New York Comic Con is growing. This year, the convention’s events will expand outside of the Jacob Javits Convention Center to include other NYC locales — most notably, Madison Square Garden. Throughout the convention this October, New York Comic Con will host a few big-name panels at MSG. The MSG Comic-Con events will kick off on Friday, Oct. 7, with a block of BBC panels. First up will be a Doctor Who panel featuring star Peter Capaldi and the first convention appearance of his new co-star Pearl Mackie. Read More...
The second season of the small-screen version of The Purge premieres Oct. 15 on USA Network, with a new cast and a rather different premise — and EW has an exclusive look at the trailer. This time around, the show explores how a single Purge night affects the lives of four interconnected characters over the course of the ensuing year, all inevitably leading up to the next Purge. Season 2 of the series, once again set in a world where one night a year virtually all illegal acts are decriminalized, stars Derek Luke as an accomplished professional named Marcus Moore; Max Martini as the heist-planning Ryan Grant; Paola Nuñez as Esme Carmona, a top employee at a government surveillance center; and Joel Allen as a fraternity member named Ben. Read More...
Though it began only in 1991 with New Jack City, the gangsta movie has become such a cinematic staple that it’s ripe for ridicule, and the genre gets its share in the scattershot satire Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood. Shawn Wayans plays Ashtray (a goof on Cuba Gooding Jr.’s Tre in Boyz N the Hood), a straight arrow who’s bent on escaping the violent Los Angeles environment that helped to create his wild-eyed, hair-trigger cousin Loc Dog (Marlon Wayans, in full Menace II Society regalia). Read More...
