Amid the flurry of cameos audiences can expect from Solo: A Star Wars Story, now in theaters, there’s one familiar face they may not recognize. Warwick Davis, who so memorably played the Ewok warrior Wicket in Return of the Jedi, has a small supporting role in the Ron Howard-directed blockbuster this weekend, marking the actor’s sixth appearance in the big-screen galaxy far, far away. Davis marked the premiere with a celebratory tweet, writing, “35 years ago today, the film that changed my life was released.
If baseball became our national pastime by reflecting an outdated American ideal — a pastoral venue for competition, fairness, and triumph — it has remained, in fiction, fertile ground for insight into our country’s identity. At a time of profound political unease, two new novels find fresh ideas in one of the oldest team sports we’ve got. Indeed, they make it feel new. Gish Jen manages this overtly in The Resisters, hurtling the sport into a harrowingly, bizarrely imagined future.
It's crazy what a few poisonous berries can do. But at the end of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games, a couple of nightlock berries was all it took for Katniss and Peeta to win the battle against their fellow tributes and emerge from the arena with both of their lives. But the war against the Capitol was only just beginning. After looking back on The Hunger Games, EW is continuing our trilogy binge-read series with Catching Fire over a decade after Katniss and Peeta were forced to return to the Games for the Quarter Quell.
Confession: I have never understood the appeal of Criminal Minds. It was pretty clear from the opening minutes of the 2005 series premiere — in which an "unsub" (unknown subject) chains a woman up in a dog cage and forcefully deprives her of her fingernails — that this grey-washed crime procedural about agents who profile serial killers is simply not for me. (Original star Mandy Patinkin eventually came to the same conclusion.
1 “This should begin to make things right.” Those are the first words spoken in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and they also apply to the new wave of toys and merchandise that begins rolling into stores this month, many of them prominently featuring Rey, the scavenger-turned-hero whom fans have been missing. This gallery includes 22 exclusive images of new Star Wars toys, but those who’ve been following the #WheresRey controversy on social media may be most interested to see how Daisy Ridley’s character is represented – especially since she was left out of a few early products, like the Target collection of figures and The Force Awakens Monopoly game (which annoyed even director J.
Coax her long enough, and Rhea Perlman will dish the dirt on that Cheers cast member nobody liked. She’ll glance around to make sure no one can hear, then tell you all about it. For a split second, it’s as if you’re back at that Boston bar listening to the sniping of Carla Tortelli, the prickly barmaid she played for 11 years, rather than outside a Pasadena cafe with the unexpectedly elegant actress.
Richard Roundtree has landed a multi-episode arc on Chicago Fire, EW has learned. The Shaft star will play Wallace Boden, Sr., the father of Chief Boden (Eamonn Walker). The elder Boden is a retired detective who pays his son a surprise visit after the birth of his grandson, but his volatile relationship with his son will cause friction during his stay. “Richard is an amazing actor who will be a terrific addition to our depth chart for four episodes,” executive producer Matt Olmstead says.
Over its first five seasons, Rick and Morty has built up a fascinating mythology for itself — but only rarely does the popular animated sci-fi comedy clue viewers in to the secrets of its canon. Most Rick and Morty episodes are standalone adventures featuring characters or settings that rarely reappear. But every five or six episodes, viewers get treated to a deeper dive into bigger threats, the backstory of super-scientist Rick Sanchez (Justin Roiland), and other bits of canonical lore.
Justin Roiland, the star and co-creator of the hit Adult Swim series Rick and Morty, is facing felony domestic violence charges in connection with a 2020 incident in Orange County, Calif. According to a criminal complaint filed in May 2020 and obtained by EW, Roiland, 42, has been charged with one felony count of domestic battery with corporal injury and one felony count of false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud and/or deceit.
Rick Ross might need to update that $92 million bank balance he advertises on Mastermind: His luxuriously dark sixth album sold 179,000 copies last week, earning the number one spot on the Billboard 200. That’s his fifth chart-topping album, which as Billboard points out, puts him in rarified company, trailing only Nas, Kanye West, Eminem, and Jay Z in terms of hip hop number ones. (Last week’s top album, ScHoolboy Q’s Oxymoron, dropped to number eight.