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Dominique Fishback plays the world’s biggest and most murderous Beyoncé super fan in “Swarm,” a blood-splattered pop culture provocation from co-creators Janine Nabers and Donald Glover. Her Houstonian character Dre is willing to max out credit cards for concert tickets, just as much as she’s ready to murder online trolls to defend the celebrity’s honor.…

The non-fiction programs at South by Southwest are typically some of the strongest at any large festival. The programmers here usually assemble a diverse array of stories, from a larger-than-average number of personal stories to timely examinations of the state of the world. A trio of docs that caught my eye this year at SXSW…

It’s not often a talent like Bob Odenkirk jumps so quickly from one critical darling to another show, but that’s what’s happening on Sunday in the premiere of “Lucky Hank.” No, this is not another spin-off of the “Breaking Bad” universe, but it does feature Odenkirk filling out another morally complex character on the AMC…

The trend of celebrity figures with their own cartoons has been in style for a while. Older Gen-X audiences grew up with Saturday morning cartoons about Mr. T, Muhammad Ali, and Chuck Norris, all of which capitalized on their stardom to young viewers. Viewers of the late millennial-early Gen-Z variety, like me, had the supernatural…

“Shazam! Fury of the Gods” arrives with two strikes against it since it’s not only a studio-produced sequel but also a superhero movie made in 2023. One should expect a certain level of creative committee-mandated, Mad Libs-y monotony, regardless of how one feels about the surprisingly decent “Shazam!”. The makers of that fine-enough 2019 franchise-starter,…