Louise Fletcher, the veteran actress who earned a Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of the cruel, sadistic psych ward administrator Nurse Mildred Ratched in Milos Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, died Friday at the age of 88. Fletcher’s agent, David Shaul, confirmed her death to Rolling Stone, …
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Nearly two months after Netflix filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the Grammy-winning Unofficial Bridgerton Musical, the streaming service has dismissed its own lawsuit. Variety reports that Netflix filed to dismiss the lawsuit “with prejudice,” meaning the suit cannot be refiled, on Friday; earlier this week, the unofficial musical’s creators …
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After putting 657 Boulevard on the market with a fake viral ad, Netflix has unveiled the first real trailer for The Watcher, the streaming service’s upcoming limited series about the viral true-life saga centered on a suburban New Jersey home stalked by the titular creep. The Watcherputs a fictional spin …
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Jennifer Lopez is an assassin and mother who goes to great lengths to protect her daughter in a new teaser for The Mother. The film arrives in May via Netflix. In the film, Lopez portrays an assassin who has been in hiding as she’s being pursued by lethal enemies. She …
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A review of this week’s Atlanta, “Born to Die,” coming up just as soon as I’m Ice Cube’s best friend in Are There Yet 5… The funny thing about Paper Boi’s rise to fame on this show is that it all happened in between episodes and/or seasons. The premiere shows …
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Around the midway point of Catherine Called Birdy, Lena Dunham‘s deliriously fun yet pointed adaptation of Karen Cushman’s YA book, our hero — a 14 year-old named Catherine, nicknamed (surprise!) “Birdy,” played remarkably and brilliantly by Bella Ramsey — begins to list off what girls are not allowed to do. …
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Constance Wu alleges in her upcoming book that she was sexually harassed while working on Fresh Off the Boat by a senior member of the sitcom’s production team. Speaking to the New York Times ahead of Making a Scene’s release, Wu opened about the alleged sexual harassment she says she …
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He was our first Black movie star, in a certain, classical sense of that term. Other Black actors had appeared in popular Hollywood movies, had even gone so far as to win an Academy Award for their work before Sidney Poitier made it big (just one person — Hattie McDaniel …
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A relaxing vacation is turned on its head in the trailer for Knock at the Cabin, the latest movie from director M. Night Shyamalan. In the tense clip, Jonathan Groff plays a dad who arrives at a remote cabin with his husband and their daughter. Things quickly go array when …
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Great American Family, a television channel that’s not the Hallmark Channel, has big plans for white-collar criminal/actress Lori Loughlin, with network CEO Bill Abbott telling Variety: “She’s America’s sweetheart, regardless of whatever happened.” “Whatever happened” refers to, of course, the two months of prison Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli …
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