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Today was a big day for Oscar-nominated actorElliot Pagewhen he announced that he’s transgender and non-binary. Page uses he/they pronouns, per his official announcement. Later on Tuesday, it was confirmed Page would remain a cast member ofThe Umbrella Academy, the hit Netflix show based on the Dark Horse Comics series of the same name that they have starred on for two seasons. Varietyreported that Page would remain a cast member ofThe Umbrella Academy, per insider sources speaking to the outlet....

Well after the series signed off in 2019,The Big Bang Theoryremains one of television’s most successful sitcoms, even coming in as2024’s “most-binged title” in streaming. While some elements of the showhaven’t aged well, it’s hard to deny that the series consistently delivereddownright hilarious momentsin its 12-season run. If there’s one fault to be had, it’s this: there’s a sameness to which characters interact with one another. It’s either a story that embraces the entire gang, an episode where the guys are together in one storyline and the girls in another, or an episode that switches between the paired-off couples....

One storyline inKaos, Netflix’s latest star-studded comedic drama, brought the show’s cast and crew to tears on set. The trans storyline seen through the character of Caneus, played byMisia Butler, brought on an emotional moment for those on set, as the actor explained in a recent interview withRadioTimes. Speaking at a recent press event, the star opened up about the importance of seeing Caneus on screen and the impact that the character has had on the actor....

The other day at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, Paramount Pictures and Skydance world premiered some new footage fromChristopher McQuarrie’sMission: Impossible – Fallout, and it left everyone in the theater breathless. One of the sequences featuredTom CruiseandHenry Cavilljumping out of a plane at 30,000 feet and then attempting to do synchronized action that has to hit very specific marks to ensure everyone would be in focus. They also filmed this sequence as the sun was going down, so each day they had only one chance to get it right....

Now that the first trailer forMichael Bay’sTransformers: The Last Knighthas debuted, we’re gonna need a minute to take it all in. There’s the ever-present human characters, civilian and military of course, who seem to be caught up in a post-apocalyptic struggle of sorts. But while the Autobots and Decepticons normally take the center stage, there’s so much going on in this fifth installment that it’s tough to see how all the individual pieces–a flyingthree-headed robot dragon, Nazis, Arthurian legend, Autobot-on-Autobot violence, and possiblyUnicron–will eventually come together....

We’ve been speculating since the series was first announced exactlywhenthe latestStar Trekseries,Starfleet Academywould be set in the centuries-spanning timeline of the franchise. For anyone who assumed the series would be set in the far-flung future established inStar Trek: Discovery, congratulations — you were right! Ahead of thebittersweetDiscoveryseries finale, I sat down with starDoug Jonesto discuss the ending and his future in the franchise. With Saru being such a prosthetics-heavy role, something Jones is known for in his vast career, I asked if he would ever return to the franchise either in an entirely new capacity or to this same role and he gave a very exciting answer....

Editor’s Note: The following contains Westworld Season 4 spoilers.The third episode ofWestworldSeason 4 wrapped up with a quite gruesome scene. “Annees Folles” sawCaleb(Aaron Paul) and Maeve (Thandiwe Newton) finally making their way into the backstage of the Olympiad compound through the Golden Age park. However, taking down Charlotte (Tessa Thompson) proved to be a lot harder than they anticipated when they came across a room with an unfinished host injecting a weird black goop into a bunch of flies....

Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for Season 2 Episode 3 of House of the Dragon. This week’s episode ofHouse of the Dragonhas some major supernatural undertones. In “The Burning Mill,” Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith) arrives in Harrenhal to claim the spooky castle for the Blacks, but is not only haunted by cryptic visions of a young Rhaenyra (Milly Alcock), but also encounters a woman who delivers an ominous omen for his future....

Reachercontinues to throw haymakers — even when its star is catching a few himself. One week afterReacherstarAlan Ritchsonstirred up controversywith a high-profile presidential photo op, the hit Prime Video series is still clinging to a spot in the U.S. Top 10. As of this week,Reacherremains the #7 most-watched show on the platform, proving that not even political backlash can knock Jack Reacher off his feet. For longtime fans of theLee Child adaptations, this is hardly a surprise....

Fantasy fans worldwide are familiar withJ. R. R. Tolkien’sThe Lord of the Rings,which created the modern framework for the genre. However, Tolkien had an extensive history for his world, detailed in the appendices of the third book,The Return of the King, a collection of mythological history calledThe Silmarillion,and various other works considered Tolkien’s Legendarium. In 2022, Prime Video releasedThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, set during the Second Age, which introduces audiences to some of this history,particularly concerning the forging ofthe 19 rings of powerand the One Ring to control them....

TheStar Warsuniverse is no stranger to venturing into uncharted creative territory, and according toAndorshowrunnerTony Gilroy, the next frontier could be something much darker — and much scarier. In a new interview, Gilroy confirmed that Lucasfilm and Disney are developing a horror project set in the Star Wars universe, which is a big leap when it comes to what has, to date,been a mostly family friendly franchise. Gilroy, while speaking to Business Insider on the red carpet forAndorseason two in London, was asked how he would handle aStar Warsstory grounded in horror, before he replied surprisingly:...

Last night,The Flashmissed a molten opportunity to tie an interesting villain into the episode’s plot; tonight,Arrowtook an otherwise uninteresting villain, put him at the center of a fast-paced story, and threw a monster twist in at the end that affects everything going forward. Yeah, it looks like Team Arrow is definitely taking the win this week, and they did it with an episode that featured a villain named The Calculator. But before we tally up the final score, let’s take a look back a few years with tonight’s flashback sequence....

With a brand-new season ofBlack Mirrornow on Netflix for all of us to feast our eyeballs on — and dissect every detail of — there’s definitely an obvious theme that runs through the latest installment ofCharlie Brooker’s sci-fi anthology series, and that’s the fact that a good portion of the episodesis actually set in the past, rather than in a twisted dystopian version of our own future. Some, like “Beyond the Sea,” adopt a retrofuturistic tone to tell their story, making use of advanced technology in a time when technological marvels like replicas of the human body were only a creative imagining....