Krysten Ritter Is Sharp, but ‘Orphan Black: Echoes’ Lacks the Audacity of the Original: TV Review

A The Young and The Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful crossover is coming up!

Ethan Shanfeld SPOILER WARNING: This interview contains spoilers for “The Bear,” including a surprise cameo. Matty Matheson has spent his career running restaurants. Now, he’s focused on a fictional one. With FX’s “The Bear,” the Toronto-based celebrity chef and restaurateur added actor to his resume, playing the loud, lovable and sometimes immature handyman Neil Fak in addition to his role as a culinary consultant and producer on the show.

EXCLUSIVE: Spenser Granese (Little Death) has landed a role opposite Kiernan Shipka, Kiefer Sutherland and Krysten Ritter in Stone Cold Fox, the ’80s action thriller marking the directorial debut of Sophie Tabet, on which we were first to report.

The Bear season three will not feature a romance between Carmy and Syd, say cast members at panel interview.The Emmy-winning series returns for its third season tomorrow (June 26) on Hulu and FX at 9pm ET, with all episodes being added to Disney+ at 2am BST (June 27).The cast of the popular restaurant drama announced the show’s earlier-than-planned release at a press conference yesterday (June 24), where they also shared some details about the highly-anticipated third season.Many fans have speculated over whether a romance might blossom between two of the series’ protagonists, head chef Carmy and his sous, Syd. According to IndieWire, one of the first questions aimed at actors Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri was about whether their characters’ relationship had romantic undertones.

Hunter Ingram SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from the series premiere of “Orphan Black: Echoes,” now streaming on AMC+. The series premiere of AMC and BBC America’s “Orphan Black: Echoes” offers only a few concrete things about Lucy, the enigmatic character played by Krysten Ritter. First and foremost, she’s innately resourceful, which comes in handy when she wakes up with no memory of who she is, with a kind but mysterious woman (Keeley Hawes) interrogating her about anything she might know. After a violent reaction, she MacGyvers her way out of the containment facility where she’s being held and right past a few clues that suggest her origins may lie in a slimy vat of goo.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Daryl Hall and Elvis Costello, take a seat. That might be a thing to shout out as a request the next time these two veteran singers co-headline a tour together, rather than calling out for “Maneater” or “Pump It Up.” It’s not that they aren’t standup guys, or that there is anything about their energy levels that suggests they need to take a load off.

Austin Butler and Jodie Comer are stepping out to promote their new movie.

Two hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission. At PAC NYC, 251 Fulton Street. Through July 28.The hottest show in town is… “Cats”?Nobody’s said that about Andrew Lloyd Webber’s singing-dancing feline musical since around 1984.

Actor Kiefer Sutherland on Thursday remembered his late father, actor Donald Sutherland, in a touching message on social media.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Tanner Adell, one of the artists at the forefront of the new wave of Black country music, has inked a new recording contract with Love Renaissance, aka LVRN Records. Adell had been independent since splitting with Columbia Records last year, and her profile increased exponentially when she was one of the artists featured on Beyoncé‘s blockbuster “Cowboy Carter” album this spring, leading to an influx of interest in Adell’s recent catalog, like the signature song “Buckle Bunny.” LVRN is an Atlanta-based label and management company whose roster includes such artists as Summer Walker, 6LACK, DVSN, Spinall and TxC.

“Mad Men” star Jon Hamm no longer wants to be your leading man—or at least, that’s the title of a new Hollywood Reporter story on the actor and where he’s at with his career. While Hamm didn’t necessarily go away in the ensuing years after “Mad Men,” he apparently was offered a lot and was picky about it.

One detail about most of the characters in the Netflix series Bridgerton that was pretty vague was their ages.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Yellowstone” is currently in production on its final episodes without previous star Kevin Costner, although the Oscar winner continues to double down on his apparent openness to returning as John Dutton. Appearing on “Today” to promote his upcoming movie “Horizon,” Costner once again said he would love to return for the second half of “Yellowstone” Season 5. “I’ve supported that thing and I’ve loved it,” Costner said.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic A lot of bong water has passed under the bridge since “Reefer Madness: The Musical” first premiered at the Hudson Theatre on Santa Monica Blvd. in 1998. Like, legalization of the demon weed in most states… plus, about a million more camp musicals that have come down the pike since then, maybe lessening any obvious need to bring back a show satirizing long-bygone pot paranoia.

“Bridgerton” Season 3 part 2 (now streaming on Netflix), Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) finally give into their feelings and have a steamy interlude together. Spoilers ahead for Season 3 part 2. In previous interviews, the actors have revealed that they “broke furniture” while filming a sex scene.

Inside Out,” with a voice cast led by Amy Poehler, which returned it to the inventive glory days of “Toy Story” and “Ratatouille.” Almost a decade later, Pixar’s crisis is now existential. Its fortunes at the box office have plummeted, the movies often stink, it’s been forced to lay off staffers and is quickly losing its once-dictatorial grip on American childhoods.

Jack Dunn As part of Variety‘s “Behind the Song,” the Newton Brothers Andy Gursh and Taylor Stewart broke down how they crafted the superhero soundtrack for Marvel’s new animated series “X-Men ’97.” Having both been fans of X-Men from a young age, Grush and Stewart were both “very, very excited” when first approached about the project. While revisiting the original cartoon to prepare, one element that jumped out at Stewart was the power of the theme song. “As a kid on Saturday mornings, I would hear the theme song and I would always get super-duper pumped up.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Look up “cartoon villain” in the dictionary, and you’re likely to find a picture of David Zaslav. Since taking over Warner Bros. Discovery, he’s orphaned not one, but two feature-length Looney Tunes projects.

Siddhant Adlakha Calvin Reeder‘s “The A-Frame” is chock-full of loaded ideas that don’t quite coalesce. A film about confronting death and a lurid fantasy of escaping its grasp, its story of terminal illness has the potential to be intensely personal. However, when it begins toying with sci-fi tropes and possibilities, it becomes both aesthetically and narratively malformed and feels lost in a liminal space between acerbic gallows humor and existential genre fiction without fully leaning into either one.

Austin Butler is opening up about the possibility of Pirates of the Caribbean in his future.