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This article contains discussions of police corruption and sex work. Spoilers for The Lincoln Lawyer season 3 are ahead! Trina Rafferty and Kendall Roberts are vital supporting characters inThe Lincoln Lawyer’sseason 3 Glory Days mystery, making their backgrounds important to understand. When it comes to The Lincoln Lawyer, every season has multiple small pieces that come together to create a bigger picture, answering the central mystery of the crime cases. Season 3 is no exception, exploring the corrupt secrets of the DEA Agent James De Marco through various lenses....

Summary Glen Powell has explained whyThe Running Manis a dream project. Ahead of theupcomingThe Running Man, the star has a string of hits under his belt after having held a supporting role opposite Tom Cruise and Miles Teller in the 2022 legacy sequelTop Gun: Maverick, which became the fifth highest-grossing domestic movie of all time. He followed that by starring in the $220 million rom-com sleeper hitAnyone But Youin 2023 and the 2024 smashTwisters, which has grossed $337....

A controversy has erupted around the release of Pixar’s new flagship animated TV showWin or Loseon Disney+, in relation to a transgender character depicted in the series. The character Kai is the star player of the Pickles, the little-league softball team at the center ofWin or Lose. They were also set to be portrayed openly as a transgender character, untilDisney stepped in to remove any reference to Kai’s gender identityfrom the show....

The final boss ofThe Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdommay have deeper connections to an often forgottenZeldavillain. It’s not uncommon forZeldagames to reuse big baddies - after all, how many times hasGanon been the final boss? The series timeline tends to loop back in on itself, with much of the plot centered on the constant recurrence, throughout multiple millennia, of its heroes and villains. It’s no more a surprise to see someone like Ganon or Vaati in every subsequentZeldagame than it is to see Impa, Link, or Zelda herself....

Summary After revealing new promos for the film, Disney has given a new update onZootopia 2out ofD23. The firstZootopiawas released in 2016, making over $1 billion at the box office. The studio followed that up with a series of shorts released on Disney+, but it wasn’t until February 2023 that they confirmed thatZooptopia 2was in development. With a little over a year until the film releases,Disneyhas shared a first look at the upcoming sequel during the D23 Entertainment Showcase panel, for whichScreen Rantwas in attendance....

Summary Entourage’s Ari actor Jeremy Piven welcomes a negotiation face-off with Tom Cruise’sTropic Thundercharacter. Piven played the role of the brash yet endearing agent, Ari Gold, in the HBO series, a role for which he won three Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series from 2004 to 2011. On the other hand, Cruise made a brief but memorable appearance in 2008’sTropic Thunderas Les Grossman, the foul-mouthed, short-tempered, and balding studio executive behind the production of the eponymous Vietnam War film....

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Powershowrunners Patrick McKay and JD Payne have teased what’s next for Númenor’s story in season 3, and where it will lead the fantasy series.The Rings of Powerseason 2 endswith a focus on Eregion, as Sauron (Charlie Vickers) retakes control of the Orcs, leaving the Elven city destroyed in the process. However, Númenor was also featured, with Pharazôn (Trystan Gravelle) taking total control of the island nation, accusing Míriel (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) of treason after learning Halbrand’s true identity through the palantír....

TheWesterngenre is one of the most iconic in the history of cinema and includes a few unique subgenres. While there might not be as manyWesterns made todayas there were in the genre’s golden age from the 1930s to the 1960s,the best Westernshave left their unmistakable mark on pop culture. Its tropes, esthetics, and stories have been reworked times and times again both within the Western genre and outside, and several other genres have found their way within Western proper....

Summary Disaster movies that involve saving the world have become some of the biggest summer blockbuster hits and beloved popcorn movies for a reason, with 1996’sIndependence Daybeing one of the most iconic. Telling the story of an alien invasion that must be warded off by humanity,Independence Daybecame the highest-grossing movie of the yearand was a watershed moment for the Hollywood blockbuster (viaBoxOfficeMojo). Due to its now-legendary status in movie history, it is no wonder that many other disaster movies about saving the world share some similarities withIndependence Day....

Martial arts movies are often at their best when they embrace the wacky side of the genre, being an enjoyable watch even decades after they were originally filmed. Martial arts movies are keen to put the action front and center, with the narrative connective tissue ranging fromdeeply philosophical dissections of kung futo totally absurd and nonsensical fairy tales. Surprisingly, some of the most fun to watch entries in the genre are the latter, being unique experiences unlike anything else....

Silent Hill 2 Remakeis already separating fans into camps of pro-remake and anti-remake camps. In the age of classic game remakes, such asFinal Fantasy 7, all theResident Evils, andDoom,it is not surprising that Bloober Team and Konami looked to remake the popular classic,Silent Hill 2. The game follows James Sunderland as he searches the town of Silent Hill after receiving a letter from his wife Maria, even though she died from an illness three years earlier....

Audiences may associateAmerican Psycho’s Patrick Bateman with Christian Bale, but a new star has weighed in on rumors he will be leading the forthcoming remake from Lionsgate. Based on the satirical horror novel of the same name by Bret Easton Ellis, it would be Bale’s tenure as the movie adaptation’s investment banker andserial killer Patrick Batemanthat would firmly establish him as one of Hollywood’s most sought-after leading men. In October 2024, Lionsgate officially revealed that they would be pushing forward with a newAmerican Psychoremake helmed by Academy Award nominated filmmaker Luca Guadagnino....

WhileBob’s Burgersseason 15, episode 10 was a fun outing on its own merits, the episode also highlighted how much the animated comedy has taken over a tradition pioneered byThe Simpsons. It is tough to overstate theGolden Age ofThe Simpsons’ cultural impact. As the longest-running scripted primetime American TV series in history with more than 780 episodes to its name, it is no surprise that the series has influenced a lot of shows that arrived in its wake....