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May 08, 2024
India Donaldson takes the coming-of-age parent-child road trip for a spin in her directorial debut, Good One, which premiered earlier at this year'sSundance Film Festival. In theaters August 9, Good One centers on a teen named Sam (Lily Collias) who goes camping with her dad (James Le Gros) and his longtime best…
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May 08, 2024
From allegations of favoritism and sexual harassment to Bethenny Frankel's proposed reality star union, Bravo, the Real Housewives franchise, and specifically Andy Cohen have faced a real reckoning over the past few months. In a lengthy new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Cohen has finally spoken out about the…
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May 08, 2024
Maybe nature is indeed healing, because Reba McEntire is headed back to network television. The beloved country singer-cum-actor is not only launching another sitcom, she's doing it with her old Reba crew. Co-star Melissa Peterman and showrunner Kevin Abbott are both on board for the new show, Happy Place. The pilot…
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May 08, 2024
That documentary that has Kevin Spacey so worked up is finally airing in the U.S. Spacey Unmasked, which aired earlier this week on the U.K.'s Channel 4, will premiere on May 13 on Investigation Discovery (the go-to destination for exploitative true crime content). The doc delves into Spacey's history as well as the…
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May 08, 2024
Taylor Swift has finally locked herself down a working actor boyfriend. It turns out all she needed to do was date a football player first. Travis Kelce is continuing to take full advantage of his new golden ticket to Hollywood with a role in Grotesquerie, the latest horror series from Ryan Murphy (via Deadline). Plot…
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May 08, 2024
Apple TV is finally ready to dredge the lake. The Lady In The Lake is heading to Apple TV , nearly two years after an "extortion threat" that jeopardized its production. Nevertheless, now that that's all squared away, Apple says Lady In The Lake will debut with two episodes on Friday, July 19. New episodes will be…
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May 08, 2024
Movie stars will literally direct a whole movie about going to therapy instead of, you know, actually going to therapy. This could be the tagline for Chris Pine's Poolman, a film that so deeply misunderstands what normal people like about the movies that it could have only come from someone who's never done anything…
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May 08, 2024
Is that all there is? No, seriously, is that all there is? That's the song Maxine (Kristen Wiig) sings—sort of—for her big Beach Ball number, but I'm genuinely asking it about Palm Royale. When the finale ended, I went to Google to make sure I hadn't made a mistake in the number of episodes. I have seen a lot of…
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May 07, 2024
Best known for playing Game Of Thrones' Kevan Lannister, British actor Ian Gelder died on Monday. As confirmed by his partner, Ben Daniels, Gelder's death was the result of complications related to bile duct cancer, which he was diagnosed with in 2023. He was 74.
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May 07, 2024
Nothing says billionaires are funny, normal people that are in no way thin-skinned like editing boos out of an event designed to make celebrities look like good sports. Two days removed from Netflix's so-called The Greatest Roast Of All Time, a.k.a. The Roast Of Tom Brady, the streamer and participants are already…
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May 07, 2024
As proof that maybe this whole rap beef thing has gone a little too far, a security guard was shot and seriously injured outside Drake's Toronto mansion early Tuesday. Per CBC, police could not confirm if Drake was home at the time of the 2 a.m. shooting, but he and his team are reportedly cooperating with…
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May 07, 2024
Michelle Yeoh continues her post-Oscar hot streak landing the lead of Blade Runner 2099, the Prime Video sequel series to Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 (which was a sequel to Ridley Scott's Blade Runner). That's basically all we know about the show so far, besides the fact that Scott is producing, Silka Luisa (S…
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May 07, 2024
