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In the latest episode of Hell’s Kitchen, titled “Hot Potato,” airing at 1:00 Pm on Wednesday, December 4th, 2024, the heat is on as the chefs must tackle a challenging task: creating a dish with potatoes as the key component. Known for its high stakes and intense kitchen drama, this episode promises to deliver plenty of fiery moments.

The chefs are put to the test as they attempt to turn the humble potato into a dish worthy of Gordon Ramsay’s standards. But with the pressure mounting, tensions rise, and one chef’s nerves get the best of them. This leads to a chaotic dinner service, where mistakes are made and the heat in the kitchen becomes unbearable. As always, Chef Ramsay’s sharp critiques and relentless demands will keep everyone on edge. Fans can expect an action-packed episode filled with culinary creativity, fierce competition, and of course, plenty of drama.

Rev up your engines because The Wiggles are back, this time with a country rock track. “Big Red Ute” is the latest release from the long-running group of children’s performers, and the new song is accompanied by a bright new music video. Watch it below.

The free-wheeling music video takes The Wiggles on a journey in their unmissable new ride, with their furry friend Wags the Dog along for the ride. Decked out in cowboy hats, the band takes a trek across the countryside, embracing off-roading and, of course, some fresh new choreography. The Wiggles can perhaps be credited with the first song to introduce the concept of “lumbar support” to their young listeners.

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The iconic band of Aussie performers will be touching down in the US for a 2025 tour next summer. The upcoming trek includes stops in Seattle, Los Angeles, Austin, Boston, and...

The Wiggles have released a new Edm album — yes, you read that right — called The Wiggles Soundsystem: Rave of Innocence.

Featuring 14 Wiggles classics remixed as Edm songs, The Wiggles Soundsystem: Rave of Innocence is helmed by Australian DJ and Justice Crew member Lenny Pearce — who is also the twin brother of purple Wiggle John Pearce. The remixes were also provided by DJ Dorothy, the beloved dinosaur, who appears on the album’s cover.

The Wiggles Soundsystem: Rave of Innocence features bumping, techno remixes of Wiggles favorites “Fruit Salad,” “Bouncing Balls,” “Hot Potato,” and more. There’s also a fascinating rework of “Baby Shark,” which, well, you’ll just have to hear it for yourself.

Marking the debut of The Wiggles Sound System, a press release describes the album as “an electrifying fusion of nostalgia and party-starting techno beats,” and “a pulsating musical journey that’s part wild dancefloor party, part toddler tantrum tamer.

“The Twilight Zone” is a beast to write about. On the one hand, the original series is so ingrained in shaping popular culture that to ignore it is all but impossible; if “The Simpsons” didn’t do it first, “The Twilight Zone” almost certainly did. On the other hand, the goal of a reboot is to simultaneously entice fans who didn’t watch the original as well as honor what came before. How do you bridge the two spectrums with a show so iconic as to be all but crystallized in time?

The first season of the Jordan Peele-produced remake had its bright spots, but it also suffered from coming after “Black Mirror,” which, as a “Twilight Zone” acolyte, had already said so much about relationships and technology. Many of the same problems that plagued Season 1 of “The Twilight Zone” reboot remain in Season 2, despite one episode that blows them all away.

“The Twilight Zone” is a beast to write about. On the one hand, the original series is so ingrained in shaping popular culture that to ignore it is all but impossible; if “The Simpsons” didn’t do it first, “The Twilight Zone” almost certainly did. On the other hand, the goal of a reboot is to simultaneously entice fans who didn’t watch the original as well as honor what came before. How do you bridge the two spectrums with a show so iconic as to be all but crystallized in time?

The first season of the Jordan Peele-produced remake had its bright spots, but it also suffered from coming after “Black Mirror,” which, as a “Twilight Zone” acolyte, had already said so much about relationships and technology. Many of the same problems that plagued Season 1 of “The Twilight Zone” reboot remain in Season 2, despite one episode that blows them all away.

Cinema Retro has received the following press release:

The Los Angeles Comic Book And Science Fiction Convention presents Classic Movie Poster Artist Robert Tanenbaum, Jean Hale (In Like Flint), Sharyn Wynters (The Female Bunch), and Donna Loren (Bikini Beach) at the August 20, 2017 Show.

Robert Tanenbaum is a Movie Poster Artist with an over 50 year career illustrating every film genre such as Science Fiction, Horror, Comedy, War, Drama and Martial Arts. Robert has illustrated such Classic Movie Posters as A Christmas Story, Battle For The Planet Of The Apes, Cujo, Five Fingers Of Death, Black Christmas, Super Fly, The Color Of Money, My Bodyguard, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, The Iron Cross, The Eagle Has Landed, Ransom, Cleopatra Jones And The Casino Of Gold, Hot Potato, Mel Brooks High Anxiety and Silent Night, Evil Night. Robert’s art is featured on the first announcement that Jaws was being made into a Movie.

