Robert Downey Jr. poked fun at movie critics during his acceptance speech at the annual Critics Choice Awards last night. After winning Best Supporting Actor for his work in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, Downey took the opportunity to recount some of his worst reviews. “I was thinking this morning: I love …
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“War. War never changes.” It’s a grim warning, which leads the introductory monologue to every mainline game in the Fallout franchise. It’s a real mood-setter, usually accompanied by a summary of the state of society: In an alternate future, the world is living in retro-futurist, atompunk bliss. That is, until …
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Ebon Moss-Bachrach singled out Taylor Swift and Olivia Colman in his Critics Choice Awards acceptance speech Sunday night after winning Best Supporting Actor in a comedy series for his role in The Bear. “I’ve got to thank my two special scene partners Olivia Colman and Taylor Swift,” Moss-Bachrach said, also …
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Theo James is ready to learn the family business in a teaser trailer for The Gentlemen, a forthcoming Netflix series based on the Guy Ritchie film of the same name. The series, which premieres in March, takes place in the same world as the 2019 Matthew McConaughey crime drama, but …
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Christian Friedel was overcome with shame. Days before playing Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, in Jonathan Glazer’s film The Zone of Interest, the German actor chose to visit Auschwitz for the first time. And since he’d already been given an undercut, Friedel had to tuck his Nazi …
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Anthony Carrigan was supposed to die in the first episode of Barry. And yet, his cheerful Chechen mobster in the crime-comedy series managed to survive for four seasons. “I was really rewarded with the opportunity to have this arc with Hank in which he starts off as this lovable goofball …
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It took two minutes of screen time for Plane Jane to become the villain of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 16. Right away, the shady Boston queen showed her true colors describing herself as an “authentically Russian hooker” and calling (according to the subtitles) a plus-sized queen a “piglet” in her …
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For a character who is at the center of one full-length story, The Maltese Falcon, Sam Spade is as iconic as it gets in the world of detective fiction. Dashiell Hammett’s book, and John Huston’s 1941 movie adaptation with Humphrey Bogart, loom impossibly large over the gumshoe genre, to the …
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Peter Crombie, the actor who played “Crazy” Joe Davola on Seinfeld, has died at the age of 71. TMZ first reported and The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that Crombie died January 10 following a brief illness, his ex-wife Nadine Kijner wrote on social media. “It is with shock and extreme sadness …
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You might be familiar with Mean Girls on Broadway, most recently toplined by Sabrina Carpenter and Reneé Rapp, and you’ve almost definitely seen the 2004 movie, packed with more quotable moments than one can count. So, in the new movie musical Mean Girls, directors Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr. …
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