Maria Bakalova made her late-night talk show debut on Monday night’s The Late Late Show With James Corden, discussing her breakout role in Sacha Baron Cohen’sBorat Subsequent Moviefilm. The Bulgarian actress had never done improv comedy before starring in the film, in which she plays Borat’s teenage daughter Tutar. But …
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A review of this week’s Fargo, “East/West,” coming up just as soon as my dog is named Rabbit… In 2009, the Coen brothers sat down with critic Elvis Mitchell for a career retrospective conversation on their home turf in Minneapolis. At one point in the wide-ranging discussion, Mitchell asks about …
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John Oliver relished Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 presidential election and looked ahead at the fights to come on Last Week Tonight Sunday, November 8th. The host began with a recap of how Election Day turned into election week, as key swing states counted mountains of mail-in ballots and …
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Documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney will profile psychologist Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis, who spent years delving into the minds of murderers, in his new film Crazy, Not Insane, premiering November 18th on HBO. Lewis began her career as a child psychologist, which led to an interest in how childhood trauma can …
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Jeremy Strong is not a broken man. He comes from a good family full of empathy — his mom a hospice nurse, his father a social worker. He went to Yale and picked up tips from Daniel Day-Lewis while serving as the actor’s assistant. Strong knows what he’s doing. Professionally, …
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Before a single line of dialogue is uttered in Charm City Kings — before the title credits have barely begun rolling — you hear the sound of motorbikes: a whirring, revving, sputtering cacophony that sounds like the occupants of a hornet’s nest switching to savage mode. In Baltimore, Maryland, the …
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Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon took on the unenviable task of responding live to the chaotic first debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden on their respective late-night shows Tuesday, September 29th. Colbert opened his monologue with a melodramatic distillation of the night’s mania, …
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Dr. Jane Goodall was Trevor Noah’s guest onThe Daily Show Tuesday night, discussing her continued work with the Gombe chimpanzees as well as her global efforts to bring awareness to climate change and poverty through the Jane Goodall Institute. When asked if our primate relatives have enacted the same devastating …
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Ahead of Sunday’s Emmy Awards, Amazon Prime Video has shared the trailer for its upcoming anthology series Small Axe, featuring five films directed and co-written by 12 Years a Slave filmmaker Steve McQueen. “Small Axeis an anthology comprised of five original films set from the late 1960s to the mid …
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A hit-and-run accident sparks a domino effect of murder and mayhem in the new trailer for Your Honor, a Showtime limited series starring Bryan Cranston. In the preview, the son of Cranston’s New Orleans judge character is involved in the deadly hit-and-run, with the ensuing coverup of the crime sparking …
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