While DCU fans wait for Michael Keaton‘s brief return as Bruce Wayne/Batman in “The Flash” next year, there’s some other news on the Keaton front. The actor just wrapped photography on his second directing effort after 2009’s “The Merry Gentleman,” entitled “Knox Goes Away.” The noir thriller stars Keaton as Knox, a contract killer diagnosed with rapid-onset dementia who vows to save his estranged adult son’s life before his mind totally deteriorates.  

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Apple TV+ launched in 2019 with one of the most expensive dramas of all time, a peek behind the curtain of a high-profile NYC morning news show and how it functions in the era of #MeToo and Cancel Culture called “The Morning Show”. Reviews were decidedly mixed—our own critic called it “as narratively injurious as it is toothlessly benign”—but a lot of critics and viewers came around as the season unfolded, and it even landed multiple Emmy nominations, winning Best Supporting Actor.

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The blue-haired Winona (Jessica Barden), while driving, vents to an unseen man about living with her parents. She fumes, “I want to stick a fork into an electrical socket every minute that I’m there.” A recent-college dropout, the twenty-year-old Winona lives in arrested development with her parents in their Los Angeles suburban home. Winona is flirtatious and provocative. She tiptoes around her supposedly judgmental mom Pamela (Marcia Gay Harden) and works for her father Richard (Michael McKean), as an office assistant (a nepotistic position that requires little work of her).

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A loose adaptation of Annie Proulx’s novel, “Barkskins” is a unique beast even in the era of Peak TV. Executive Produced by film and broadway uber-producer Scott Rudin, it was created and written primarily by Elwood Reed whose previous work (“The Chi,” “The Bridge,” “Hawaii Five-O”) don’t necessarily scream 17th century period piece set in the French Canadian wilderness. And the same can be said for filmmaker David Slade, who helmed the first two episodes of the series.

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Remember “The Revenant?” The Oscar-winning Leonardo DiCaprio starrer? Well, National Geographic is kind of hoping you don’t, because their latest historical fiction series, “Barkskins,” has a very similar vibe.

An eight-episode adaptation of the bestselling novel by Anne Proulx, “Barkskins” is all about the tension between new settlers and the indigenous population of Wobik, now Quebec, and how it results in an all-out war in 1690s New France.

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The saga of everyone’s favorite (?), very dysfunctional couple for one last round on the big screen in “Fifty Shades Freed.” The question is whether or not their lavish lifestyle can survive flirting and a dark secret from their past.

Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan are back, and now married, with Christian and Ana living the life of (kinky) domestic bliss. But oh no, their architect has eyes for Christian (I hate it when that happens!) and some Very Bad Person comes racing back into Ana’s.

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No one bought “Fifty Shades Of Grey” for its literary value, and no one went to see the movie because it was promised high, cinematic art. The audience wanted sex, and presumably, that’s what they’re going to come for again in “Fifty Shades Darker.” However, it would appear that Universal has a different idea of what people are anticipating.

According to Page Six, Universal is telling the stars of the upcoming sequel, including lead actors Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, and everyone else to knock it off with it the heated sex talk and innuendos during the current press tour for the film.

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So, how do you get millenials to care about their Mom’s favorite piece of kinky literature? Get #zayn and #taylorswift into the mix. The former One Direction member and the biggest pop star on the planet have joined forces for “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker),” which if you haven’t guessed, was written for the movie. And naturally, it backgrounds the new trailer.

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Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan are back to tie each other up and have relationship problems in the kinky sequel.

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To the surprise of no one, “Fifty Shades Darker” recently earned an R-rating for “strong erotic sexual content, some graphic nudity, and language.” Well, obviously. Universal isn’t messing with the steamy formula that saw them turn page-turning trash into big screen trash, with “Fifty Shades Of Grey” earning over $570 million worldwide. Can they titillate audiences again? They’re certainly going to try.

Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson are back to take it off and get it on, in the sequel the unfolds the latest bedroom antics of Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, with James Foley (“Glengarry Glen Ross,” “House Of Cards“) directing the hot and heavy action.

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Review: Dylan Kidd’s ‘Get A Job’ Starring Miles Teller, Bryan Cranston & Anna Kendrick

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Review: 'Grandma' Provides Some Truly Entertaining Quality Time In The Company Of The Excellent Lily Tomlin

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LAFF Review: Paul Weitz's 'Grandma' Provides The Perfect Dose Of Lily Tomlin

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Watch: First Trailer For Woody Allen's 'Magic In The Moonlight' Starring Emma Stone & Colin Firth

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New Photos From Woody Allen’s 'Magic In The Moonlight’ Plus New Plot Details Emerge

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Continue reading Frank Grillo Leads ‘The Purge 2,’ Zac Efron Catches ‘Fire,’ Imogen Poots Visits ‘A Country Called Home’ & More at The Playlist.

First Look At Emma Stone, Colin Firth & Marcia Gay Harden In Woody Allen's 'Magic In The Moonlight'

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Review: JFK Drama 'Parkland' Starring Zac Efron, Paul Giamatti & More Feels Like A Cheap Cash-In

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First Clip & New Photos From 'Parkland' Starring Zac Efron, Paul Giamatti & More

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Venice Review: JFK Drama 'Parkland' Starring Zac Efron, Billy Bob Thornton & Jacki Weaver

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Watch: Trailer For JFK Assassination Drama 'Parkland' Produced By Tom Hanks, Starring Paul Giamatti, Zac Efron & More

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Recap: 'The Newsroom' Season 2 Episode 1, 'The First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All The Lawyers'

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Continue reading Angela Bassett Joins ‘Olympus Has Fallen’; Ron Livingston Is ‘The Pretty One’; David Tennant & Emily Watson To Star In ‘The Politician’s Husband’ & More at The Playlist.