Poor Rachael Ray. Can you imagine being the celebrity chef on Sunday, just minding your own business when all of a sudden your Instagram is filled with bee and lemon emojis from angry Beyoncé fans vowing to stop eating your tacos? It must've been very confusing.
As you probably know, Beyonce revealed her "Lemonade" short film/visual album Saturday night on HBO. One song lyric seemed to reference her husband Jay Z cheating, with Bey saying, "He better call Becky with the good hair." That initially just turned into a lot of Becky jokes, and insults to Jay Z, but then fashion designer Rachel Roy got involved.
There were already rumors that Rachel Roy was the woman behind the whole Met Gala fight with Beyonce's sister Solange, and Roy further inserted herself in the mix early Sunday morning with a cryptic post that was interpreted by many fans as a confession that she is the good-haired Becky:
Rachel Roy's Instagram was flooded with bees, Beyoncé's "hive" of fans in action. She set her Instagram to private after that, and tweeted a message against bullies:
I respect love, marriages, families and strength. What shouldn't be tolerated by anyone, no matter what, is bullying, of any kind.
At a loss for what to watch this week? From new DVDs and Blu-rays, to what's new on Netflix and TV, we've got you covered.
New on DVD and Blu-ray
"Ride Along 2"
Are you ready for another ride with Kevin Hart and Ice Cube? The comedy duo return as partners (and brothers-in-law-to-be) to tackle a new crime in Miami. The movie comes out on Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand on April 26. The DVD and Blu-ray both include deleted scenes, a gag reel, feature commentary, and several featurettes. The Blu-ray also includes five other special features.
Watch this funny exclusive behind-the-scenes clip illustrating the real-life odd couple dynamic between Kevin Hart and Ice Cube:
"Jane Got a Gun"
This film has a rather labored history to the big screen, but you can see the results for yourself on DVD/Blu-ray April 26. Natalie Portman plays the lead role of Jane Hammond, who built a life on the Western plains with her husband Bill Hammond (Noah Emmerich) and young daughter. When her husband shows up full of bullets after a run-in with John Bishop (Ewan McGregor) and his gang, Jane knows they won't stop until her family is dad. So she turns to a man from her past (Joel Edgerton) for help.
"Son of Saul"
This Hungarian drama, set in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, won
the 2016 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. The Blu-ray release has several special features, including commentary with director Laszlo Nemes, actor Geza Rohrig, and cinematographer Matyas Erdely; a deleted scene; an hour of interviews; and trailers.
"Special Correspondents" On May 1, Netflix will release a whole heap of new titles, but there's still plenty to keep an eye on in the last week of April. This Netflix original comedy from Ricky Gervais, premiering April 29, follows a struggling radio journalist (Eric Bana) and his hapless technician (Gervais), who fake frontline reports on a war in Ecuador from the safety of their NYC hideout. It's a remake of the 2009 French comedy, and co-stars Vera Farmiga, Kelly Macdonald, Kevin Pollak, Benjamin Bratt, America Ferrera, and Raúl Castillo.
Watch the trailer:
"Danger Mouse" Season 1
The world's greatest superspy is back! This new animated series from Netflix brings back all the characters, catchphrases, and comedy that made the 1980s TV series a favorite. Here's the synopsis for the new show: "With the world once more teetering on the edge of disaster, the small but heroic secret agent is back to thrill a whole new generation of fans as he attempts to overthrow a host of villainous rivals with the help of hapless hamster Penfold and a collection of state-of-the-art gadgetry and vehicles."
"Team Foxcatcher"
You may have seen the 2014 drama "Foxcatcher" -- starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, and Mark Ruffalo -- based on the real-life tragic story of multi-millionaire John du Pont and two champion wrestlers. Now watch the Netflix original documentary "Team Foxcatcher," featuring exclusive footage to reveal the inner workings of the Foxcatcher wrestling facility and founder du Pont's descent from philanthropist to murderer. It streams on Netflix starting April 29.
