Get ready for some explorer horror with the latest in a long line of King Kong movies, Kong: Skull Island , from director Jordan Vogt-Roberts and scribes Dan Gilroy and Max Borenstein . While it's one of many to riff on the story of the gargantuan gorilla since the original opus of 1933, it emerges among the most entertaining.
Up there, high, high in the lovely apartment in midtown Manhattan, lives the mysterious Paul Kandel . Who is this creature? What is he? How did he come to be there? Hush! Rob and Kevin will tell you as they sit down with the wonderful Mr. Kandel, best known for his role as Uncle Ernie in THE WHO'S TOMMY and as the voice of Clopin in Disney's THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME.
Ryan Murphy, the producer behind Emmy-winning series "American Horror Story" and "American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson," has a new television series, "Feud: Bette and Joan," which premieres Sunday at 10 p.m. on FX.
Judith Peterson has been working for the Charleston County School District for 33 years as an English teacher and a supervisor for the Gifted and Talented Program.
NBC's new drama "Taken" is designed as a present-day prequel to the hit Liam Neeson movie franchise, but the TV show exists in a murky covert world rather than the breathless, thrill-a-minute shoot-'em-ups set in glamorous location formula of the movies. Irish actor Clive Standen plays former Green Beret Bryan Mills, who is attempting to lead an ordinary life.
You know the story! A giant, prehistoric ape is found on an island. A group of explorers subdue Kong and bring him back to New York where he escapes from captivity.
Most people misremember what Oscar Wilde actually said as he lay dying in Paris as "Either those curtains go or I do." But it was the wallpaper with which he was "fighting a duel to the death" and it was indeed he who departed - though weeks later.
The Oscar-nominated Natalie Portman gives one of her best performances in "Jackie," an impressionistic look at how Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis reacted to the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy. Director Pablo Larrain and screenwriter Noah Oppenheim focus primarily on how the former first lady stood up to the incoming Johnson administration , to make sure that JFK's memory and legacy were respected.
Ryan Murphy's FX series transforms the tale of two film icons who hated each other into lovely, heartbreaking art For a series about two women who detested each other, "Feud: Bette and Joan" is at the peak of its powers when it reminds the audience of everything Joan Crawford and Bette Davis had in common. Powerhouse actresses possessing keen intelligence and the same levels of resilience and relentlessness, Davis and Crawford could have made a hell of a team both in front of the camera and behind it.