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May 20, 2024
In a statement about the "immediate career highlight" of getting to work on a single-camera comedy with Steve Carell, series creators Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses summed up how a lot of us are probably feeling upon hearing the news: "Nothing can go wrong now." While we sincerely hope they didn't jinx anything with…
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May 20, 2024
Kevin Costner is big on believing, whether that's in aliens or in himself. "I'm so grateful that I've never seen a UFO," the actor-director said in a recent GQ cover story. "I'm a pretty sane person, although some people would think maybe something else. But what happens once you see one? You can't let it go."
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May 20, 2024
It's a pretty big stretch to think that classically liberal Hollywood would ever make a movie that was a flattering portrayal of Donald Trump. Maybe because it's an indie film, billionaire investor Dan Snyder (owner of the Washington Commanders) thought The Apprentice might turn against the tide of the entertainment…
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May 20, 2024
We know, we know—it's tough to subscribe to yet another streaming platform. But even so, NBC Universal's service is worth the sacrifice. Peacock is home to network standouts like The Office, 30 Rock, and other irreverent comedies. To help you sort through all the offerings, here is The A.V. Club's guide to what to…
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May 20, 2024
John Krasinski's IF is somehow both a winner and a loser at the weekend box office. Sure, it was the #1 movie in theaters this past weekend, but it also came up a few million short of projections. The film was expected to make $40 million and only raked in $35 million domestically, according to Variety. IF's worldwide…
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May 20, 2024
Lawyers for Cassie Ventura—the recording artist and ex-partner of Sean "Diddy" Combs—have responded to an apology video posted by the rapper on Instagram on Sunday. Combs uploaded the mea culpa in response to a disturbing hotel security video that emerged last week, which showed him shoving and kicking Ventura, before…
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May 20, 2024
Youth Without Youth, Tetro, Twixt—years could pass without us hearing the titles of these Francis Ford Coppola movies. These digitally-shot, classically-infused "late era" films excited, baffled, and irritated 21st century audiences in equal measure, but are too readily dismissed as a bad couple of harvests in the…
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May 20, 2024
Three decades ago—on January 26, 1994, to be precise—two glorious words graced the ears of 26 million ABC viewers for the first time: "It stinks." Cartoon film critic Jay Sherman (voiced by Jon Lovitz) had a massive audience but would be gone a year and a half later. The brainchild of early Springfield residents James…
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May 20, 2024
Amy Winehouse fans weren't exactly delighted by the news that there would be a biopic of her life. Following the singer's tragic death in 2011 at the age of 27, her devotees have grown used to witnessing all manner of tacky and exploitative cash grabs executed in her name, from a posthumous album of questionable…
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May 19, 2024
Well, that was fast. Even for a show so eager to reconfigure and relocate itself episode by episode, it still feels like next week's finale, and the Captain's return to Vietnam, has suddenly snuck up on us a little, with so many dangling curiosities we for sure won't get all the answers for. Will we ever see Lana,…
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May 19, 2024
Any reservations I may have had following Anne Rice's Interview With The Vampire's second-season premiere have dissipated with what is arguably the way you kick off a change of time and scenery following a season-break time jump. Long gone are those dreary, muddied moments in the woods facing a creepy vampire creature…
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May 19, 2024
Welcome to What's On, our weekly picks of must-watch shows. Here's what you need to watch from Sunday, May 19 to Thursday, May 23. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekend edition of What's On drops on Fridays.]
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May 18, 2024
We did it, folks—another season of Saturday Night Live has officially come to an end, with some real highs (Ryan Gosling! Kristen Wiig! Adam Driver!) and some woeful lows (two words: Shane Gillis).
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May 18, 2024
We did it, folks. Another season of Saturday Night Live has officially come to an end, with some real highs (Ryan Gosling! Kristen Wiig! Adam Driver!) and some woeful lows (two words: Shane Gillis).
