed on Phil Robertson‘s homophobic and racist comments. Ratings were sliding before Robertson’s infamous GQ profile. Now I’m looking back at that interview and wondering if those comments were an attempt to drum up some publicity.

Aaron Paul says he’s in talks to join the cast of Breaking Bad prequel Better Call Saul. I have to admit, I’m intrigued at the idea of fleshing out Jesse’s “Capt’n Cook” days.

Matthew Perry‘s Odd Couple reboot has found its second cast member, reuniting Perry with his Go On co-star Sarah Baker. She’ll play the assistant to Perry’s Oscar.

TVLand loves its cast reunions, so it’s not a big surprise that Ethan Suplee has been added to the cast of upcoming comedy Jennifer Falls, joining...

If two recently released art pieces for the Guillermo Del Toro-produced Book of Life are any indication, the upcoming film should be a vivid visual experience. In a new interview with the Hollywood Reporter, co-writer/director Jorge Gutierrez offers two stunning concept images (featuring kaleidoscopic city streets and ornate skies) for the upcoming Fox Animation film (see one above), while also discussing his vision for the project's bold look.

Guillermo del Toro Q&A: 'Pacific Rim' Director on Robots and Monsters

Gutierrez, who co-created the Emmy-nominated Nick...

Feature Louisa Mellor 24 Feb 2014 - 07:00

From Amy Acker to James Frain, we celebrate Grimm’s habit of filling its supporting cast with geek favourites…

Read our look-back at the careers of Grimm co-creators David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf, here.

When Grimm’s makers were looking for their Nick Burkhardt, the job was to cast someone with all the requirements of a leading man, but none of the distracting ‘wasn’t he in that other thing?’ baggage. In David Giuntoli, whose TV appearances had until then largely been confined to one-off roles in comedies and dramas including Grey’s Anatomy and Ghost Whisperer (the latter produced, not at all coincidentally, by Grimm co-creator Jim Kouf), they found their guy.

With Giuntoli in place, and a solid cast of regulars around him including Silas Weir Mitchell, Sasha Roiz, Russell Hornsby, Reggie Lee and Claire Coffee, it was time to fill in the guest roles.

Feature Louisa Mellor 31 Jan 2014 - 07:00

A look at the pre-Grimm work of co-creators David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf, a screenwriting partnership that’s lasted over thirty years…

A poker table in the late seventies, a bathroom in the mid-noughties… television shows have many birthplaces. Had screenwriters David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf not been introduced at a card game over thirty years ago, and had producer Todd Milliner not taken a 2006 shower in which he pondered what existing stories were in need of a modern update for TV, then Grimm might never have existed.

First, that poker game. Greenwalt and Kouf’s friendship began a couple of years before their first official screenwriting credit on 1982’s horror spoof Wacko, a job for which the pair were paid the princely sum of fifteen thousand dollars…

“We did a lot of fun movies back then”

That’s what Greenwalt told Collider...

After making a name for himself in the dark dramas of American writer/director Neil Labute, actor Aaron Eckhart broke out with the role of Julie Robert's biker boyfriend in Erin Brockovich. Since then he has clinched key roles - from Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight to Nick Naylor in Thank You For Smoking - in a whole range of major movies. His latest incarnation is a vengeful monster in the sci-fi fantasy I, Frankenstein.

Lupita has been tearing up the awards show circuit and the Producers Guild of America Awards on Jan 19 was no exception! Get her exact beauty look below!

Lupita Nyong’o looked stunning wearing a Stella McMartney dress and shoes at the Producers Guild of America Awards. Held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., Lupita wore a sultry, dark lipstick. Get her flawless makeup look here.

Lupita Nyong’o At Producers Guild Awards — Her Exact Look

Lupita’s hair was styled by Ted Gibson, who also did her hair for the Critics’ Choice Awards and SAG Awards.

Nick Barose spilled the look details on Instagram on Jan. 19.