Here's the trailer:
New Video on Demand, Rental Streaming, and Digital Only
"The Boy"
Lauren Cohan, aka Maggie on "The Walking Dead," stars as nanny Greta in this horror thriller out on Digital HD on April 26. Greta takes a job in a remote English village and discovers her charge is an 8-year-old life-sized doll that the parents care for as a real boy as a way of coping with the death of their son 20 years ago. But things get really bizarre from there, and you can check it out this week on digital and then on DVD/Blu-ray/On Demand on May 10.
"Where to Invade Next"
Michael Moore latest provocative opinion piece/documentary arrives on Digital HD from Starz Digital on April 29, ahead of the DVD/Blu-ray/VOD release May 10. In this subversive comedy, Moore takes on the role of the "invader," visiting various nations to learn how the U.S. could improve its own prospects. As the film puts it, "Turns out the solutions to America's most entrenched problems already existed in the world - they're just waiting to be co-opted."
"Mr. Show"
Starting this Sunday, May 1, all four seasons of the HBO sketch comedy series "Mr. Show" (starring Bob Odenkirk and David Cross) will be available to stream for the first time on HBO NOW and HBO GO. Also, HBO NOW has a bunch of new films arriving May 1, including the 1991 cult classic "Soapdish," starring Sally Field, Robert Downey. Jr., Kevin Kline, Whoopi Goldberg, Carrie Fisher, etc. You really should watch it, even if you've seen it before.
TV Worth Watching
"Penny Dreadful" (Sunday on Showtime at 10 p.m.) "Penny Dreadful" always has the best episode titles. Season 3's nine episodes begin May 1 with a premiere called "The Day Tennyson Died." Here's the synopsis: "With Ethan (Josh Hartnett), Sir Malcolm (Timothy Dalton) and Dr. Frankenstein (Harry Treadaway) now scattered around the world facing their own demons, a shattered and despondent Vanessa (Eva Green) seeks the help of Dr. Seward (Patti LuPone) to battle a new evil." Future episode titles include "Predators Far and Near," "Good and Evil Braided Be," "A Blade of Grass," and "This World Is Our Hell." Fun!
"TURN: Washington's Spies" (Monday on AMC at 10 p.m.)
Season 3 of AMC's historical drama begins April 25 with "Valediction." There are 10 episodes ahead, and this behind-the-scenes video with the cast and creators gives you a good preview of what's in store:
Professor Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) is apparently taken by Apocalypse's crew, so Mystique is left to lead the young mutants in their attempt to defeat the new villain. "It's all of us against a god."
Mystique: "I'm not a hero." Beast: "The students look up to you."
JLaw is the most famous person in the movie, so it's not really a surprise they'd beef up Mystique's role and put her at the center of the trailer, if not the entire movie. But she doesn't get the end cameo -- that goes to Wolverine's claws, akin to "Captain America: Civil War" giving the end shot to Spider-Man.
Hugh Jackman teased Wolverine's appearance in the trailer:
"Following the critically acclaimed global smash hit X-Men: Days of Future Past, director Bryan Singer returns with X-MEN: APOCALYPSE. Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshipped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel's X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after thousands of years, he is disillusioned with the world as he finds it and recruits a team of powerful mutants, including a disheartened Magneto (Michael Fassbender), to cleanse mankind and create a new world order, over which he will reign. As the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance, Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) with the help of Professor X (James McAvoy) must lead a team of young X-Men to stop their greatest nemesis and save mankind from complete destruction."
Some of Ripa's time away was planned, but she was supposed to sit next to Strahan last Wednesday and Thursday. She skipped her own show in a form of protest after reportedly being blindsided by Strahan's Tuesday afternoon announcement that he was leaving the show in September. The situation has been awkward ever since.
However, a source told People that Strahan is "looking forward to having Kelly Ripa back on 'Live!' He never wanted any of this to happen. He got why she was mad but it was out of his control. He spent the last few days reaching out because he wanted her to come back." This source said Strahan was "prepared to go on by himself if he had to" but he's glad that Ripa will be returning on Tuesday.
Strahan thanked his absent co-host through the TV last Wednesday, when addressing his announced departure. On Friday, Ripa apparently sent an e-mail to her staff to say she would return this Tuesday. People shared the note, which read, "I wanted to thank you all for giving me the time to process this new information. Your kindness, support and love has overwhelmed me. We are a family and I look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday morning."
