Zach Galifianakis is in a movie on Apple TV+. I don’t know what the Beannie Bubble is about. All I know is that the actor doesn’t have a beard, and I can’t stop staring. He looks so different. I don’t know how I feel about it. I am just absorbing it all.
Hopefully, I will be over it when the movie about the man that came up with Beanie Babies comes out in theaters on July 21st and is released on the streamer a week later.
We are getting a new season of Carpool Karaoke on Apple TV+ this Friday. Today, the streamer announced who is going to sing and drive this time around.
Getting in the car this season are The Afterparty’s John Cho, Zoë Chao, Jack Whitehall, Sam Richardson and Anna Konkle; Avril Lavigne and YUNGBLUD; Glee’s Lea Michele and Darren Criss; Cedric The Entertainer and Sheryl Lee Ralph; Alanis Morissette and Cara Delevingne; Girls5eva’s Busy Philipps, Sara Bareilles, Paula Pell, and Renée Elise Goldsberry; Ghosts’ Román Zaragoza, Rebecca Wisocky, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Rose McIver and Devan Long; and Community’s Alison Brie and Danny Pudi with a surprise appearance from Joel McHale.
Which episode are you looking forward to most? Obviously, I am all about Ghosts. However, I can’t wait to see Alanis Morissette’s reaction to WAP. Can you believe there are still people who haven’t heard the song?
Michael J. Fox is one of the most loved actors in Hollywood. In the ’80s, he was on top of the world thanks to projects like Family Ties and the Back to the Future franchise until everything came crashing down. The actor was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 1991. And he didn’t let that keep him down.
On May 12th, Fox is going to tell his story, his way in the documentary Still on Apple TV+.
The film, which incorporates documentary, archival and scripted elements, recounts Fox’s extraordinary story in his own words – the improbable tale of an undersized kid from a Canadian army base who rose to the heights of stardom in 1980s Hollywood. The account of Fox’s public life, full of nostalgic thrills and cinematic gloss, unspools alongside his never-before-seen private journey, including the years that followed his diagnosis, at 29, with Parkinson’s disease. Intimate and honest, and produced with unprecedented access to Fox and his family, the film chronicles Fox’s personal and professional triumphs and travails, and explores what happens when an incurable optimist confronts an incurable disease. With a mix of adventure and romance, comedy and drama, watching the film feels like … well, like a Michael J. Fox movie.
This documentary looks like it is a must-watch. I know I will not only be watching as a fan but also as a daughter who lost her father to the disease. Fox has done a lot for Parkinson’s research, and for that, I thank him! I also thank him for being someone to look up to, even if he is not the tallest actor in show business.
I will start off this review and tell you action movies are not really my thing unless they are disaster flicks. However, the trailer for Tetris on Apple TV+ looked as addicting as the game (who didn’t play Tetris as a kid) that I just had to check out. And it was even better than I thought it could be.
Henk Rogers (Taron Egerton) is an American videogame designer whose life changed when he saw Tetris at a videogame convention in Las Vegas. He loved it so much that he bought the rights for it for Japan for PC and arcade.
He knew he had a hit on his hands, so he went to his banker and secured the money to make it happen. However, since he had a failed business venture with them, they make him put his house up for collateral.
Now, he has to make sure it succeeds, or he loses everything. And he only wants the best for his wife and daughters.
Henk finds out that spoiled rich kid Kevin Maxwell, who works for his ruthless dad Robert Maxwell a publishing tycoon, won’t share the rights to the arcade game versions of Tetris.
Henk is a desperate man, so he goes to the head of Nintendo and tries to get him to invest. That is when he was introduced to the future Game Boy. So now, he must have handheld rights for Tetris so that he can put the game on their console and make millions and millions of dollars.
So he decides to go around the Maxwells and sneaks into Russia to talk to the people who created the game and made the original contract so that he can get their approval to license the game. Russia is still a communist country, and they don’t want to share. The KGB will try to intimidate Henk, his wife, and everyone involved with this deal because Robert Maxwell is in cahoots with the Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
And that is when the movie really has you on the edge of your seat, like when blocks start coming down quickly on Tetris. Remember how nerve-wracking and thrilling that was at the same time?
That is this movie from beginning to end. It is face paced. You never know what is going to happen next. You are not sure who are the good guys are and who the bad ones. However, you are rooting for the hero Henk. You want him to get this game, but there are so many hoops he has to jump through, and he is like Kevin Hart playing basketball with people the size of Shaq.
I honestly felt like I was playing Tetris while I was watching the movie. The vision that director Jon S. Baird had for it played out smashingly. So much so that you feel like you don’t have time to breathe because you don’t want to miss a single second of the story.
A story that makes something we grew up with so much more interesting. Who knew all of this went on? But most of it did, and that is why it is so great that it got told.
It made me want to download and play Tetris again. But only after the movie ended because nothing was going to distract me from it. I can’t wait to watch it again because I am sure I missed so many little things.
So if you are looking for an action movie that is not all about cheap thrills, then you need to watch Tetris as soon as you get home. I promise you will enjoy it as much as I did. Actually, you will probably enjoy it even more because action movies are your thing.
Ted Lasso is back on Apple TV+, and the third season is shaping up to be its best one yet. I was so emotional watching the touching season premiere.
It starts off with Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis) dropping his son off at the airport to go back to America to be with his mom. Now that his son has gone home, it is time to focus on the team.
AFC Richmond is last in everyone’s poll, and no one has any faith in the team. So it will be a miracle for them not to be in the last place. And that miracle is coming. But I can’t tell you how just yet.
Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham) still wants and needs to do better than her ex-husband Rupert (Anthony Head), and she wants and needs Ted to step up. Especially after Nate (Nick Mohammed) totally trashed him during his first press conference as the new manager of West Ham United. When did Nate grow balls? And how will Ted react to all the negative things that Nate said about him?
Meanwhile, Keeley (Juno Temple) is adjusting to having her own PR firm, and it is not going as she expected. To make matters worse, she is still dealing with Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein) dumping her.
And then there is the team. They need a pick me up. Can Ted and Roy Kent deliver it to them? They are going to have to, or they really will finish in last place.
While the team might be in last place, the show is in first place in our hearts. They say this is the last season. And if it is, then I can say they are going out splendidly after watching the first four episodes.
