After years of teasing, it’s finally happening– “The Office” is returning. But fans of the original series should have tempered expectations. This isn’t “The Office” you have grown to love over the years. This isn’t about Dunder Mifflin, Jim and Pam, Dwight’s antics, or even Stanley’s crosswords. This is a new ‘Office.’

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According to THR, “The Office” creator Greg Daniels and writer-producer Michael Koman are teaming up to bring a new generation of “The Office” to life, and Peacock has ordered it to series.

Continue reading ‘The Office’ Reboot Starring Domhnall Gleeson Has Officially Been Ordered At Peacock at The Playlist.

The Cannes market heats up even further with a new James Marsh movie on the scene. Deadline reports that Marsh will direct an adaptation of Kevin Barry‘s 2019 novel “Night Boat To Tangier” with Michael Fassbender and Domhnall Gleeson in the leads.  Ruth Negga will also star in the film. That’s quite a catch for director Marsh, who already has his Samuel Beckett biopic on the way with Gabriel Byrne and Aidan Gillen leading the cast there.

Continue reading ‘Night Boat To Tangier’: Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleeson & Ruth Negga To Star In James Marsh’s Adaptation Of Kevin Barry’s Lauded 2019 Novel at The Playlist.

It’s not hard to picture the team behind HBO’s “White House Plumbers” finishing work on an episode of “Veep” and picturing that stellar comedy’s tone being applied to the idiots behind the Watergate break-in. (The director of all five episodes here is David Mandel, showrunner on that massive critical darling.) And as the country once again goes through considerations of impeachment and general malfeasance in the highest offices of the United States, the timing seems just right for a scathing look at one of the key points in our continuing disillusionment with the government.

Continue reading ‘White House Plumbers’ TV Review: Despite A Funny Woody Harrelson & Justin Theroux, HBO’s Series Wastes A Grand Opportunity at The Playlist.

The set-up for FX on Hulu’s “The Patient” is a captivating one. A serial killer named Sam Fortner (Domhnall Gleeson) decides that he needs more intense therapy than he’s been getting from his regular visits to Dr. Alan Strauss (Steve Carell), and so he kidnaps the shrink and chains him to the floor in his basement. Can Alan keep Sam from committing murders while also protecting his own safety?

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Since the model launched in March 2020, FX On Hulu‘s brand has been hit or miss. Some shows like “Devs,” “Reservation Dogs,” and “The Bear,” which just premiered last month, won over critics and audiences immediately. Others, like “American Horror Stories” or the long-awaited adaptation of “Y: The Last Man,” floundered.

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But FX On Hulu’s next release might be an assured winner for the content hub: “The Patient,” a limited series about a serial killer who takes a therapist hostage to help curb his homicidal urges.

Continue reading ‘The Patient’ Trailer: Steve Carell’s Therapist Is The Prisoner Of Domhnall Gleeson’s Serial Killer In New Limited Series at The Playlist.

One of the odd experiences that have arisen from the pandemic delaying every major film for over a year is when a film gets a brand-new trailer more than a year and a half after the first trailer. Inevitably, this makes you wonder, “Didn’t that film already get released?” That’s the case with “Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway,” a film that I swear was already in theaters but apparently isn’t actually getting released until June.

Continue reading ‘Peter Rabbit 2’ Trailer: James Corden Returns As The Troublesome Bunny This June at The Playlist.

If you’re a film fan and know your Irish actors, you’re probably very familiar with the last name Gleeson. There’s Brendan Gleeson, a damn fine veteran actor. But you also have his two sons, Domhnall Gleeson and Brian Gleeson, two great actors in their own right. Well, if you have a lot of Gleeson love, you’re going to really enjoy “Frank of Ireland.”

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As seen in the trailer for “Frank of Ireland,” the story follows the lead character, aptly named Frank.

Continue reading ‘Frank Of Ireland’ Trailer: Brian & Domhnall Gleeson Star In This Amazon Comedy Series About A (Sorta) Lovable Loser at The Playlist.

In the hyper-connected modern world of everyone extremely online, the one that got away is an obsolete concept. He/she/they is perhaps only just one text message away and perhaps just one step away from daring you to jump off the cliff of normalcy into blissful self-destruction. So the longing romantic fantasy of what if?, underscored by the underpinnings of life’s routines and inherent romantic dissatisfactions, is explored with scintillating, flirty, flinty pleasure in HBO’s romantic comedy cum thriller mini-series, “Run.” From creator Vicky Jones, a frequent collaborator of “Fleabag” creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge, also an executive producer and guest star in the series, and starring Merritt Wever (“Unbelievable,” “Godless”) and Domhnall Gleeson (“Ex Machina,” “Rise Of Skywalker”), ”Run” has all the trappings of a terrifically entertaining series about secret romantic pacts, unfulfilled desire, star crossed destinies, and perhaps the manic thrill of blowing up your life all in the name of a sensual romp between two people with electric chemistry.

