IsAmerican Horror Story: Apocalypseexcellent or exasperating? EW critics debate

DARREN:The opening scene ofApocalypsecompletely grabbed me. It was hilarious watching the narcissistic denizens of Los Angeles react to a nuclear attack. Where will the show go fromhere??? Credit: FX I pondered, as a few lucky survivors (Joan Collins!) flew away from the ruins of civilization. Answer: Nowhere, fast.Apocalypserevealed itself, initially, as the tale of a bunker full of deplorables. The characters were boring, especially cute young lovers Whathsisface and Whoshername....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 307 words · Daniel Ford

IsBetter Call Saulbecoming too much likeBreaking Bad? EW's critics debate

Is that a problem? EWs critics Kristen Baldwin and Darren Franich discuss. (On this show, making coffee looks Hitchcockian.) Credit: Nicole Wilder/AMC But theres a resistant macro-feeling of: Like, why? I know you come atBetter Call Saulfrom a slightly different place than I do, Kristen. So Im intrigued to know what you think of the new season. KRISTEN:You forgot Mike Meticulously Inserts Nails Into a Garden Hose. That said, Darren, I appreciate your diplomatic choice of words....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 322 words · David Wilson

Isla Fisher's cure for writer's block? Croissants

Marge the mischievous babysitter is back! EW caught up with Fisher to talk about the book, her writing process, and her best editors. Read on for more, and be sure to purchase your copyhere. Credit: Broadimage/REX/Shutterstock ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:What was the inspiration for the secondMarge In Chargebook? My brother was staying with us in London while I was writing, and his mischievous toddler inspired Zara. Kids make the most wonderful editors....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 401 words · April Harvey

Isn't It Romanticgoes full rom-com with a Rebel Wilson, Priyanka Chopra sing-off

If youre gonna make a rom-com spoof, you gotta have the rom-com-iest musical number ever. Which is whyIsnt It Romanticpays tribute to thegenres musical historywith a showstopping karaoke scene. (Hey, its a rom-com!) Credit: Michael Parmelee/Warner Bros. Like the Say A Little Prayer For You fromMy Best Friends Weddingandthe Michael Jackson in13 Going on 30. I was like, can we get a deeper-cut party song? And then the chorus drops and youre like, holy moly, Strauss-Schulson adds....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 110 words · Anthony Alvarez

Isn't It Romanticis an utterly charming rom-com celebration: EW review

Most people who love romantic comedies still recognize that they can be hokey and slightly problematic. New York City isnt impossibly clean, with a a gourmet cupcake boutique on every block. Rich, handsome men dont fall out of the sky and declare you the most beguiling woman on Earth. Credit: Michael Parmelee/Warner Bros. A makeover sequence cant solve any problem. But still… isnt it fun to just pretend sometimes? The movie is having its gourmet cupcake and eating it too....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 186 words · Jason Padilla

IsSchitt's Creekreally over after season 6? Co-creator Dan Levy says 'This is just it for now'

In fact, were already getting more episodes than Levy had initially envisioned. I feel really confident that weve really mined everything we could. But the world doesnt explode at the end of it, he says. Credit: Pop TV Im not one to slay down the iron fist and say This is it forever. This is just it for now. Celebrate 50 years of gay pride withEntertainment Weeklysspecial LGBTQ double issue, on stands Friday....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 77 words · Mr. Dominic Campbell DDS

IsTwin Peaksa movie?

Hello, I loveTwin Peaks.I love it so much I want to marry it. It’s on my list of the 10 best TV shows of 2017, likeveryhighon that list. It’s a movie, declares the British Film Institute’sSight & Soundpoll! Credit: Showtime They saidMulholland Drivewas the best film of the 2000s. They saidTwin Peaks: Fire Walk With Mewas one of the best films of the ’90s. IsTwin Peaksfilm or television? Showtime Silly to have a definitional debate, maybe....

May 1, 2025 · 4 min · 703 words · Karl Lin

It was the best MTV Movie & TV Awards ever. So… pretty okay!

Cant they just call it The Content Awards? We all hate the word content, though. Maybe the web connection could double down on acronyms and introduce The MTVMTV Awards? Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Less of a tongue-twister, and would anyone care? He might not, man. In this stream everything age, its hard to find old iterations of this show online. The results were inconclusive, ghosts of zeitgeists past. Samuel L. Jackson and Christopher Lloyd being chased by the 90s Godzilla....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 436 words · Angela Rivas

It's a party in Team USA with these Olympian hosting tips from Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir

So, check out the gamesscheduleand these tips, then invite your friends for a gold-medal worthy event. I like to sit in a dark room and watch television alone. (Cos)play Along Pay homage to your favorite Olympians by dressing like them. Credit: Greg Doherty/Getty Images You dont have to tell us twice. The double act suggests making a signature cocktail thats ice-based (of course!) and naming it after your favorite figure skating jump....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 84 words · Adam Wright

It's Keanu Reeves' world and we're all just living in it

(A broken phone led to the current sequel “2 Keanu 2 Fever.") Well, the fever is now hotter than ever and spreading. And all of that came a week beforeThe Matrixs 20th anniversary and a few months beforeSpeedturns 25. Doane Gregory/Netflix; Mark Rogers/Lionsgate; Disney/Pixar How could it possibly get better than that? We’re truly living in the Keanussaince. Find you an actor that can doPoint Breakand Shakespeare. Then cameSpeed, a true adrenaline masterpiece that made everyone including Sandra Bullock fall in love with Reeves....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 163 words · Crystal Owens

It's not justRise: High schools really do performSpring Awakening

When you think of high-school musicals, a lot of the same titles probably come to mind.Grease? Obviously.Little Shop of Horrors? Of course.The Wizard of Oz, Beauty and the Beast,Into the Woods, orCinderella? Credit: Virginia Sherwood/NBC But its not just happening on TV screens. Another high school in Hoboken, New Jersey,performed the musicalthis past February. Its not really in the script, per se. You could stage that however you want to stage it....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 177 words · Kimberly Reeves

It's official!Bond 25with Daniel Craig, Danny Boyle to start shooting this year

The film will be released in November 2019. The news comes after EON Productions and MGM reached a deal with Universal Pictures to release the film worldwide. As is traditional with Bond films,Bond 25will get an early U.K. release on Oct. 25, 2019. Boyle succeeds Sam Mendes, who directed bothSkyfallandSpectrebutexpressed his fatiguein various interviews. I think five years for the two movies it feels like one big experience. It was a fantastic, life-changing thing....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 143 words · Mario Bryant

It's official: Barack and Michelle Obama sign production deal with Netflix

The streaming service confirmed the deal on Monday More than a year after he left the White House, Barack Obama’s post-presidential life is beginning to take shape and Netflix will be a big part of it. Two months afterrumors first started swirlingthat the former first couple was interested in producing content for the streaming service, Netflix confirmed the deal on Monday, tweeting that “President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have entered into a multi-year agreement to produce films and series for Netflix, potentially including scripted series, unscripted series, docu-series, documentaries, and features” through their new entity Higher Ground Productions....

May 1, 2025 · 2 min · 255 words · Derrick Collier