Michael Boyle

Bar cars on commuter trains were once a space of camaraderie and decompression after a long work day. Where have America's café cars gone?

The new "Doctor Who" season's second installment, "The Devil's Chord," is the closest the show's come to a proper musical episode. Sure, there was that brief musical number in the latest Christmas episode, and that one song-based resolution in season…

In an interview with Mashable, screenwriter Jon Spaihts explained that changes made in “Dune: Part Two” have clarified the themes author Frank Herbert wanted to highlight.

Throughout its nearly 50-year history, Saturday Night Live has had no shortage of ridiculous characters wearing equally ridiculous costumes. From beloved sketches that feature the Land Shark to infamous bombs like Robert Downey Jr.’s Suitcase Boy,…

This post contains spoilers for both "Challengers" and "Y Tu Mama Tambien." It's only its first weekend in theaters, but "Challengers" has already gotten everyone talking. There's just something captivating about a love triangle where all sides…

Audiences can’t get enough of how much Ryan Gosling breaks in sketches as “Saturday Night Live” host. But not all laughs are created equal. Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty Images/SNL When Ryan Gosling sat down with Jimmy…

It's been over a month since "Dune: Part Two" was released in theaters, and it's already a clear-cut success. The film's now passed the $600 million threshold at the box office and the reviews have been consistently positive; not since the "Lord of…

This post contains spoilers for "Dune: Part Two." "Dune: Part Two" makes a lot of changes to the source material. It skips over the book's two-year time jump, it lets Chani have a moral backbone, and it removes an entire storyline about Paul having…

There's something about doppelgangers that's captivated the minds of so many speculative fiction writers over the years, from Edgar Allan Poe to David Lynch to Jordan Peele. At their core, these types of stories are popular because they provide such…

Editor’s Note: TV moves on, but we haven’t. In our feature series It Still Stings, we relive emotional TV moments that we just can’t get over. You know the ones, where months, years, or even decades later, it still provokes a reaction? We’re here for…

Nearly a decade before Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were shooting machine guns at each other in their own on-screen home, Scott Bakula and Maria Bello were beating each other up in the pilot episode of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith." The 1996 CBS show started…

They say that with any good story, you can guess the ending just from the very first scene, at least to some degree. This is definitely the case with the new Prime Video series "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," which opens up with a different Mr. and Mrs. Smith,…

And no one humiliates him more efficiently than his “Weekend Update” co-anchor Michael Che. Will Heath/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images When Colin Jost welcomes viewers to “Weekend Update” next week, it will make his 10th year behind that desk—a…

There are always a lot of expectations going into a "Doctor Who" Christmas special, and that goes double for "The Church of Ruby Road." Whereas some Christmas specials have had the task of introducing a new Doctor, and other specials have had to…

There are a lot of hype moments in Ridley Scott's new film "Napoleon," but perhaps the biggest is in the final act when we get the reveal that the battle Napoleon's preparing for is none other than the showdown at Waterloo. All the ABBA fans in the…

When the average viewer catches a new episode of The Simpsons for the first time in a while, they typically have one immediate complaint: What’s up with the voices? Listening to long-running characters like Otto, Mr. Burns, and Smithers in…

Morty learns there is a faraway planet full of humanoid people, some of whom kill themselves to release a chemical in their bodies that turns their insides into spaghetti.

Editor’s Note: TV moves on, but we haven’t. In our feature series It Still Stings, we relive emotional TV moments that we just can’t get over. You know the ones, where months, years, or even decades later, it still provokes a reaction? We’re here for…

This post contains spoilers for "Gen V" and "The Boys." Throughout the first six episodes of "Gen V," the show seemed surprisingly self-contained. Sure, you got some cameos from The Deep and some stray mentions of Homelander being on trial, but for…

However, there’s a difference between these two stories — “The Good Place” is more optimistic and sees its characters become better people, proving itself to