The donning of the sweatshirt appeared to shade Warner Bros., or at least stand in support of “Dune” director Denis Villeneuve, who last week penned a scorching letter in Variety saying that Warner Bros. may have killed the “Dune” franchise. The “Saturday Night Live” episode was filled with many other highlights, including the off-the-wall “Tiny Horse” sketch, in which Chalamet serenades a small horse, and a rapper sketch where he clearly has great chemistry with Pete Davidson....

It’s easy to confuse the history of disability portrayals in TV sitcoms with the “very special episode” that specialized in dark topics followed by comforting homilies, all soundtracked by awkward laughter from the live studio audience. However, if you look back at the episodes that featured characters with disabilities, they weren’t the stuff of VSEs. They belonged to narratives about the disability, all with a single mantra: People with disabilities are simply people....

Sykes co-hosted the 2022 Oscars along with Regina Hall and Amy Schumer, and “The Upshaws” star described the behind-the-scenes reaction to Best Actor winner Smith attacking presenter Chris Rock after making a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s hairstyle. Smith later apologized for the outburst, and an Academy inquiry is now underway. “I think we had finished the bit and I guess I was about to change to get into PJs. Regina and I, we had just introduced Chris from our bit, so I ran to my trailer because I wanted to watch him,” Sykes told Ellen DeGeneres during “Ellen” on March 29, with the episode set to air later in April....

Shortly before the opening credits blend “The Office” muzak with a “Modern Family” title card, Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) makes a promise. While not explicit, her words are the kind of implied assurance familiar to TV fans everywhere. It’s the start of the episode, things are a bit awry, and our lead character sits down to tell us what’s going to happen this week. Technically, it’s a promise to herself, but the late-2000s twist to Episode 7’s sitcom homage sees Wanda speaking directly to the camera for the first time (a la Jim Halpert or, her more direct reference, Claire Dunphy)....

At first, when the Oscar show moved back to Sunday, April 25, 2021, the Spirits followed their lead and rescheduled to Saturday, April 24. But when the live event was scuttled due to the ongoing pandemic, the nonprofit arts organization that produces the Spirits decided to mount the annual awards ceremony as only an IFC prime time live broadcast. Film Independent called IFC and asked if there was a better time slot to grow more viewers....

“Some time ago… there was an Ojibwe man who got a little sick and wandered West.” So begins Lyle Mitchell Corbine, Jr.’s bleak and disquietingly self-loathing “Wild Indian,” which adapts that folkloric tone into the airless language of a contemporary serial-killer drama. We learn that the Ojibwe man was a little sicker than his legend suggested. When we meet Makwa, he’s as a troubled pre-teen in the 1980s, when he lives in an oppressively gray stretch of middle American nowhere with abusive parents....

It’s clear from the opening moments of Nathalie Biancheri’s remarkable sophomore narrative outing “Wolf” that there’s exactly one thing on the menu: full commitment. When the drama kicks off, star George MacKay is already immersed in his character, a young man who believes he was born in the wrong body (read: a human one) and is attempting to more fully connect with his true identity, that of a wolf. As a naked Jacob (MacKay) writhes and stretches in a patch of sunny forest, sniffing the air, taking in the splendor around him, seemingly far away from anything rooted in the human world, “Wolf” establishes its aims, both in terms of tone and emotion....