Some things just go together: peanut butter and jelly, wine and cheese, and John Mulaney and Saturday Night Live. While noting in the monologue that he means “a lot to a small group of people,” those people are all huge SNL fans. A host can’t automatically make a show good, …
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You know those days when you step out the door and it feels like the humidity has slapped you across the face, just in case there was any doubt how hot it was outside? That’s exactly how the quirkiness of AMC‘s new series Dispatches From Elsewhere hits you. From the …
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Saturday Night Live opened with an alternate reality where witnesses were allowed at Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. Instead of Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts, “The Trial You Wish Had Happened” was also presided over by daytime television’s Judge Mathis (played by Kenan Thompson). “This court needs a real judge that …
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You never see Harvey Weinstein in this movie. He’s never even mentioned. Yet the presence of the disgraced Manhattan film mogul and accused sexual predator is all over The Assistant, a darkly compelling, forensically detailed shocker from Australian writer-director Kitty Green about one young woman’s experience working for a monster. …
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Michael Palin and John Cleese remembered their Monty Python mate Terry Jones after the actor-director’s death following a lengthy battle with dementia. Jones died Tuesday at the age of 77. Speaking to the BBC Radio Four, Palin reminisced about his time with Jones: “He threw himself into things with such …
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Harry Styles managed to survive an interrogation about his underwear preference, guilty pleasures and more during a round of “Burning Questions” on Ellen Friday. The game got off to a delightful start when Styles had to ask Ellen DeGeneres to help explain the difference in shape between boxers and briefs …
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Disney, 20th Century Fox and Marvel Studios have released the first full trailer for The New Mutants, based on the popular X-Men spin-off series. The action-horror film arrives in theaters April 3rd. Maisie Williams and Anya Taylor-Joy both star as young mutants beginning to discover the extent of their powers through …
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Just Mercy isn’t what you would call groundbreaking — you’ve seen this kind of legal drama before, many times over. But the hard truths about racial injustice in its fact-based storytelling come through loud and clear, thanks to stellar performances from Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx. Jordan plays Bryan …
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It’s the Louisa May Alcott novel that most women cherish and some guys approach like Kryptonite. Thankfully, writer-director Greta Gerwig has not betrayed the feminine gaze that made the two-volume 1860s novel a literary landmark. Far from it. Instead, she shows why this story of four sisters and their mother, …
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Saturday Night Live parodied Marriage Story with a sketch about Kellyanne and George Conway where, in a bit of a role reversal, the politically divided couple’s therapist is played by the film’s star and SNL host Scarlett Johansson. As the therapist, Johansson asks Kellyanne and George (portrayed by Kate McKinnon …
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