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Josh Brolin, Lily Taylor and Imogen Poots.Brolin plays Royal Abbott, who runs a modern-day sprawling Wyoming ranch that’s been in his wife Cecilia’s (Taylor) family for over 100 years. With a nod to the series Western motif, the Abbott Ranch abuts the Tillerson Ranch and the two families, natch, don’t get along too well.

Consistent with Rorschach Theatre’s adventurously immersive productions, the company’s latest, The Human Museum by Miyoko Conley, engages audiences in playful conversation with its themes well before the show even begins.Audiences enter through the titular museum, a hallowed institution operated by robots of Earth in a future where humans are extinct. Created inside the same two-story Connecticut Avenue former retail space where, last fall, Rorschach unleashed Night of the Living Dead Live, the Human Museum passes patrons through galleries filled with artifacts of human existence.Considering this is the work of artificially intelligent bots with only a secondhand concept of what humans were like, the exhibit items have been well chosen.

2014 science fiction film “Interstellar.”“Well, maybe this means it’ll be a boon to science,'” Chastain, 47, quipped to People magazine last week. But a rep for Babynames.com told TMZ on Wednesday that the name Murph is not that popular.It’s not in the top 1,000 names — for boys or girls — for any year of birth this century, according to the Social Security Administration’s baby name database.The Babynames.com rep also told TMZ that only one person added the name to their favorites list in the two years after the release of “Interstellar” — and another person added it last year.The Post reached out to Chastain’s reps for comment.Now, Murphy is a desired name for babies, entering the Social Security list in 2020 at No.

he suited up as its red-winged school mascot, Charlie Cardinal, before landing a gig as Mac Tonight, a singing, piano-playing “moon man” in numerous McDonald’s commercials.But even after decades of transforming into zombies, aliens, demons, sea creatures and vampires in movies like “Hocus Pocus” and “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer” — not to mention a string of freaky films by writer/director Guillermo del Toro including “Hellboy,” “Pan’s Labyrinth” and 2018 Best Picture Oscar winner “The Shape of Water” — Jones seems especially connected to his “Trek” creation.“I’ve gotten to know this character better than anyone else I’ve ever played over my entire 38-year career,” he said of fan-beloved Saru. “I’ve spent the most time with him, the most time peeling back his layers … It’s been quite a journey.” Not that it’s always been an easy galaxy-hopping trip.He would spend two hours daily squeezing into an extensive costume that included a four-piece, all-encompassing rubber alien head — plus large, aquamarine contact lenses that required revitalizing eye drops every 20 minutes.And then would marinate in his sweat for hours more.

Foe (★★☆☆☆), director Garth Davis’ sterile adaptation of the 2018 sci-fi novel by Iain Reid. Davis and Reid co-wrote the film, which unfolds like a novel, allowing ample space to imagine the inner lives of its characters, though the filmmakers might have done more to realize the world beyond married couple Hen and Junior, and the tall, handsome stranger who shows up uninvited one day at their isolated Midwest farmhouse.The year is 2065, and, predictably, fresh water and habitable land are globally scarce.

Hello, Tomorrow,” where everything isn’t as it seems.The new Apple TV+ series, starring Billy Crudup as a fast-talking salesman with secrets, unfolds in a weird, hybrid world mixing 1950s attitudes, clothing and lifestyles with a quasi-steampunk futuristic flavor. It’s a world in which sandwiches cost 40 cents, people tool around in tail-finned, flying cars; robots do everything from walking the dog to delivering mail to crooning at swank soriees; and there are black-and-white video telephone calls and holograms programmed with punch cards.

It’s a wonder that Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (★★★☆☆) should work as well as it does, or feel half as transporting as it does, when, by the looks of it, the actors were planted inside a studio for the majority of the action, and it shows. For the size-shifting superhero’s third solo MCU outing, director Peyton Reed — also at the helm for Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp — filmed much of this journey to the sub-atomic fantasia known as the Quantum Realm using technology that surrounds the actors in an immersive digital environment. Rather than emoting towards blank green and blue screens, Paul Rudd, as thief-turned-Avenger Ant-Man a.k.a. Scott Lang, can gaze across a virtual Quantum Realm and perform face-to-face opposite whatever outlandish creatures the filmmakers might imagine.

