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May 13, 2024
It's hard out there for corrupt politicians trying to make a name for themselves these days. Imagine trying to get some eyeballs on the cartoonish corruption of members of Congress when the former president is on trial for defrauding voters by covering up hush money payments to a porn star who allegedly spanked his…
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May 13, 2024
It's another sad day for awards shows. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the MTV Movie & TV Awards won't air this year because MTV plans to "reimagine" the show's format for 2025. How MTV will "reimagine" nominating stars and then awarding them Golden Popcorn trophies is beyond us, but this leaves our fractured society…
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May 13, 2024
Kevin Costner is tired of "taking a beating from those fucking guys." The guys in question? His Yellowstone collaborators, whom he accuses of dragging him through the press over his directing Horizon, Costner's massive, multi-part Western. Speaking to Deadline, Costner finally tells his side of things, namely that he…
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May 13, 2024
Ellen DeGeneres, formerly of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, will have one "last" stand-up special, according to Deadline. The new hour will premiere on Netflix later this year on the heels of her recent tour, "Ellen's Last Stand…Up Tour." She previously partnered with Netflix on her last special, 2018's Relatable, which…
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May 13, 2024
Kendrick Lamar is starting to land disses he didn't even write. The world seems to have taken a definitive side in the war between Kendrick and Drake, handing the former some major reinforcements in the form of sales and streams. Billboard announced today that Lamar's "Not Like Us," one of three Drake-bashing tracks…
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May 13, 2024
"This is a very cinematic show. This should be on the big screen," director John M. Chu recalls thinking after the first time he saw Wicked. It's true he was handed all the ingredients for success with the theatrical version: the Broadway show is colorful, comedic, dramatic, and diva-focused, with big set pieces,…
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May 13, 2024
Victor, the Just For Laughs Festival's little green monster of a mascot, is dead, buried, and forgotten. Long live the anthropomorphic Netflix block.
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May 13, 2024
On her Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga press tour, Anya Taylor-Joy has given reporters enough tidbits about the hardship she experienced behind the scenes to warrant a full, Hearts Of Darkness-style documentary follow-up. Don't expect that project for at least two decades, though—it'll be a while before Taylor-Joy is ready to…
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May 13, 2024
Family Guy, Bob's Burgers, and The Simpsons are all in the final year of their multi-season contracts. Family Guy has also been moved to midseason, the first time in nearly 20 years the show hasn't premiered on Fox's fall schedule. These facts might cause a Family Guy lover (like Shakira) to worry or a Family Guy hater…
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May 13, 2024
Here's our hot take of the day: to the losers punching strangers on the streets of New York City—stop! Just stop! It's heinous and scary and we have too many other things to worry about. Just cool it already! Please!
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May 13, 2024
Jerry Seinfeld's commencement speech at Duke became the subject of something much larger than post-grad career advice this past weekend. As the comedian took the podium, a group of students walked out of the university's stadium holding flags and chanting "Free, free Palestine." Seinfeld began his speech ("Thank you.…
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May 13, 2024
Roger Corman, the iconic filmmaker and producer known for The Little Shop Of Horrors and Edgar Allan Poe adaptations like The Masque Of The Red Death, died last Thursday, according to weekend reports. In a statement, his family confirmed that Corman died in his Santa Monica home, per The Hollywood Reporter. He was 98…
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May 13, 2024
When Weezer released their eponymous debut album back in May of 1994, few would've predicted that they would remain near the center of rock culture for the next three decades. Weezer—now commonly called "The Blue Album," thanks to a proliferation of color-coded self-titled albums the group has released over the years—…
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May 13, 2024
The propulsion that gives many of the Star Wars films their power comes from its filmmaker's healthy fear of speed.