So at the very least, Tuesday's show should have pretty high ratings as everyone tries to read the body language and power their phones with the electric charge the studio. Bring your popcorn!
Before the Season 6 finale frustrated fans with that cliffhanger, it introduced Morgan to a couple of guys in armor. They looked like characters from The Kingdom, and a new Season 7 casting call appears to confirm that we will be meeting the leader of that survivor community, a guy named Ezekiel.
TVLine confirmed that TWD is casting for someone with the code name Augustus, but even they acknowledged it's really Ezekiel. Spoil the Dead got the full casting call details, showing that the character is meant to be a guest star in Season 7, arriving in Episode 3, and potentially staying on for a "multiple year series option":
THE WALKING DEAD, Episode #703
Episodic
AMC
ONE HOUR
SAG
Executive Producers: Scott M. Gimple, Gale Anne Hurd, Dave Alpert, Robert Kirkman, Greg Nicotero, Tom Luse
From the graphic novel by: Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard
Casting Directors: Sharon Bialy, Sherry Thomas, Gohar Gazazyan
Location: Atlanta Area
Outside Dates: o/a 5/25/16 - late November
PLEASE SUBMIT ALL ETHNICITIES UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED
[AUGUSTUS]African American, 40s. An eccentric, charismatic, and kind leader. He projects a regal air of confidence and wisdom to his people, and he enjoys the respect they give him because of it. To an outsider, his deliberate dress and mannerisms might seem theatrical, and to a degree, they are...RECURRING GUEST STAR SEASON 7 (TOP OF SHOW), MULTIPLE YEAR SERIES OPTION (7/16)
As TVLine added of King Ezekiel,"a doozy of a character, His Highness is described as flamboyant and wise, nice and weird." Nice and weird -- just how we like 'em! On that weird note, not only is Ezekiel a self-styled king (he'd fit right in on "Game of Thrones") he has a pet tiger named Shiva. She had better be on the show, too, as CGI or however they do it.
In the comic book, The Kingdom is based at a high school in the Washington, D.C. area, and Rick Grimes and Jesus come to Ezekiel to try and make an alliance between the three communities to take down Negan and The Saviors.
So now fans are listing suggestions for who should play Ezekiel, including David Fennoy, Bashir Salahuddin, Djimon Hounsou, Harold Perrineau, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Bokeem Woodbine, and more. Do you have a suggestion for the role?
Well, seven hells. It has been 10 months since Jon Snow died in the "Game of Thrones"Season 5 finale, but our watch has not ended. Thanks to "The Red Woman," the title of the Season 6 premiere, it has only just begun. As of now, the late Lord Commander is still a Weekend at Bernie's corpse being protected by his friends. (Bless you, Ser Davos.) But the episode ended with Melisandre stripping (again), poised for some kind of action.
Speaking of The Red Woman, we learned a lot more about her this hour. As it happens, she's not quite as hot as she seems. And she's older than she looks. (Maybe it's Maybelline?)
Laugh if you want, but damn that is a handy necklace to have once you reach a certain age. (Point to ponder: If Mel had to do a walk of shame, would it be better for her to do it with the necklace on, or scare away the people by taking it off?)
Also, whether you wanted to or not, we returned to Dorne. And despite all of that sunshine, their days were dark and full of terror. Ellaria Sand and her Sand Snakes continued their blood war, killing the following friends/relatives:
• Prince Doran Martell
• Trystane Martell
• Areo Hotah
So much for the good people of Dorne. Clearly, the Sand Snakes want war. And Cersei and Jaime Lannister will be happy to oblige, after the death of Myrcella.
The episode didn't actually start until 9:05 p.m. and ended a couple of minute early, so we were stiffed ... and we have no idea what's next for the stiff called Jon Snow. How will the aged Melisandre -- and Ghost, and Davos, and friends -- be able to revive Snow and get out of there? And where will they go from there?
THE MAP: This week's locations, courtesy of the intro map, are King's Landing, Winterfell, The Wall, Braavos, Meereen, and Dorne.
