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STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY: Executive Producer Alex Kurtzman and stars Holly Hunter, Paul Giamatti, Robert Picardo and Gina Yashere talk new TREK – Interview

Zoe Steiner as Tarima, Sandro Rosta as Caleb, Bella Shepard as Genesis, George Hawkins as Daren, Kerrice Brooks as Sam and Karim Diane as Jay-Den in STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY - Season 1 Key Art | ©2026 Paramount+

Starfleet Academy, the training institution for those aspiring to become crew members on Federation starships, has been a part of STAR TREK lore since STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES, which debuted in 1966. Now, sixty years later, that legendary center of learning gets its own series with STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY, now streaming its first season on Paramount+, with new episodes premiering Thursdays. Based on Gene Roddenberry’s original STAR TREK and created by Gaia Violo, STARFLEET ACADEMY is set approximately a thousand years after the time of Kirk and Spock, and one hundred years after an event known as “the […]Read On »


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Movie Review: 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE

28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE movie poster | ©2026 Sony Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell, Alfie Williams, Chi-Louis Parry, Erin Kellyman, Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Emma Laird Writer: Alex Garland Director: Nia DaCosta Distributor: Sony/Columbia Release Date: January 16, 2026 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE picks up almost immediately after the end of last year’s 28 YEARS LATER. While it’s not absolutely necessary – the essentials become clear soon enough – it’s probably handy to be acquainted with the earlier film, which introduced most of BONE TEMPLE’s protagonists. Both movies are follow-ups to 2003’s 28 DAYS LATER and its 2007 sequel 28 WEEKS LATER. Alex Garland, who wrote […]Read On »


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Movie Review: NIGHT PATROL

NIGHT PATROL movie poster | ©2026 RLJE Films/Shudder

Rating: R Stars: Jermaine Fowler, Justin Long, Freddie Gibbs, RJ Cyler, Keenon Dequan “YG” Ray Jackson, Nicki Micheaux, Flying Lotus, Phil Brooks, Dermot Mulroney, Jon Oswald, Nick Gillie, Zuri Reed Writers: Shaye Ogbonna & Ryan Prows & Tim Cairo & Jake Gibson Director: Ryan Prows Distributor: RLJE Films/Shudder Release Date: January 16, 2026 By now, it is known that there really are, unfortunately, gangs operating within police and sheriff’s departments across the U.S. These gangs are largely protected from investigation and prosecution by virtue of their badges, which leads to a lot of illegality on the part of sworn law […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE CONFESSION (2026)

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Rating: Not Rated Stars: Italia Ricci, Scott Mechlowicz, Zachary Golinger, Terence Rosemore, Craig Kolkebeck, Ron Fallica, Jay DeVon Johnson, Fleming Moore, Justin Matthew Smith Writer: Will Canon Director: Will Canon Distributor: Quiver Distribution Release Date: January 16, 2026 THE CONFESSION turns out to be a riff on a Robert Browning book, but it handles the elements so loosely that characters have to keep referring to it for us to identify similarities. In the town of Elbe, Texas, 120 miles outside Dallas, Pastor Arthur Riley (Craig Kolkebeck) of the Mt. Calvary Church leaves a tape cassette message for his daughter, then […]Read On »


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THE PITT: Creator R. Scott Gemmill, director John Wells and star-writer-director Noah Wyle on Season 2 – Interview

THE PITT Season 2 key art | ©2026 HBO Max

Created by R. Scott Gemmill, with Gemmill, director John Wells and star Noah Wyle among its executive producers, THE PITT is a drama following the moment-to-moment activities in an underfunded Pittsburgh emergency room. Events unfold in real time over a fifteen-hour shift. The trio worked together on NBC’s long-running ER, where Wyle was one of the stars (as Dr. John Carter) for the series’ fifteen-season run, Wells was the showrunner and a writer/director, and Gemmill was on the writing staff. THE PITT’s first season premiered on HBO Max in 2025 to instant acclaim and proceeded to win five Emmys: Outstanding […]Read On »