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May 13, 2024
What was the most embarrassing moment ever to happen on Glee? Ask anyone who watched Ryan Murphy's musical comedy between 2009 and 2015, and they likely have a list of cringey musical numbers or WTF-worthy plots ready to go. The high-school quarterback seeing Jesus' face in his grilled cheese, culminating in a…
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May 12, 2024
"This is the last moment I remember with any clarity," the Captain narrates over a freeze-frame of him in midair as the movie-set graveyard gets blown to smithereens. Well, shit, Captain. Your memory already wasn't great. Now we have to second guess you even more? This very good TV show is fucking exhausting.
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May 12, 2024
The title of the first episode of season two of Anne Rice's Interview With The Vampire is titled "What Can The Damned Really Say To The Damned." It's a fitting question for the return of what proved to be a deliciously lustful adaptation of the vampire ur text of the last half century. Alas, we have now fled New…
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May 12, 2024
Welcome to What's On, our weekly picks of must-watch shows. Here's what you need to watch from Sunday, May 12 to Thursday, May 16. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekend edition of What's On drops on Fridays.]
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May 11, 2024
Along with being the penultimate episode of Saturday Night Live season 49, last night's edition was also the annual Mother's Day show, and it was hosted by a mother in every sense of the word: literal parent ("I have four beautiful kids, that I know of") and spiritual capital-M Mother, Maya Rudolph.
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May 11, 2024
Congratulations are in order for the country of Switzerland tonight, which has just successfully established its right to rule the planet for the next year, via the tried and true method of triumphing in the annual Eurovision Song Contest. The plucky alpine country will presumably be taking custody of the global…
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May 11, 2024
We don't know what the exact GDP of the Kingdom Of The Planet Apes is—let alone its various imports, exports, and stances on inter-primate tariffs—but its economic fortunes are certainly looking rosy this weekend: Variety reports that the film, directed by Maze Runner escapee Wes Ball, is on track to make at least $52…
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May 11, 2024
John Leguizamo is not a guy who bothers trying to hide his frequently blunt, occasionally caustic feelings about Hollywood: He's talked in the past—and then again recently—about his lingering anger over being used as a "pawn" to get Michael Keaton to play the Vulture in Spider-Man: Homecoming. (Noting in a recent…
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May 11, 2024
Today marks the final day of the Eurovision Song Contest, with the countries of the world coming together for a bloody gladiatorial battle of who can make the weirdest song that people will still, somehow, vote for. But not one country: The Netherlands has been disqualified from the event, after the country's…
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May 11, 2024
Sigourney Weaver—considered, by many, to be acting's preeminent Sigourney—might be about to add yet another Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster franchise to her already considerable resumé. THR reports that Weaver has apparently entered talks to appear in upcoming Star Wars film The Mandalorian & Grogu, marking what would be…
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May 10, 2024
We're coming up rapidly on the nine-year anniversary of the final episode of Community, a span of time that has, somehow, in no way dissuaded the show's various stars and creators—except that one—from their intent to actually get a movie based on the series made. (After all, they eventually finagled the "six seasons"…
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May 10, 2024
You ever have one of those days where all you write about is TV shows getting the axe? We're having one of those days: Hot on the heels of Max canceling its well-loved animated sci-fi series Scavengers Reign, and Fox pulling the plug on Lisa Kudrow's animated HouseBroken, news has now arrived that ABC's Not Dead Yet,…
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May 10, 2024
Another Friday night, another TV show quietly taken out back and given the Old Yeller treatment by networks hoping to get the dirty work done before their weekends start. This week, that means Fox has just announced that it's pulling the plug on two-season animated comedy HouseBroken, part of its Animation Domination…
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May 10, 2024
Bad news today for fans of inventive, emotionally mature science fiction (in which incredibly awful things are always happening to the human body): Variety reports that Max has canceled Scavengers Reign after just a single season on the streamer. The series, created by Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner, focused on…
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May 10, 2024
It's time for the saga of The Conners and the long shadow of Roseanne to finally come to an end. ABC announced that it had picked up the sitcom for a seventh and final season today (via The Hollywood Reporter), putting a nice cap on one of television's more surprising success stories.