Continue reading ‘Run’: Merritt Wever Is The MVP In HBO’s Frisky Tryst Series From Vicky Jones & Phoebe Waller-Bridge [Review] at The Playlist.

Maybe it’s just in movies and TV shows or it’s actually something that real people do, but you’re probably aware of the idea of marriage/love pacts between friends. Y’know, something along the lines of, “If we’re not married by 35, we’ll marry each other.” In the new series, “Run,” that idea of a relationship pact is taken to the next level.

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As seen in the first full trailer for “Run,” the HBO series follows the story of a woman that finds herself at a crossroads in her life, where she’s unhappy with the direction she’s going in but unable to do anything about it.

Continue reading ‘Run’ Trailer: Domhnall Gleeson & Merritt Wever Run Away Together In HBO’s New Series at The Playlist.

HBO’s ‘’Run’’ is another in a long line of woman-who-needs-saving-from-dreadful-life stories. For this series, however, a text-based twist gives her the push to somehow move. Of course, it just happens to be a guy from her past behind the message.

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“Run” comes from co-creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Waller-Bridge is everywhere right now, much to do with the success of her series “Fleabag” and “Killing Eve.” The multi-hyphenate has been on the usual Hollywood rocket ride that pushes talent to meteoric rises.

Continue reading ‘Run’ Trailer: Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Latest Series Hits HBO This April at The Playlist.

Children’s movies have never pretended to be super complex character studies. So, when you come into a sequel to “Peter Rabbit” and it’s best described as Peter being mischievous and getting into various bits of trouble along the way, you know exactly what you’re getting yourself into.

As the new teaser trailer for “Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway” shows, Peter is once again up to his old tricks.

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If you liked “Widows” for its depiction of seemingly every-day-women forced into extreme circumstances and taking on the challenges of the criminal underworld, “The Kitchen” might be up your alley too. Distributed by New Line Cinema, “The Kitchen” is an American crime drama and follows the unlikely trio of Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, and Elisabeth Moss as the wives of Irish mobsters who take over organized crime operations in the 1970s in New York City’s neighborhood Hell’s Kitchen after the FBI arrests their husbands.

Continue reading ‘The Kitchen’ Trailer: Elisabeth Moss, Melissa McCarthy & Tiffany Haddish Can Stand The Heat Of A ’70s Crime Drama at The Playlist.

Like Lenny Abrahamson‘s previous two movies, “Room” and “Frank,” “The Little Stranger” is a study in restraint. A bare bones description of the film – a doctor discovers strange occurrences at an English estate in the 1940s – makes it sound like high-brow horror, but the filmmaker has far more on his mind than simple scares. Adapted from Sarah Waters‘ novel, “The Little Stranger” instead explores tension created not only by the supernatural, but also by the changing balance of power in postwar Britain.

Continue reading ‘The Little Stranger’ Is A Beautiful Gothic Drama That Is Uninterested In Horror Genre Conventions [Review] at The Playlist.

One of the great things about Lenny Abrahamson as a director is that none of his films are ever the same. Even Focus Features chairman Peter Kujawski knows what’s up and described Abrahamson as “a filmmaker who has proven to redefine every genre he takes on.”

His first film, “Adam & Paul,” was a buddy comedy about drug addicts, then his 2014 breakout film “Frank” was about an enigmatic musician who constantly wears a paper-mâché mask over his head, and he followed that with the Oscar-winning kidnapping drama “Room.

Continue reading ‘The Little Stranger’ Trailer: The Director Of ‘Room’ Turns To Supernatural Gothic Horror at The Playlist.

Forget meddling in elections and spreading fake news, the Russian bots have officially crossed the line! They’ve attempted to interfere with “Star Wars!”

Sarcasm aside, it appears that well before production was finished on “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” writer/director Rian Johnson was bombarded with tweets from Russian bots regarding a specific character in the film.

No, they didn’t care about Luke (the rest of fandom had that covered).

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You’re not going to be able to leave a galaxy far, far away anytime soon. “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” has been in cinemas for ten weeks, and if you want to have another run through Rian Johnson‘s latest chapter in the saga, you’ll be able to do just that in a matter of weeks.

The home video trailer has landed for ‘The Last Jedi,’ and in addition to showing off all kinds of spoilery footage that the initial promos avoided, it confirms some of the extras fans will be getting.

Continue reading ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Trailer: The Rebellion Is Reborn For Home Video at The Playlist.

It’s hard to make sense of “Peter Rabbit.” Based on Beatrix Potter‘s beloved, century-old British literary mainstay, this CG/live-action hybrid adaptation enlists Will Gluck, the American director/co-writer behind an inconsistent batch of studio comedies, including “Easy A,” “Friends With Benefits,” “Fired Up” and 2014’s “Annie” remake, to bring this early 20th century garden rabbit to the new millennium.

