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Republican Sen. Bill Hagerty is excited for Kash Patel to dismantle the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is taking credit for encouraging Trump to bring Patel “to the table.”

“I’ve encouraged Trump to bring Kash Patel to the table for precisely this reason… He represents the type of change that we need to see in the FBI,” Hagerty told NBC’s Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker on Sunday.

Patel is a Trump loyalist and conspiracy theorist who aspires to clean out the alleged “Deep State.” He has vowed...

After chasing Peter Capaldi and Cush Jumbo in an intense cat-and-mouse fight in Season 1, Apple TV+s British crime thriller series Criminal Record will be back for Season 2. Created by Paul Rutman, Criminal Record follows two detectives Capaldis Detective Chief Inspector Daniel Hagerty and Jumbos Detective Sergeant June Lenker crossing horns with each other after a call from a mysterious woman stirs an old murder case. The eight-episode crime thriller on Apple TV+ follows the footsteps of Lenker as she tries to seek justice for Errol Mathis (Tom Moutchi), whom she believed to be wrongly convicted for the murder of his girlfriend Adelaide Burrowes (Ema Cavolli). However, at every step, she finds resistance from Dci Hagerty, who seems to be covering his tracks all along. In the end, although Lenker manages to seek justice for Mathis, Criminal Record leaves room for more mysteries to be solved in Season 2.

Your browser does not support the video tag. Screen Rant presents a clip from the upcoming crime drama Ride. Ride was directed and co-written by Jake Allyn, who also stars in the film alongside C. Thomas Howell and Annabeth Gish. The movie is an expression of versatility for Howell, whose recent and upcoming projects include the biopic Reagan and the Netflix comedy Obliterated.

Ride is a new crime drama from Well Go USA Entertainment, and Screen Rant has a clip from the movie. The modern western story was directed by Jake Allyn, written by Allyn and Josh Plasse, and is Allyns directorial debut. Allyn also stars in the film alongside C. Thomas Howell, Annabeth Gish, Forrie J. Smith, and Laci Kaye Booth.

Screen Rant is happy to present a clip from Ride centered on stars C. Thomas Howells John Hawkins and Annabeth Gishs Sheriff Monica Hawkins. Despite the fact that...

The heroes of Obliterated work hard, but they party harder. So when realized that the nuclear bomb they disabled was a fake and Las Vegas was still at risk, they had to cut short clear their heads, and then hustle even harder to disarm the weapon that threatened to, um, obliterate the city of sin (and all the revelers inside it).

Thankfully, their persistence paid off, despite being double-crossed, taken off their own mission, and scattered across the Nevada desert — all while trying to sober up. In the final moments before the nuke was set to explode, bomb expert Hagerty (C. Thomas Howell) rode into a casino on a camel (long story) and saved the day. But how did we get there? And what does this mean for our team going forward?

The cast, along with creators Josh...

When 1980’s Airplane! proved to be a massive hit, becoming one of the highest-grossing films of the year – up there with The Empire Strikes Back and Best Picture winner Kramer vs. Kramer – it was inevitable that it would get a sequel. But how often are comedy sequels good anyway? When have they ever really recaptured the magic and the laughter of the original? Well, Airplane II: The Sequel gave it a go…by basically being the same movie. Except this time around, Zaz wisely opted out, leaving the production without the strong leaders who reinvented the spoof genre. Instead, they got the guy who wrote Grease 2, one of the most notoriously awful sequels ever! So, strap in – no, not to an airplane but a space shuttle – as we find out: Wtf Happened to This Movie?!…The Sequel!

1980’s Airplane! did incredibly well upon release, making just under $85 million on a $3.5 million budget,...

The Denver District Attorney’s Office have dropped all charges against Royal Trux’s Neil Hagerty over an alleged assault of a Denver police officer.

According to The Denver Post, Hagerty, 58, had his charges wiped away after completing a year of mental health treatment. Hagerty was initially arrested following an altercation with police outside a Denver apartment complex in April 2023. The officers were allegedly responding to a welfare check called for Hagerty. He was charged with three felonies for allegedly trying to rip off an officer’s badge, using the badge’s pin to try and cut an officer’s neck, and attempting to pull an officer’s gun from his holster. All three officers involved in the altercation were released from the hospital.

