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There has been no shortage of reboots gracing the television landscape in recent years, with varying degrees of success. But in the case ofRoswell, New Mexico, which is a reimagining of the WB/UPN drama that ran from 1999 to 2002, it’s not really much of a reboot. The most basic tenets of the original series are there, but there are plenty of changes that make this one feel fresh, giving the superhero-heavy CW a new drama/mystery to add to its slate....

Mother has arrived, again! After earning their 10th consecutive nomination for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Show,RuPaulhas made history with the most nominations ever in the category. TheRuPaul’s Drag Racehost surpasses previous titleholdersHeidi KlumforProject RunwayandTom BergeronforDancing With the Stars. Alongside RuPaul, the nominations for the category includeSurvivor’sJeff Probst,Top Chef’sKristen Kish,The Traitor’sAlan Cumming, andShark Tank’sMark Cuban,Lori Greiner, Kevin O’Leary, Barbara Corcoran, Robert Herjavec, Daymond John, andDaniel Lubetzky. As irony would have it,Kish is set to compete on the fourth season of Cumming’s show, set to air early next year....

The Screen Actors Guild Awards were held last night, and they both illuminated and further complicated the impending Oscar race. In a somewhat surprising turn of events,Black Panthertook the top prize of the night—Best Performance by an Ensemble—in addition to the Best Stunt Ensemble award. It’s not hard to imagine why actors sprung for the groundbreaking Marvel Studios film in this category, but it did beat out other Oscar heavyweights likeGreen BookandA Star Is Bornfor the top prize....

Decades upon decades passed beforeMartin Scorsesewas able to finally finishSilence, his adaptation of Shûsaku Endô’s beloved tome, and that was likely for the better when all is said and done.Masahiro Shinoda, the master Japanese filmmaker behindPale FlowerandDouble Suicide,was 40 when he first adapted the novel in 1971, right in the middle of what would turn out to be an immensely fruitful career; his most recent film was released in 2003. Shinoda’s take on the material is alluringly naturalistic, evocative, and admirably restrained, but there’s no pain to the film, no essence of the human toll or the true faith of the two Jesuit priests who traverse Japan in search for the mentor....

In 2005,Seth MacFarlanefollowed up on the success of animated family sitcomFamily Guywith a new yet familiar animated family sitcomAmerican Dad!Critics and fans alike felt that the new series was little more than a carbon copy at the time, a port over of a successful formula that didn’t look to reinvent the wheel but rather add more bells and whistles to it. Some thought that the newcomer would fizzle out before it really got going while others posited that both series were destined for cancellation sooner than later....

Star Warsfans still reeling over that incredible Throne Room sequence inStar Wars: The Last Jedimay be in for an even bigger, more epic lightstaber sequence between Rey and Kylo Ren inStar Wars 9. When Vanity Fair releasedthe first look at the charactersfrom co-writer/directorJ.J. Abrams’ trilogy-cappingStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, one of the most striking images sawDaisy Ridley’s Rey andAdam Driver’s Kylo Ren battling it out with their lightsabers during a rainstorm....

Warner Bros. has released the first trailer for directorClintEastwood’strue story dramaSully.The film starsTom Hanksas Chelsey “Sully” Sullenberger, the “Miracle on the Hudson” pilot who glided a disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson, saving the lives of the 155 people onboard. But the picture also tells the story of what happened next, as an investigation into the event threatened to destroy Sully’s career. UnlikeRobert Zemeckis’Flight,Sullyis actually based on a true story of a modern-day hero who’s still living with the memories of that fateful day....

Some of the most popular movie franchises includeStar Wars,Jurassic Park,The Lord of the Rings,and, of course, anything within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, there is no secret to success, and just because a movie spawns a franchise doesn’t necessarily mean it’ll be good. They might bring in big bucks at the box office due to dedicated fans who revel in the corniness, bad acting, or downright ridiculous plots. Indeed, chances are that fans of the original will watch whatever comes next, no matter how awful it is....

The Americanshas completed its six season run, and it is truly the end of an era, comrades. The series was always among, if notthe, top TV series every year, as its wonderfully nuanced portrait of a marriage was encapsulated in 80s Cold War spycraft that felt increasingly relevant to our news cycle. FX’sThe Americanswill be remembered for many things, but chief among them was the joy ofKeri RussellandMatthew Rhys’ performances as Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet spies playing at being Americans to try and bring down a democracy, and yet we loved them....

There are few living authors whose work has been adapted quite as frequently as the “King of Horror” himself,Stephen King. Many early King adaptations, such asBrian de Palma’sCarrieandStanley Kubrick’sThe Shiningare now regarded as all-time classics. However, the last few years have seen an uptick in popularity for King projects thanks to the blockbuster success of theItfilms and multiple shows developed for streaming services. What’s exciting about King adaptations is how distinct they are from each other; the time travel conspiracies of11....

BetweenGandalf (Ian McKellen) defeating a balrogand Sam (Sean Astin) carrying Frodo (Elijah Wood) up Mount Doom,The Lord of the Ringsincludes some pretty impressive feats. Yet, surprisingly, the one that required the most strength is accomplished by 111-year-old Bilbo Baggins (Ian Holm). Bilbo isn’t in much of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, withThe Hobbitfilms focus more on him.In The Hobbit, a much younger Bilbo (played byMartin Freeman) finds the One Ring on his quest....

Amongst a handful of other distinctions, Hulu’sThe Looming Towersees executive producerAlex Gibneyteaming up with writerLawrence Wright, the man who penned the source material for Gibney’s excellent HBO documentary,Going Clear, about the cult of Scientology. That alone would serve as a hook for fans of either of these men orGoing Clearitself, and they are joined byCapotewriterDan Futtermanas well as gifted veteran TV directorsMichael Slovis(Preacher,Breaking Bad) and Craig Zisk (Veep,Parks & Recreation,This is Us) to boot....

Is there a major difference in fandoms out there, say, between the folks who loveHarry Potterand those who demandThe Snyder CutofJustice League? Does Warner Bros. giving in to fan demand, at times toxic, set a precedent for future fandoms going foward?Tony Goncalves, the CEO of AT&T’s Otter Media division that oversees HBO Max, doesn’t seem to think so. Goncalves spoke withNilay PatelandJulia Alexanderof The Verge for an episode ofThe Vergecastfocusing on the newly launched streaming service HBO Max and all that it entails....