We had the opportunity to sit down with Dwayne Johnson and Auli'i Cravahlo and talk about the upcoming film Moana., which is a sweeping CG-animated feature film about an adventurous teenager who sails out on a daring mission to save her people.

Moana (Auli'i Cravahlo) is the 16 year old daughter of the chief Motunui. She's athletic, nimble, compassionate and incredibly smart. During her journey, Moana meets the might demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson) who is on his own journey of self-dicovery. He reluctantly guides Moana in her quest to become a master wayfinder and save her people.

Here is what they had to say. Don't forget to Click Here to read our review of the film.

This sounds like the most difficult research anyone has ever had to do for a movie, let’s go to the islands.

Auli’I Cravalho: No, I’ve grown up in Hawaii all my life.

[[tmz:video id="0_wndj84tn"]] 5 Seconds of Summer broke some big news to us about the band's future -- and no, we're not only talking about Calum Hood's rumored departure ... we're talking The Wiggles!! The guys were getting mobbed by fans at Lax on Monday when our photog, Charlie -- who's Australian like 5Sos -- popped a question about the true kings of the Down Under music scene. Yes, The Wiggles do kids music, but they've been at it for nearly 25 years!

Everyone loves a good board game right? Although these days it seems more are likely to play board games on their tablets – myself included. After all who doesn’t love a good game of Carcassone on the iPad? It’s great time-filler and it’s a lot easier than cracking out all the pieces for ‘one quick game’ – although it never is just one game, right? But then again there’s nothing quiet like getting a few like-minded friends round for a few drinks and a board game. Especially one as fast, furious and fun as Dobble.

Essentially a more complex party-game version of Snap!, Dobble is, like that game, one for all the family. Besides playing the game with a few mates, I also sat down with my 7-year old niece and her family to play a game (or five) – and she adored it. So much so she hounded...

This is a repost of our review from the 2014 Toronto Film Festival [Tiff 2014].

Thank you, David Robert Mitchell, because I now have a way of avoiding that awkward “Birds and the Bees” chat when the time comes for my bewildered offspring, as I’ll just pop on It Follows and let your sinisterly sexual horror flick work its magic!

We’ve all seen our fair share of high school slashers where hormone-ravaged teens can’t keep it in their pants long enough to evade the clutches of Jason, Freddy, Michael, or any of the usual suspects, but Mitchell’s hanky-panky fueled genre-bender creates a new game that turns premarital sex into an orgasmic death sentence. Being a slow-burn cat-and-mouse thriller in the simplest sense, It Follows trounces the vilest of STDs by creating a post-sex monster who hunts down the unluckiest of fornicators. There are rules to Mitchell’s scenario, rules...

The game of Hot Potato over the spy thriller Hunter Killer continues. The film has seen directors like Phillip Noyce, Antoine Fuqua, and most recently McG attached at one point or another, but has failed to come to fruition in the years that it’s been in development. Relativity is still trying, though, and The Wrap now reports that Casino Royale helmer Martin Campbell is in early talks to direct the pic, which is an adaptation of the novel Firing Point by George Wallace and Don Keith. The story revolves around an American sub commander and a Navy Seal team that must rescue the Russian president and defeat a renegade admiral who’s attempting a coup. Campbell hasn’t directed a film since 2011’s Green Lantern, and while he wasn’t a great match for superhero material, he helmed the excellent The Mask of Zorro and rebooted the James Bond...

“Ghettos are the same all over the world. They stink!”

We’ve lost a true movie bad-ass. I can remember staying at my grandmother’s house in Greenville, South Carolina in 1975 when I was 13 and walking to an ‘urban’ movie theater a mile or so away. They were showing something called The Black Samurai. It was rated R but they sold me a ticket anyway. I excitedly took my seat and, as the only Caucasian in the audience, enjoyed my one and only big-screen Blaxploitation experience back in that genre’s heyday. I shared this story with the film’s star Jim Kelly, when I met him at Cinema Wasteland a couple of years ago and not only did he get a kick out of it, he knew exactly which theater I was referring to – The Plaza, having made an appearance there a couple of years earlier to promote Black Belt Jones.

After all the debates, controversies, and stereotype accusations have cleared, looking back on Blaxploitation cinema today it’s easy to see healthy portions of the crime and action genres. Using these genres and the struggles of the black community, these films were created for those that wanted to see African American characters on the big screen not taking shit from the man, “getting over”, and–above all else—being the heroes in movies. In the documentary Baad Asssss Cinema, Samuel L. Jackson gives his take on the heroes of Blaxploitation: “We were tired of seeing the righteous black man. And all of a sudden we had guys who were…us. Or guys who did the things we wanted those guys to do.”

The unsung supporting players in these films that backed Fred Williamson and Pam Grier and many other stars were people acting and making a living off of it.