People who come to The Goop Lab looking to hate-watch Gwyneth Paltrow will get what they came for. There’s the show’s opening montage, where she makes a cutesy joke about her “calling” in life being “something else besides, y’know, making out with Matt Damon onscreen.” There’s the moment in the …
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In the summer of 2018, Awkwafina exploded onto movie screens with scene-hijacking turns in Ocean’s Eight and Crazy Rich Asians. She seemed the kind of force of nature, akin to Robin Williams or Melissa McCarthy, who was so full of comic life, she could not only generate laughs out of …
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Eddie Murphy returned to Saturday Night Live as host for the first time in 35 years, with Murphy reprising some of the classic characters that earned him Number Two on Rolling Stone’ list of every SNL cast member. In a Christmas-themed sketch surrounding The Masked Singer, judges attempt to debunk …
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There was not, by all accounts, much of a master plan behind the new Star Wars trilogy. Though Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and her team were always there to guide it all, the overall story and its direction passed freely from J.J. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan on The Force Awakens …
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This week’s episode is called “The Fight to the Death” for good reason: Two enormous ice bears battle for the crown of their kingdom. There’s bellowing and roaring, biting and clawing. Two animals enter the ring. Only one is left standing. And that’s not the scariest thing that happens in …
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Curb Your Enthusiasm, Season 10 It’s back! After a three-year gap between seasons, Larry David returns to pick fights with everyone from his mailman (who’s committed the offense of wearing shorts) to Laverne Cox (who thinks dubbing David a “Renaissance Man” might be a bit of an embellishment). Still relentlessly …
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On Tuesday night, Hannibal Buress hopped onstage in Memphis to read the entirety of his first stand-up album, 2010’s groundbreaking My Name is Hannibal, straight off a teleprompter. He’s re-recording the album for the same reason Taylor Swift has indicated she’ll re-record her earlier work: to reclaim ownership of his …
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No sense putting the knock on this sequel to 2017’s Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, which blew the cobwebs off the 1995 version starring Robin Williams. The reboot cast, again headed by Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan and the devilish Jack Black, are still fun company — you could …
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Daniel Craig‘s James Bond comes out of retirement for one last job in the new trailer for No Time to Die, set to hit theaters next April. The 25th film in the Bond franchise finds 007 living quietly in Jamaica after the events of Spectre when his old friend, CIA …
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A review of this week’s Watchmen, “This Extraordinary Being,” coming up just as soon as I read Action Comics #1 for the first time… Many of the most distinct and beloved American art forms were invented by black artists who were then quickly eclipsed in the public imagination by their …
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