Continue reading ‘Peter Rabbit’ Is A Wildly Weird Take On A Beloved Classic [Review] at The Playlist.

Earlier this year, Netflix unspooled “I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore” at the Sundance Film Festival, and in a matter of weeks, debuted the movie around the globe on the service. Next year, they’re doing with the same with another lengthily titled flick: “A Futile And Stupid Gesture.” And it’s packing a powerhouse of talent.

Directed by David Wain (“Wet Hot American Summer,” “Role Models“) and starring Will Forte, Martin Mull, Domhnall Gleeson, Matt Walsh, Joel McHale, and Emmy Rossum, the film dives into the early days of National Lampoon, the comedy magazine, that soon became a massive Hollywood brand.

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Domhnall Gleeson is spending the fall season showing off his dramatic chops, appearing in Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!,” Tom Cruise’s action movie “American Made,” leading the biopic “Goodbye Christopher Robin,” and of course, getting ready for the blockbuster, “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.” However, the actor is eager to show off his comic side and he does just that in the upcoming “Crash Pad.”

Co-starring Thomas Haden Church, Christina Applegate, and Nina Dobrev, the film follows a young man whose one night stand with a married woman, not only turns romantic, but takes a further twist when he befriends the wronged husband.

Continue reading ‘Crash Pad’ Clip: Domhnall Gleeson Is A Girlish Tilda Swinton [Exclusive] at The Playlist.

The “Star Wars” universe has really gone through a big shake up in the last six months: directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were fired from the “Han Solo” movies, and filmmaker Colin Trevorrow parted ways with Lucasfilm on “Star Wars: Episode XI,” both replaced by veterans like Ron Howard and J.J. Abrams respectively.

Continue reading ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Trailer: Rey Becomes The Last New Hope at The Playlist.

Everybody wants to be “Goodfellas.” It’s the coolest, slickest kid in school. Ever since Martin Scorsese‘s influential mobster epic first came onto the scene in 1990, many directors and producers have tried to replicate that iconic film’s free-wheeling, high-rolling style. Whether it’s “Lord Of War,” “American Hustle,” or “War Dogs,” to name a mere few, Hollywood isn’t shy about trying to recreate that smooth criminal classic’s singular success.

Continue reading ‘American Made’ Is A Charming, Familiar ‘Goodfellas’ Copycat [Review] at The Playlist.

Domhnall Gleeson certainly seems to be covering the “movies based on childhood favorites” bases pretty well. Next month, he’ll get dramatic telling the story behind the creation of Winnie The Pooh in “Goodbye Christopher Robin.” And after he goose steps around in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” the actor will hop over to “Peter Rabbit,” where he’ll get into all kinds of hare raising trouble.

Continue reading ‘Peter Rabbit’ Trailer: Domhnall Gleeson Has Hare Raising Trouble at The Playlist.

In through the nose, out slowly through the mouth…If you are not familiar with the Lamaze breathing technique for women in labor, acquaint yourself with it before donning your hazmat suit and embarking on Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!” which uncoils from a murderously tense, tricky and claustrophobic first hour into some of the most sustained escalating insanity (and scorchingly brilliant filmmaking) ever to burn down a cinema screen. An incendiary religious allegory, a haunted-house horror, a psychological head trip so extreme it should carry a health warning and an apologia for crimes of the creative ego past and not yet committed, it’s not just Aronofsky’s most bombastic, ludicrous and fabulous film, spiked with a kind of reckless, go-for-broke, leave-it-all-up-there-on-the-screen abandon, it is simply one of the most films ever.

Continue reading ‘mother!’: Darren Aronofsky’s Scorchingly Brilliant Thriller Is Visceral, Go-For-Broke Madness [Venice Review] at The Playlist.

Hollywood is filled with great scripts that are forever stuck in development hell, struggling to find the right of talent and people willing to take a risk to make it happen. And then there are movies like “Crash Pad,” which somehow get made without any problems, even though they feel like a low-grade rehash of about a half dozen movies you’ve seen before. Oh wait, maybe that’s exactly why they get made.

Continue reading ‘Crash Pad’ NSFW Trailer: Domhnall Gleeson & Thomas Haden Church Party at The Playlist.

As Tom Cruise heals up from his “Mission: Impossible 6” injury, the ever busy actor has another big movie on the horizon with “American Made.” Early notices have been very positive about the Doug Liman joint (the film currently stands at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes after 8 reviews), and now you can get a taste for the action drama with four clips.

Based on a true story, the film follows an ordinary pilot who is recruited by the CIA to run one of their covert operations, and of course, nothing goes as smooth as it should.

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