The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Last we saw Anthony Mackie s Sam Wilson (aka the Falcon) and Sebastian Stan s Bucky Barnes (the Winter Soldier), Sam had inherited Captain America s star-spangled shield. Now, the odd couple are teaming up to take on a new threat. Daniel Brühl s villainous Zemo and Emily VanCamp s Sharon Carter are also back, with Wyatt Russell joining the MCU as the new Captain America. New episodes every Friday.
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
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Thunder Force
Melissa McCarthy has played a spy, a rowdy bridesmaid and now a full-on superhero in Netflix s comic book-inspired comedy. McCarthy and real-life best friend Octavia Spencer play estranged childhood friends forced back together to protect the world from supervillains. Bobby Cannavale, Pom Klementieff and Jason Bateman play the baddies, the latter of whom is half-man, half-crab. Seriously!
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Last we saw Anthony Mackie s Sam Wilson (aka the Falcon) and Sebastian Stan s Bucky Barnes (the Winter Soldier), Sam had inherited Captain America s star-spangled shield. Now, the odd couple are teaming up to take on a new threat. Daniel Brühl s villainous Zemo and Emily VanCamp s Sharon Carter are also back, with Wyatt Russell joining the MCU. New episodes every Friday.
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Marvel Studios
STREAMING ON DISNEY+
The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers
Emilio Estevez who starred in the 1992 flick about a scrappy peewee hockey team returns in this original Disney+ series. But this time around, the Ducks are no underdogs. When a 12-year-old team reject finds himself in need of a new squad, Evan (Brady Noon) and his mom (Lauren Graham) build their own team, with the help of Estevez s Coach Gordon Bombay.
Paramount+ Shares The Stand Series Premiere on YouTube for Free
The latest adaptation of Stephen King s
The Stand debuted on CBS All Access last December, but with the streaming service having since rebranded as Paramount+, the first episode of the adaptation has been made available for free on YouTube. While the iconic tome from King was previously adapted into a four-episode series in 1994, this latest adaptation once again enlisted top-tier talent, though its production budget largely eclipsed that previous take on the material. Additionally, this new adaptation ran for nine episodes, allowing for even more of the source material to be brought to life, while it also featured an all-new epilogue crafted by King himself.
The Stand arrived on Thursday with The Circle Closes , a coda to the iconic story written by King himself. The episode was billed as being a new ending to the saga, a version of the story that King had been wanting to tell for three decades so, even going into things fans expected a unique experience. However, with a few details of the main story left after last week s The Stand , there are still enough elements of the novel to compare to how they re approached in the episode and the overall ending requires a little bit of explanation as well for what it changes and does not change from King s classic. Let s break it down.
By the time you read this, I will be dead. No wait, I mean, CBS All Access will have released the final episode of
The Stand, their new miniseries based on Stephen King s epic pot-apocalyptic novel of good versus evil. And to mangle T.S. Eliot, rather than with a bang, this regrettable adaptation has gone out like a wet fart.
Expectations were high for a more King-friendly product after the 1994 miniseries was forced to pull punches for network TV. CBS and series developers Josh Boone and Ben Cavell promised a more faithful (read: R-rated) treatment for the material. Good news for everyone who felt all that was missing from the 94 show was f-bombs and simulated intercourse