If you're nearing the end of your 2024-mandated Girls rewatch and don't want to leave Hannah behind just yet, you don't totally have to. While Lena Dunham has spent the majority of the past few years behind the camera on shows like Genera ion and Catherine Called Birdy, she's returning to acting for the first time…
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May 07, 2024
There's no dearth of options on Hulu, so deciding what to watch can be overwhelming. Instead of figuring out which show will keep you on your couch for several hours, check out our roundup of the best series on the streamer, including beloved Hulu originals, FX hits, network TV favorites, and cult gems. Looking for…
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May 07, 2024
Anya Taylor-Joy is definitely cool and definitely smart, but she still can't even parallel park. The Dune: Part Two actor doesn't have a driver's license, despite the fact that she stars in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the biggest, fastest car movie of the year. "I'm never in one place long enough to get one," Taylor-Joy…
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May 07, 2024
The war between Drake and Kendrick Lamar has been hit with an unexpected—and we really mean unexpected—third player: Macklemore. Yes, you read that right. The "Thrift Shop" rapper dropped a track called "Hind's Hall" last night that yes, mentions Drake, but also covers some far more urgent territory; namely, the war…
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May 07, 2024
Former and current Disney CEO Bob Iger has expressed his concerns about Too Much Marvel. Previously, he said that the increased volume of films and television series in the MCU "diluted focus and attention" of the audience. On Disney's quarterly earnings call on Tuesday, Iger announced his solution (via The Hollywood…
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May 07, 2024
There's an old adage in horror: The less you show a monster, the scarier it is. Horror filmmakers are, by necessity, skilled at using darkness and shadows to creep out audiences. Working with a small budget and limited resources, you learn quickly how to make a little go a long way. But some creators relish a…
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May 07, 2024
Stars, they're just like us... sometimes their moms fall for AI-generated images on Facebook. Katy Perry had to give her own mother a little lecture on the dangers of internet trickery, when she got an incredibly sweet text saying that she "look[ed] like the rose parade, you are your own float" on the Met Gala carpet…
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May 07, 2024
Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock made magic together on the set of Speed (and, sorta kinda, on The Lake House—though their characters spend most of that time apart). For the 30th anniversary of their genre-defining action movie, the duo spoke with the 50 MPH podcast about their experience working together: "[Lightning]…
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May 07, 2024
Dark Matter, Apple TV 's sleek sci-fi thriller that premieres May 8, wastes no time in getting to the good stuff. Within the first 20 minutes of episode one, physics professor and Chicago family man Jason (Joel Edgerton) is kidnapped, drugged, stripped, and somehow booted to an alternate reality.
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May 07, 2024
If The Fall had come out this year, you might wonder if the 2006 cult classic and David Leitch's The Fall Guy were born from the same prompt at a writers' workshop. Beyond the mirrored titles, the divisive labor of love from Tarsem Singh (known professionally as Tarsem) shares an oddly similar jumping-off point with…
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May 07, 2024
A new romantic comedy starring Anne Hathaway, the Oscar-winning American Fiction, Mia Goth in the horror prequel Pearl, and a number of Alfred Hitchcock classics lead the offerings from Amazon's Prime Video this May. In The Idea Of You, Anne Hathaway plays a single mother who gets her groove back with the much younger…
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May 07, 2024
What a lovely day for George Miller to return to the Wasteland. With Furiosa, Miller's fifth visit to the putrid remains of humanity sometime in the not-so-distant future, the action filmmaker who has consistently redefined action filmmaking returns to the Mad Max world more prepared than ever. After the infamously…
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May 06, 2024
After last year's culture-breaking season of Vanderpump Rules, there was much concern over how it would follow up. Could the show pull itself from the wreckage of Scandoval, and more importantly, could it do so without one of its key players? The answer across these last 14 weeks has been, eh, whatever.