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May 18, 2024
There's maybe no project looming on the pop culture horizon at the moment that we need to be good quite like the King Of The Hill revival that's currently in the works at Hulu. Mike Judge and Greg Daniels' long-running, low-key examination of Texas life (and Texas life accessories) has steadily ascended to the status…
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May 18, 2024
Young Sheldon died this week, carried to sitcom heaven (which he would pointedly, and annoyingly, interrupt to tell you doesn't exist) by hordes of network TV angels (same). But while the character, played by Iain Armitage in his more larval form, has now -zinga'd his last ba-, he didn't go quietly: Variety reports…
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May 18, 2024
Today, in "For the love of Christ, don't mess around with Bluey fans" news: A Las Vegas hot dog restaurant apparently brought the wrath of hundreds, if not thousands, of fans of the animated Australian pooch down on their own heads this week, after announcing a free "Bluey Day" at their restaurant without…
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May 18, 2024
Even as Poor Things and The Favourite director Yorgos Lanthimos is busy at Cannes, debuting his latest movie—short story anthology film Kinds Of Kindness, drawing strong reviews—he's already lined up his next project, Bugonia. That includes just-released casting info about the upcoming film, revealing that Kindness sta…
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May 17, 2024
Johnny Knoxville is facing a new lawsuit this week, related to alleged behavior that we could hopefully be forgiven for mentally filing as "Some fairly typical Johnny Knoxville-type shit." The Jackass star is the subject of a new lawsuit from writer Daniel Curry, a former creative consultant on Knoxville's new show The…
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May 17, 2024
TV's ongoing budget crunch has hit another milestone of "Welp, that's probably not good" over the last two weeks: The casts of some of the most fundamentally unkillable shows on television have reportedly gotten their individual episode orders cut down. That includes the massive ensemble at Gray's Anatomy, and now the…
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May 17, 2024
TV's ongoing budget crunch has hit another milestone of "Welp, that's probably not good" over the last two weeks: The casts of some of the most fundamentally unkillable shows on television have reportedly gotten their individual episode orders cut down. That includes the massive ensemble at Grey's Anatomy, and now the…
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May 17, 2024
Dabney Coleman has died. A veteran actor of stage and screen, with nearly 200 credits to his name, Coleman's (frequently scowling, almost always mustachioed) face was a fixture of American film and TV from the 1960s forward. Renowned for his ability to play just the right kind of loathsome jerk—the kind who was…
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May 17, 2024
This was apparently the week for slightly out-of-left-field choices in Hollywood. Anthony Hopkins is set to star in Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess, the first major Hollywood production to ever shoot in Antarctica, for example. (It's not yet clear if Hopkins' scenes will actually be set in the pole.)…
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May 17, 2024
Alex Proyas' 1994 movie The Crow is arguably most remembered as the film in which Brandon Lee—son of legendary martial arts movie star Bruce Lee—was accidentally shot on set during filming, dying hours later in a hospital at age 28. But The Crow is so much more than that, as hardcore fans of both the movie and the…
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May 17, 2024
An incredibly distressing video has emerged that appears to corroborate a number of claims recording artist Cassie Ventura made against her ex-partner, Sean "Diddy" Combs, in a suit she filed last November. The video was obtained by CNN and can be watched here, although be aware that it is quite graphic.
