This Week in Pop Culture: ‘The Orville’, ‘Spinal Tap’, ‘M.O.D.O.K.’, and More
There have been a bunch of pop culture news, announcements, and new trailers this week – let’s catch up, shall we?
Pop Culture News
- Actor Fred Ward has died
- Ukraine has won the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest
- M.O.D.O.K. has been cancelled
- There’s one more Norm Macdonald stand up special
- Danny Elfman talks Doctor Strange
- More on all of those DC/CW show cancellations
- Bullet Train has been moved back to August 5th
- A This is Spinal Tap sequel is in the works
via Embassy Pictures
Movie & TV Trailers
Love Death + Robots Volume 3 – Netflix May 20th
Emmy-winning animated anthology Love, Death + Robots returns. Terror, imagination and beauty combine in nine new episodes. They stretch from uncovering an ancient evil to a comedic apocalypse, telling startling short stories of fantasy, horror and science-fiction with trademark wit and visual invention.
The Orville: New Horizons Season 3 – Hulu June 2nd
Down on his luck after a bitter divorce, Planetary Union officer Ed Mercer finally gets his chance to command his own ship. Determined to prove his worth and start a new chapter, Ed discovers the first wrinkle in his plan when the First Officer assigned to his ship is his ex-wife, Kelly Grayson. As the new commander, Ed assembles a qualified — but eccentric — crew.
Unhuman – VOD June 2nd
The dead will have this club for breakfast. Blumhouse Television and Epix bring you the story of a high school field trip gone bloody awry. Seven misfit students must band together against a growing gang of unhuman savages.
First Kill – Netflix June 10th
You never forget your first. Teenage vampire Juliette sets her sights on a new girl in town Calliope for her first kill. But much to Juliette’s surprise, Calliope is a vampire hunter. Both find that the other won’t be so easy to kill and, unfortunately, way too easy to fall for.
Resident Evil – Netflix July 14th
A manufactured, corporate town, forced on them right as adolescence is in full swing. But the more time they spend there, the more they come to realize that the town is more than it seems and their father may be concealing dark secrets. Secrets that could destroy the world.
The Deer King – Select Theaters July 15th
In the aftermath of a brutal war, former soldier Van toils in a mine controlled by the ruling empire. One day, his solitary existence is upended when a pack of wild dogs carrying a deadly and incurable disease attack. It leaves only Van and a young girl named Yuna as survivors. Finally free, the pair seek out a simple existence in the countryside but are pursued by nefarious forces. Intent on protecting Yuna at all costs, Van must uncover the true cause of the plague ravaging the kingdom. And its possible cure.
