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Mar 18, 2024
Curb Your Enthusiasm is quickly approaching its ending, but HBO might already be lining up its next big comedy star: Rachel Sennott, star of Shiva Baby and star/co-writer of last year's Bottoms. According to Deadline, which calls Sennott a "fresh female comedy voice," HBO has ordered half-hour pilot from Sennott that…
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Mar 18, 2024
In between starring in a romantic comedy that actually made money and sending the internet into a tailspin for having breasts, Sydney Sweeney has had some explaining to do. Like, does she know that she was in Madame Web, the first bad superhero movie? Of course, she does. In fact, she's already answered for it,…
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Mar 18, 2024
Get your "likely place for him to be" memes ready, because original The Crow director Alex Proyas has A Problem with Rupert Sanders' new Crow remake… just like the problem he's had with every other attempt to reboot The Crow. But he's not alone in his lack of faith in the new Crow, since a lot of old Crow fans were…
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Mar 18, 2024
The long, upsetting saga of 26-year-old Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed may be getting another chapter. After 10 frustrating days of back-and-forth testimony in court, Gutierrez-Reed was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter earlier this month. After two hours of deliberation, the New Mexico jury determined the…
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Mar 18, 2024
In a move that feels reminiscent of Netflix's decision to throw money at South Korean TV shows last year just ahead of the Writers Guild Of America strike, Amazon has come up with its own way to avoid talking to American labor unions—whether that was the official goal or not. According to Deadline, Amazon has signed a…
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Mar 18, 2024
With a property as sprawling as Star Trek, of course everyone has their own opinions on which entry is the best and which entry is their favorite. (Those might be two distinct answers!) It shouldn't be a surprise that OG Star Trek star William Shatner thinks OG Star Trek is the truest version, not just because of his…
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Mar 18, 2024
Shangela—one of the most recognizable drag performers in the world, who has appeared on multiple seasons of RuPaul's Drag Race anda recent season of Dancing With The Stars, as well as a number of films and television shows like A Star Is Born, Broad City, and Station 19—has been accused of sexual assault by multiple…
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Mar 18, 2024
Bill Hader and Quinta Brunson created two of TV's best comedies, albeit in very different ways, of the past decade. The creators and stars of Barry and Abbott Elementary, respectively, are now teaming up for another project. Sadly, it's not an enticing, hilarious small-screen adventure or a fun rom-com (yet?). But…
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Mar 18, 2024
After Don Lemon was ousted from CNN over a sexist remark about Nikki Haley—and in the wake of an exposé about his allegedly poor treatment of female colleagues—it made a certain sense when news broke he'd be partnering with Elon Musk to bring his own show to X (formerly Twitter). On the other side of the aisle, ousted…
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Mar 18, 2024
A good romantic comedy is a hard thing to make. Let's be clear: A good movie of any genre is a hard thing to make, but I mention this specifically with regard to rom-coms because, too often, they're viewed as a kind of day off for the talent involved. Or worse, as a kind of professional valley in an actor's career.…
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Mar 18, 2024
With Marvel on the decline, it comes as no surprise that something new is rising up to claim its throne—or at least trying to. But we're also feeling pretty confident when we say that absolutely no one was asking for that thing to be the Twisted Childhood Universe, a.k.a. the public domain, I.P. driven gore-fest from…
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Mar 18, 2024
Say what you will about Zack Snyder, the man loves to craft multiple movies out of a single idea, whether 300 or Army Of The Dead. The latest victim is Netflix's Rebel Moon, his critically panned 2023 space saga that somehow snagged a continuation—even if the director's math of millions of people watching part onei…
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Mar 18, 2024
The British royal family has been the subject of much tabloid gossip and online speculation lately due to Kate Middleton's lack of public appearances. (Do you think it's all a cover up to help promote Prince William's mistress?) But it's just one of many royal scandals that have sparked fascination both at home and…
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Mar 18, 2024
Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV aired its first episodes on Investigation Discovery on Sunday, prompting its audience to reexamine the Dan Schneider era of Nickelodeon. The allegations in the docuseries range from Schneider creating a toxic work environment for children and adults alike (particularly for women)…
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Mar 18, 2024
David Seidler—screenwriter for The King's Speech, The King And I, Queen Of Spades, and more—died Saturday on a fly fishing excursion in New Zealand. The news was confirmed by his manager, Jeff Aghassi (via Variety), who said in a statement that "David was in the place he loved most in the world—New Zealand—doing what…
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Mar 18, 2024
For the first time in years, The Bachelor feels fun to watch. Sure, it's still a parade of twentysomethings looking for an Instagram following rather than True Love™, but as we move through the same formula that has aired 28 times (!!) before, something feels fresh. What could it be?