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May 10, 2024
Nicolas Cage will play Jesus Christ in a horror movie about his biblical childhood, and that's not even the most exciting casting update this week. Michelle Yeoh continues her hot streak with Blade Runner 2099, Jeremy Strong might join fellow Jeremy (Allen White) in his Bruce Springsteen biopic, and Faye Dunaway,…
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May 10, 2024
Everyone loved Shogun, right? What's not to appreciate about FX's drama? It's a rare gem of a book adaptation, beautifully developing the world of James Clavell's novel while managing to turn it into a unique on-screen experience. In short, it's a fantastic 10-episode limited series that tells the tale of Japan's …
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May 10, 2024
There was a time when Charli XCX made huge, chart-topping hits, but she's spent the last few years cultivating a crew of niche, not-quite-underground figures. Her work throughout the second half of the 2010s with producers A.G. Cook and the late SOPHIE brought her to a new sonic palette that the rest of pop music has…
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May 10, 2024
At this year's Academy Awards ceremony back in March, Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt (both of them nominees that night) took the stage with a multi-layered agenda. They opened with some gentle teasing about the Barbenheimer rivalry, giving us all some closure on the biggest moviegoing phenomenon of the previous year.…
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May 10, 2024
Just in time for another miserable election cycle, Amazon has arrived with a healthy slice of escapism. Yeah, we know that's an oxymoron, but be honest—wouldn't you rather check in on a White House run by Uma Thurman and her god-awful Southern accent than whatever we end up with in November? This writer certainly…
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May 10, 2024
Megan Thee Stallion's latest video proves that Kristen Wiig was right all along—being Jumanji'd is a real and present threat and we should all be way more concerned about it. Also, Jumanji-ing obviously means the characters come out of the game to kill you rather than you going in; none of that Jack Black/The Rock…
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May 10, 2024
Summer can bring about more than just a certain mood evoked by warmer weather. Perhaps more than other seasons, it can bring up specific memories. For some, summer feels like adolescence, mountain bikes, chalk on the driveway, and trying to stave off the boredom after you've been ordered outside for the day. For…
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May 10, 2024
Every frequent Grey's Anatomy viewer remembers the first time the show made them cry. For legacy fans™ of 20 iconic seasons, including yours truly, the above image alone is quite triggering (RIP, MAGIC. If you know, you know).
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May 10, 2024
Welcome to the weekend edition of What's On. Here are the big things happening on TV from Friday, May 10 to Sunday, May 12. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekly edition of What's On publishes on Sundays.]
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May 10, 2024
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off the weekend by taking a look at the world of gaming, diving in to the ideas that underpin the hobby we love with a bit of Game Theory. We'll sound off in the space above, and invite you to respond down in the comments, telling us what you're playing this weekend, and what…
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May 10, 2024
With Run The Series, The A.V. Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve with each new installment.
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May 09, 2024
Chris Pine's directorial debut, Poolman, has not been having a good time with critics. The film has, in fact, been panned about as hard as a movie can be, both during its debut last year at the Toronto International Film Festival, and then again this month, when it began getting screened to a wider group of viewers.…
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May 09, 2024
In news that simultaneously caused every single person you know who owns a bow tie to sit up and pay terrible, exuberant notice, Netflix revealed today that it's working on a reality show based around Willy Wonka. This, despite the fact that the the last time Wonka attempted to intrude into our reality, it went so…
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May 09, 2024
You know how, in cop shows, detectives are always getting threatened with being busted back down to foot patrol or whatever—a demotion to a world of decreased relevance, lower pay, and less chance at anyone actually seeing anything they do? Well, NBC announced tonight that Christopher Meloni's Law & Order: Organized…
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May 09, 2024
Jerry Seinfeld's directorial debut Unfrosted is already filled with many of Seinfeld's various famous friends—all of whom apparently shrugged and said "Eh, it's Seinfeld, how bad could it be?" when he tapped them to appear in a fictionalized story about the creation of the Pop-Tart. But one notable Seinfeld ally is…
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May 09, 2024
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they are very, very sorry for flattening the whole of human creativity to convince consumers to buy another iPad.