Hagerty’s attorney said in a statement that the musician was suffering from a mental health crisis during the incident. “After a year of intense mental health treatment,...

The recently released action comedy series on Netflix, Obliterated, follows a force of elite CIA agents who are looking for a nuclear device to disarm it before it could blow up the entire Las Vegas. Along with the main characters of the series, we also have some formidable antagonists in the storyline. Some of them are obvious from the start, while one of them hides her real face behind the mask of an innocent lady. Yes, we’re talking about Lana, aka Anastasia Koslov. She was the sister of Ivan Koslov, the Russian arms dealer who wanted to bring death and destruction to US soil. Although Ivan was the ultimate target of the elite agents, they eventually found out about Lana’s true identity and tried to stop her at all costs.

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Who Was Lana, Aka Anastasia Koslov?

Lana, aka Anastasia Koslov, was born Russian. She was the sister of Ivan Koslov,...

Obliterated is a Netflix action-comedy series with some hilarious comedy and action sequences, even though at times it gets a bit awkward. The series centers around a force of CIA agents who are on their way to save Las Vegas from an explosion. Their target is to bring down a Russian arms dealer, who is the mastermind behind a plot to bomb the entire city. However, the journey to find and disarm the nuke is not an easy one because the CIA agents are heavily dosed on psychedelics. Let’s see how they succeed in their voyage to save the city from destruction.

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Plot Synopsis: What Happens In The Show?

Obliterated season 1 opened with a force of CIA agents, the leader Ava Winters, and her fellow operatives Chad McKnight, Maya Choi, Paul Young, Angela Gomez, Trunk, and Hagerty arriving at a pool party in disguise to find the Russian arms dealer Ivan Koslov,...

Especially in its early installments, 24 used to build in a midseason pause. Jack Bauer would achieve what he thought was his goal — securing the bomb, identifying the conspiratorial kingpin, etc. — and then, after enough time to take a breath but not enough time to use the bathroom, he would discover a Bigger bomb or realize that behind the apparently Big Bad was a Bigger Bad. Gasp!

But what if, instead of merely taking that breath, Jack Bauer had celebrated securing yet another victory for America by doing the keg stand to end all keg stands or dropping a tab of acid — and only then figured out that he still had half a day’s worth of torture, cliffhangers and mountain lions in store?

That — or perhaps just “It’s The Hangover as a ’90s action movie!” — is the hook for Netflix’s new series Obliterated, from the Cobra Kai trio of Jon Hurwitz,...

Netflix has released the first trailer for its upcoming action comedy Obliterated, which hails from the creators of megahit Cobra Kai.

The wild and fast-paced trailer is a two-minute tease that asks what it would be like if 24 and The Hangover crossed over. Starring Nick Zano and Shelley Hennig, the eight-episode series follows an elite special forces team after they believe they’ve saved the world from a nuclear bomb threat.

But upon waking up — and with a nasty hangover, no less — the team receives a call that the threat they neutralized was a fake and they have only hours to find and thwart the real one. The problem is, much of the team hasn’t quite sobered up, meaning they must fight through a wall of bad guys, their own personal issues and a few substance impairments to locate the real bomb and save the day.

This slightly...

In 1979, Peter Falk and the late great Alan Arkin made the perfect odd couple in the classic action comedy The In-Laws. It even spawned a not-bad remake with Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks in 2003. The difference between those films, and a bit of an attempt to do something similar in the cleverly titled The Out-Laws, which starts streaming on Netflix today, is that those movies were genuinely funny –particularly the Arkin-Falk teaming. But this one, also a kind of Meet the Parents on steroids, relies far too heavily on nonstop and incessant action scenes to carry us through its 95-minute running time.

The fault here does not lie with its cast, which is pretty impressive overall. Basically this is a comedic vehicle for Adam Devine, who not only stars but also helped develop the Ben Zazove and Evan Turner script as well as producing with Happy Madison’s Adam Sandler and Allen Covert.

The Season 2 finale of HBO’s sleeper hit comedy series “Somebody Somewhere” featured a wedding and a loving tribute to Ed, the beloved character played by late actor Mike Hagerty in Season 1.