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May 17, 2024
Tom Brady's Netflix roast had some mildly remarkable aspects—it was live-streamed and three hours long, Kim Kardashian got booed, Brady objected to a Robert Kraft joke—but overall, it was not so interesting that we should still be talking about it almost two weeks later. Yet here we are, for some reason, unpacking…
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May 17, 2024
So many things have happened since Timothée Chalamet was first announced as the ambassador for Chanel's Bleu de Chanel fragrance way back in May of 2023. Dune: Part Two was supposed to premiere in November, got delayed due to the strike, and then actually did premiere four months later, for one. But finally, after a…
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May 17, 2024
It's been a great few years to be a Beatles fan. Peter Jackson's Get Back was followed by the "final" track "Now And Then," which was followed by the expanded and remixed Red and Blue albums, followed by the newly restored Let It Be documentary. All this good fortune now extends to the greater Beatles universe with One…
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May 17, 2024
To describe something in the Star Wars galaxy as divisive is merely to say that it exists. With each new movie or TV series that comes out, the fandom gets increasingly fractured, with factions picking sides and digging in on multiple fronts. The discourse has gotten so toxic that it almost makes the debates from 25…
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May 17, 2024
By and large, I'm not a fan of prequels. I prefer to relegate my "what ifs" to daydreams about the cinematic characters of note that live rent-free in my noggin. That's because most often what is formally presented in official prequels comes across like a reverse-engineered writing exercise. Do I need a whole film to…
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May 17, 2024
Francis Ford Coppola knows a little something about not having enough money to make the movie you want. The legendary director notoriously funded his controversial sci-fi epic, Megalopolis, directly from his own pocket (and at the expense of a few of his vineyard holdings). But to hear him tell it, he's not the only…
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May 17, 2024
Kevin Costner is premiering a film at the Cannes Film Festival for the very first time. That's already an honor, but it's made all the sweeter because it's his passion project, Horizon: An American Saga. Costner has given pretty much everything for this film series—blood, sweat, tears, his marriage, his money (LOTS of…
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May 17, 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 17, 2024
[Editor's note: This piece contains spoilers for Sugar season one.]
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May 17, 2024
Regardless of how you feel about the Star Wars prequels—maybe they don't actually deserve our hate, maybe The Phantom Menace is at least important, if not traditionally good, maybe they're actually just terrible—there's no denying that there are some amazing moments sprinkled throughout George Lucas' least-beloved…
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May 17, 2024
Welcome to the weekend edition of What's On. Here are the big things happening on TV from Friday, May 17 to Sunday, May 19. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekly edition of What's On publishes on Sundays.]
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May 17, 2024
Updated 5/17: The MCU shows no signs of getting any smaller, does it? And now that X-Men '97 has wrapped up its fantastic first season, it's time to see where the show sits in our ranking, from worst to best, of the whopping 27 Marvel series that have premiered since 2013. Prepare for some ambitious Netflix fare,…
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May 16, 2024
Earlier today, news broke of the death of Tony McFarr, a veteran stunt performer who appeared in more than 50 Hollywood projects across a decade-long Hollywood career—many of them as a stunt double for actor Chris Pratt, who McFarr doubled for on four different big-budget films. Today, Pratt issued a note of…
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May 16, 2024
At the heart of The Big Cigar, the Apple TV miniseries centered on Huey P. Newton's escape to Cuba aided by a pair of Hollywood producers, is a simple, oft-repeated idea: This entire thing could be a movie! Bert Schneider (played by Alessandro Nivola) means this literally. The lengths he and his producing partner,…
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May 16, 2024
Earlier this week, we reported that Amazon was moving forward with one of the live-action TV projects it's been developing based off characters in the Spider-Man multiverse, with Nicolas Cage set to star in Noir. That announcement notably avoided talking about the other Spider-Man spin-off show that's been in…
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May 16, 2024
Multiple celebrities—Liam Neeson, Sharon Stone, Stephen Fry, and F. Murray Abraham, to name the main ones you've heard of—have issued a series of statements to U.K. paper The Telegraph today, demanding that actor Kevin Spacey be returned to Hollywood safe and sound, and freed from the terrifying prison of "Nobody…
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May 16, 2024
No matter how many times we tell them. No matter how carefully we explain it. Like a jealous long-distance boyfriend who refuses to believe you're "just at your friend's parent's beach house," Sony still wants to know what you did last summer. They've announced yet another reboot based on their concerns, proving that…
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May 16, 2024
Today, in "Finally, somebody fucking said it" news: Chris Hemsworth has come out and admitted that getting seven minutes of a standing ovation in the aftermath of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga's debut at the Cannes Film Festival this year was "awkward," and only got moreso as the applause continued.
