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What Justified: City Primeval’s Last Minute Reveal Means for Raylan Givens

Let's explore what the finale's last minute reveal could mean for the FX series. What Justified: City Primeval’s Final Reveal Means for the Series and Raylan Givens Marcus Shorter

Justified: City Primeval Exceeds Even the Highest Expectations: Review

Timothy Olyphant returns as Raylan Givens in Justified: City Primeval, and it's everything you want it to be. Justified: City Primeval Exceeds Even the Highest Expectations: Review Marcus Shorter

Aunjanue Ellis: 5 Things to Know About the King Richard Star

Boasting a career spanning multiple decades, Aunjanue Ellis is on the cusp of Oscar glory for her turn in the Will Smith-led King Richard, portraying Oracene “Brandy” Price, the mother of tennis legends Venus and Serena Williams. While King Richard primarily follows the life story of the sisters’ father, Richard, the film highlights the wide scope of Oracene Price’s work and the important role she held in making her daughters the greatest tennis players of all time. Ellis delivers a dynamic, moving, and multifaceted performance that transcends mere biopic impersonation; instead, it taps into something deeper and rawer. Ahead of the Oscars on Sunday, where King Richard is up for Best Picture, Best Actor (Smith), Best Supporting Actress (Ellis), Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, a...

Cthulu Rises in First Official Trailer for Lovecraft Country: Watch

HBO has unveiled the first official trailer for Lovecraft Country, a new prestige horror series from Jordan Peele, J.J. Abrams, and showrunner Misha Green. It premiered at Comic-Con this weekend, when the cast participated in a virtual panel discussion and shared an exclusive three-minute scene from the show. Lovecraft Country is based on the 2016 book by Matt Ruff, which sets Lovecraft’s cosmic horrors in the Jim Crow south of the 1950s. The story tracks avid reader Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors) as he searches for his missing father (Michael Kenneth Williams) with his childhood pal Letitia (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) and his Uncle George (Courtney B. Vance). The first and second teasers emphasized the relationships between the main characters, while dwelling on the white, hu...