Since he made a dynamite screen debut at 14 in Billy Elliot as a boy from a harsh British mining town who finds himself through the unlikely route of ballet, Jamie Bell has been crushing it as an actor in projects as diverse as Undertow, The Adventures of Tintin, Snowpiercer …
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Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker origin story, a Mr. Rogers biopic starring Tom Hanks and more will premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, which kicks off September 5th. The lineup, as TIFF Artistic Director Cameron Bailey and Executive Director Joana Vicente announced on Tuesday, will include 16 gala selections and …
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Denise Nickerson, best known for playing the snobby, gum-chomping Violet Beauregarde in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, has died following a series of medical issues. The actress’ family confirmed her death in a Facebook post, writing, “She’s gone.” Nickerson was 62. Nickerson suffered a “major medical …
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Jerry Seinfeld calls out the many shows that have ripped him off while riding a segway in the new season trailer for Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, which returns to Netflix on July 19th. “Here at Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, we have noticed that we have shall we say…influenced …
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Gender bias gets knocked backwards on its ass in this rousing doc named after the first ship crewed by an all-female team in the Whitbread Round the World Race. The year was 1989, when male chauvinists were dripping with disbelief that these “girls” could survive a nine-month yacht race, much …
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“Mom. Dad. I know you don’t want to talk about this, but I do. I might get married to a man, like you so clearly want. And I might not. Because this is not a phase, and I need you to understand that. I’m bisexual.” That’s Rosa Diaz (Stephanie Beatriz), …
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In honor of Father’s Day, Jimmy Kimmel Live took to the streets of Los Angeles to quiz dads on how well they know their own kids. Spoiler alert: They don’t. As these model fathers prove in Kimmel’s #PopQuiz, they can’t correctly answer even the most routine of questions about their …
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On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver lobbied for one U.S. state — but preferably not Florida, for snarky reasons — to cement gender equality in the constitution by ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment. “It’s been an especially rough few years in America for women — from abortion bans to the …
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Amazon Studios has shared the new teaser trailer for the Transparent series finale. Following the death of the show’s central character Moira Pfefferman (brought on by actor Jeffrey Tambor’s firing from the show following a series of sexual harassment allegations), the Pfefferman clan are brought together for one last musical …
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Timothy Olyphant was never happy with his performance during the original three-season run ofDeadwood. “I recall barely having my head above water,” he told me in the fall, “and I recall regretting every single choice made and begging David [Milch] to let me walk him back and change it.” Actors …
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