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Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Wednesday, February 13. All times are Eastern. Â
The Gear You Need to Recreate Movie Theater Popcorn at Home
Movie theater popcorn is, objectively, the best popcorn. Fortunately, with the right supplies, you can make popcorn that’s almost as good at home. Here are all the supplies you need.
Anthony Daniels is teasing something on Twitter, and it's not as cute as he thinks it is
Perhaps better than anyone else in the galaxy, Anthony Daniels tends to know at any given moment what, exactly, is going on with Star Wars. He’s been in every movie, even the one that C-3PO isn’t in, and he clearly loves the brand so much that Disney and Lucasfilm are comfortable with making him an ambassador for the…
XS plays Russian Doll as The Flash races through time loops
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“Could we just have a do-over, please?”
Happy endings don’t come easily for once on This Is Us
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“Songbird Road: Part Two” is a conversation-heavy episode of a show that’s usually strongest when it’s telling its stories through visuals, rather than words. It still works, but I’d say it works despite that choice, not because of it. There’s something that feels very stage-bound about the way…
Chadwick Boseman to star in Spike Lee's Vietnam vet drama
According to Variety, Chadwick Boseman is set to star in Da 5 Bloods, the next joint from Spike Lee—and the director’s first for Netflix, assuming the negotiations for that deal work out. The movie is reportedly about a group of Vietnam veterans who “return to the jungle to find their lost innocence,” with Boseman…
Fox renews Bob's Burgers and Family Guy, so at least The Simpsons will still have company
A few days ago, Fox renewed The Simpsons for two more seasons, ensuring that it will live on past the Disney-Fox merger, but it’s not the only animated show that will live on past 2019. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, both Bob’s Burgers and Family Guy have been renewed as well, though they’ve only received…
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What the Hell Happened to Short Nintendo Switch Cases?Â
Nintendo’s sold a lot of Switches, so it’s not surprising that there are a lot of Switch carrying cases out there to buy. In fact, I just scrolled through 15 (!!) pages of them on Amazon, and found hardshell cases, softshell cases, cases that probably violate copyrights, cases with space for the Switch dock, and even …
Finn Wolfhard is Rivers Cuomo in Weezer's "Take On Me" video
Weezer’s chintzy The Teal Album, a vapid covers collection born out of their “Africa” success, isn’t good for much, but it did give us the gift that is Finn Wolfhard with Bon Jovi hair, and for that we’re eternally grateful. The Stranger Things breakout stars in the new video for Weezer’s riff on a-ha’s “Take On Me,”…
Last Call With Carson Daly is coming to an end after what has apparently been 17 years
When people talk about the big late night shows and the fights to be on top of the ratings, most of the conversation involves Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, and (if he’s only a particularly good political tear) Jimmy Kimmel. They don’t generally bring up Carson Daly, though, despite the fact that he’s apparently been…
Consider this hand-drawn Super Mario Bros. level a Paper Mario prequel
The first level of the first Super Mario Bros. is arguably the most familiar and beloved collection of pixels in all of video games. For most gamers, to replay World 1-1 is to stroll through an old neighborhood, nimbly skipping over the cracks in the concrete that have always and will always remain the same. The…
The 10 Best Deals of February 12, 2019
We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
Fresh from a hip rebrand, Travel Channel is going straight to hellÂ
The Travel Channel was once the TV world’s best outlet for shows about ranking waterslides and travelogues about foreign countries with weird food, but it’s hard to get today’s young people to pay attention to the world’s best waterslides when they’re so busy doing a Fortnite. So, the Travel Channel recently rebranded…
Octavia Spencer will get witchy with Anne Hathaway in Robert Zemeckis' The Witches reboot
Even with Netflix’s Sabrina revamp, Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria, the Charmed reboot, and Black-ish creator Kenya Barris’ upcoming new take on Bewitched, there’s no such thing as too much witch content. If it involves magical women and a solid cast, you can count us in. The next witch reboot on the way just got even…
Life is a Hotel By The River in a melancholy gem from South Korea’s Hong Sang-soo
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The characters of the wildly prolific and consistent South Korean writer-director Hong Sang-soo are awkward guests in lives of missed opportunity and dreamlike repetition, their insensitivities and drifting attentions paralleled by a predisposition to smoke, drink, and overstay one’s welcome. In that sense, Ko…
You Know Nothing...If You Don't Buy Game of Thrones Catan On Sale
If you’re getting bored of trading wheat and sheep back and forth, Game of Thrones Catan is a completely new take on the game:
Ask The Salty Waitress: Help me nicely get rid of these camped-out customers
Dear Salty: Fellow server here. I need your advice on an annoying problem that comes up every few weeks: the table that just won’t leave. After I’ve made sure there are no more drinks coming and no one wants the dessert menu, I leave the bill, it gets paid, and then… nothing.
ICE has released 21 Savage on bond
Earlier this month, rapper 21 Savage was arrested by ICE—that’s U.S. Immigrations And Customs Enforcement if you’re a cop—on charges of overstaying his visa. 21 Savage is a prominent member of Atlanta’s rap community and has spent most of his life in the United States, but it turns out that he was actually born in the…
Birds Of Passage traffics in cliché, wrapping a familiar crime yarn in fascinating cultural fabric
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The first thing we see in Birds Of Passage, a drama set among the Wayúu people of northern Colombia, is a ritual courtship dance that seems to accompany a young woman’s coming-of-age ceremony. Entering a circle of family and friends, the man seeking the woman’s favor proceeds to run backwards, while she, face painted…
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