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May 09, 2024
We're now deep into Fantastic Four casting speculation season, as Marvel continues to fill out the ranks of the upcoming 2025 feature with very big names, typically coming attached to some very big question marks about who they'll be playing. (There is, for instance, still nobody attached to the part of Doctor Doom,…
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May 09, 2024
Baby Reindeer is a transfixing, vulnerable tale of creator and star Richard Gadd's real experience with sexual assault and with a stalker pseudonymously referred to as "Martha." Upon the release of the Netflix series, which was advertised from the jump as a "true story," Gadd asked viewers not to speculate about the…
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May 09, 2024
Steve Albini taught me to play poker. In the fall of 2007, the magazine I was working for was doing a feature on—if memory serves, as it's a bit foggy—trying things out for the first time. So one staffer would take on fronting a band at a club, another would give standup comedy a go. That sort of thing. I immediately…
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May 09, 2024
A good radio therapist's work is never done. To that end, Frasier is again accepting calls.
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May 09, 2024
"After much reflection, meditation, and prayer," Jon Stewart has officially "decided to extend [his] work week to two days," according to a very on-brand press release. Whether it is because he missed out on being a regular member of the Strike Force Five podcast, hosted by his buddies Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel,…
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May 09, 2024
Well, it finally happened: Martin Scorsese's daughter's dog ate part of Paul Schrader's thumb. It's something we've been expecting for many years now, a slot on literally every cinephile's 2024 Bingo card. Welcome to our new reality, the one where Martin Scorsese's daughter's Scottie swallowed a bit of Paul Schrader.
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May 09, 2024
Post-Barbie, we are firmly in the renaissance of "game and toy" media. This has always existed to some degree, and to varying levels of success—see: G.I. Joe, Battleship—but Greta Gerwig really proved you could make something out of some flimsy IP and have it be good and lucrative. Now Mattel is out here entertaining…
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May 09, 2024
It feels like it's been a long time since we last saw The Bear, given the whole strike situation between seasons, but you can say one thing about the show: it releases a new season on a regular, annual schedule. Yep, The Bear is back for its third season on June 27, when all 10 episodes will be available for viewing…
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May 09, 2024
The "television stars rewatching their own show" podcast market is absolutely flooded right now. This Is Us finished airing two years ago, and it already has a rewatch pod! Luckily, Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson are not contributing to this oversaturated economy, despite being co-stars on Cheers and launching a…
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May 09, 2024
The Last Stop In Yuma County is about travelers waiting at a desolate diner for a delayed shipment of gasoline that will allow them to motor on their way. Before anyone can continue on their respective journeys, however, the movie itself has some time-traveling to do, all within the space of its opening 20 minutes or…
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May 09, 2024
The latest trailer for A Quiet Place: Day One has a lot more alien and, worryingly, a lot more cat. Thankfully, this seems like a pretty docile, meow-free cat, so he'll probably do fine in the muted world the characters in this franchise are forced to occupy. The people, on the other hand, aren't doing so hot.
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May 09, 2024
RuPaul's Drag Race has the Snatch Game. Survivor has Sea Legs. The Great British Bake Off has Bread Week. And Top Chef, of course, has Restaurant Wars.
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May 09, 2024
Drake and Kendrick Lamar's rap beef has seemingly broken through into the real world yet again. Yesterday, an unnamed man attempted to break into Drake's mansion in the Bridle Path neighborhood of Toronto (per CNN). According to a statement from Toronto Police media relations officer Ashley Visser, the person was…
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May 09, 2024
Last year, Andy Serkis said he would happily return to Middle-earth if Peter Jackson and his co-writers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens were involved. Seems he's gotten his wish, and then some: Warner Bros. Discovery announced on Thursday that Jackson would produce a new Lord Of The Rings film, directed by and starring…
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May 09, 2024
The romantic comedy is, by its very nature, generic. As in, it depends on its genre tropes to amuse and entertain. Like an easy recipe, it can make for a delicious meal when it's using nothing but the basics. But to pull off a rom-com is no easy feat. In fact, because its structure appears to be so nakedly…
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May 09, 2024
True-crime podcasts have just as many fans as haters, and there's a chance that Bodkin, the Netflix series from Jez Scharf that premieres May 9 about a trio of bickering podcasters, will appeal to both.