The episode, titled “To Ed,” followed as most of the cast came together to celebrate Fred’s (Murray Hill) wedding at the old barn where Ed used to spend his time, now refurbished into a picturesque event space by Tricia (Mary Catherine Garrison) for the special occasion. In the midst of the festivities, Fred made a speech and called a toast to his dear friend — who was written out of the story earlier in the season following Hagerty’s death, by the announcement he’d gone on a long-term boat trip with his brother.

For series star Bridget Everett, the finale marked the touching end to a season-long celebration of the actor’s influence on the show.

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Donald Trump was found liable for sexual battery and defamation against author E. Jean Carroll — and Republicans can’t decide if that makes him more or less electable.

In the immediate aftermath of the verdict, Trump handled the decision as expected — with an all caps Truth Social post attacking Carroll. GOP lawmakers, however, were split as to whether or not sexual battery, even if in civil court, was an egregious enough conviction to kill their support for Trump.

“I don’t think he can get elected,” Texas Senator John Cornyn...

In the Season 2 premiere of Somebody Somewhere, the storylines were fictional, but the emotions were true to life, as we finally learned how the show would handle the death of actor Mike Hagerty.

Sisters Trisha and Sam reveal that their father Ed (Hagerty’s character) is very much alive and currently hanging out on a boat in Texas drinking beers with his brother. Sam is happy her dad is doing something for himself, but Trisha is annoyed because “the timing sucks.” Their mother Mary Jo has suffered a stroke and is living in a nursing home. Despite promising their dad they’d visit Mj daily,...

HBO’s critically acclaimed dramedy Somebody Somewhere is about to kickstart its sophomore season, and when we ask its star Bridget Everett what viewers can expect, she throws us for a loop.

“Well, Sam is pregnant with triplets,” she tells TVLine with a straight face while sitting side-by-side with Jeff Hiller, her costar who plays Sam’s Bff Joel. But once Hiller starts to chuckle, it’s contagious and all three of us are going. While Sam is most certainly not going to become a mom any time soon, major changes are indeed in store for her parents, Ed and Mary Jo.

Royal Trux’s Neil Hagerty was arrested in Denver on Friday for allegedly assaulting police officers who were responding to a welfare check.

The alleged incident occurred after an individual had requested the welfare check on the 58-year-old guitarist’s behalf. Officers arrived at the scene and began talking to the individual when Hagerty came out of the building and began “attacking” the officers, according to the Denver Police Department.

One officer was injured after Hagerty allegedly ripped the badge off of his uniform and used it to cut him. According to The Denver Gazette, Hagerty caused “a 6-inch laceration on the officer’s throat.” Other officers arrived at the scene, but Hagerty “remained combative,” attempting to grab one of the officer’s Tasers, and was ultimately arrested.

In a social media update, the Denver Police Department reported that all three officers involved in the incident have been released from the hospital.

As always, The Academy Awards ceremony this year honored the industry's best artists who passed away over the past year with the In Memoriam segment, but there were some major snubs. The In Memoriam segment pays tribute to filmmakers and actors with a touching two-to-three-minute clip with a stripped-back piano composition played over the top. This year, Lenny Kravitz took to the stage to play a tear-jerking version of "Calling All Angels" as names and images of celebrated filmmakers swiped across the screen. Way more effort was put into it than the previous In Memoriam, which had skipped passed creatives before audiences were able to read their names.

However, while there were predictably so many shocking Oscar 2023 moments, one of the most shocking parts of the three-hour-plus event was all the glaring omissions in this year's In Memoriam. There's obviously a limited amount of time and only so many artists that can be honored,...

Peter Billingsley, the blond moppet from “A Christmas Story,” was 11 years old when he starred in that 1983 holiday-sleeper-that-became-a-classic (though it depends who you ask — I’ve always been something of a Scrooge about it). The image of Billingsley from “A Christmas Story” — goggle-ish glasses, beaming gopher grin — became, in its way, as iconic a movie signifier of raucous kiddie-culture spirits as Macaulay Culkin’s cheeky gaze of frozen horror in “Home Alone.” But that was 40 years ago. Billingsley is now 51, and he’s the dad in “A Christmas Story Christmas,” a latter-day sequel to the movie that a lot of people (maybe too many) think of as their all-time favorite Yuletide TV bliss-out.

In “A Christmas Story Christmas,” Billingsley, as the grown-up version of Ralphie Parker, is still a likable actor, but he’s lost any trace of that rascally Bb-gun exuberance. He now resembles the former NBC News anchor...

