Days after the release of Stranger Things 3, Netflix has pledged to cut down on the amount of smoking seen in their original programming following outcry from an anti-smoking organization. Truth Initiative, “America’s largest nonprofit public health organization committed to making tobacco use a thing of the past,” recently published …
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Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon dissected President Donald Trump’s familiar diatribes and campaign slogans as he officially returned to the trail on their respective late-night shows Wednesday. During a rally in Orlando Tuesday night, Trump touched on all of his preferred topics, from the “witch hunt” investigation into Russia’s interference …
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There are dozens of filmmakers who get giddy at the thought of orchestrating an army of extras, all made up to look as if the flesh is rotting on their bones, all shuffling forward as if battling rigor mortis, all moaning and grasping and jaws chomping in anticipation. Jim Jarmusch …
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It’s a simple story, more or less: Girl meets boy, girl’s mutant powers multiply to galaxy-eating levels, girl turns evil and glow-y. But telling the saga of Dark Phoenix, centered on the corruption of X-Men member Jean Grey, has somehow always been a fraught task. Even in the original comic-book …
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Sad to say, the bloom is off the rose. The first The Secret Life of Pets in 2016 was an animated fluff-ball that hit on a fresh premise: What do our pets do when we close the door and leave them behind? The sequel covers pretty much the same territory. …
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The morning after Ava DuVernay’s four-part Netflix miniseries about the Central Park Five, When They See Us, premiered at Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theater, she was in a daze. “I don’t drink and I don’t do any other kinds of substances,” she told Rolling Stone, “but I think I have a …
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The teaser trailer for Terminator: Dark Fate was released last week, giving fans their first glimpse of Linda Hamilton back in action as Sarah Connor for the first time since Terminator 2: Judgment Day in 1991. There have been three disappointing sequels since then and it’s understandable if some are …
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Stephen Colbert and James Corden marked the end of Game of Thrones on their respective late-night programs Monday. Colbert opened The Late Show with an “extended” version of Brienne of Tarth’s controversial final scene, in which she plays up Jaime Lannister’s exploits in the Book of Brothers, despite the way …
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Samantha Bee spoke with California Senator and 2020 presidential hopeful Kamala Harris about her plan to improve pay among public school teachers on Full Frontal Wednesday. As Harris noted, teachers make, on average, 11 percent less than similarly college educated professionals, and the meager wages are causing people to leave …
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Paul McCartney remembered his longtime friend and fellow animal lover, Doris Day. The legendary singer and actress died Monday at age 97 after contracting pneumonia. “She was a true star in more ways than one,” he wrote on his website. One of those ways was as a lifelong animal welfare …
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