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May 08, 2024
Apple did one of its big, fancy press events yesterday, showing off the upcoming iPad Pro, the biggest immediate selling point of which is that it's very, very thin. In order to convey that thinness, Apple did what any giant tech firm that secretly hates the weak, fleshy meat of the human race might do: Filmed a…
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May 08, 2024
"It's not a challenge. This is the war!" Laura battle-cried during Wednesday's episode of Top Chef: Wisconsin. Yes, eight episodes in, it's officially time for our chef-testants to take up arms for the return of Restaurant Wars. The show's signature challenge is a polarizing one for Top Chef fans, with some loving the…
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May 08, 2024
It's been several years now since Pushing Daisiesand Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller last produced a full season of TV, with his most recent projects being an executive producer role on Sam Wineman's Netflix docuseries Queer For Fear—and then a blistering denunciation of Wineman, after the latter sued him for sexual…
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May 08, 2024
In a collaboration unseen since Judge Doom attempted to drown Toontown in Dip to make way for a freeway to connect Hollywood to Pasadena, Disney and Warner Bros. are joining forces. Announced via press release today, Disney and Warner Bros will begin offering a streaming bundle in the coming months that combines…
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May 08, 2024
If there's a running joke currently going in Hollywood that's funnier to us than Chris Pine saying "Fuck if I know" every time someone asks him about a new Star Trek movie, we're not privy to it. Pine, who's debuting his new film Poolman this week, got asked the obligatory question about the film franchise that made…
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May 08, 2024
Maya Rudolph is one of the most prolific and beloved players to ever grace the Saturday Night Live stage. Without her, we wouldn't have Beyoncé on Hot Ones (a sketch that still needs to become a reality), a version of Kamala Harris that we can laugh at with slightly less trepidation for the future of our country,…
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May 08, 2024
Sunspot, also known as Roberto "Bobby" da Costa, is not only hot, rich, and single; he's also the first Latino character to be a core part of a televised X-Men team. It only took 30 years for an X-Men team to on the small screen to make a Latinx character one of the main members. That's correct: This super-powered…
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May 08, 2024
Steve Albini, among the most influential and respected figures in American independent music, known for producing Nirvana, The Pixies, and his bands, has died. As confirmed by the staff of his recording studio to Pitchfork, Albini died of a heart attack. He was 61.
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May 08, 2024
As the Planet Of The Apes franchise has shown us for almost 60 years, its primates won't stop evolving, and neither will its movies. Case in point: the saga of Caesar, brought to motion-capture life by Andy Serkis in three films released throughout the 2010s, was a bleaker affair compared to the sci-fi shocks that…
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May 08, 2024
On television, what's died never stays dead. We've done this reboot dance before, we'll do it again—but in truth, few TV reboot/spin-off/continuations are as high profile as The Office. There's been buzz about this potential new series for months, and with Greg Daniels behind the wheel, it does actually have the…
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May 08, 2024
Beyoncé's Renaissance and Taylor Swift's Eras Tour concert films continue to impact the culture in beautiful, unexpected ways. While not explicitly a result of the success of those two movies, HBO has nevertheless finally announced a release date for Gaga Chromatica Ball, the Lady Gaga concert special that was filmed…
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May 08, 2024
India Donaldson takes the coming-of-age parent-child road trip for a spin in her directorial debut, Good One, which premiered earlier at this year'sSundance Film Festival. In theaters August 9, Good One centers on a teen named Sam (Lily Collias) who goes camping with her dad (James Le Gros) and his longtime best…
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May 08, 2024
From allegations of favoritism and sexual harassment to Bethenny Frankel's proposed reality star union, Bravo, the Real Housewives franchise, and specifically Andy Cohen have faced a real reckoning over the past few months. In a lengthy new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Cohen has finally spoken out about the…
