A review of this week’s Watchmen, “A God Walks Into Abar,” coming up just as soon as the chicken and the egg come at the very same time… It is the spring of 1988. I am reading Watchmen for the first time, in a thick trade paperback collection I brought …
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Larry David is tormented by a toaster in the first teaser for the upcoming and long-awaited 10th season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. In the minute-long clip, the ever-neurotic David manages to pinpoint the everyday annoyance of a simple kitchen appliance, with the unpredictability of the toaster driving the comedian to …
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It’d be easy to think Everybody’s Everything, the painfully intimate documentary on the late Lil Peep, is a strictly-for-the-fans endeavor — that the only audience are the people who heard songs like “U Said” or “Crybaby” and felt like someone had mysteriously tapped into their own inner monologues. And yes, …
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HBO has teased the upcoming third season of Westworld with a faux commercial hinting that the line separating humans and androids becomes blurrier when the sci-fi series returns. Whereas all of the action from Seasons 1 and 2 occurred under the umbrella of the Delos corporation’s theme park, the latest …
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Ahead of Election Day this Tuesday, November 5th, John Oliver explored the myriad ways our voting machines remain vulnerable to tampering. Most public-facing election officials will argue that none of the machines used are hackable, with one Pennsylvania official claiming they could set up a machine in the middle of …
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Hours after the House of Representatives voted to approve a resolution formalizing the procedures of the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi visited the Late Show to talk about the process and what’s next. “This is truly a historic day, thank you for making time …
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For nearly two decades, Edward Norton has been trying to realize his passion project — a film version of Jonathan Lethem’s landmark 1999 novel Motherless Brooklyn. Now the film is here, sporting a few signs of artistic struggle, but nonetheless an ardent and ambitious triumph for writer-producer-director-star Norton. You might …
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Aeronauts Eddie Redmayne enlists the help of Felicity Jones for a hot air balloon expedition destined to go beyond the heights reached by explorers before them. Set in 19th century London and based on true events, the film follows the pair as they navigate uncharted parts of the sky in …
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Bruce Springsteen eases into a damn fine feature-film directing debut, aided and abetted by his longtime collaborator Thom Zimny, with Western Stars, a transporting musical ode to the American West — old, new, and all those hypnotic and haunting shades in between. It’s true that the movie, in which Springsteen …
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The final trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is here and it promises an epic fight between good and evil. Disney unveiled the final glimpse at the upcoming movie during Monday Night Football and it includes far more footage than we’ve seen so far. As the clip opens, …
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