The Gang Makes History Patrick McElhenney/FXX Ahead of the FXX comedy’s record-tying 14th season (premiering Sept. 25 at 10 p.m. ET), EW honors America’s longest running live-action sitcom. A: Rick Astley FXX The popular internet trend of Rickrolling has been linked to the use of the singer’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” in a 2005 Sunny episode that reveals Dennis’ (Glenn Howerton) unexpected fandom. B: Bird Law Patrick McElhenney/FX Charlie (Charlie Day) may be illiterate, but season 11’s “McPoyle vs. Read More...
The audience for It’s Complicated knows what it wants from a movie by the director of Something’s Gotta Give, written for the star of Julie & Julia. And that audience gets what it wants within the first 10 minutes of Nancy Meyers’ blithe, self-regarding, fitfully charming paean to the fairy-tale luck of middle-aged women wealthy enough to maintain a delightful standard of living after a divorce. As the movie opens, Jane Adler (Streep) attends a sun-dappled outdoor party where she runs into her ex-husband, Jake (Alec Baldwin), with his much younger second wife, Agness (Lake Bell). Read More...
Twenty-five years after Star Wars: The Phantom Menace popularized the term “prequel,” has there still not been a great film in that category? George Miller is the latest filmmaker to try with Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, his much-anticipated prologue to the masterpiece Mad Max: Fury Road. But even as he and his team produce unique visuals and action setpieces that stand head and shoulders above the rest of the blockbuster crowd, Miller and co. Read More...
