The CW’s ‘4400’ Is a Back-From-the-Past Reboot That Benefits From a Light Touch: TV Review

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorFor the uninitiated, Idles are a monumentally powerful British hard rock band whose music is loaded with punk and hardcore influences, although it’s not accurate to label them as either.

(laughs). We had a movie last year with Melissa Joan Hart and Jason Priestley [‘Dear Christmas’], where they were supposed to be at this Christmas ball and we had to rewrite it so that she had to do something.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic“Did you ever, when you were a little kid, used to think that maybe you could do something in life that makes you happy?,” Jeremy Renner’s Mike McLusky asks a friend. Mike’s staring into the middle distance and holding a beer.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic“Jeopardy’s” longtime host Alex Trebek passed away a year ago today. And in the 12 months since, it’s become increasingly clear just how challenging the balancing act he pulled off was.Trebek’s particular combination of traits as an emcee would have been impossible to specifically replicate, and the show, to its credit, knew this.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe intimacy of psychiatry was made for drama. The most renowned TV series of the modern era was, at first, centered on its antihero’s talk-therapy sessions — exploring both what was troubling Tony Soprano and the ways in which his monstrousness, seen at close range, compelled and seduced the professional trying to help him.“The Shrink Next Door,” directed by Michael Showalter and Jesse Peretz and written by Georgia Pritchett, reverses the manipulation.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed it will be giving millions of people receiving State Pension or claiming disability benefits a Christmas Bonus this year.

Chris Pratt's fans are unhappy. On Tuesday, the 42-year-old actor took to Instagram to gush over his wife Katherine Schwarzenegger.  For his tribute, he shared a photo of himself and his wife wrapping their arms around one another.

“Lost City of the Monkey God,” which airs Oct.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticJudy Sheindlin is back — and audiences may not have had time to miss her.In July of this year, “Judge Judy,” Sheindlin’s durable CBS-produced courtroom reality show, wrapped up. Over its 25-year run, the outspoken former family court jurist became a notably high-rated (and famously well-compensated) television personality.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticAmazon Prime’s new animated series has a zany, anything-could-happen sensibility. Which makes it a little disappointing that what usually does happen is a bleeding-edge cultural reference.To be clear, “Fairfax,” about a group of middle-school hypebeasts (which is to say, streetwear obsessives) coming of age in image-obsessed Los Angeles, is often very funny in how far it’s willing to push its media-saturated sensibility.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticApple TV Plus’ greatest success so far has been “Ted Lasso,” a show about the power of teamwork and connection, with a group of athletes led by a somewhat unlikely coach seeking a bit of redemption.Its newest drama has all those elements, remixed and transplanted into a new context. “Swagger” is inspired by the early life of NBA superstar Kevin Durant, who serves as executive producer along with Brian Grazer and showrunner Reggie Rock Bythewood.

As Taylor Swift gets ready to release Red (Taylor’s Version), she is taking a walk back down memory lane of when the original first came out.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticFor the 4,000-plus people who have climbed Mt. Everest, it’s likely that no film will ever come close to capturing the reality of that once-impossible experience.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe fifth and final season of “Insecure” begins with Issa (played by series co-creator Issa Rae) looking back: Her character chats with a college-era version of herself in the mirror, with young Issa wondering what the future will hold.It’s a clever way to recap how far the character has come since the show began. Her conversation with herself takes place during a visit to her alma mater, Stanford, to speak on a panel of accomplished young alums.

Marvel Studios announced by Disney on Monday, Paramount has moved up the Sandra Bullock adventure comedy “The Lost City” from April 15, 2022 to March 25. The move puts the film into a late March release slot that had been held by Marvel Studios’ “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” which has moved to May 6.

Sandra Bullock‘s upcoming movie, The Lost City, has been rescheduled.

Paramount comedy The Lost City will now open wide three weeks earlier than expected, the studio announced today, as its release date moves from April 15 to March 25, 2022.

Joe Jonas is enjoying some fun in the sun!