How did Christian Dior become a fashion icon? “The New Look” seeks to answer that question by exploring a key period in not only Dior’s life but the fashion industry itself. This Apple TV+ series follows Dior as Paris is ravaged by Nazi occupation; the city, synonymous with fashion and style, is forced to find its way back to glory after succumbing to the horrors of World War II.

Continue reading ‘The New Look’ Trailer: Ben Mendelsohn Plays The Fashion Icon In New Apple TV+ Drama at The Playlist.

You can’t manufacture an anarchic spirit. That’s what drags down “Pistol,” the bio-series from Danny Boyle that premieres in its six-episode entirety on FX on Hulu on May 31st. It has all the pretense of something as dangerous and form-breaking as the music of The Sex Pistols, but too little of the actual energy that the band thrust into the U.K. and beyond in the 1970s.

Continue reading ‘Pistol’ Review: The Sex Pistols Would Probably Hate Danny Boyle’s New FX Series at The Playlist.

HBO Max is doing whatever it takes to fill out its growing library of “Max Originals.” Even if that means taking pre-existing shows from the UK, rebranding them as originals, and releasing them on the streaming service, such as with the new-ish show, “Two Weeks to Live.”

READ MORE: ‘The Flight Attendant’ Trailer: Kaley Cuoco Is Accused Of Murder In HBO Max’s Upcoming Thriller Series

As seen in the new trailer for “Two Weeks to Live,” the series follows the story of a young girl that has been sheltered by her doomsday-prepping mother after her father is murdered.

Continue reading ‘Two Weeks To Live’ Trailer: Maisie Williams Is On A Deadly Mission In HBO Max’s New Limited Series at The Playlist.

Editor’s Note: ‘The New Mutants’ was reviewed after a public screening at a drive-in theater. Given the ongoing health concerns regarding COVID-19, we recommend listening to experts and understanding the facts before deciding to go to a theater.

Where is the love for young adult horror? Over the past few years, we’ve seen writers work hard to reclaim the significance of young adult fiction and horror movies to general audiences.

Continue reading ‘The New Mutants’: The Long-Delayed ‘X-Men’ Spinoff Is A Surprising Blast Of Young Adult Horror at The Playlist.

If you spend a lot of time watching horror films, there are a few things that become readily apparent. Firstly, old Victorian mansions are never good. And second, old people are fucking terrifying. Sadly, for the young people in “The Owners,” they stumbled into an old mansion that is owned by creepy old people. Idiots.

READ MORE: ‘The Third Day’ Trailer: Jude Law & Naomie Harris Are Stuck On A Terrifying Island In HBO’s New Series

As seen in the trailer for “The Owners,” the film stars Maisie Williams as a woman that joins up with her boyfriend and a couple of other guys in an attempt to rob a mansion that they know has a safe full of cash.

Continue reading ‘The Owners’ Trailer: Maisie Williams Finds Out The Hard Way What Happens When You Rob Evil Senior Citizens at The Playlist.

For as much as we have talked about “The New Mutants,” most of the discussion is regarding the behind-the-scenes news relating to release date changes, reshoots, and other bits of drama that has plagued the long-delayed superhero film. However, what we sometimes fail to talk about is the actual film itself, a YA superhero film that focuses on the horrific elements that haunt a young group of mutants that are held captive in a hospital/prison.

Continue reading ‘New Mutants’ Director Reveals The Lesbian Love Story At The Center Of The Horror Film at The Playlist.

At this point, it would be really tragic if coronavirus caused Disney to push the release of “The New Mutants” even further than its April release date. After delays and delays while under the Fox umbrella, the ‘X-Men’ spin-off film finally got a firm release date by Disney after the merger and now, the world is dealing with an outbreak and studios are scrambling to figure everything out.

Continue reading ‘New Mutants’ Director Says Reshoots Wouldn’t Have Been Possible Because Actors Are Too Old Now at The Playlist.

**Spoilers for last night’s “Game of Thrones” episode, ‘The Long Night.’ You’ve been warned.**

Arya did it. It wasn’t Jon Snow. Dany didn’t get the chance. Hell, it wasn’t even Tyrion, who has done his fair share of killing. Nope, it was the youngest Stark, the master assassin, who delivered the final blow to the Night King, ending the biggest war in Westerosi history. And according to a new interview with EW, the cast of “Game of Thrones” talks about the shock of that ending and how it was unexpected for everyone involved.

Continue reading ‘Game Of Thrones’: Maisie Williams & Kit Harington Talk About The Final Moments Of Last Night’s Shocking Episode at The Playlist.