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ST. DENIS MEDICAL: Actors Kaliko Kauahi and Kahyun Kim on Season 2 of the comedy series – Exclusive Interview

ST. DENIS MEDICAL Season 2 Key Art | ©2025 NBC

Created by Eric Ledgin & Justin Spitzer, ST. DENIS MEDICAL is a half-hour mockumentary comedy series, which is on NBC Monday nights with the second half of its second season, January 9, with episodes streaming on Peacock. Set at at an underfunded Oregon hospital, ST. DENIS MEDICAL has a staff who confides in the documentary crew following them around, a la THE OFFICE. Kaliko Kauahi (pronounced Ko-ah-hee) plays veteran nursing administrator Val and Kahyun Kim plays travel nurse Serena. Kauahi, originally from Hawai’i, was a series regular on SUPERSTORE and had guest roles as medical professionals on UNEXPECTED, TALES FROM […]Read On »


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BOOKISH: Creator and actor Mark Gatiss on new PBS detective series – Interview

BOOKISH Key Art | ©2026 PBS

The British period investigative procedural BOOKISH has its U.S. premiere on Sunday, January 11, on PBS. A second series is already in the making. BOOKISH creator Mark Gatiss stars as Gabriel Book, proprietor of an antiquarian bookshop in 1946 England. With his wide-ranging knowledge from all his establishment’s tomes, Book helps the police with their inquiries when murders occur. Book is also a gay man at a time when simply existing as such could lead to arrest and imprisonment, so he is married for the sake of appearance to his childhood best friend Trottie (Polly Walker). Gatiss is famed for […]Read On »


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TEN BEST MOVIES OF 2025 according to Assignment X

SINNERS movie poster | ©2025 Warner Bros.

THE TEN BEST MOVIES OF 2025   SINNERS – It starts out by telling us that some music is so extraordinary that it is magical, transcending space and time, and damn if this 1930s-era story of twin brothers, their juke joint, local racism and vampires doesn’t make us believe. Featuring an outstanding performance by Michael B. Jordan in a dual role and a star-making turn by young Michael Caton as the young bluesman whose tunes draw in the living and the undead. HAMNET – This adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel about William Shakespeare’s creation of HAMLET is an exploration of […]Read On »


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THE ARTIST: Creator-writer-director Aram Rappaport and actor Patti LuPone on the fictional historical mini-series – Exclusive Interview

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Aram Rappaport is the creator, writer and director of the new miniseries THE ARTIST, available for free on thenetwork.stream, a platform that Rappaport founded. Rappaport previously wrote and directed the films INNOCENT, SUMMER SONG, SYRUP, and THE CRASH, and was a writer and director on the miniseries THE GREEN VEIL. Set in the first decade of the twentieth century, Rappaport’s THE ARTIST combines historical figures and fictional characters. Among the latter is robber baron Norman Henry (Mandy Patinkin), who at the outset is murdered at a party in his upstate New York mansion. In flashbacks, we see that Norman has […]Read On »


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RESIDENT ALIEN: Actress Alice Wetterlund on the fourth and final season – Exclusive Interview

Alice Wetterlund at the COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL: SAN DIEGO 2025 for Season 4 of RESIDENT ALIEN | ©2025 USA Network/David Yeh

RESIDENT ALIEN wrapped its four-season journey on USA and Syfy Channel cable earlier this year. The entire series is now available for streaming on Peacock, with Seasons 1-3 available on NBC Now, Netflix, Telemundo and other services. In RESIDENT ALIEN, Alice Wetterlund plays D’Arcy Bloom, a local in the small mountain town of Patience, Colorado. D’Arcy is a former champion skier derailed by an accident. She is best friends with fellow Patience dweller Asta (Sara Tomko) and frenemies with the title character, an extraterrestrial who has taken on the form of town doctor Harry Vanderspiegle, played by Alan Tudyk, who […]Read On »


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