When the Marvel Cinematic Universe released its first tentpole film The Avengers in 2012, its success (grossing $1.5 million worldwide) set off a phase of superhero mania — where the least connected of films could get people to fill seats at the mere hint of a new casting or surprise …
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Jim Halpert and Pam Beesly may have one of the most memorable — and relatable — love stories in television history, but the couple’s ultimate bliss took nine seasons to get there. In celebration of the beloved comedy series The Office debuting on NBC 20 years ago, Jenna Fischer — …
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In the new showbiz comedy The Studio, Bryan Cranston has a recurring role as Griffin Mill, the craven movie executive played by Tim Robbins in the 1992 film The Player. It’s not the only homage that The Studio, co-created by and starring Seth Rogen, pays to Robert Altman’s classic movie …
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Jon Stewart fittingly opened Monday’s episode of The Daily Show with the dumbest news of the day: That an Atlantic journalist was accidentally added to a group chat where high-ranking members of the Trump administration were discussing ostensibly classified plans to bomb Houthi militants in Yemen. And Stewart of course …
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Following his attack by Israeli settlers and subsequent arrest by Israeli authorities, Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal — the co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land — has been freed. “After being handcuffed all night and beaten in a military base, Hamdan Ballal is now free and is about to …
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That macabre menace, that sinister specter, the Grim Reaper, Death himself, is back with some truly outrageous ways of taking out his unsuspecting victims in the new trailer for Final Destination Bloodlines. The new clip for the latest installment of the horror franchise opens with a truly Rube Goldberg-ian sequence …
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French actor Gérard Depardieu copped to using crude language and exhibiting some improper behavior, but denied allegations of sexual assault while testifying in a Paris court Tuesday, March 25. Per The Associated Press, the French actor took the stand for the first time in his trial, where he is facing …
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Charli XCX won’t be taking requests to play “Boom Clap” at your local college anytime soon. In the latest trailer for upcoming comedy seriesOvercompensating, created by comedian and actorBenito Skinner, Charli appears to play an outlandish version of herself as she yells at a hapless lady sporting an earpiece and …
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Ben Affleck is leaving the Batman mask and cloak behind for good. In a cover story interview with GQ, the actor called playing Bruce Wayne for 2017’s Justice League an “excruciating experience” and said he had no interest in the superhero genre at all. “I am not interested in going …
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Warning: Spoilers ahead for Episode Six of The White Lotus Season Three. It started from the very first episode. “Dude, long plane rides make me so fucking horny,” Saxon Ratliff (Patrick Schwarzenegger) declares, out of the blue, in the third-season premiere of The White Lotus. “It’s like, a lot of …
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