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Mar 18, 2024
There's no getting around the fact that 3 Body Problem comes to Netflix with a lot of baggage. It's based on an international bestseller with legions of fans all over the world, and it's not even the first adaptation of Liu Cixin's Remembrance Of Earth's Past series to come to TV screens. Add to that the expectations…
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Mar 18, 2024
Larry David is the kind of guy who always has a scheme—we know this as fans of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Be it the grander variety, like launching a whole coffee shop out of spite, or the more everyday sort, like that trick with Larry's balls hanging out of his shorts a few episodes back, he's always got something up his…
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Mar 18, 2024
Larry David is the kind of guy who always has a scheme—we know this as fans of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Be it the grander variety, like launching a whole coffee shop out of spite, or the more everyday sort, like that trick with Larry's balls hanging out of his shorts a few episodes back, he's always got something up his…
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Mar 17, 2024
Two Months Later.
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Mar 17, 2024
As predicted earlier in the weekend, Kung Fu Panda 4 has maintained its lead against Dune: Part Two for a second week in a row, but only by the tiniest margin—as in, less than $1 million. Panda 4 made $30 million, bringing it to a solid $107 million after just two weeks, while the Dune sequel made $29.1 million,…
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Mar 17, 2024
From the very first trailer, it seemed like director Alex Garland's Civil War would be a scathing indictment of something, be it the American Empire in general or more specific concerns like the rising threat of fascism or people who have the privilege to "stay out of politics" even outside of the United States'…
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Mar 17, 2024
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss thought they could do whatever they wanted with their first project after Game Of Thrones, even though it had that ending and we still can't bring it up without thinking about the ending, and while they quickly realized that there were limits to the freedom that success had afforded them,…
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Mar 17, 2024
Welcome to What's On, our weekly picks of must-watch shows. Here's what you need to watch from Sunday, March 17 to Thursday, March 21. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekend edition of What's On drops on Fridays.]
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Mar 17, 2024
When you think about Ireland, the first thing that comes to mind may not be the country's robust film industry. But the fact is that Ireland is responsible for some of the most charming (Waking Ned Devine), soulful (Once), and dramatic (In The Name Of The Father) films you'll ever see. And, seeing as how today happens…
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Mar 16, 2024
Jason Momoa seems like a pretty chill interview subject: He likes talking about beer, he likes having a good time, he'll pop his shirt off at the drop of a hat for a bit. (From that same interview, he'll also take the time to draw out the distinction between a "dirtbag" and "a dirt-ball or a shit-bag or a fucking…
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Mar 16, 2024
In an act of synchronicity so perfect that HBO's marketing department couldn't have planned it better if they tried, a billboard for the network's Curb Your Enthusiasm has been defaced in Los Angeles, in almost exactly the same way a fake version of it was defaced in the TV show—i.e., by having a bunch of dicks…
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Mar 16, 2024
It turns out that there's only one force in the universe that can stand tall over Paul Muad'dib Atreides, Lisan al-Gaib, Kwisatz Haderach, Duke of Arrakis: A heavyset panda bear with a taste for dumplings. At least, that's the tale told by this weekend's box office returns, which reveal that the fourth Kung Fu…
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Mar 16, 2024
There has—and we mention this mostly for the benefit of those rare few lucky enough to carry a genetic immunity to British Royals Nonsense, since the rest of us have been floating in this one for at least a week at this point—a new kerfuffle in the world of the U.K.'s royal family of late. It's all centered on Kate…
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Mar 16, 2024
Fresh off of his show-stopping performance of "I'm Just Ken" at the Oscars, Ryan Gosling headed to South By Southwest to support his next project, The Fall Guy, where he introduced the film before its world premiere. He noted that he and the filmmaking team, including director David Leitch and co-star Emily Blunt,…
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Mar 16, 2024
It was Hollywood's biggest night. The 96th annual Academy Awards have come and gone, bestowing upon us a new crop of winners we'll question in the future. These were the movies of 2023, and for the first time in the Oscars' near-century of existence, all the nominees were worthy of inclusion. Sure, there were snubs…
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Mar 16, 2024
We've finally left the confines of Osaka Castle. Now we can get into some really rich stuff. A training montage? Sure, that's in there. Sitting on a wooden deck in the rain drinking tea? That is definitely in there, and that's the freaking dream. (I for one would love to play those scenes on a loop for myself as I…