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May 06, 2024
Listen up, gossip fiends! We have another pop culture mystery à la "who made Rebecca Ferguson's life miserable" and "which talk show host made Freddie Highmore hide in a broom closet" for all of you wannabe Hercule Poirots out there. This one comes from Emily Blunt, who recently lived up to her last name on The Howard…
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May 06, 2024
The long-prophesied fourth Riddick movie is actually coming. Star Vin Diesel and writer-director David Twohy have been teasing this new installment since the last film (Riddick) in 2013, so you may be forgiven for thinking that it might never come to fruition over the decade that has since passed. But last year Twohy…
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May 06, 2024
"We're only doing six episodes, so the show will never hit its groove," proclaimed John Mulaney at the start of the first episode of Everybody's In L.A., a live multi-night special that kicked off last Friday on Netflix. The comic didn't say he'd just flown in, but boy, did his eyes look tired. It was almost like he'd…
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May 06, 2024
Here's an unexpected surprise for your Monday: James Gunn has revealed the first look at David Corenswet as Superman. To recap, Gunn and producer Peter Safran were hired as co-chairmen of DC Studios in 2022. In early 2023, the duo announced their plan for DC's slate, including the first feature Superman: Legacy, which…
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May 06, 2024
The Fall Guy is the rare film that peaks only after its credits have begun to roll.
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May 06, 2024
The Boys spinoff Gen V is doing the right thing. In a statement posted to the series' various social media pages today, Gen V's producers announced that they would not be recasting Chance Perdomo's role, after the 27-year-old actor died in a motorcycle accident earlier this year. "As we continue to navigate the tragic…
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May 06, 2024
The Cannes Film Festival, the year's most prestigious and most glamorous celebration of cinema, is set to kick off on May 14. But the event may face a serious setback, as over 200 French film festival workers (both Cannes employees and workers from other festivals across France) are calling for a strike, according to D…
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May 06, 2024
Drake and Kendrick Lamar are in an all-out war right now, one that seems to have gone a lot further than any recent standard rap beef. While it's clearly not over just yet (and likely won't be for a while, with the rate Kendrick seems to be able to produce), projected loser Drake fired the most recent shot with "The…
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May 06, 2024
This weekend was all about famous people flaming the shit out of each other, on camera or elsewhere. Netflix's The Greatest Roast Of All Time: Tom Brady, at least, was full of sanctioned and consensual dissing. Nevertheless, the event—advertised as the first-ever live and unedited roast—had its share of…
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May 06, 2024
My whole life, I've been telling myself I'm not a rom-com person. I'm not a romantic at heart; those narratives just don't appeal to me. But there's always something that tugs at the back of my brain, especially working in the field that I do, that makes me pause. I'll be editing a review for The Idea Of You and…
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May 06, 2024
It feels as if we've waited forever for the new season of Doctor Who to drop. And sure, we knew the TARDIS was in the capable hands of the impossibly charismatic Fifteenth Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa, you were born to wield that sonic screwdriver!), but longtime fans couldn't help but feel a little trepidation over the show's…
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May 06, 2024
"This isn't the Midnight Realm, Maddy. It's just the suburbs."
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May 05, 2024
Has it really only been one hour of television since the Captain was tossed the script to The Hamlet by a cadre of RDJs? "Give Us Some Good Lines" reinvents this constantly evolving show once again, bringing in a bunch of new characters, a new setting, and the same old shit for the Captain to deal with.
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May 05, 2024
Bernard Hill has died. Per Variety, his agent, Lou Colson, confirmed Hill's death with no cause given. Known for highly dramatic and consequential roles in several of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters, Hill died at the age of 79 with his fiancée and son by his side.
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May 05, 2024
Welcome to What's On, our weekly picks of must-watch shows. Here's what you need to watch from Sunday, May 5 to Thursday, May 9. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekend edition of What's On drops on Fridays.]
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May 04, 2024
After a few weeks of spring break, Saturday Night Live returned this week still buzzing off that season-high giggle fest of a Ryan Gosling episode. (His Beavis & Mikey Day's Butt-Head walked the red carpet at the Los Angeles premiere of The Fall Guy on Tuesday.) And who better to usher us into the last few episodes of…
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May 04, 2024
Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt's new stuntperson love letter The Fall Guy is a pretty quick-moving movie, for all that it extends to a slightly surprising two-plus hours in length. But heroic stunt guy Colt Seavers (Gosling) isn't off to quite as swift a start at the box office, according to Variety, which reports that…
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May 04, 2024
We're just a month out now from the release of the latest season of The Boys, Amazon's joyfully profane, satirically brutal send-up of "superheroes" and the good, wholesome folks whose job it is to kill them. Anyone worried that the series might be pulling its punches as it ages into elder statesman status with its…
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May 04, 2024
Here's a question: If Adam Driver's character in Francis Ford Coppola's long-gestating Megalopolis has the magical ability to stop time, why doesn't he use it to book himself an appointment to get a better haircut?
