Katie Yu/FX “Crimson Sky” is now streaming on Hulu. It will premiere on FX tonight at 10 p.m. ET. From the first episode, Shōgun has warned us it would break our hearts. The series takes place in a beautiful but cruel world. The premiere featured a scene of a man being boiled alive and Fuji, who’d soon emerge as one of the story’s most complex and sympathetic characters, losing her husband and infant out of the need to satisfy a complex and unyielding code of honor. Anna Sawai’s performance as Mariko has offered ample warning, too. Her eyes have always suggested what she tries to keep hidden ..read more

Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images The Justice Department might have bad blood with Live Nation. WSJ reported that they are preparing to file an anti-trust lawsuit against Live Nation and Ticketmaster for undermining competition with other concert venues and creating a monopoly in the live events space with their merger in 2010. While there is no confirmation of the exact details of the lawsuit, Live Nation and Ticketmaster have been under fire for exorbitant ticket fees and faulty customer service. Scrutiny for the company was escalated during Taylor Swift Eras Tour ticket sales in November 202 ..read more

Photo: Bravo Barbie continues crying on the phone to her mom, wearing pants that are more holes than jeans. Extremely distressed, if you will, just like she is in this moment. Perhaps the pants represent how her relationship with Fraser is hanging on by threads. Could either be patched up? Anthony overhears Barbie saying she might leave, so he tells Fraser and Xandi. They’d be happy to see her go. Fraser: “Send a care package.” Barbie won’t be receiving one just yet because Kyle cheers her up with a pep talk. She resolves to be a bad bitch. I’m not sure if that’s exactly the attitude shift Fra ..read more

Photo: Murray Close Spoilers follow for the Alex Garland film Civil War, which opened in theaters on April 12.  A picture’s worth a thousand words, and especially so in the photojournalism-focused Civil War. But it’s tough to say what message a film this politically vague wants to send through its pictures — especially when its final frame is so deliberately provocative, and so frustratingly two-dimensional. Alex Garland’s attempt at an “anti-war” epic follows a group of journalists traveling to Washington, D.C., for an interview with the country’s fascist (and nameless) president (Nick O ..read more

Photo: Paramount We could have had it all with Sonic the Hedgehog 2. We had high hopes when Idris Elba was cast as Knuckles in 2021, but he vowed to not make his vocal performance as the cartoon echidna sexy. Although this might not be the only reason for the film’s tepid critical reception, it certainly didn’t help. We’re willing to let bygones be bygones, however, because the first teaser image for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 has been released, and oh my hog, it’s Shadow!! When the sexy voice siren was called, Keanu Reeves came to answer. The Hollywood Reporter shared on April 15 that Reeves is mak ..read more

Photo: Will Heath/NBC via Getty Images They were just there to learn about AI. What cartoon resemblance are you talking about? Such is the premise of SNL’s nitrous oxide of a sketch from the April 13 episode, “Beavis and Butt-Head,” which finds two town-hall attendees befuddled about their apparent similarities to a certain pair of Gen-X slackers. At first, the absurdity is somewhat contained: The Beavis doppelgänger (host Ryan Gosling) is asked to change seats at the interviewee’s request due to his distracting blond pompadour. But when the Butt-Headian “man with the gray shirt and exposed gu ..read more

Photo: Gilles Mingasson/Hulu Filene’s Basement Jax Taylor is doing my head in. Yes, I’m talking about Marciano, one of the worst reality-television characters I’ve had occasion to meet, and I watched the first season of The Real Housewives of Sydney. The difference between him and Jax, however, is that Jax knows, on some level, what he’s doing. He knows he’s a liar. He knows he’s full of shit. He knows he’s a horrible person. He just doesn’t want to change it. Marciano is under the mistaken impression that he’s a good guy who does bad things. Oh, honey. I’m going to need to wake you up fr ..read more

Photo: Murray Close Citizens were curious about what a near-future Civil War in America would look like, it turns out. Alex Garland’s film about war journalists on a road trip through a war-torn Eastern seaboard did not bomb at the box office, though presumably bombs went off on screens in the theater. Instead, it blasted to the top of the domestic box office with $25.7 million, making it A24’s biggest opening ever, per The Hollywood Reporter. Civil War was made with a production budget of $50 million, making it the bespoke studio’s most expensive film to date, and that doesn’t even account fo ..read more

Photo: Arturo Holmes/Getty Images Rumors of Coachella’s demise have been greatly exaggerated [Editor’s Note: oops]. The festival’s rep as less a music event and more a place to be seen hasn’t gone away, and probably won’t for some time. But the 2024 edition — headlined by Lana Del Rey, Tyler, the Creator, and Doja Cat — felt like a return to when who was onstage mattered more than who was in VIP. Why pay attention to anything else when No Doubt is playing ska to twentysomethings, Billie Eilish is DJing a horned-up party on a side stage, and J Balvin is getting abducted by aliens? All in all, i ..read more

Photo: Disney+ Three years ago while reporting a piece about the children’s TV masterpiece Bluey, I asked creator Joe Brumm what he envisioned for the future of the series. The question was already foremost in his mind, he said. He knew that as the children who play Bluey and Bingo got older, the characters’ speech patterns and diction would change. “Do you re-voice the kids?” he asked himself. “You’re not going to find the same voice. It’s going to sound different. You’re not going to fool anyone. Your other option is, do you age up the show with the kids? Set it five years in the future, may ..read more