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May 08, 2024
Maybe nature is indeed healing, because Reba McEntire is headed back to network television. The beloved country singer-cum-actor is not only launching another sitcom, she's doing it with her old Reba crew. Co-star Melissa Peterman and showrunner Kevin Abbott are both on board for the new show, Happy Place. The pilot…
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May 08, 2024
That documentary that has Kevin Spacey so worked up is finally airing in the U.S. Spacey Unmasked, which aired earlier this week on the U.K.'s Channel 4, will premiere on May 13 on Investigation Discovery (the go-to destination for exploitative true crime content). The doc delves into Spacey's history as well as the…
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May 08, 2024
Taylor Swift has finally locked herself down a working actor boyfriend. It turns out all she needed to do was date a football player first. Travis Kelce is continuing to take full advantage of his new golden ticket to Hollywood with a role in Grotesquerie, the latest horror series from Ryan Murphy (via Deadline). Plot…
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May 08, 2024
Apple TV is finally ready to dredge the lake. The Lady In The Lake is heading to Apple TV , nearly two years after an "extortion threat" that jeopardized its production. Nevertheless, now that that's all squared away, Apple says Lady In The Lake will debut with two episodes on Friday, July 19. New episodes will be…
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May 08, 2024
Movie stars will literally direct a whole movie about going to therapy instead of, you know, actually going to therapy. This could be the tagline for Chris Pine's Poolman, a film that so deeply misunderstands what normal people like about the movies that it could have only come from someone who's never done anything…
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May 08, 2024
Is that all there is? No, seriously, is that all there is? That's the song Maxine (Kristen Wiig) sings—sort of—for her big Beach Ball number, but I'm genuinely asking it about Palm Royale. When the finale ended, I went to Google to make sure I hadn't made a mistake in the number of episodes. I have seen a lot of…
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May 07, 2024
Best known for playing Game Of Thrones' Kevan Lannister, British actor Ian Gelder died on Monday. As confirmed by his partner, Ben Daniels, Gelder's death was the result of complications related to bile duct cancer, which he was diagnosed with in 2023. He was 74.
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May 07, 2024
Nothing says billionaires are funny, normal people that are in no way thin-skinned like editing boos out of an event designed to make celebrities look like good sports. Two days removed from Netflix's so-called The Greatest Roast Of All Time, a.k.a. The Roast Of Tom Brady, the streamer and participants are already…
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May 07, 2024
As proof that maybe this whole rap beef thing has gone a little too far, a security guard was shot and seriously injured outside Drake's Toronto mansion early Tuesday. Per CBC, police could not confirm if Drake was home at the time of the 2 a.m. shooting, but he and his team are reportedly cooperating with…
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May 07, 2024
Michelle Yeoh continues her post-Oscar hot streak landing the lead of Blade Runner 2099, the Prime Video sequel series to Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 (which was a sequel to Ridley Scott's Blade Runner). That's basically all we know about the show so far, besides the fact that Scott is producing, Silka Luisa (S…
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May 07, 2024
If you're nearing the end of your 2024-mandated Girls rewatch and don't want to leave Hannah behind just yet, you don't totally have to. While Lena Dunham has spent the majority of the past few years behind the camera on shows like Genera ion and Catherine Called Birdy, she's returning to acting for the first time…
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May 07, 2024
There's no dearth of options on Hulu, so deciding what to watch can be overwhelming. Instead of figuring out which show will keep you on your couch for several hours, check out our roundup of the best series on the streamer, including beloved Hulu originals, FX hits, network TV favorites, and cult gems. Looking for…
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May 07, 2024
Anya Taylor-Joy is definitely cool and definitely smart, but she still can't even parallel park. The Dune: Part Two actor doesn't have a driver's license, despite the fact that she stars in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the biggest, fastest car movie of the year. "I'm never in one place long enough to get one," Taylor-Joy…
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May 07, 2024