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Mar 16, 2024
Fresh off of his show-stopping performance of "I'm Just Ken" at the Oscars, Ryan Gosling headed to South By Southwest to support his next project, The Fall Guy, where he introduced the film before its world premiere. He noted that he and the filmmaking team, including director David Leitch and co-star Emily Blunt,…
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Mar 16, 2024
It was Hollywood's biggest night. The 96th annual Academy Awards have come and gone, bestowing upon us a new crop of winners we'll question in the future. These were the movies of 2023, and for the first time in the Oscars' near-century of existence, all the nominees were worthy of inclusion. Sure, there were snubs…
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Mar 16, 2024
We've finally left the confines of Osaka Castle. Now we can get into some really rich stuff. A training montage? Sure, that's in there. Sitting on a wooden deck in the rain drinking tea? That is definitely in there, and that's the freaking dream. (I for one would love to play those scenes on a loop for myself as I…
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Mar 15, 2024
Bill Murray was on the red carpet this weekend, doing his part to promote rampant nostalgia fest Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. Given that the film is co-written by Jason Reitman, son of Murray's long-time collaborator Ivan Reitman, talk on the red carpet inevitably turned to Reitman's latest directorial project: SNL…
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Mar 15, 2024
In a move that made us literally say "Huh!" out loud, to ourselves, in our otherwise empty office, DC Films announced today that it's making a live-action movie version of the long-running Teen Titans franchise. The film will be written by Ana Nogueira, who's already in pretty deep with the James Gunn/Peter Safran-run…
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Mar 15, 2024
Earlier this week, we reported about an interesting, excellent way that Olivia Rodrigo was stepping up on behalf of her fans, allowing abortion funds to hand out contraceptives at her concerts—including and especially in states like Missouri, where local legislatures and courts are deep into massive attacks on…
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Mar 15, 2024
It's hard to imagine Ghostbusters without the prowess of Ernie Hudson, the talented actor who has played Winston Zeddemore since 1984. It's a role he's reprised in three additional films, including Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, which releases in theaters this week. Still, he tells The A.V. Club he finds morefreedom in…
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Mar 15, 2024
Earlier this week, a red flag fired up like an errant optic blast from Disney's upcoming X-Men '97 cartoon, when it was revealed that showrunner Beau DeMayo had abruptly departed the nostalgia-minded project under some very cloudy circumstances. Given that this happened roughly a week before the show was set to…
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Mar 15, 2024
Criminal Minds alum Lola Glaudini shared a new story about Johnny Depp from the set of the 2001 film Blow on an episode of the Powerful Truth Angels podcast in January. In a clip resurfaced on Twitter, Glaudini recalled a "fucked up" situation that she had never shared publicly before, involving Depp shouting at her…
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Mar 15, 2024
There is an inherent audacity in making a film like Civil War, even before writer-director Alex Garland starts to lay out the finer points of his near-future thriller. At a time when the atrocities of war are unfolding in multiple places around the world, and our own country feels perched on the kind of knife's edge…
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Mar 15, 2024
Look, we're all for preserving the theatrical experience here at The A.V. Club. In an era where streaming threatens theaters every day, every ticket bought to see a film—especially one from an independent studio and a buzzy, relatively new director—is a major win. But the fact that it's now easier than ever to watch…
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Mar 15, 2024
It would have been a whole lot harder to kick those cute little Among Us astronauts into the unfeeling void if they could speak up to defend themselves. But if you're one of the over 40 million people still firing up the game in real-time (no judgment here: everything Daniel Craig did in Glass Onion is cool), don't…
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Mar 15, 2024
There's a rule in romance that in order to qualify for the genre, the story needs to end in an HEA—a Happily Ever After. Other stories can be romantic, but romance books and romantic comedies in particular need to close out with our heroes walking hand-in-hand into the sunset. That's why, with a few exceptions,…
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Mar 15, 2024
In an unsurprising turn to the ongoing Rust case, Alec Baldwin's lawyers have filed a motion to dismiss the manslaughter charges against him in the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. The years-long legal tangle surrounding the shooting has revealed negligence and incompetence both on the set of the…
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Mar 15, 2024