Lupita Nyong’o Wows in Gucci at SAGs Take Our Poll

He wrote: “Tonight’s look #PGAawards miss #Lupitanyongorocking vampy lips @tomfordofficialpage Lipstick in#BlackOrchid and shimmering champagne and black eyes @jouercosmetics Eyes Crayon in Baroque and Abstract. Glowing candle lit...

Whether they’re hamming it up posing with Santa Claus or excitedly dishing on their holiday wish list, kids are adorable and unpredictable when meeting jolly St. Nick! These celeb kids had so much fun taking their Christmas photos — see them all here!

Snooki‘s 1-year-old son Lorenzo just couldn’t get away from Santa fast enough, as evidenced by the hilarious photo Snooki shared of him crying and reaching out for his off-camera parents! Arrow star Stephen Amell‘s too-cute newborn daughter Mavi slept the entire way through her very first meeting with Mr. Claus!

Celebrity Kids Meet Santa: Snooki’s Son Lorenzo, Stephen Amell’s Daughter Mavi & More

Melissa Joan Hart pulled out all the stops to make her sons’ Christmas merry: she donned her own Santa suit, complete with the mandatory fluffy white beard, to pose with her youngest son, 14-month-old Tucker.

Miley Cyrus & More Sexiest Santas...

The Sing-Off doesn’t care if you understand when their show is on, for how long it’s on or if you think it’s crazy that they put all of their best teams up against one another in one episode. When you’ve stared cancellation in the eye and made it back to harmonize another day, you do whatever the F-clef you want! I liked that The Sing-Off went even more rogue than usual Thursday night; the hour-long episode was the perfect palate cleanser after two kind of exhausting two-hour spots this week. Four of the eight remaining teams...

Although Season 3 of Grimm doesn’t premiere for over a month, as we get closer to that date you just know – or at least we can hope – that we’ll be getting more and more videos and information about what’s to come. It might therefore be helpful to first get a reminder of what happened last season.

NBC and SciFiMafia.com are here to help, with this handy Season 2 recap featurette. It’s quite entertaining. Then… our first glimpse of Season 3, yay! It’s a quick TV spot but it’s very cool. That is followed by the network’s written glimpse into what’s in store as the new season begins. Enjoy!

Featurette: Grimm – Season 2 Recap

TV Spot: Grimm – Season 3: Sneak Peek

“Grimm” is a drama series inspired by the classic Grimm Brothers’ Fairy Tales. After Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli, “Caroline and Jackie”) discovers...

Before he directed award-nominated movies like Juno, Up in the Air, and Young Adult, Jason Reitman’s debut feature film was the bitingly sarcastic Thank You For Smoking, a tale of a unscrupulous spin-doctor for the tobacco industry. Being a self-described “Merchant of Death,” Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart) becomes the target of pretty much everybody from his own family to a U.S. Senator. During the course of the film, Nick is kidnapped by unknown assailants who strip him down to his skivvies and cover him with dozens of nicotine patches. Soon, Nick loses consciousness and later wakes up in a hospital, miraculously alive due to his personal high tolerance for nicotine that he gained from years of smoking cigarettes. While the movie moves along to a sharp political and ethical point in the end, this scene got us thinking, just in case we needed to quit smoking and burn through the four-week patch program in a...

This week, the clock on the Newsroom story we’ve known all season was going to blow up in the News Night team’s faces starts ticking down in earnest – and one key player is revealed as a liar who’s basically responsible for the whole debacle. Elsewhere, I fear there’s another misguided Jim hook-up on the horizon. (Ladies love the floppy hair, I guess?) Without further ado, let’s review the major developments that take place in “One Step Too Many.”

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With each passing year, Tiff is becoming more and more prominent on the film festival circuit, with more and more Oscar-primed films making their debut out in Canada. And with the initial line-up announced for the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, the trend is definitely continuing.

Amongst the many, many films making their presence felt out in Toronto will be Steve McQueen’s highly anticipated 12 Years a Slave, which launched a powerful first trailer earlier in the month. The film sees Chiwetel Ejiofor lead a fantastic cast, with Michael Fassbender returning to work for his Hunger / Shame director, alongside the likes of Brad Pitt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sarah Paulson, Paul Giamatti, and many more.