THE WALL Ser Davos gets the MVP credit this week, and if/when Jon Snow ever gets himself undead he should make sure to buy the Onion Knight a drink.
The episode starts at Castle Black, around dawn, to the sound of howling. Poor Ghost can't get to his papa. We see Jon Snow on the ground, alone now, since his killers (damn you, Olly!) have left him. Ser Davos is the first to spot Jon on the ground. He rallies Jon's friends, 'cause he still has some, and they help get Jon inside. They shut Jon's eyes, because he is DEFINITIVELY DEAD. They know Alliser Thorne is behind this. Davos asks if "the wolf knows you," since they need all the help they can get on their side. Cue Melisandre at the door. She's Team Jon. And now she's confused, 'cause she saw Jon in the flames, fighting in Winterfell. (The battle ahead this season, Snowbowl!) Sometimes Mel does see the right stuff in the flames, but she doesn't always interpret it correctly.
Meanwhile, Alliser Thorne talks to the rest of the Night's Watch and admits he, and his posse, committed treason by killing Jon Snow. Oathbreakers and King-ish-slayers, all. And yet Alliser promotes himself as never disobeying an order from his Lord Commander. He claims he is loyal -- interesting interpretation -- and says Jon Snow was going to ruin the watch by working with the wildlings. You can understand why Olly hates the wildlings, that much makes sense after his whole family was killed, but it doesn't justify killing Jon.
At the end of the episode, the final scene is Team Alliser (Team Arsehole, if you like) banging on the door of Team Davos/Jon, demanding surrender "or this ends with blood." Davos gets cute and quippy and says they'll have an answer later. "In my learned opinion, we open that door..." "...they'll slaughter us all." They don't like their odds, until Davos brings up The Red Woman. She has powers.
We see Melisandre look at her reflection. She takes off her robe (first boobs of the season, probably not the last) and looks sad. She removes her ruby necklace and we see a much older woman. (Second boobs = take that, anyone who was titillated by first boobs!) She is ancient without that red power. (Shades of Storm of the Century, for anyone who watched that Stephen King TV miniseries.) Then she just gets into bed.
WINTERFELL Ramsay apparently loved, or at least deeply cared about, Myranda and we hear him mourn her. He vows revenge on her killers, vows a lot of pain. But he loves hurting people, so that doesn't mean much. And who really cares about Ramsay's feelings, or Myranda?
Roose compliments his son on the victory against Stannis, but plays some mind games, too: "Do you feel like a victor?" Trick question! He rebelled against the crown for Ramsay's marriage to Sansa Stark. "A reckoning will come. we need the North to face it. The entire North." They need Sansa for that, and they lost her, thanks to Ramsay's games. Ramsay sent his hounds after them. Without an heir... Roose lets it trail off. But he also references Walda (Team Walda) being pregnant and possibly carrying a boy. To replace Ramsay.
REEK/THEON + SANSA Speaking of the hounds chasing Theon and Sansa... we see them running in the woods. Theon has to help Sansa cross a frozen river in the snow. It is high time Sansa started saving herself. Sophie Turner said this is Sansa's best season yet, but as of the premiere she is still working with Theon and letting him lead her. They take shelter under a tree. As a native of Winterfell, she should be pretty used to the cold, but Theon holds her and pats her back as they hide ... not even too well. They can hear the dogs coming. Theon volunteers to go out and distract them. Sansa says she'll never make it without him .(UGH. PLEASE. COME ON.) But Theon tells her to go to Castle Black, since Jon is Lord Commander there. Old intel, but no the worst plan. He tries to do it, but Ramsay's men find her anyway. So it's a good thing...
Pod and Brienne show up! Yes, Brienne finally gets to stop waiting for that candle in the window and actually helps Sansa (and Theon), fighting off Ramsay's men. Theon takes a sword and stabs a guy in the back, saving Pod. So Theon gets his warrior on this week. Not so much Sansa yet, though. Brienne kneels to Sansa and offers her service again. Sansa, for some reason, turns to Theon first and waits for his nod before telling Brienne she will always have a place by her hearth and (with prodding from Pod) meat and mead at her table, and the rest of the oath, by the old gods and the new.