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May 16, 2024
Earlier today, FX announced that, with help from the James Clavell estate, the creators of Shogun will begin work on more seasons of the supposedly one-and-done miniseries. It's not surprising for those who've seen it, and those who've seen it are probably excited about returning to Japan for another round of…
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May 16, 2024
Apparently, the surefire way to create a successful YouTube interview series is to start by buying a ton of chicken. Both chicken-based talk shows—that's Sean Evan's Hot Ones and Amelia Dimoldenberg's Chicken Shop Date—are breaking out of their digital confines to compete for real-live Emmy awards this year.
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May 16, 2024
Look what they've taken from us, Jonesheads! Our beloved Daisy Jones & The Six was largely snubbed during awards season—it didn't even get nominated for the Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics Emmy, despite giving us the ultimate earworm "Honeycomb (Look At Us Now)." Now we come to find out we were actually supposed…
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May 16, 2024
Why'd fans have to go and make things so complicated? We see the way they're actin' like Avril Lavigne is somebody else and it gets her frustrated.
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May 16, 2024
There are times when this whole film critic gig feels paltry, when writing a few hundred words moments after a decade of toil, tens of millions of dollars from a personal fortune, and the hours and talents of hundreds of performers and craftspeople have all gathered to bring the singular vision of an irascible yet…
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May 16, 2024
Never Let Go—the upcoming film from Piranha 3D and The Hills Have Eyes director Alexandre Aja—explores a particularly salient childhood anxiety, as many of the best horror films do. Did your parents ever insist on a preventative ritual—anything from religious practices to daily Flinstones vitamins—that your young mind…
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May 16, 2024
The year was 2018, and we were knee-deep in the greatest summer of our lives. After all, the air conditioning is cheap when the movies are free because Moviepass, the frankly ludicrous subscription service, had convinced itself that giving movie tickets away was the fastest way to make a buck. For $9.95 a month,…
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May 16, 2024
Earlier this month, it was announced that Travis Kelce was further entrenching himself in Hollywood by joining the cast of Ryan Murphy's latest new horror series, Grotesquerie. It's not a particular surprise that Kelce would want to further explore acting: he's had a dating reality show, appeared in a Tim…
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May 16, 2024
After 16 years of axe-wielding, needle-dropping, and door-knocking scares, The Strangers have become all too familiar. When Bryan Bertino's 2008 original asked, "Is Tamara home?" the home invasion felt like a novel avenue for slashers. With added authenticity and a sense of criminal mundanity, The Strangers became a…
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May 16, 2024
It shouldn't come as news that a huge, potentially final movie by one of the world's great filmmakers—one that literally has the word "mega" in the title—is set to open on some of cinema's biggest screens. And yet!
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May 16, 2024
Criminal Minds went off the air in 2020 and returned with a new look in 2022. Now streaming on Paramount (rather than its old home at CBS), Criminal Minds: Evolution took a serialized approach to the storytelling rather than the case-of-the-week format that the broadcast version typically followed. That's…
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May 16, 2024
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is miles away from speeding into theaters worldwide, which means fans are already asking for just one thing—more. Unfortunately, there's no big sequel announcement here; technically, as Furiosa goes back in the story's timeline to track the origins of Charlize Theron's original character…
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May 16, 2024
If you're aware of publishing trends or "BookTok" (the community of readers making content about books on TikTok), then you're also aware of Colleen Hoover. After many years of writing (and often self-publishing), Hoover became an unexpected literary phenomenon when social media users started promoting her work during…
