O n a cool September morning in Culver City, California, the host of Jeopardy! strides across the Alex Trebek Stage to perform what is now a ritual at the start of each taping. The host is not Alex Trebek, the reserved Canadian expat who occupied that role for 36 years, …
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You did it, Golden Globes. You made it to 2025. It sounds crazy, but the unkillable tenacity of the Golden Globes is such a surprise, it’s downright heartwarming. Just a couple of year ago, it looked like the end of the line for the drunkest, messiest, tackiest, ditziest, and bitchiest …
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There have been a lot of weird TV crossovers over the years, but the upcoming union of Abbott Elementary and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia may be the first one where the creator of one half of the crossover is actively discouraging some of her viewers from watching the other …
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Francophiles, adventurous TV viewers, and those prone to scoffing at streamer algorithms may remember the first time they came across The Bureau, a drama set within the General Directorate for External Security (in French, the DGSE). Actor-director Matthieu Kassovitz played Guillaume Debailly — code name: Malotru — a spy who’d …
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In the premiere of the most recent season of Sesame Street,innocent conversations among residents of 123 Sesame Street keep being interrupted by a typically confused and apoplectic Grover. He points out all the ways that each group is filled with seemingly incompatible people —kids who are several years apart in …
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In October, when the seemingly never-ending press tour for Wicked first began, Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo “held space” for America’s unofficial first family: the Kardashians. The sisters, their kids, and matriarch Kris Jenner posed in matching pajamas for a special screening at Kim Kardashian’s home, which had been transformed …
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This year, for the first time in a while, a movie gave me the boost of serotonin that only hits my brain when I’m watching a great rom-com. It happened near the end of the Netflix film Hit Man, directed by Richard Linklater and starring Glen Powell and Adria Arjona. …
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Robert Eggers likes to go in cold. “In theory, I don’t care for this,” the soft-spoken 41-year-old filmmaker says, glancing around the hotel room he’s sitting in. “If I see a trailer for a movie made by a director I’m a fan of, or someone tells me about an obscure …
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With every generation comes a moral panic about sex. Usually, the fear is that young people are having too much of it, or that the art they’re consuming — movies and TV, music, even video games — is encouraging reckless and immoral behavior. But the arrival of Gen Z, the …
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Step into the lobby of the midtown New York offices of A24, the film production company that’s earned its reputation as an auteur-friendly studio and distributor. Walk away from the tidy receptionist’s desk and through the tastefully decorated lobby, past the long, slab-like conference table and the surprisingly comfortable couches …
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