KING'S LANDING Poor Cersei. She's still Cersei, but you have to feel for a mother who lost a(nother) child. And this wasn't an evil child, unlike Joffrey. Jaime was supposed to bring back Myrcella and he did, but ... she's dead. Cersei remembers the prophecy from Maggy the witch who told her that her children's crowns, and shrouds, would be gold. Tommen, you're next!
Cersei asks Jaime if he remembers the first time he saw a dead body. It was their mother. We hear the story of their mother's body bloating and changing with death. She can't imagine locking Myrcella in a crypt and her beautiful face changing. "She was good. From her first breath she was so sweet. I don't know where she came from. She was nothing like me. No meanness, no jealousy, just good. ... I thought if I could make something so pure ... I'm not a monster." Jaime says to "f--k prophecy, f--k fate, f--k everyone who isn't us." They're going to take it all.
Meanwhile, Queen Margaery is still in the dungeon, asking to see for her brother Loras. She's denied by a septa, then the High Sparrow comes in for a chat. Tommen misses her daily. Only confession can purge sin, but she says she has nothing to confess. Does she think he's perfect?
DORNE Ellaria helps Doran walk to his chair, and the prince says his brother Oberyn truly lived while he stayed in Dorne and tried his best to keep his people alive. Ellaria and Doran play nice until Doran gets the word that Myrcella is dead. Then the knives come out and Ellaria and her daughter kill Areo Hotah and Prince Doran. Ellaria berates Doran as he dies. Doran asks about his son, Tyrstane. "Your son is weak, just like you, and weak men will never rule Dorne again." Cue a scene with the other Sand Snakes visiting Trystane on a ship. Which one does he want to kill him? He picks one (Tyene) and the other (Obara) kills him from behind. "You're a greedy bitch, you know that?"
MEEREEN Tyrion and Varys walk the streets, chit-chatting and trying to help people on the street. There's writing on the wall, next to "Kill the masters," saying "Mhysa is a master." Fear has taken over Meereen, and Daenerys Targaryen is not as popular as she used to be. There are preachers in the street. Bells chiming. Smoke.
DANY + THE DOTHRAKI - DROGON We see the buddy cop detective work of Daario and Jorah, searching for Dany in the wild, and talking about how they both like Dany and want to see what the world will look like when she is done conquering it. But we see Jorah's advanced greyscale. How long does he really have? They eventually realize a Dorthraki horde was there and -- how convenient -- in all of that space, Jorah happens to stumble on the jewelry Dany dropped. "They have her."
On that note, we see the expanse of the Dorthraki horde in the desert, and Dany being whipped (DON'T YOU TOUCH HER!) as she walks. They laugh at her and talk smack about her in Dothraki. Misogynists in every language, all around the world, even fake worlds. They cal her an idiot and say she doesn't have to be smart to get f--ked in the ass. She's back to Season 1.
Fire and blood is coming for you guys, though. You don't mess with the Mother of Dragons.
She's taken to Khal Moro. The women, his wives, say blue-eyed women are witches. It is known. The guys want to see her naked for the first time because it's one of the top five things in life. (Did they make a listicle about it?) Dany tries to drag them, though, and says they can't touch her. She reads off her titles. But they laugh again and say she is now a slave of Khal Moro now and will bear his child. But she has had her own prophecy and knows she will bear no child.
However, Dany places her ace card: She was the wife of Khal Drogo. He didn't know. It is forbidden to lay with a khal's widow. No one will touch her. She wants to go back to Meereen, but when a khal dies, the khaleesi is meant to go to Vaes Dothrak to the Temple of the Dosh Khaleen to live with the crones, the widows of dead khals. So ... that's a no on an escort to Meereen.
ARYA IN BRAAVOS Arya is left to beg on the streets of Braavos. She's blind so we hear things as she does. The "c-nt" from the House of Black and White shows up and taunts her, then picks a fight. The other girl basically kicks Arya's butt, since Arya hasn't learned how to fight blind. Yet. "See you tomorrow," the other girl says. Sad how others on the street just watch and don't even try to help. Poor Arya. If only she could just go home, and connect with her sister and not-so-dead brothers.
