In much of today’s filmmaking, from superhero movies to TikTok videos, time is compressed, speeding the action along much faster than it could ever go in reality. In the animated worlds meticulously crafted by Japanese director Naoko Yamada, however, life moves gloriously, realistically slow. Schoolchildren walk at a measured pace, …
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This post contains spoilers for the first episode of Paradise, which Hulu released over the weekend. When This Is Us debuted in the fall of 2016, its pilot episode concluded with a twist that recontextualized everything we had been watching to that point: Instead of telling the parallel, contemporaneous stories …
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After successful runs in 2023 and 2024, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler announced their Restless Leg comedy tour is back again in 2025. Extending the duo’s first-ever live tour into this year, new dates for The Restless Leg Tour begin on March 29 starting in Florida. The tour will also …
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Back in the 1990s, there was no bigger musical superstar than Alfred Moretti. “Global” doesn’t begin to describe his level of fame. His particular brand of old-school glam rock, new-school electro-pop and sheer charisma meant he topped every chart imaginable. He reinvented genres, cavorted with presidents and popes, broke Cindy …
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The first trailer for Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone’s remake of the 1993 queer comedy The Wedding Banquet is here and it doesn’t disappoint. Based on Ang Lee’s 1993 film, The Wedding Banquet stars Yang and Gladstone alongside Kelly Marie Tran and Han Gi-chan. The film shows the dynamics of …
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Netflix’s most popular dating show — and consequential, at least in terms of shaping the labor rights landscape of reality TV — is back, with Love Is Blind revealing its cast for Season Eight. This year, the show is headed to Minneapolis with a cast of 32 Midwest singles who …
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A reality TV series documenting the life of Alec Baldwin, his wife Hilaria, their seven kids, and their six pets, is headed to TLC next month. The Baldwins tackles both family hysteria and the Hollywood headlines surrounding the 30 Rock star. The first episode takes place in East Hampton as …
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In the Nineties, Keith Hunter Jesperson murdered at least eight woman over a five-year time span. Soon he got the name Happy Face Killer, after sending law enforcement post-murder notes featuring the cheerful expression. Paramount+ released a trailer Monday for the true-crime series Happy Face, tracing the former truck driver’s …
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Following Billy Ray Cyrus‘ whisper-toned performance at the Liberty Inaugural Ball Jan. 20, a family member and online fans have expressed concern for the country star. Cyrus took the mic again, this time to spread a message of “healing.” He shared a music video to his 2009 track, “Somebody Said …
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After not making it to hometowns during Jenn Tran’s season of The Bachelorette, Grant Ellis insists he’s still looking for love, escalating his search for a wife as the star of the upcoming season of The Bachelor. As the new season premieres on Monday, Jan. 27, following Ellis as he …
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