Jennifer Lopez found love with someone other than fiancé Alex Rodriguez while hosting last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live. In the pre-recorded sketch, Lopez rehearses in an empty theater before being startled by “roadie” Chad, Pete Davidson‘s recurring SNL character. In every Chad sketch, Davidson’s character plays a stereotypical …
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Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire isone of the most beautiful and transporting films you will ever see. The titular subject is Héloïse (Adèle Haenel), a reluctant bride-to-be who refuses to sit for a wedding portrait commissioned by her French Countess mother (Valeria Golino) in 1770. Subterfuge is …
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Hulu has unveiled the Season 2 trailer for their Aidy Bryant-starring sitcom Shrill. The series’ eight new episodes arrive on the streaming service on January 24th. “After facing her demons — her mom, her boss and, of course, her troll — Annie starts the season feeling pretty good with boyfriend …
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Al Pacino leads a group of vigilantes on the hunt for escaped Nazis in the trailer for the upcoming Amazon Prime Video series Hunters, executive-produced by Jordan Peele. “There comes a time when we all must choose between the light and the darkness,” Pacino’s character tells his squad of everyday …
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This emotional typhoon unleashed in Waves is the work of Trey Edward Shults, 31, the Texas-born writer-director marked as a talent to watch thanks to his first two features: the blistering family melodrama/portrait of an addict Krisha (2014) and the blistering family melodrama/psychological horror movie It Comes at Night (2017). …
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A review of this week’s The Good Place, “Help Is Other People,” coming up just as soon as I wear the same watch as Richie Sambora… Last week, I argued that Season Four had done a bad job of developing and using the four human test subjects, the rebooted Chidi …
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Edward Norton can’t escape his association with Fight Club. In a segment for The Late Late Show, Norton gets roped in to a fight club run by host James Corden, who tries to convince the actor that he’s going to love it. In the clip, Corden, dressed as Brad Pitt’s …
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When Damon Lindelof was a teenager in 1989, he and his comic book-loving father spent $35 on a bootleg copy of the script to Watchmen, Batman screenwriter Sam Hamm’s attempt to adapt Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ seminal deconstruction of superheroes and their stories. Over sandwiches, Lindelof’s dad began reading …
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The latest trailer for the new Charlie’s Angels movie, directed by Elizabeth Banks, is out now. Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska star as the titular Angels working for the mysterious Charlie Townsend, played by Patrick Stewart. The film is in theaters November 15th. In this trailer, we get more …
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Actor Rob Garrison, who was best known for playing Tommy in The Karate Kid, has died at the age of 59. Garrison’s representative, Rick Henriques, confirmed his death to Rolling Stone, adding via Garrison’s family that the actor had been hospitalized in West Virginia for over a month as he …
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