What if Rain Man was Batman? Sounds like the pitch for a comedy sketch that would have absolutely slayed in the summer of 1989. So it’s worth remembering that The Accountant, the 2016 action thriller that ran with that premise, was merely a preposterous crock and not some outdated outrage. …
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Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the celebrated documentary No Other Land, has published a new essay about being beaten and degraded by Israeli settlers, then blindfolded and detained at an army base, just weeks after winning an Academy Award. Ballal offered a detailed account of the harrowing experience, which he called …
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We already know an awful lot about the fates of many of the characters on Andor, but the show’s second season is nevertheless some of the most gripping television of the year so far. As the timeline barrels toward the beginning of Rogue One, leaping a year ahead every three …
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Julianne Moore toes the line between enigmatic socialite and cult leader in the new trailer for Sirens, a new limited series premiering May 22 on Netflix. In the series, Moore plays the wildly wealthy, but mysterious Michaela Kell, who presides over her luxurious seaside estate, Cliff House, with a rather …
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Michelle Wolf knows how a low-stakes news cycle works. It typically starts with an event, the backlash and discourse unfold, and after a while, everyone eventually moves on. After her appearance at the 2018 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the comedian figured this was the course it would take and was …
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On Wednesday evening, shortly after Ayo Edebiri made her entrance through the remarkably heavy doors of Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney (a feat even fellow guest Conan O’Brien struggled with on the same episode), she got comfortable and opened an envelope containing a review of the show she wrote for …
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During a press conference last week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attempted to paint autism as a one-dimensional cartoon villain sent to destroy the lives of once-“fully functional” children who “regressed into autism.” He claimed that autistic people would never pay taxes, be employed, play baseball, write poems, or even go …
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Pedro Pascal blasted J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans stance in response to the author celebrating a recent U.K. ruling that transgender women should not be recognized as women under Britain’s Equality Act. The actor’s response to Rowling was posted in the comments of an Instagram video posted by activist Tariq Ra’ouf, who …
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The Summer I Turned Pretty will return for its third and final season on July 16 via Prime Video. The 11-episode sunset season welcomes back main character Belly (Lola Tung), now in college, as she explores her relationship with Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno) and tries to make sense of whatever lingering …
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Saturday Night Live has revealed its host and musical guest lineup for its last three episodes of Season 50. On Thursday, the NBC show revealed that Quinta Brunson, Walton Goggins, and Scarlett Johansson will take on hosting duties for the final trio of shows with Benson Boone, Arcade Fire, and …
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