The war between Drake and Kendrick Lamar has been hit with an unexpected—and we really mean unexpected—third player: Macklemore. Yes, you read that right. The "Thrift Shop" rapper dropped a track called "Hind's Hall" last night that yes, mentions Drake, but also covers some far more urgent territory; namely, the war…
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May 07, 2024
Former and current Disney CEO Bob Iger has expressed his concerns about Too Much Marvel. Previously, he said that the increased volume of films and television series in the MCU "diluted focus and attention" of the audience. On Disney's quarterly earnings call on Tuesday, Iger announced his solution (via The Hollywood…
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May 07, 2024
There's an old adage in horror: The less you show a monster, the scarier it is. Horror filmmakers are, by necessity, skilled at using darkness and shadows to creep out audiences. Working with a small budget and limited resources, you learn quickly how to make a little go a long way. But some creators relish a…
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May 07, 2024
Stars, they're just like us... sometimes their moms fall for AI-generated images on Facebook. Katy Perry had to give her own mother a little lecture on the dangers of internet trickery, when she got an incredibly sweet text saying that she "look[ed] like the rose parade, you are your own float" on the Met Gala carpet…
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May 07, 2024
Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock made magic together on the set of Speed (and, sorta kinda, on The Lake House—though their characters spend most of that time apart). For the 30th anniversary of their genre-defining action movie, the duo spoke with the 50 MPH podcast about their experience working together: "[Lightning]…
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May 07, 2024
Dark Matter, Apple TV 's sleek sci-fi thriller that premieres May 8, wastes no time in getting to the good stuff. Within the first 20 minutes of episode one, physics professor and Chicago family man Jason (Joel Edgerton) is kidnapped, drugged, stripped, and somehow booted to an alternate reality.
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May 07, 2024
If The Fall had come out this year, you might wonder if the 2006 cult classic and David Leitch's The Fall Guy were born from the same prompt at a writers' workshop. Beyond the mirrored titles, the divisive labor of love from Tarsem Singh (known professionally as Tarsem) shares an oddly similar jumping-off point with…
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May 07, 2024
A new romantic comedy starring Anne Hathaway, the Oscar-winning American Fiction, Mia Goth in the horror prequel Pearl, and a number of Alfred Hitchcock classics lead the offerings from Amazon's Prime Video this May. In The Idea Of You, Anne Hathaway plays a single mother who gets her groove back with the much younger…
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May 07, 2024
What a lovely day for George Miller to return to the Wasteland. With Furiosa, Miller's fifth visit to the putrid remains of humanity sometime in the not-so-distant future, the action filmmaker who has consistently redefined action filmmaking returns to the Mad Max world more prepared than ever. After the infamously…
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May 06, 2024
After last year's culture-breaking season of Vanderpump Rules, there was much concern over how it would follow up. Could the show pull itself from the wreckage of Scandoval, and more importantly, could it do so without one of its key players? The answer across these last 14 weeks has been, eh, whatever.
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May 06, 2024
Listen up, gossip fiends! We have another pop culture mystery à la "who made Rebecca Ferguson's life miserable" and "which talk show host made Freddie Highmore hide in a broom closet" for all of you wannabe Hercule Poirots out there. This one comes from Emily Blunt, who recently lived up to her last name on The Howard…
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May 06, 2024
The long-prophesied fourth Riddick movie is actually coming. Star Vin Diesel and writer-director David Twohy have been teasing this new installment since the last film (Riddick) in 2013, so you may be forgiven for thinking that it might never come to fruition over the decade that has since passed. But last year Twohy…
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May 06, 2024
"We're only doing six episodes, so the show will never hit its groove," proclaimed John Mulaney at the start of the first episode of Everybody's In L.A., a live multi-night special that kicked off last Friday on Netflix. The comic didn't say he'd just flown in, but boy, did his eyes look tired. It was almost like he'd…
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