Opening the festival will be Bill Condon’s The Fifth Estate, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch as WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, alongside Daniel Brühl, Laura Linney, Anthony Mackie, and Stanley Tucci.

And closing it will be Daniel Schechter’s Life of Crime,...

Nick Lachey recently dropped the new 98 Degrees record "2.0," hit the road with New Kids on the Block and Boyz II Men for The Package Tour and has hosting duties on new NBC series "The Winner Is" and just saw a fourth season of "The Sing-Off" greenlit for later this year – but Lachey says becoming a new dad which is his greatest achievement.

In fact, the 39-year-old pop star was so moved by fatherhood that he squeezed in making a solo lullaby record "A Father's Lullaby'.

HuffPost Canada Music chatted to Nick about reuniting with 98 Degrees, why he loves Canada and fatherhood – from the highs of breakfast bonding with infant Camden, to having to watch his TV host wife Vanessa suffer baby blues.

Camden is gorgeous! Did you always plan to make a lullaby record?

I hadn't considered it but when I found out we were pregnant you start to experience...

Los Angeles, June 28: TV host-model Vanessa Lachey says her nine-month-old son Camden is a daddy's boy and he becomes happy when her singer husband Nick Lachey sings to him.

"I think Cam (Camden) just loves anything that Nick does. He's such a little daddy's boy. It's adorable," femalefirst.co.uk quoted Vanessa as saying.

"'Sleepy Eyes' is one song in particular that Nick used to hum to Camden when he was still in my belly, so that one to us is kind of special. He hummed the melody, and then when Camden was born, he added words and lyrics to it. So, that one has a special place in our hearts," she said.

"I sing 'Baby.

Having a musician Dad has its perks! Vanessa Lachey revealed that her 9-month-old son is constantly serenaded by proud papa Nick Lachey. "Cam just loves anything that Nick does—he's such a little Daddy's boy, it's adorable." she told Parade.com. "'Sleepy Eyes' is one song in particular that Nick used to hum to him when he was still in my belly, so that one to us is kind of special. He hummed the melody, and then when Camden was born, he added words and lyrics to it." Nick may have the baby tunes covered but the actress has got plenty of new mom tricks on her own. "I always have wipes on hand, a travel pack of Pampers Sensitive Wipes. Whether it's...

Fouad Mikati, director of the cartoonish action flick Operation: Endgame is switching up genres for his second film, the psychological thriller Return to Sender. Having just Rosamund Pike and Nick Noltecast its lead roles last week, the film is already in production in New Orleans. Because a movie with only two people in it usually isn.t fun, the rest of the cast was filled out today, according to The Hollywood Reporter, and Camryn Manheim, Rumer Willis and Illeana Douglas are all set to join Rosamund Pike, Shiloh Fernandez and Nick Nolte for the film. Manheim is of course known for her man years on the series The Practice and Ghost Whisperer and her last feature role was in Cornelia Moore.s adaptation of the novel Camilla Dickinson. Willis is probably best known for starring with her father Bruce in 2005.s balls-out thriller Hostage, and you can catch her in...

Chicago – The CW is shaking things up this Fall, perhaps recognizing that their audience doesn’t care as much what night of the week their shows are on as they’re getting increasingly likely to DVR, download, or stream them. 40% of the net’s line-up is switching nights, moving around three new shows in the mid-section of the week.

“Nikita“‘s final season is being held to mid-season.

Full schedule below, followed by new show descriptions.

*-new show

Monday

7pm “Hart of Dixie”

8pm “Beauty & the Beast”

Tuesday

7pm “The Originals”*

8pm “Supernatural”

Wednesday

7pm “Arrow”

8pm “The Tomorrow People”*

Thursday

7pm “The Vampire Diaries”

8pm “Reign”*

Friday

7pm “The Carrie Diaries”

8pm “America’s Next Top Model”

New Show Descriptions

“The Originals”

The Originals

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Family is power. The Original Vampire family swore it to each other a thousand years ago. They pledged to remain together,...

As Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's classic bursts on to our screens, it's not hard to see why this cautionary tale of the decadent downside of the American dream has returned to haunt us, writes Sarah Churchwell

They called him an "ultra-modernist" and dismissed his books as overrated and forgettable, just "so much unnecessary evanescence travelling first class". When his third novel was published, on 10 April 1925, a characteristic review complained: "The boy is simply puttering around. It is all right as a diversion for him, probably … But why he should be called an author, or why any of us should behave as if he were, has never been satisfactorily explained to me." At the last minute, he had asked his editor if they could change the new novel's title to Under the Red, White and Blue, but it was too late. F Scott Fitzgerald's ultra-modernist...

There’s a five or six year span somewhere around the late ’80s to early ’90s that has become known as a true Golden Age of sitcoms, and if the last two or three years can be said to have one absolute trend, it’s trying to update and recapture the formula that made those shows into the ratings behemoths they were. Not only are there interesting markers of public appeal like the fact that these Golden Age shows are becoming the staples of Nick-at-Nite and TV Land, but the surprisingly popular original programming on TV Land is clearly leading the way when it comes to this revival.

The bigger networks are adding their own efforts that, though decidedly updated in one way or another, aim to explore the possibilities still open by way of the general sensibilities and frameworks that worked so well for shows of the past.

The month of May is almost upon us, and even though we've had some fantastic cinema releases already this year - Quentin Tarantino's blood-spattered western Django Unchained, Kathryn Bigelow's tense 'War on Terror' manhunt Zero Dark Thirty and Steven Spielberg's presidential biopic Lincoln, to name but a handful - there's so much more to be excited about in the next couple of months. Below, we've listed four of our most-anticipated late spring and early summer cinema releases for your reading pleasure. In addition, we want to hear which films you're most looking forward to in the upcoming weeks, so please send us through your thoughts by using the the comment section below.

21 and Over

21 and Over is the next instalment in the teen comedy genre, directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore who you may recognise from their directing of The Hangover trilogy. Goody two-shoes Jeff Chang...

Interview Duncan Bowles 19 Apr 2013 - 06:00

He's the president in Olympus Has Fallen, and a fine, fine actor. Aaron Eckhart spared us some time for a chat about his movies...

Note that the following interview contains mild spoilers for Olympus Has Fallen.

When the dust finally settled after the endless casting speculation for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, there was one name above all others that really fired up my anticipation for the movie: Aaron Eckhart. It’s now been well over a decade since I first discovered his work, and ever since the glorious slice of B-movie joy that is The Core, I’ve remained a steadfast fan, with the diversity in his work always drawing me towards films I would never normally consider. Yet to my mind he still remains very much underappreciated, regardless of his talent and some truly memorable performances amongst some great movies.

When...

We are midway through the month of April, and we’re starting to get bombarded with trailers and TV spots from some of the hottest upcoming films. This means only one thing: the Summer movie season is almost upon us. With the wealth of films (both big and not so big), it’s easy for moviegoers to be overwhelmed when it comes to choosing, thus, as we have in years past, we present our Summer Movie Guide. We’re bringing all the details on the upcoming films (trailers, synopsis’, and more) so you know what’s hitting, when, and decide for yourself if it’s worth your time.

Hard to believe that we’re on the cusp of yet another Summer movie season, one of the most active and exciting times of movie buffs. There’s no shortage of blockbuster style films this year, along with several that some have...

On TV this Thursday: A fancy fellow interrupts a New Girl date (on a special night), NBC serves up a first course of Hannibal, the Big Bang guys try for tenure and TBS’ Men get back to work. As a supplement to TVLine’s original features (linked within), here are 10 programs to keep on your radar.

8 pm The Big Bang Theory (CBS) | Regina King (Southland) is back as Mrs. Davis when Leonard, Sheldon and Raj fight for tenure – and the competition heats up when the girls get involved.

8 pm Community (NBC) | Susan B. Anthony was a pioneer for women’s suffrage.