In an event that feels like it could have been ripped straight out of an unused script from Succession, a group of activists interrupted Jeremy Strong's Broadway play An Enemy Of The People last night to protest the government's inaction concerning the climate crisis. Shouting things like "no theater on a dead…
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Mar 15, 2024
Snack Shack, director Adam Rehmeier's latest aggro-comedy, opens with an unusual sight: A pair of 14-year-old boys chainsmoking at the dog track. Amid a string of shouted expletives, with the words "fuck" and "pussy" enhancing every other word and giggle, our heroes, A.J. (Connor Sherry) and Moose (Gabriel LaBelle),…
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Mar 15, 2024
Oh Young-soo, the Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe-winning actor from Netflix's Squid Game, has been convicted of sexual misconduct in South Korean court. According to The New York Times, Oh was given "an eight-month suspended sentence and ordered to attend 40 hours of classes on sexual violence." The 79-year-old…
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Mar 15, 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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Mar 15, 2024
Grey's Anatomy kicked off its landmark 20th season on March 14. That makes Shonda Rhimes' flagship show the longest-running medical drama in television history, an achievement it earned for good reason. Through all the casting changes, traumatic season finales, behind-the-scenes drama, and onscreen heartbreak, viewers…
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Mar 15, 2024
Welcome to the weekend edition of What's On. Here are the big things happening on TV from Friday, March 15 to Sunday, March 17. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekly edition of What's On publishes on Sundays.]
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Mar 14, 2024
We have a pulse! Grey's Anatomy is back and—longtime fans will be pleased to learn—so are the iconic voiceovers of Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo). In the season-20 premiere, she's musing about the nature of dreams: how long they last, how much we remember, and how they help dreamers process troubling or complicated…
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Mar 14, 2024
Pierce Brosnan was convicted of trespassing today, after pleading guilty to charges of leaving the trail in a thermal area at Yellowstone National Park back in November of 2023. Brosnan was ordered to pay a $500 fine, plus make a $1,000 donation to nonprofit Yellowstone Forever, which helps support the park. He also ma…
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Mar 14, 2024
Does it ever feel, to you, like time is speeding up? There was an era, not that long ago, when it seemed like an internet joke could really have a full and flourishing lifespan, starting as a series of fringe posts picked up on social media, slowly infiltrating the zeitgeiest with bizarre references, and then finally…
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Mar 14, 2024
In what will presumably come as something of a relief to the show's fans—and heartbreaking news to anybody hoping to win basically any Emmys in the award show's comedy categories for the next couple of years—there's even more of The Bear on the way, sooner than previously reported. This is per Deadline, which reports…
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Mar 14, 2024
Charlie Brooker's sci-fi anthology Black Mirror has a very loose approach to continuity—which is to say, its episodes exist in a shared universe when it's interesting for Brooker to do so, and discard the concept when it'd get in the way of the endlessly dark cyber-fun. But while technologies, ideas, and even events…
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Mar 14, 2024
A ways into Casino Royale, after James Bond has won the poker game and discovered that the bad guys are sore losers, he furiously chases after Le Chiffre in his Aston Martin and has to swerve to avoid running over Eva Green. In a somewhat over-the-top stunt that feels out of place in the otherwise realistic film (or…
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Mar 14, 2024
Emma Stone just joined an elite group of actors who have multiple Oscars under their belt, but as of last year she's also part of another exclusive coterie, the Saturday Night Live Five-Timers Club. Stone has a number of iconic sketches you may remember—"I Broke My Arm," crying to Adele's "Someone Like You," or "Wells…
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Mar 14, 2024
No matter how many movies they star in or Tony nominations they earn, celebrities still get stage fright just like the rest of us. In a recent interview with The A.V. Club, Oscars announcer David Alan Grier shared that he was certainly feeling the pressure while holding the mic to play the voice of god this past…
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Mar 14, 2024
Bird Box, the post-apocalyptic horror thriller starring Sandra Bullock, was a sensation when it was released in 2018. It smashed viewership records, becoming the most-watched Netflix film ever until it was unseated by Red Notice. Today, it's still the fourth most-watched Netflix movie of all time, with 157.4 million…
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Mar 14, 2024
Gina Carano doesn't understand what she did wrong. Following a years-long controversy that's currently awaiting litigation against Disney, the entertainment conglomerate that fired Carano over a series of social media posts that offended, well, pretty much everyone, the actor maintains that she was a victim of "one of…
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Mar 14, 2024