How’s your “Game of Thrones” death pool looking? Though the 85-minute episode “The Long Night” – which was the brutal Battle of Winterfell in its entirety – robbed us of some of our favorites (SER JORAH!) for the last half of this final season, it feels like we got lucky overall. It could have been so much worse. Many of our beloved (SER BRIENNE!)  survived, but this relief will likely not last long.

Continue reading ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8: The Night King & His Undead Army Arrive At Winterfell In Episode 3, ‘The Long Night’ [Recap] at The Playlist.

One of the by-products of watching “Game of Thrones” for almost a decade is the fact that viewers have seen the various Stark children grow into the adults that they are today (the ones that lived, more specifically). Jon Snow has become the hero of the series. Bran has turned into an all-seeing font of knowledge, and a bit of a creep. Sansa has gone through Hell and come through it one of the strongest people in the series.

Continue reading Maisie Williams Thought Last Night’s Intimate ‘Game Of Thrones’ Scene Was A Prank When She Read It at The Playlist.

It happened. Disney now owns and controls the vast library of 20th Century Fox. And as has been beaten into our heads from the millions of articles over the last year, this deal means that the Mouse House controls the ‘X-Men’ films, and thus, can decide the fate of the upcoming films “Dark Phoenix” and “The New Mutants.” While it appears that “Dark Phoenix” is going full steam ahead with its June release, the big question is what is going on with ‘New Mutants.’ And if anyone out there knows, star Maisie Williams would love to find out.

Continue reading ‘New Mutants’ Star Is Just As Confused As You Are About ‘X-Men’ Spin-Off: “Who Knows When The F–k It’s Gonna Come Out?” at The Playlist.

Of all the characters in the great ensemble TV series known as HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” Maisie William’s Arya Stark is perhaps the most controversial. The young character started as a headstrong wannabe warrior, right in the thick of things, but through many of those middle seasons, Arya became sidelined in a faraway land, with really no connection to the main plot. Luckily, last season saw that change and now Arya has rejoined the fight, and not a second too soon.

Continue reading Maisie Williams Talks Finally Being Relevant In The Main Plot Of ‘Game Of Thrones’ & Talks Final Season Connections To Season 1 at The Playlist.

We’ve heard about the extreme lengths that Marvel Studios employed to prevent “Avengers: Infinity War” spoilers from leaking, including limiting the scripts to iPads and including fake scenes. But they really have nothing on the folks at “Game of Thrones.”

In an interview from New York Comic-Con, actress Sophie Turner, aka Sansa Stark on HBO’s hit series, described the measures that the people behind “Game of Thrones” took during the filming of the upcoming Season 8 (the series’ final outing) to prevent any sort of spoiler-y set photos, leaks, or videos.

Continue reading ‘Game Of Thrones’: HBO Used “Drone Killers” & Other Extreme Measures To Prevent Final Season Leaks & Spoilers at The Playlist.

Aardman Animation is, without question, one of the finest animation houses in the business. The stop-motion specialists that brought us “Wallace & Gromit,” “Chicken Run,” “Arthur Christmas,” “Shaun the Sheep Movie” and several other cheeky delights, craft lovely, inventive, heartfelt and hilarious movies. The passion, expertise, and precision bleeding into each frame is remarkable in its impeccable style and thoroughness.

Continue reading ‘Early Man’ Just Misses Aardman’s Usually High Standards [Review] at The Playlist.

We’ve lived through a couple generations now of movies with various iterations of Magneto, Charles Xavier, Mystique….you get the idea. Now, a fresh superhero torch is being lit with “The New Mutants,” and now we have our first look at the new school.

A cast of rising stars including Maisie Williams (“Game Of Thrones“), Anya Taylor-Joy (“The Witch, “Split“), and Charlie Heaton (“Stranger Things“) lead the cast in this story that will follow a group of teenagers who are learning to grapple with their strange powers while being held in a secret facility.

Continue reading ‘The New Mutants’ Trailer: The Next Class Of Superheroes Are Here at The Playlist.

In 1818, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus” was published and became an almost immediate sensation. “Mary Shelley” is the story of its author and the creative inspiration behind the groundbreaking book. Well, eventually. Before we discover the titular writer’s genius, we must endure a fusty period drama that unfolds with such a startling lack of imagination, it’s nearly remarkable how conventional the production is, particularly when the life and famed work of Mary Shelley is so boldly unconventional.

Continue reading Elle Fanning Plays ‘Mary Shelley’ In Biopic Of ‘Frankenstein’ Creator [TIFF Review] at The Playlist.