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May 16, 2024
Children's films are always positioned to memorialize the imaginative worlds in our heads, acting as shrines to those places that shrink as real life constricts us, growing more abrasive and demanding. On the surface, writer/director John Krasinski's IF is destined to succeed in such an oversaturated arena; Bea…
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May 16, 2024
For a show that repeatedly raises the question "What the fuck is going on here," Evil is remarkably sure of itself. The best part of this Paramount series is its confidence in navigating flabbergasting situations and relationships. This makes it easy to sink into Evil's kooky, spooky world even when it gets…
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May 16, 2024
You know how, during the COVID lockdown, we all collectively got obsessed with Tiger King? And now we're all collectively a little embarrassed to have liked Tiger King that much, because Tiger King isn't that good? Bridgerton was a later lockdown phenomenon, a canceled-Christmas gift from Netflix that brought some…
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May 15, 2024
Actor Charlyne Yi has alleged that they were "physically assaulted" and "psychologically abused" on the set of Taika Waititi's Time Bandits TV show, according to their own social media. Writing on Instagram, the actor said they were targeted by an unnamed co-star on the series, who allegedly injured them during…
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May 15, 2024
Actor Charlyne Yi has alleged that they were "physically assaulted" and "psychologically abused" on the set of Jemaine Clement, Iain Morris, and Taika Waititi's Time Bandits TV show, according to their own social media. Writing on Instagram, the actor said they were targeted by an unnamed co-star on the series, who…
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May 15, 2024
Conan O'Brien's toils must continue, overlords at Max declared today, as the streamer announced—as part of its much bigger upfronts presentation—that O'Brien's recent travel show, Conan O'Brien Must Go, has been extended for a second, and even longer, new season. Whereas the first season of the series—which saw…
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May 15, 2024
Netflix announced today that it's renewing its sci-fi adaptation 3 Body Problem for a second season. The news serves not just a vote of confidence for the series, which stars Rosalind Chao, Benedict Wong, John Bradley, and many more as scientists and spies caught up in a planet-spanning tale of an oncoming alien…
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May 15, 2024
What started as a straightforward revenge flick about a man who wanted the heads of the Russian gangsters who killed his dog and stole his car is now an action movie juggernaut. The satellites orbiting the John Wick franchise, which now includes a TV show, an upcoming spin-off, and three sequels to the original, are…
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May 15, 2024
Just when you think Adam Sandler has fully redeemed his reputation as an actor, he signs on for another Netflix film. Worse than that, a Netflix film that's the sequel to a beloved classic comedy. Both are extremely troubling signs. But much like our feelings about the titular character, we can't help but root for the …
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May 15, 2024
For the first time in its nearly 30-year run, Eric Cartman will do the impossible: He'll lose weight. Following 15,000 seasons of Stan and Kyle lobbing fat jokes at the sadistic 10-year-old, the festively plump Cartman may finally have the opportunity to deprive his friends of the one thing they mock him for. But is…
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May 15, 2024
Upon receiving her honorary Palme d'Or at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, Meryl Streep is reflecting on the first and only other time she'd attended the event 35 years prior. She was there to promote the 1988 film A Cry In The Dark (also titled Evil Angels), which was based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain, who…
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May 15, 2024
David Copperfield, the famed Las Vegas magician, faces allegations of sexual misconduct from 16 women. The news was reported by The Guardian US, which sourced the claims from court and police documents, as well as interviews with more than 100 people.