A post shared by Father and Son: A SW Podcast (@fathersongalaxy)But when the pandemic and quarantine hit last year, action was in short supply at their King of Prussia home.“Life just became very redundant for us. Work, school, eat dinner, get up, do it again,” said Yarde, an assistant vice president at a financial institution.

Jason Momoa), who’s trying to protect his twin children from witch hunters and the ruthless Queen Kane (Sylvia Hoeks), since the twins have the ability to see, which is regarded as heresy in this world. Morse plays Frye, a witch hunter working with the Queen. Morse, who’s also a director, writer, and producer, lost his vision in 2009 due to a rare mitochondrial disease.

Padalecki tweeted to co-star Ackles Thursday night. “I’m excited to watch, but bummed that Sam Winchester had no involvement whatsoever.”When asked by one of his 2.9 million followers if his tweet was a joke, responded Padalecki, “No.

It’s been over a year since “War of the Worlds” wrapped its first season on Epix — so fans of the sci-fi series, headlined by Gabriel Byrne and Daisy Edgar-Jones, might be a bit rusty on plot details.But Season 2, premiering June 6 (9 p.m.) on Epix, does a nice job in its opening moments summing up last season’s invasion of Earth by those horrific, dog-like, metallic creatures that killed tens of thousands in the UK and France with their nail-gun-type skull piercings.For reasons unknown, the

in ‘Westworld,’” Tucker said, “but it was an exciting opportunity while I was doing that show realizing what all the possibilities are.“‘Contact’ is one of my favorite films. I loved all the original ‘Twilight Zones,’ and I like ‘Black Mirror.’ Those have been informative to ‘Debris,’” he said.

Casino Royale, A Clockwork Orange, The Horror of Frankenstein, The Benny Hill Show, Doctor Who, and more. Before Star Wars, he was perhaps best known to British audiences as “The Green Cross Code Man,” a public-service superhero character who taught schoolchildren how to cross the street safety.So sad to hear David Prowse has passed.

hit “Vikings” from 2013-17 — until Ragnar met his end in the fourth season by being thrown into a pit of snakes. Following that departure, Fimmel turned to the big screen, starring in movies such as “Warcraft” and “Lean on Pete.”“Quite often [in television] you’ve got to sign a thing for 6 years, and that’s a big chunk of your life to do the same thing.

“The Vast of Night” is barely a minute in when it first pulls a “Gotcha!”

Actor Timothy Olyphant has been added to the cast of Star Wars spin-off series The Mandalorian.

With advanced buzz already comparing it to Stranger Things, British actress Rebecca Hall admits when she first heard the pitch for Amazon’s new sci-fi anthology series Tales From the Loop her interest was piqued.

It was no easy task creating the creepy half-organic/half-mechanized aliens in “War of the Worlds,” which wraps its first season  Sunday at 9 p.m. on Epix.

Thandie Newton is delighted Westworld’s creators are giving her more input into her character Maeve’s storyline.

A crewmember on actor John Slattery’s upcoming TV series neXt has tested positive for coronavirus.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Apple’s ongoing value proposition to viewers deciding between streaming services has been star-driven: This is the service that brings you Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, M. Night Shyamalan, Oprah Winfrey and her book club — and now Steven Spielberg.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Perhaps it’s fitting that “Westworld” is the recipient of the most extensive, and jarring, reboot in recent TV history.

Fur is flying over reports that Disney might be planning a reboot of “Planet of the Apes.”

A familiar face is set to make his return when Stranger Things season 4 is back on the small screen.

If you had said to Sir Patrick Stewart just a few years ago that he’d be beaming back to the role of Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation, he would have told you: Not a chance.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – The Mandalorian” will officially be coming back to Disney+ for a second season.