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3 days ago | 
thewrap.com | Alex Welch
“The Last of Us” Season 2, Episode 5 begins, once again, with the Washington Liberation Front (W.L.F.). Hanrahan (Alanna Ubach) arrives in one of the militia’s W.L.F.-controlled hospitals only to find its basement stairwell completely sealed off. When she asks Sergeant Elise Park (Hettienne Park) why she decided to kill some of her men by doing so, she is told a terrifying story.
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4 days ago | 
thewrap.com | Alex Welch
President Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) interrupted Bowen Yang, Marcello Hernández and Kenan Thompson’s sweet Mother’s Day celebration in this week’s “Saturday Night Live” cold open in order to celebrate the election of the first American pope and introduce viewers to his new United States attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro (a returning Cecily Strong).
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4 days ago | 
thewrap.com | Alex Welch
Halfway through the 2020s, the verdict is still out about whether or not this has been a good decade for movies. Every one of the past five years, beginning with the COVID-19 lockdown of 2020, has been marked with concerning debates about the state of Hollywood, the viability of continued large-scale filmmaking and the entertainment industry’s future. That said, there is one silver lining that cinephiles can find from the past five years of movies: the slasher genre is back.
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4 days ago | 
thewrap.com | Alex Welch
Netflix‘s streaming library is vast enough that certain films inevitably end up slipping through the cracks of its homepage recommendations. That does not mean, though, that there aren’t movies well deserving of your attention lurking just beneath the platform’s surface. Some of the best movies streaming on Netflix right now just so happen, in fact, to require a bit more searching than you may be used to doing or the service even encourages. Fortunately, we’ve done that work for you.
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4 days ago | 
flipboard.com | Alex Welch
NowShe broke her silence on fan speculation, which began after her mom Tish seemingly unfollowed her on Instagram. Miley Cyrus clarified her relationship with her parents Billy Ray and Tish Cyrus on May 10 as she addressed feud speculation in a rare statement. • Feud rumors began when fans noticed that …
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5 days ago | 
yahoo.com | Alex Welch
The newly elected Pope Leo XIV‘s brother has answered the question many were asking following the pivotal election. The College of Cardinals made history yesterday when it elected Robert Prevost, the world’s first American pope, to fill the shoes of the late Pope Francis. The new pope is a Chicago native, and his American origins were a major point of conversation, excitement and debate Thursday.
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5 days ago | 
thewrap.com | Alex Welch
Amazon’s Prime Video has brought a handful of bona fide genre classics to its platform this month. Six of the biggest fantasy blockbusters ever made have been added to the service in May, as well as a pair of deeply underrated, oft-forgotten sci-fi dramas and two rousing, underdog sports movies. One of the best romantic comedies of all time is even available to stream on the service now, just in case you ever find yourself in the mood for a bit of lighthearted romance.
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5 days ago | 
thewrap.com | Alex Welch
“If you’ve been waiting to hear back from the Vatican about that resume you sent in — bad news. The position has been filled,” “The Daily Show” host Desi Lydic joked at the top of Thursday night’s installment. Lydic’s monologue was devoted to the election of the world’s first American pope, Robert Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV. “We have the first American pope, and let me just say, as an American, are you sure about this?” Lydic asked.
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5 days ago | 
thewrap.com | Alex Welch
The winners of the 12th Annual Easterseals Disability Film Challenge Awards were announced Thursday night at the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City. Designed to promote and encourage more film and television works by artists with disabilities, this year’s Easterseals challenge tasked filmmakers with creating short films one-to-five minutes in length that exist within the thriller and suspense genres. As usual, challenge participants had just five days to craft their shorts.
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5 days ago | 
yahoo.com | Alex Welch
The winners of the 12th Annual Easterseals Disability Film Challenge Awards were announced Thursday night at the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City. Designed to promote and encourage more film and television works by artists with disabilities, this year’s Easterseals challenge tasked filmmakers with creating short films one-to-five minutes in length that exist within the thriller and suspense genres. As usual, challenge participants had just five days to craft their shorts.