Emma Stone and her Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos quickly identified each other as a couple of funky peas in a funky pod when they first worked together on 2018's The Favourite, with their friendship being a fun talking point around Poor Things during Oscar season—especially since it culminated in Stone winning…
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Mar 14, 2024
The Chosen's plot may be mostly familiar, with the story of Jesus Christ being, if not the greatest story ever told, certainly one of the best known. The model, however, is new. Following in the footsteps of sci-fi and fantasy shows like Doctor Who and Game of Thrones showing certain episodes in theaters via Fathom…
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Mar 14, 2024
Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins recently appeared on TCM and Max's Talking Pictures podcast and dropped a surprising bit of news: Her Star Wars spin-off movie, Rogue Squadron, has apparently been un-canceled. Disney hasn't officially taken the movie off the proverbial shelf, but Jenkins says she and Lucasfilm…
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Mar 14, 2024
Even after all the strides of the #MeToo movement, we've seen example after perturbing example of exposed predators allowed to simply waltz back into their previously exalted place in society—even posthumously. That's what's happening with Michael Jackson, at least according to John C. Carpenter, the attorney…
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Mar 14, 2024
Though he has continued releasing music, Zayn Malik never fit the mold of a typical pop star—that's one of the reasons he left One Direction in the first place. He doesn't do much press anymore, nor does he seem to like performing live all that much. In fact, he spends much of his Hot Ones interview talking about his…
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Mar 14, 2024
Even movie stars have to take shitty jobs to pay the bills every now and again. Sydney Sweeney certainly does—she told The Hollywood Reporter in 2022 that she couldn't afford to take even a "six-month break" from acting because she didn't have the funds—although she probably wouldn't have used the word "shitty" until…
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Mar 14, 2024
The Crowhas been resurrected, in both a literal and figurative way. The new trailer depicts the rebirth of Eric Draven (Bill Skarsgård), but it's also the rebirth of the franchise. Brandon Lee played Eric in the 1994 film (and was tragically killed in an on-set accident), which spawned several sequels with different…
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Mar 14, 2024
What is it with Michael Keaton and hitmen? The first feature he directed—the little-seen The Merry Gentleman (2008)—is about a contract killer, and so is this week's Knox Goes Away, his sophomore film. Both characters have moral dilemmas that reveal them as good-hearted despite being cold-blooded killers. Is it just a…
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Mar 14, 2024
After nearly a quarter century on HBO, Curb Your Enthusiasm and its curmudgeonly star haven't changed much. Aside from the blotchy video look of early seasons, the only clear differentiation between years is Larry David's salt-and-pepper horseshoe haircut giving way to white. Despite Curb's consistent look throughout,…
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Mar 14, 2024
It's St. Patrick's Day time again, which means only one thing for a lot of horror movie fans: Mainlining the Leprechaun films for yet another year. Yes, it's a tradition, and for manyviewers that tradition still hasn't lost its charm, but let's be real: It's not all there is.
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Mar 14, 2024
A TV world without Girls5eva sounds dull as hell. And if it were up to Peacock, that's the reality everyone would be living in. Thankfully, after the show was unceremoniously canceled two seasons in, Netflix renewed Meredith Scardino's ingenious musical comedy. Its third season, which premieres March 14, instantly…
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Mar 14, 2024
Michael Culver has died. A veteran actor of both stage and screen, Culver had more than 100 film and television credits to his name, and an incredibly robust theatrical resumé —but is best known to millions, basically inevitably, for less than a minute of screen time in 1980's The Empire Strikes Back, in which his…
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Mar 13, 2024
Although Ryan Gosling didn't win an Oscar this week, he has been granted an award of a different type: A return trip to Studio 8H, with NBC revealing today that Gosling will serve as host on the upcoming April 13 installment of Saturday Night Live. Accompanied by musical guest Chris Stapleton, this'll mark Gosling's…
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Mar 13, 2024
Great news for anyone worried that their Friday night TV viewing wouldn't be sufficiently irritating in the near future: HBO has announced that it's going ahead and renewing Real Time With Bill Maher for another two seasons. (Thus also freeing us of any 2025 and 2026 anxieties about not getting a sufficient weekly…
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Mar 13, 2024
Robyn Bernard, best known for her role as General Hospital's Terry Brock, died yesterday in San Jacinto, CA. The Riverside County Sheriff's Department confirmed her death, reporting that her body was found in an open field in San Jacinto. Per People, authorities say foul play is not suspected. She was 64.
