Oakland-based rapper Boots Riley scores a knockout debut as a director with Sorry to Bother You, a no-mercy satire that gets up in your face, breaks all the rules – and then invents new rules so it can break them too. Did you expect any less from the leader of …
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We have a serious new contender for the title of Most Fun Episode of 2018, courtesy of Netflix‘s Eighties wrestling comedy GLOW. The second season’s eighth installment, “The Good Twin,” is … an episode of GLOW. That is, it’s an episode of the cheesy local TV show that Debbie (Betty …
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This column contains SPOILERS for all of Billions Season 3, which aired its finale earlier this week. The midpoint of Billions Season 3 featured a huge moment for the series to date: the Showtime drama’s arch-rivals, U.S. attorney Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti) and hedge fund mogul Bobby “Axe” Axelrod (Damian …
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Shawn Mendes and James Corden battled for subway busker supremacy in a goofy sketch from Wednesday’s Late Late Show. Corden opened the bit mock-strumming the weepy James Blunt ballad “You’re Beautiful” on acoustic guitar, but the host became possessive over his turf when Mendes posted up nearby and started crooning …
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Hollywood is a place of endless insecurity and uncertainty – but over the last four decades, few things have been more of a sure thing than a Star Wars movie. Before this year, George Lucas’ saga of a Tatooinian boy with major daddy issues had produced 10 movies, and with …
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“There’s no murder weapon, there’s no motive,” a voiceover says in the new trailer for Netflix‘s relaunch ofThe Staircase. But in the case of crime novelist Michael Peterson, who was charged and convicted of the murder of his wife Kathleen, things aren’t always so cut-and-dry in the judicial system. The …
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Rehab centers are cripplingly expensive, are often unscientific – most frightening – are “dangerously unregulated,” John Oliver said on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight. The comedian exposed a frequently obscured dark side of the $35 billion industry, which encompasses over 14,500 drug treatment facilities across the United States. While many rehab …
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Confession: I’ll see anything with David Tennant in it. Bad Samaritan, however, barely qualifies as “anything.” Mostly, it’s a collection of spare suspense parts that someone ransacked at the movie dump and is trying to resell as fresh product. Good luck with that. As compensation, there’s Tennant, the Scottish actor …
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The Tribeca Film Festival celebrated the 35thanniversary of Scarface on Thursday night with “the greatest double feature in the history of the Beacon [Theater in Manhattan]:” a screening of the movie followed by a panel featuring three of the actors – Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer and Steven Bauer – plus …
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Sandra Bullock develops a scheme to rob the annual Metropolitan Museum gala with an all-female criminal crew in the new trailer for Ocean’s 8. The latest teaser reveals little about the film’s plot, but shows off Bullock’s gang – Cate Blanchett, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Awkwafina and Rihanna. They concoct …
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