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May 15, 2024
Did you think And Just Like That... would lay the Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Aidan Shaw (John Corbett) romance to rest after season two? So what if they broke up in the finale yet again, this time because he wants to prioritize his annoying teen sons over her? If there's one thing Max's Sex And The…
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May 15, 2024
If you don't use it, you lose it, and Hollywood has been using The 40-Year-Old Virgin poster for nearly 20 years. You know the one: Steve Carell in front of a glowing orange sun with his eyes staring off in the distance like he's having his high school yearbook picture taken. From small productions that could use more…
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May 15, 2024
The ongoing trend of trailers obscuring that a movie is a musical (see: Wonka, Mean Girls) is reaching epidemic levels. Wicked is one of the most beloved and highest grossing Broadway musicals ever—that's the whole point of adapting Wicked for the screen. Yet while the first full trailer for the movie teases some of…
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May 15, 2024
The Bene Gesserit saw the new trailers for House Of The Dragon and Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power yesterday, and said, "don't forget who's really in charge here." While Denis Villeneuve's Dune adaptation may have received one of the faster prequel turnarounds in recent memory, it's certainly earned the right to…
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May 15, 2024
Puzzles are a kind of analog telepathy. The puzzle designer conceives of an idea, and then attempts, through the expression of their work—a maze, a cipher, an encoded message or cleverly hidden clue—to export that idea to someone else's head, in as clean a fashion as possible. It's the same process that happens in…
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May 15, 2024
Sequels may be commonplace throughout this summer's release slate (an evergreen statement), but Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever is probably the least expected. It's been 30 years since Ole Bornedal's mortuary thriller kickstarted Nikolaj Coster-Waldau's career, which the Danish continuation acknowledges. Bornedal…
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May 15, 2024
Francis Ford Coppola isn't exactly known for being the most cuddly and nurturing guy, especially if those traits would come at the expense of his art. The set of Apocalypse Now was famously so chaotic that it led to a near-fatal heart attack for its star and an entire documentary chronicling the madness of its…
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May 15, 2024
A new installment of the Terminator franchise is coming to Netflix on August 29, the streamer announced on Wednesday. Terminator: Zero is an anime series, but it's firmly rooted in the logic of all six of the films, showrunner Mattson Tomlin told Entertainment Weekly. That said, he specifically leaned into the horror…
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May 15, 2024
A new installment of the Terminator franchise is coming to Netflix on August 29, the streamer announced on Wednesday. Terminator: Zero is an anime series, but it's firmly rooted in the logic of all six of the films, showrunner Mattson Tomlin told Entertainment Weekly. That said, he specifically leaned into the horror…
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May 15, 2024
Since the blockbuster success of the Queen movie Bohemian Rhapsody in 2018, a music biopic gold rush has been underway in Hollywood. Some of the resulting films—made as they are with the participation of the artist, or more often their estate—have found room for genuine creative flare (Rocketman, Elvis); more have…
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May 15, 2024
It's a common misconception that A Quiet Place was John Krasinski's directorial debut. The critically acclaimed post-apocalyptic thriller was actually his third film as a director (besides a handful of episodes of The Office), following two previous two outings in the indie world—the ensemble family drama The Hollars,…
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May 15, 2024
The first surprise in Outer Range's second season, which kicks off May 16, is that it exists at all. The quietly competent sci-fi western debuted in 2022 without much fanfare, despite some good and intriguing first couple of episodes and a tremendous cast. This could be chalked up to Prime Video's inability to market…
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May 15, 2024
Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's the second movie in James Gunn's reboot of the DC canon!
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May 14, 2024
Better start lining up for your $17 Hailey Bieber skin smoothie because Only Murders In The Building is heading to La La Land. Announced during the Disney presentation at today's network upfronts in New York City, Only Murders In The Building, the streaming series that dares ponder a world wherein Steve Martin, Martin…
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May 14, 2024
After three years of scheduling and name changes, Marvel has finally settled on a premiere date and title for Kathryn Hahn's much-anticipated return to the MCU. It was never a "Coven Of Chaos," a "House Of Harkness, or "Darkhold Diaries." It was Agatha All Along—and she would've gotten away with it too if it hadn't…
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May 14, 2024
Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV has opened the floodgates on Dan Schneider and the toxic culture at Nickelodeon. Some All That cast members spoke about their experiences with Schneider in the ID docuseries, but cast member Lori Beth Denberg has now come forward with her own allegations in a new interview with Bu…
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May 14, 2024
Are you a pop culture fiend who's ever watched Jeopardy! and thought, "Hmm... I bet I could do that, but I don't know enough about old coins or rock formations or what former presidents ate for breakfast"? Now might be your time to shine.