Guys, if you had fully recovered from last week’s heartstopping dragon massacre, the season finale of “Game of Thrones” Season 7, “The Dragon and the Wolf,” could possibly assuage our nerves, but also cause a few palpitations.  Written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, directed by Jeremy Podeswa, this episode is an exercise in both restraint, and also in barfing story points directly onto the screen without any foreplay at all.

Continue reading ‘Game Of Thrones’: Winter Is Here And The End Is Near [The Dragon & The Wolf] at The Playlist.

Season 7, Episode 5, “Eastwatch”: Has everyone cooled down after last week’s Lannister BBQ? This Sunday’s fifth episode of ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 7, “Eastwatch,” is decidedly less ablaze than last week (though the burning’s not quite over yet).  Things are about to get fiery again soon, by the looks of Beric Dondarrian’s awesomely en fuego sword in the scenes from next week.

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David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are giving us deep cuts and hot, hot dragon action in “Game of Thrones” Season 7, Episode 4, “The Spoils of War.” Journeyman TV director Matt Shakman (“Mad Men,” “Fargo,” “You’re the Worst”) makes his ‘Thrones’ debut with this episode, and he leaves his mark. The first half is lovely and contemplative, often joyous, with Arya Stark returning to her home of Winterfell and reuniting with her siblings.

Continue reading ‘Game of Thrones’ Roasts ‘The Spoils of War’ [Season 7, Episode 4 Recap] at The Playlist.

Sometimes it seems that it’s only called “Game of Thrones” since “Family Matters” was already taken. Family problems. We all got ‘em, they’re just a whole lot worse in Westeros. Marauding pirate uncles, undermining sisters, long-lost nephews—it’s all just a stew of madness and warring bloodlines. That’s never more evident than in Season 7, Episode 2, “Stormborn,” written by Bryan Cogman, directed by Mark Mylod.

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The ‘Game’ is once again afoot. Last night, “Game of Thrones” (read our episode recap here) returned with [mild episode spoilers] a massacre by poison, Jim Broadbent, an undead giant, a proposal of marriage, a bedpan montage, a man-bun/top-knot and Ed Sheeran  — about whom you can avoid all the outrage if, like me, you couldn’t pick him out of a lineup anyway. “Dragonstone,” the first installment of the show’s seven-episode seventh season has immediately plunged us back into the thick of the intrigue with even the Narrow Sea no longer separating Daenerys and her allies, armies and dragons from the warring Houses of Westeros, and the White Walkers.

Continue reading The 10 Best Episodes Of ‘Game Of Thrones’ at The Playlist.

The rumors are true: Anya Taylor-Joy, the young star of “The Witch,” and ”Game of Thrones” cast member Maisie Williams have been confirmed for “X-Men: New Mutants” a young-adult-style superhero movie being directed by Josh Boone (“The Fault In Our Stars”).

The two actors had been rumored to star in the film more than a year ago.

Continue reading ‘New Mutants’: ‘The Witch’ & ‘Game Of Thrones’ Stars Confirmed For ‘X-Men’ Spinoff at The Playlist.

In advance of the show’s Season 7 premiere on July 16 — which we know because a giant melting block of ice told us so — HBO has released a batch of new photos from the penultimate season of “Game Of Thrones.” Fans who have been watching this show for the past six seasons will be relieved to discover that HBO hasn’t aggressively killed off any of the main characters during the offseason (hey, you never know), with the new photos confirming that everyone seems alive and well to kick things off.

Continue reading Check In On Your Favorite Murderers With These ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 7 Photos at The Playlist.

They might not crank ’em out like Pixar or DreamWorks, but when Aardman Animations (the studio behind “Wallace and Gromit” and “Chicken Run,” among others) makes something, it’s worth paying attention to. And “Early Man” looks like it could be a treat for fans.

Featuring the voices of Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston, Maisie Williams, Timothy Spall, and Richard Ayoade, the film will take audiences to the Bronze Age, and follow a caveman named Dug.

Continue reading Aardman Animations Goes Prehistoric In First Trailer For ‘Early Man’ at The Playlist.

With so much TV coming our way in the next 12 months, we nearly forgot about the penultimate season of “Game Of Thrones.” But that too will be must-watch programming in the months ahead, and naturally, one of the biggest shows on television is planning one helluva ending before the start of season 8.

Naturally, everybody involved with season 7 of “Game Of Thrones” is sworn to secrecy, but even still, Maisie Williams has certainly stoked fan excitement about what’s coming without revealing anything at all.

Continue reading Maisie Williams Teases Huge ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 7 Finale at The Playlist.