“It’s show time,” Kevin Hart announces in the first trailer for his forthcoming Netflix stand-up special. “Let’s just get to the shit.” From the looks of the new Kevin Hart: Irresponsible clip, “the shit” is his personal life and he appears to be forthcoming about the choices he’s made. “Well, …
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John Oliver lambasted psychic “mediums” on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, exploring the techniques they utilize to prey on people’s grief—and the shameful role pop culture plays in promoting their gambit as credible. Early in the segment, the comedian cited an October 2018 poll from the Pew Research Center that found …
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Natalie (Rebel Wilson), an Aussie architect working in Manhattan, hates rom-coms. She’s allergic to all the clichés of the genre, and ever since she was a child, her mom (Jennifer Saunders) has taught her that Hollywood fantasies with Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, etc. are “not for girls like us.” Working …
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Ahead of Super Bowl LIII, Jordan Peele has dropped the second trailer for his forthcoming horror film Us. The latest visual debuted Sunday alongside the launch of the Get Out director’s new subreddit for his company Monkeypaw Productions. The first trailer for Us, which dropped in December, highlights a typical …
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How can you miss with a film noir starring Matthew McConaughey as a fisherman tempted by femme fatale Anne Hathaway to feed her sadistic husband to the sharks for $10 million? And, hell, the script is by Steven Knight, who did himself proud with Dirty Pretty Things and Eastern Promises …
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The 2019 Academy Award nominations have been announced, and whether you want to refresh your memory, or catch up on the nominees, we’ve rounded up some easy ways to stream the nominated films, documentaries, and songs online before Oscar’s big night. Period comedy The Favourite and Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma lead …
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Sex Education debuted last week on Netflix. I liked the show a lot, and now want to talk about the season as a whole — with full spoilers — coming up just as soon as I write this book on raising a pubescent male… In light of almost everything that …
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A new documentary that reexamines the story of Lorena Bobbitt – the woman who infamously cut off her abusive husband’s penis – will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this month before arriving on Amazon February 15th. Filmmaker Joshua Rofé directed the four-part series, while Jordan Peele served as executive …
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Ellen DeGeneres personally called the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and urged them to re-hire Kevin Hart as Oscars host, she revealed on Friday’s Ellen. Hart stepped down from the 2019 gigin December after several of his years-old, homophobic tweets resurfaced online. “I called the Academy today because …
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Moments after the new year arrived on the East Coast, Stranger Things revealed the release date of its upcoming third season: July 4th, 2019. Additionally, the Netflix series also unveiled a cryptic four-minute teaser for Season 3, which takes place in the summer of 1985. The video features footage from Dick …
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