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Mar 13, 2024
IMAX, the motion picture format that causes smartwatches across these United States to alert wearers to that watching Dune: Part Two is damaging their ears, will soon host monthly group panic attacks thanks to A24. The movie studio that's gone from indie darling to Best Picture winner is kicking off a series of…
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Mar 13, 2024
Fresh off of his show-stopping performance of "I'm Just Ken" at the Oscars, Ryan Gosling headed to South By Southwest to support his next project, The Fall Guy, where he introduced the film before its world premiere. He noted that he and the filmmaking team, including director David Leitch and co-star Emily Blunt,…
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Mar 13, 2024
Olivia Rodrigo may be all-American, but she's certainly not a bitch. The 21-year-old "vampire" singer is proving that she has more guts than a lot of our country's politicians by distributing free emergency contraceptives, condoms, and abortion information during the North American leg of her GUTS World Tour.
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Mar 13, 2024
Over the last 25 years, it was widely assumed that securing the role of Young Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace was more a curse than a blessing. Selected from more than 3,000 other young actors, Lloyd disappeared from Hollywood shortly after his big break. Aside from voicing Anakin in a…
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Mar 13, 2024
It's hard to know what, exactly, the creative impetus is for Arthur The King. One would think it's obvious, given how the marketing has placed Arthur the dog front and center. The film is named after the dog. The memoir upon which the film is based is about the transformative meeting with this dog. It seems clear that…
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Mar 13, 2024
In news today, Busy Philipps is returning to the late-night scene with a new show called Busy This Week that will be airing on streamer QVC . In other news, QVC has a streaming service! Did you know that? We sure didn't. Neither did Wikipedia, Consumer Reports, or literally any of the numerous other "List of all…
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Mar 13, 2024
In an Instagram post that includes photographs of her treatment and double mastectomy, Olivia Munn revealed that she was diagnosed with breast cancer last April. Over the past 10 months, Munn writes she received four surgeries but opted to keep her medical status private because she "needed to catch [her] breath and…
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Mar 13, 2024
As is its wont, Only Murders In The Building's third season ended with a question: What happened to Sazz (Jane Lynch)? Spoiler alert if you're not caught up, but Sazz was the latest victim of the Arconia's bad history with violent crimes. Was Sazz the intended target of the murder, or did the killer mistake her for…
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Mar 13, 2024
The TikTok apocalypse is upon us. Are you and your girly pop beige flag situationship ready?
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Mar 13, 2024
People love a good mystery, from true-crime podcasts to fictional page-turners like the Liane Moriarty novel on which Peacock's miniseries Apples Never Fall, which premieres March 14, is based. There are certain tropes involved, familiar touchstones that, at this point, fans of the format have come to crave. For…
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Mar 13, 2024
Billy Baldwin is defending his honor after Sharon Stone accused someone else entirely of misconduct surrounding their film Sliver. Stone recently revealed that it was Robert Evans who pressured her to have sex with Baldwin to improve Sliver. While Evans is the obvious villain of the tale, Baldwin caught a stray in the…
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Mar 13, 2024
In January, Jeremy Allen White sent the internet (and a couple of out-of-line red carpet interviewers) into a full-blown tizzy when he appeared in naught but his tighty-whities for Calvin Klein's spring campaign. In November, Barry Keoghan took off even more for the final scene in Saltburn. Those two got billboards in…
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Mar 13, 2024
What is it about doomed love that makes for a great story? It's transporting to watch two people go through it, discovering that what they've always wanted is no longer sufficient, that they've changed, and—to their dismay—that the love of their life has changed, too. In Blue Valentine, Derek Cianfrance juxtaposed the…
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Mar 13, 2024
Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV acknowledges that it is, in many ways, a response to the online conversation about Dan Schneider. The creator of beloved Nickelodeon series like All That, The Amanda Show, iCarly, Drake & Josh, and Victorious parted ways with the network in 2018, but he's long been the subject of…
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Mar 13, 2024
Two years ago, right around the time Everything Everywhere All At Once came out during awards season, we thought it would be a fun and admittedly silly exercise to try and predict which films would be part of an awards season that was still a year away. Our early predictions for 2023 turned out pretty well, even if one…
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