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Sissy Spacek and J.K. Simmons Shine in Night Sky
A star-studded cast — including Academy Award winners Sissy Spacek and J.K. Simmons — leads Amazon’s new series Night Sky (originally called Lightyears, which was destined to be changed, all things considered). A new trailer for the series, created by Holden Miller and showrun by Daniel C. Connolly, gives us a good look at this…
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The Sea Beast Looks Like a Monstrously Fun Adventure
Taking inspiration from some stalwarts of seafaring media, The Sea Beast looks to take kids off the edge of the map with a fun, original animated adventure. Academy Award winner Chris Williams (Moana, Big Hero 6) directs a heavy-hitting voice cast that includes The Boys’ Karl Urban as well as Zaris-Angel Hator, Jared Harris (Foundation),…
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How Picard’s Return Brought Some Surprising Starships to Star Trek Canon
When Star Trek: Picard returned last week, it inched the Star Trek timeline forward into a period largely untouched in its TV history. Discovery may have jumped all the way to the 31st century, but a 2401 setting meant exploring Star Trek’s 25th century future. Except one piece of Star Trek was already charting where…
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Michael Bay Wanted Everyone to Be Horny For Ben Affleck in Armageddon
All the news about Ben Affleck nowadays seems to be about how miserable he was playing Batman and shooting the Justice League movie. So it’s almost heartening to hear something else about him, even if it’s basically about Armageddon director Michael Bay making sure the actor was sexually objectifiable enough to star in the blockbuster.