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Sylvester Stallone plays a reluctant hero in Amazon's 'Samaritan'

4 years 1 month ago
An animated, comic-book-inspired opening turns out to be the best part of "Samaritan," a very by-the-numbers superhero tale that casts Sylvester Stallone as the long-retired title character, and otherwise feels like and exhibits the production values of a 1990s TV pilot. While tolerable on its own terms, the charitable thing to do critically speaking would probably be to ignore it.

'Mike's' knockout performance doesn't pack enough new punch to go the distance

4 years 1 month ago
Mike Tyson's story hardly suffers from a lack of media exposure, so an effort to create a new limited series around the former heavyweight champ entered the ring facing a high bar. Despite a knockout performance by Trevante Rhodes, "Mike" doesn't consistently clear it, offering an episodic, occasionally too-irreverent tone in seeking to portray not just the boxer but those who passed through his orbit.

Horatio Sanz accuser seeks to add more 'SNL' alums to lawsuit

4 years 1 month ago
More than a year after a Pennsylvania woman filed a lawsuit against comedian Horatio Sanz, SNL Studios and NBCUniversal, she's filed a proposed amended complaint seeking to add Tracy Morgan, Jimmy Fallon, and "Saturday Night Live" creator Lorne Michaels as defendants, arguing they enabled Sanz's alleged misconduct.

On 'Ramy' he plays a sidekick. Now he's starring in his own show

4 years 1 month ago
You may already know Mo Amer for his role as a sidekick on "Ramy," for being the Muslim comedian who somehow got seated next to Eric Trump on a plane, or for being cast to appear alongside The Rock in the upcoming "Black Adam" film. But you're about to know him as something else: the star of his own Netflix series.
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