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May 14, 2024
We have good news and bad news for Richard Gere, star of the upcoming drama Longing. The good news: Gere's character, Daniel Bloch, just found out that he's a father. The bad: His new son is dead. With his English-language remake of Longing, Israeli director Savi Gabizon takes a second stab at the movie he made in…
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May 14, 2024
Everything's coming into focus in the second season trailer for Amazon Prime Video's The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power. Who is the Lord of the Rings? Sauron! And which rings is he the Lord of? The Rings of Power, baby! Last season, the identity and location of this evil figure and his aims were unclear. In the…
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May 14, 2024
The prequel epidemic has claimed another victim. Legally Blonde is the latest franchise to get the younger-years treatment, as Prime Video announced today at their upfront presentation (via Deadline). The series, titled Elle, was created by Laura Kittrell (Insecure, High School) and will be produced under Reese…
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May 14, 2024
"A Targaryen who sits on the Iron Throne is not just a king or a queen. They are a protector of the realm," is one hell of a way to start a new House Of The Dragon trailer when we all know the outcome of Targaryen rulers in Westeros. And so it's no surprise thatHotD promises a brutal, bloody, and exciting second…
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May 14, 2024
Are you really making the most out of your Amazon Prime subscription? Sure, you've got paper towels and cat litter coming in like clockwork. But if you're not regularly combing through the service's streaming catalog, then you're missing out on hundreds of hours of killer TV. Since getting into the original-content…
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May 14, 2024
Will anything actually come from Phoebe Waller-Bridge's partnership with Amazon? She's been under an overall deal at Prime Video since 2019 (her "mid eight-figure" deal was renewed for another three years in 2023) and has produced… nothing. There was an untitled project with no details that seems to have slipped into…
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May 14, 2024
If you saw a bacchanal of film connoisseurs and terminally online people running through the streets and shouting "We're so back!" this morning, there's a good reason for it. After 40-odd years, a couple of vineyard sales, a lot of behind-the-scenes chaos, reports of difficulty finding a buyer, and some extremely…
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May 14, 2024
The next phase of the streaming wars—the one we all saw coming from a mile away—is officially here. In the current entertainment epoch, streaming companies are realizing the obvious truth that their business model is untenable and are now scrambling to reinvent traditional television. First, it was the return of ad-sup…
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May 14, 2024
What a time to be Nicolas Cage, huh? He's on a mission to play some, let's call them "unforgettable" roles. The actor's upcoming slate already includes horror films like Longlegs, in which he's a serial killer, and The Carpenter's Son about Jesus Christ's childhood. Then there's The Surfer, premiering at Cannes Film…
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May 14, 2024
No one thought The Boys would go out before its time. They've created a literal monster in Homelander for goodness sake, and that guy is not easy to kill. Just ask every other character on the show.
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May 14, 2024
In 1999, when Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace was first released in theaters, it had been 22 years since the release of just plain old Star Wars in 1977. Now, in 2024, the number of extant Star Wars features has more than doubled, and it's only been five years since the last one was in theaters (compared to…
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May 13, 2024
It's hard out there for corrupt politicians trying to make a name for themselves these days. Imagine trying to get some eyeballs on the cartoonish corruption of members of Congress when the former president is on trial for defrauding voters by covering up hush money payments to a porn star who allegedly spanked his…
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May 13, 2024
It's another sad day for awards shows. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the MTV Movie & TV Awards won't air this year because MTV plans to "reimagine" the show's format for 2025. How MTV will "reimagine" nominating stars and then awarding them Golden Popcorn trophies is beyond us, but this leaves our fractured society…
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May 13, 2024
Kevin Costner is tired of "taking a beating from those fucking guys." The guys in question? His Yellowstone collaborators, whom he accuses of dragging him through the press over his directing Horizon, Costner's massive, multi-part Western. Speaking to Deadline, Costner finally tells his side of things, namely that he…
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May 13, 2024
Ellen DeGeneres, formerly of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, will have one "last" stand-up special, according to Deadline. The new hour will premiere on Netflix later this year on the heels of her recent tour, "Ellen's Last Stand…Up Tour." She previously partnered with Netflix on her last special, 2018's Relatable, which…
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