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May 04, 2024
Hey, be straight with us for a second: Is The Acolyte a Star Wars cop show?
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May 04, 2024
Blur recently brought their supporting tour for their 2023 comeback album The Ballad Of Darren to a close with two appearances at this year's Coachella. Online discourse suggested the pair of performances didn't go smoothly, an assessment buttressed by lead singer Damon Albarn saying this "is probably our last…
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May 04, 2024
1944 signaled a high-water mark for film noir with the release of Double Indemnity. The film codified elements that we now think of as genre tropes: the detective delivering backstory via voiceover, the shadows of Venetian blinds on the wall. But, really, Double Indemnity is Barbara Stanwyck's film; her Phyllis…
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May 03, 2024
Giancarlo Esposito isn't shy when it comes to talking up his own potential superhero roles—memorably telling a con crowd back in 2022 that he was putting the fervently fan-endorsed idea of himself playing Professor X for the Marvel Cinematic Universe "out in the universe." (Meanwhile, looking back at that story, we're…
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May 03, 2024
See, this is what happens when you start fucking around with Hunger Games prequels, with all their Songbirds And Snakes and shit. You turn your back for 10 seconds, Hollywood gets some big, dumb, dystopian ideas, and suddenly, we're staring down the barrel of a full-fledged Maze Runner reboot.
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May 03, 2024
Netflix offers a few high-profile originals this May as the summer movie season gets ready to kick off in theaters. Jerry Seinfeld makes his feature directorial debut and acts in Unfrosted, a comedy about the origin of Pop-Tarts also starring Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Amy Schumer, James Marsden, Dan Levy, and…
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May 03, 2024
Fire up that bass-and-sax-heavy theme song: Night Court is living to court another day. TV Line reports today that NBC has ordered a third season of the revival series, which stars John Larroquette and Melissa Rauch, the latter playing the daughter of the character played in the original series by the late Harry…
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May 03, 2024
Page-to-screen adaptations have been popular for eons now, but it feels like the turnaround window keeps getting shorter and shorter. The latest BookTok phenom to make the jump is Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, the best-selling 2022 novel by Gabrielle Zevin. If you're reading this and thinking, ‘huh, two years…
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May 03, 2024
This was a pretty huge week for casting news. Glenn Close and Henry Winkler are working on a comedy together, Zach Cregger's Weapons added Alden Ehrenreich, Benedict Wong, and more to its already stacked cast, and Missy Elliott joined Pharrell Williams' still-untitled coming-of-age musical. Beyond that, films continue…
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May 03, 2024
Spotify has been on a crusade against Apple, which continued on Friday with renewed complaints about the tech giant's "anticompetitive" behavior. "Apple's anticompetitive practices harm competitors and result in higher prices, lower product quality, and less choice," the music streaming service posted to social media.…
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May 03, 2024
As far back as they can remember, Prom Dates' Hannah (Julia Lester) and Jess (Ginny & Georgia's Antonia Gentry) always wanted to have a spectacular senior prom. At 13, the two even went as far as to make a blood pact, swearing that they would do whatever it took to make the fateful night one to remember.
