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In an ironic twist, HBO has had a documentary titled Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds focused on the mother/daughter duo waiting on the shelf since premiering it back at Cannes. It had been intended to be premiered in March, but in light of their passing, HBO has decided to move the date up to January 7th at 8 p.m. (ET/PT).

It comes as no real shock that Rogue One continues to dominate the holiday season box office. With a midweek boost in response to the recent passing of

Vikings is a series that's never been shy about killing off its characters, with a nearly Game of Thrones-level of nonchalance. This week was no exception, and while the fate of King Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Frimmel) has long been expected by fans of the History Channel's first scripted series, there had always been the hope that the series writer Michael Hirst would give us more time.

It's been a hard day for fandom as everyone struggles to come to terms with the passing of actress Carrie Fisher as well as author Richard Adams earlier

It's Christmas Eve, and we're flipping through the movie collection trying to decide what to watch. Sure, there's the obvious traditional fare, like A

Let's caveat that if you intentionally don't watch trailers for movies because you don't want anything spoiled, then this isn't the post for you. We've

Directly Ridley Scott has decided to give us all a bit of an early Christmas present with the dropping of the first trailer for Alien: Covenant. Over the

Denzel Washington's passion project shows that when he has a vision, he is willing to take the long road if it means getting it right. Fences is a powerful and brilliantly acted film adaptation of the late playwright August Wilson's stage production about an African-American family living in Pittsburgh in the mid-1950s.

Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5. This time of year, a lot of movies that get "limited" releases in the days before the New Year are just meant as award bait -

Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5 A Monster Calls is not an easy movie to watch. It's a brutally honest portrayal of a boy who is enduring the slow loss of his

Emma Stone, star of Superbad, Zombieland, Easy A, and the Amazing Spider-Man films is one the bright lights in Hollywood. She's #26 on IMDb's STARmeter

One thing that's been fun about Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence's press tour promoting their latest project, Passengers, is that they're both just

The Autopsy of Jane Doe is one of those films that you'll likely come across almost by accident. It's a small budget film (it's not another

In a move which would make Ebenezer Scrooge proud, the entertainment production company Relativity Media has informed all of its staffers that they would

It's still several months before Starz let viewer get their next Outlander fix with season 3 expected to begin on April 1st (no, it's not an April Fool's

A new poster has arrived ahead of the upcoming adaptation of the long-running Stephen King saga, The Dark Tower. The poster shows frontiersman Roland Deschain (played by Idris Elba) and Jake Chambers (Tom Taylor) striding forward with the welcome and blessing found in the books - May your days be long upon the earth.

Rating: 3 Stars out of 5 Passengers is Sony's latest foray into the Sci-Fi arena, with a spin on the Robinson Crusoe story. It would be a pretty

It's just over three months until Lionsgate's Power Rangers movie hits screens, and while we haven't gotten another trailer quite yet there is a new toy

One might think that if there's a sign alongside the road that says "Bridge Closed", drivers might find another way to get where they're going rather than

It's been 26 years since Twin Peaks first appeared to mess with our minds in a cultural touchstone series that arguably really wouldn't have anything quite like it until Lost. Now we seem to be six months or less away from the new volume's premiere on Showtime (the original series was on ABC). David Lynch and Mark Frost have both returned to write the new nine-volume season.

To absolutely no one's surprise, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has crushed the worldwide box office numbers with estimates tracking at $155 million

Zsa Zsa Gabor:  the name that you probably recognize but can't put a face to until you google her, but then will say - oh, I remember her, has passed away

Rogue One's use of the character of Grand Moff Tarkin, as played by Peter Cushing is an impressive next step in the use of CGI to allow filmmakers to be able to utilize actors who have either passed away, or need to be shown at a far younger age. In Cushing's case, he had died back in '94, which left filmmakers with only a few options: not use the character at all, to recast, or to utilize special effects to see how far through the uncanny valley the industry has progressed.

TL;DR: Let's be really clear - more than anything else, Rogue One is a PG-13 sci-fi war movie. Sure, it's not Saving Private Ryan level, but if you were

CBS's upcoming online-only Star Trek: Discovery series has just picked up at least one cast member from The Walking Dead. Sonequa Martin-Green, who plays

We're down to it just being a number of hours before Rogue One opens and everyone is talking about it at the office, at school, on the commute, and

As the season's bloodbath of cancellation announcements keep on coming, WGN America's supernatural (with equal parts drama and romance) series Salem will end after it's current season.

Lionsgate has tapped Leverage and The Librarians' creator John Rogers as showrunner and writer for their upcoming television arm of the high fantasy

TL;DR: In Collateral Beauty, Will Smith as Howard Inlet is a father whose daughter has passed away and has retreated in on himself - shutting out his

While a bit of a disappointment, the news should surprise exactly no one that Netflix has scuttled their historical drama series Marco Polo after just two