Please, not another teen coming-of-age movie! That was your first thought, right? Hold your contempt. Booksmart changes the game and opens the genre up to greater possibilities. Directed by the actor Olivia Wilde in a smashing feature debut, this femcentric spin on Freaks and Geeks is high on girl power. …
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A review of “Cinco de Mayo,” this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, coming up just as soon as I know the associate principal cellist in the New York Philharmonic… I was once in the Parks and Rec writers room to watch the staff pitch ideas for their fourth season premiere. Several writers, …
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A review of “Show Me The Magic,” this week’s Better Things, coming up just as soon as I eat my grandfather… Midway through “Show Me the Magic,” Sam asks David Miller to pose as a medium to make the girls feel better about Duke‘s belief that Murray‘s ghost lives in …
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It probably does Netflix’s new cartoon buddy-comedy Tuca & Bertie no initial favors to point out that it was created by BoJack Horseman producer Lisa Hanawalt. Both shows are set in universes populated by anthropomorphized animals(*) — our heroines here are a loud and reckless toucan (Tiffany Haddish) and an …
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Move over, Captain Marvel, there’s a new female superhero in town. Fast Color doesn’t have the budget, the FX bells-and-whistles or even the inclination to take on the Brie Larson MCU blockbuster. But the tightly-focused origin story of Ruth, played with ferocity and feeling by Gugu Mbatha-Raw, is still one …
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The final season of Game of Thrones is almost upon us and it’s inevitable that some fans may have forgotten all that’s come before. Luckily James Corden has recapped the HBO series‘ previous 67 episodes in just four minutes. In the clip, the host of The Late Late Show takes …
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Warner Bros. Pictures triggered the removal of a campaign video President Donald Trump posted on Twitter due to its unauthorized use of the score from The Dark Knight Rises. The 2020 campaign video reportedly originated on the pro-Trump sub-Reddit last week before Trump posted it to his own Twitter feed …
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The show’s hero is led out before a bloodthirsty crowd, bound and accused of high treason against the king. He has made many foolish decisions to get to this point, ironically born from a fundamental decency and forthrightness that otherwise would seem so admirable. But he’s still the hero, played …
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The gunslingers of Deadwood battle each other and the encroaching inevitability of modernity in the new teaser for the upcoming film sequel to the hit Western, set to premiere May 31st on HBO. The Deadwood movie will be set 10 years after the series wrapped, with the characters reuniting to …
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Tim Robbins and Lizzy Caplan will co-star in the second season of Hulu’s Stephen King anthology series, Castle Rock. Like the first season, Season Two of Castle Rock will incorporate elements and characters from various King books. Robbins — who’s notably returning to the King universe for the first time …
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