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May 03, 2024
Kevin Spacey may be attempting to chart a sordid Hollywood comeback right now, but a new docuseries from the U.K.'s Channel 4 is hoping to remind people who he really is—like we could ever forget. Spacey Unmasked promises to take a "forensic look" at the disgraced actor's rise in the industry and subsequent alleged…
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May 03, 2024
The new Tiffany Haddish profile in The Los Angeles Times covers a lot of ground—past trauma, sexual assault, sobriety, infertility, and more—but nothing will raise eyebrows more than Haddish's admission that she occasionally calls up her haters. This comes after she claims she's "working with a therapist to learn how…
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May 03, 2024
Sometimes when the chips are down and you've lost some shine stateside, the best thing to do is return to your roots. For James Corden, that doesn't just mean going back to the United Kingdom. It means reviving his popular sitcom Gavin & Stacey one last time. Having finished his U.S. talk show The Late Late Show With…
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May 03, 2024
Netflix announced the premiere date for Emily In Paris season four today, and—who woulda thunk!—it's actually two premiere dates. While two for the price of one is usually a great deal, this is kind of worst-case scenario. Netflix keeps splitting its seasons into two—and sometimes even three—parts, and we're incredibly…
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May 03, 2024
"This is not the truth; it's a narrative," an anonymous, masked friend warns Jerrod Carmichael about his HBO series in the premiere, calling it "exhibitionist." And it's true because Jerrod Carmichael Reality Showis an irrefutable vanity project. The show, which airs its finale on May 17, is equally awkward and…
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May 03, 2024
"This is not the truth; it's a narrative," an anonymous, masked friend warns Jerrod Carmichael about his HBO series in the premiere, calling it "exhibitionist." And it's true because Jerrod Carmichael Reality Showis an irrefutable vanity project. The show, which airs its finale on May 17, is equally awkward and…
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May 03, 2024
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off the weekend by taking a look at the world of gaming, diving in to the ideas that underpin the hobby we love with a bit of Game Theory. We'll sound off in the space above, and invite you to respond down in the comments, telling us what you're playing this weekend, and what…
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May 03, 2024
For those of us who are smarter than Homer Simpson, horror movies have taught us a very important lesson: If anyone warns you against interacting with something because it's cursed or haunted, just back away. Doesn't matter if you believe in it or not. Just play it safe, and you won't end up at the mercy of an evil…
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May 03, 2024
"Frustrating" is a word that came to mind a lot while watching Tarot, the new horror film from directors Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg based on Nicholas Adams' 1992 novel Horrorscope. For one thing, it's frustrating that the studio decided to change the film's title from the much more fun Horrorscope to simply Tarot,…
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May 03, 2024
Welcome to the weekend edition of What's On. Here are the big things happening on TV from Friday, May 3 to Sunday, May 5. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekly edition of What's On publishes on Sundays.]
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May 03, 2024
The Hacks season-three premiere gave us everything we wanted when it reunited star-crossed collaborators Deborah and Ava in a hotel elevator. And now that we've had our appetizer, we're eager for the main course. Thankfully, the writers don't keep us waiting. The aptly titled "Better Late" is a propulsive half hour of…
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May 03, 2024
Few directors have devoted themselves more thoroughly to horror in the modern era than Mike Flanagan. Primarily in TV (but with occasional forays into film, like 2019 Stephen King adaptation Doctor Sleep), Midnight Mass creator Flanagan has exhibited a commitment to the genre that's genuinely admirable, crafting ghost…
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May 02, 2024
Let's start with this: Fire Country is already a pretty bad name for a TV show. Besides setting you up for potential Avatar: The Last Airbender jokes from pitiless nerds—i.e., "We were having a good night watching TV until the Fire Country attacked"—it's also just a little on the nose. What do they do in Fire Country?…
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May 02, 2024
Jerry Seinfeld has never been a great actor. He'd agree that surrounding himself with comedic performers like Jason Alexander and Julia Louis-Dreyfus made his sitcom sing more than his acting chops. So, why he decided not only to star in but also direct Unfrosted, a lighter-than-air 96-minute Super Bowl commercial for…
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May 02, 2024
Drew Barrymore's transition from movie star to TV star has been a strange and chaotic one, to say the least, with lots of oddball bumps in the road along the way. Some of these divots have been fun—we'll never forget the time she effused, for like 10 minutes of actual broadcast television, about her love of removing…
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May 02, 2024
Whatever blood has been coursing through the veins of CBS procedural Blue Bloods these last 15 years has run dry. Per Deadline, the series, which has run for more than 275 episodes, is definitely coming to an end this December. Well, until a streamer picks it up for another six episodes of "Blue Bloods: Legacy." CBS…
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May 02, 2024
Lady Parts rule, okay?