NEXT WEEK
Episode 2 is called "Home," and it looks like there's some good stuff ahead. Brienne tells Sansa about Arya, so Sansa at least knows her sister is alive, too in addition to Bran and Rickon. Shame about Jon, though, at least for now.
What were they thinking? That's the question you have to ask Universal and the makers of "The Huntsman: Winter's War."
As expected, the messy prequel-sequel to 2012's "Snow White and the Huntsman" failed to topple Disney's live-action "Jungle Book" from its box office throne. In fact, no one even expected an opening anywhere near the $56.2 million debut of the first "Huntsman." Nonetheless, it was at least tracking to open with a respectable $24 million or so. And yet it couldn't even muster a debut that big, settling instead for an estimated $20.1 million opening weekend, about what the first "Huntsman" earned in its first day.
What went wrong with Universal's $115 million wannabe hit? Here are five reasons it failed to measure up to its predecessor.
1. No Snow White How do you tell a Snow White story without Snow White? Granted, the whole fairytale-backstory thing has worked elsewhere, as in "Maleficent" and on TV's "Once Upon a Time" (though there are plenty of other familiar characters to latch onto when the show's focus shifts from Ginnifer Goodwin's Snow White).
The "Winter's War" filmmakers were counting on the notion that the grim fantasy world created for the first film would be interesting enough on its own without the familiar heroine or the actress who played her. Guess not. And speaking of that actress...
2. No K-Stew
The original movie came out at the height of Kristen Stewart's box office power, between the releases of the final two installments of "Twilight." There's no one in the Stewart-free cast of the current movie who can muster that kind of loyalty at the box office. Which leads to our next point...
3. A Severe Lack of Box-office Draws Everyone loves Charlize Theron, Jessica Chastain, and Emily Blunt, but not necessarily enough for any one of them to carry a movie to box office victory on their own.
And poor huntsman Chris Hemsworth? Also not much of a draw in a movie that doesn't have him wielding Thor's hammer. No non-franchise movie he's starred in has opened above $15 million.
4. BadTiming
This movie suffered from three kinds of bad timing. First, it's been four years since the original film's release," long enough for some viewers to have forgotten it existed. Or ever liking it. And yet, it may not have been long enough for the franchise to shake the stench of scandal that tainted "Snow White" when news broke that Stewart was having an affair with the film's married director, Rupert Sanders.
But the worst accident of timing was opening opposite "Jungle Book," which, in its second weekend, lost only 41 percent of last weekend's business and earned an estimated $60.8 million. Audiences were all still too captivated by Mowgli and his CG animal pals to check out Hemsworth and friends. It's possible that Universal thought late April was a safer, less crowded time than summer for a PG-13 special-effects blockbuster (the 2012 "Huntsman" came out the first week of June), but as the schedule-creep of recent summer movie seasons has made clear, summer starts pretty much right after spring break nowadays.
5. Even Worse Execution With the notable exception of costume designer Colleen Atwood's extravagant gowns, a lot of "Winter's War" seems slapdash and hastily cobbled together, according to critics. The film amassed a mere 17 percent fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes (woof!). During production, the film not only lost Stewart and Sanders, but also A-list screenwriters David Koepp and Frank Darabont (the latter had also been slated to direct). The credited screenwriters of "Winter's War" are the guy who co-wrote 2014's "Hercules" and the guy who co-wrote "Scary Movie 4." Its first-time feature director is the special effects coordinator from the first "Huntsman." So while the movie has impressive visuals, even fans who bought tickets weren't overly impressed by the storytelling. They gave the movie a B+ CinemaScore, which indicates only so-so word-of-mouth.
None of this may matter, ultimately, since "Winter's War" has already earned another $80 million overseas, where audiences for Hollywood imports seem to value dazzling visuals over dialogue and character anyway. It's possible that the film will ultimately earn enough internationally to break even. Stateside, however, it's likely to limp along for another week until it (and everything else) gets clobbered by another "War" movie: Marvel's "Captain America: Civil War." At least Thor's not expected to show up in that one to hammer home a fatal blow to Hemsworth's non-Marval career.
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