When Bob Clark’s “A Christmas Story” hit theaters the week before Thanksgiving 1983, no one could have foreseen the cultural impact the family comedy would have on the holiday film canon. A modest box office showing (it took in 2 million its first week and failed to crack 20 million during its full run), mixed reviews, and some awards attention from Canada’s Genie Awards added up to a hazy picture of a film that was good enough but hardly a game-changer. Later, of course, came the television airings, landing the film in near-constant rotation during the holiday season and turning it into an unexpected holiday favorite. Familiarity, it seems, didn’t breed contempt when it came to this TNT and TBS staple; it only inspired outright adoration.

Nearly 40 years after the film’s initial release — and just in time to capitalize on those same TV showings that will carry it through...

Because 1983’s “A Christmas Story” has achieved iconic status among holiday movies and has become a nostalgic cornerstone to millions of fans who revisit it every December, it’s easy to forget that the film’s initial success came from its skewering of nostalgia itself.

The original tagline ironically called the film “A Tribute to the Original, Traditional, One-Hundred-Percent, Red-Blooded, Two-Fisted, All-American Christmas,” and director Bob Clark’s adaptation of Jean Shepherd’s comic reminiscences struck a chord precisely because it revealed the greed, venality, occasional cruelty, and recognizably human behavior that lurked beneath the Norman Rockwell façade of hazy Yuletide memories.

After several unsuccessful attempts to craft a sequel to Clark’s film, we finally get “A Christmas Story Christmas,” which brings back several of the original movie’s cast members. While it spends perhaps too much of its running time either recreating or directly quoting moments from its 1983 predecessor,...

Matthew Perry wanted to be more than just Friends with one of his female costars on the NBC mega-hit.

In a primetime interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer that aired Friday to promote his revealing new memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, Perry admitted that he harbored a crush on costar Jennifer Aniston. (Years before Friends, Perry actually asked Aniston out, but she said no.) “Well, how can you not have a crush on Jenny? And Courteney [Cox]? And Lisa [Kudrow]? So I made it kind of difficult to go to work, because I had to pretend that I didn’t have these crushes.

In the annals of all-time great movie stunts, Steve McQueen jumping a six-foot barbed-wire barrier on a motorcycle in John Sturges' "The Great Escape" ranks awfully high. The thrilling sequence comes near the end of the film, when McQueen's dogged Captain Virgil Hilts, aka "The Cooler King," is on the run from German soldiers. As they close in from every direction, the stubborn American Pow is forced to gun the bike up a hill and scale the impediment sideways. He deftly manages the first leap, but has his tires shot out before he can attempt the second jump, at which point he would've been home free into Switzerland.

Worshiped as a man's man of an actor, McQueen prided himself on performing his own stunts. He came by his daredevil disposition naturally; his father was a barnstorming pilot, which entailed everything from wild aerial acrobatics to insanely risky stunts like wing walking.

”Obliterated,” the upcoming Netflix action comedy series from “Cobra Kai” creators Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald, has cast Alyson Gorske, C. Thomas Howell, Eugene Kim, Paola Lázaro, Terrence Terrell and Amalia Yoo as series regulars. They join previously announced stars Shelley Hennig and Nick Zano.

The series tells the story of an elite special forces team who thwarts a deadly threat to Las Vegas. After their celebratory party, filled with booze, drugs and sex, the team discovers that a bomb they deactivated was a fake. The now intoxicated team has to fight through their impairments, overcome their personal issues, find the real bomb and save the world.

Gorske plays Lana, a Vegas party girl swept up along for the ride with the special forces team.

Howell plays Hagerty, the eccentric Army Explosives technician.

Kim (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”) plays Paul Yung, an Air Force pilot embedded with the team and...

Character actor Mike Hagerty, who most recently starred opposite Bridget Everett on the HBO comedy Somebody Somewhere, has died at the age of 67. A cause of death has not been disclosed.

“With great sadness, the family of Michael G. Hagerty announced his death yesterday in Los Angeles,” Everett shared on Instagram Friday. “A beloved character actor, his love of his hometown of Chicago and his family were the cornerstones of his life. Mike, a devoted husband, is survived by his wife Mary Kathryn, his sister Mary Ann Hagerty [and] her wife Kathleen O’Rourke, and their daughter Meg. He will be sorely missed.