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May 02, 2024
Rest assured, Dr. Jose Arroyo went to "Doctor School."
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May 02, 2024
Saturday Night Live announced its final two episodes of the 49th season on Thursday. Following Dua Lipa's double-duty host/musical guest gig on May 4, Maya Rudolph will host for the third time on May 11 with musical guest Vampire Weekend. For the finale on May 18, Jake Gyllenhaal will return as host (also for a third…
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May 02, 2024
Tom Felton may not be as big of a name as some of his former Hogwarts classmates at this point, but that doesn't mean he isn't keeping busy. The Harry Potter star has been mostly dabbling in indie films over the past few years, but is making the jump to the small screen for the first time since 2018 in Gandhi, a…
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May 02, 2024
We're not statisticians by any means (wait, what do those do again?), but by our count, Netflix adds approximately a billion titles every month. That's a lot of shows to sift through. So we got our TV-addled brains together to highlight what's coming (and going) each month, as well as series we just genuinely love…
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May 02, 2024
If there are two stars that thirsty cinema nerds are incapable of being normal about, it's Oscar Isaac and Kristen Stewart. See: the uproar over Isaac giving Jessica Chastain a sensual inner-arm kiss on the red carpet. See: the reaction to Stewart's entire Love Lies Bleeding press tour. Now, in one of the best…
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May 02, 2024
You might think stepping onto set with a legendary talent like Robert De Niro would be intimidating for any actor, much less a pre-teen kid taking on the very first role of their career. Even Bobby Cannavale cowed slightly when asked about working with his famous co-star at a recent panel for their film Ezra, hosted…
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May 02, 2024
Rejoice, for our long national nightmare is finally over—Universal Music Group and TikTok have finally come to an agreement. You may remember UMG pulled all its artists from the app, citing issues with "appropriate compensation for our artists and songwriters, protecting human artists from the harmful effects of AI,…
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May 02, 2024
Evil Does Not Exist takes its time. At the beginning there's foreboding music on the soundtrack as the camera moves across nature and vegetation. Then a character appears out of nowhere, startling the audience. Almost half an hour passes before a character even speaks. In that dichotomy of patience and alarm lies the…
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May 02, 2024
Imaginary friends are coming in hot as one of the first big movie trends of 2024. We've already had Imaginary and are soon to see If, out later this month from the imagination of John Krasinski. Now, we can add Eric, an imaginary blue monster puppet, to the pack.
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May 02, 2024
Much like the actual Karate Kid, Cobra Kai is something of an underdog success story. The show went from a curious spin-off premiering on "YouTube Red" to a mega-hit Netflix original. Now, the series will see out its victory lap with the sixth and final season, which—along with a new teaser and some first-look…
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May 02, 2024
As the summer movie season gets ready to kick off in theaters, Hulu highlights some A-list stars in indie films for its May calendar. In Eileen, Anne Hathaway plays a psychologist working at a correctional facility for boys in Massachusetts during the 1960s. Nicolas Cage looks characteristically unhinged as "The…
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May 02, 2024
Gonzo journalist-turned-literary titan Tom Wolfe's second novel, 1998's A Man In Full, is similar to his barnburner of a debut, 1987's The Bonfire Of The Vanities. They're both sprawling social satires about the powerful and the not-so-powerful and the cities they inhabit, namely Atlanta and New York City,…
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May 02, 2024
[Editor's note: The recap of Hacks season 3, episode 2 publishes May 3.]
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May 02, 2024
Hot on the heels of their Showtime series The Curse—which is just revving up what'll likely be a pretty extensive Emmys campaign—Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone are reportedly close to lining up their next project together. THR reports tonight that A24 is on the verge of securing the film rights to Checkmate, a book…
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May 01, 2024
The Klingons teach us—probably—that every living being is really just searching for the perfect death. To that end: What could be a more fitting end than to be the person who forgets they booked Airbnb's floating Up house, walks out their rented front door one morning, and plummets off their front step and straight…
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May 01, 2024
No one could have predicted the everlasting popularity of the Child's Play franchise when it launched in 1988—not even creator Don Mancini. But people seemingly (and thankfully) can't get over the evil, hilarious menace that is Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif). And it's a treat to watch this Good Guy Doll's story…
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May 01, 2024
"Holy shit," the chef-testants announced when they entered the kitchen during this week's edition of Top Chef: Wisconsin. That's because host Kristen Kish was joined by a very familiar face: Brian Voltaggio, chef-owner of Maryland's Thacher & Rye, brother to fellow celebrity chef Michael Voltaggio, and alum of Top Chef…
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May 01, 2024
Bluey is having a moment, undeniably. The Australian animated kids show—about a family of dogs who engage in ridiculously silly, funny, emotionally intelligent games of make-believe—has been steadily building up buzz for more than five years at this point, as parents caught on to a kids show that's genuinely funny in…
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May 01, 2024
Paul Walter Hauser's been hovering on the verge of a really big breakthrough for a few years now, pushed along by eye-catching performances in films like Clint Eastwood's Richard Jewell, and TV shows like serial killer drama Black Bird. (And also, yes, obviously, the I Think You Should Leave sketch where he loves his…
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May 01, 2024
For years, Airbnb has dabbled in novelty stays. You could rent a bed in an Ikea or a Blockbuster, you could stay in the Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air mansion or the Barbie Dreamhouse. While those were generally temporary, pop-up oddities, the tech company announced today 11 new experiences—dubbed the "Icons"—that seem to be…
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May 01, 2024
Nickelodeon child endangerment documentary Quiet On Set is now the subject of a lawsuit from its main focus, Dan Schneider. Per TMZ, the creator of such Nickelodeon shows as The Amanda Show, Drake & Josh, and iCarly, Schneider filed a defamation lawsuit against producers of the documentary series. He claims the series…
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May 01, 2024
Harvey Weinstein will be retried "sometime after Labor Day" a judge said today, during the disgraced movie mogul's first appearance in court since his 2020 rape conviction was overturned by a New York court last week (via ABC News). "We believe in this case, and we will be retrying this case," prosecutors added (via De…
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May 01, 2024
Earlier this week, Chris Hemsworth lamented the fact that he "became a parody of [him]self" and "got caught up in the improv and the wackiness" while filming Thor: Love And Thunder. It's no wonder, then, that the actor jumped full throttle at the chance to finally play a no-holds-barred villain in Furiosa: A Mad Max…
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May 01, 2024
This review was originally published on March 11, 2024, as part of our coverage of the 2024 South By Southwest film festival.
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May 01, 2024
Good news for those in desperate need of terror: Terrifier 3 will now be coming to theaters earlier than expected. Per Variety, Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting have moved the trilogy capper's release date from October 25 to October 11. Though Christmas seems to come earlier every year, we're still apparently getting…
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May 01, 2024
Mariska Hargitay may be one of the most powerful women in television, as evidenced by her being featured in Variety's "Power of Women" issue, but her power only goes so far. She's top of the call sheet and an executive producer on Law And Order: Special Victims Unit, but even she couldn't prevent Kelli Giddish's…
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May 01, 2024
Say what you will about Netflix, but they sure do invest in comedy. The 2024 Netflix is a Joke festival is jam-packed with stand-up comics and comedy groups of all kinds. Many of these shows you have to be in Los Angeles to appreciate, but there's going to be events for the average Netflix user to enjoy from home,…
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May 01, 2024
Kate Winslet clearly enjoys trading her traditional movie star beauty to play tough, life-hardened women (see: Mare Of Easttown). It makes her well-suited to star as Lee Miller, who traded her own comfortable life as a model-turned-fashion photographer to become a photojournalist on the ground in World War II. Lee,…
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