You do not need to have attended Yale, or indeed any Ivy League university in any East Coast state, to recognize the archetype that is Hank Gibson. He’s handsome, bearded, and young, though not nearly as young as the students who eagerly congregate around him, hanging on his every word. …
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Ayo Edebiri‘s response to a strange interview moment went viral over the weekend while she was promoting After the Hunt with co-stars Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield at the Venice Film Festival. Over the weekend, the trio of actors sat with ArtsLife TV, when the interviewer directed a question about …
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The characters in Luca Guadagnino‘s forthcoming dramatic thriller,Into the Hunt,are obsessed with language —the words that are said, and even more so, the ones left unspoken. Early in the first trailer for the film, Andrew Garfield‘s overzealous academic Hank pokes at Ayo Edebiri‘s Maggie, an overachieving student enrolled in a …
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When the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame released the names of special guests coming to the ceremony this year, quite a few people were surprised to see Julia Roberts listed alongside the likes of Questlove and Tom Morello. But Dave Matthews Band fans knew Roberts was a long time …
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The life of Elvis Presley has been immortalized in film multiple times in recent years, including in Elvis (2022) and Priscilla (2023). Elvis and Priscilla Presley’s only child, Lisa Marie, was mostly absent from the narrative, given that she was still a child when Elvis died. She finally told her …
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How do you build an acting career you’re proud of? Well, for Myha’la Herrold, breakout star of HBO’s Industry and the standout in Netflix’s latest apocalyptic drama Leave the World Behind, it starts with saying no. “Honestly, I have sort of been the same bitch from like the beginning of …
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Sam Esmail sacrificed his hearing while making his new apocalyptic thriller Leave the World Behind. You see, in the Netflix adaption of Rumaan Alam’s 2020 novel, there’s a noise so terrifying that it incapacitates the entire country — and Esmail had to get it just right. “As a filmmaker, I …
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It starts not with a bang, but a lack of Wi-Fi. The internet goes down, which means no social media, no email, no communications with the outside world, and — because this is a Netflix movie about worst-case scenarios — no streaming. Then satellites are knocked out, which kills any …
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In the Netflix film Leave the World Behind, the apocalypse doesn’t look like brain-hungry zombies or Earth-invading aliens. For the Sanford and Scott families, it looks like blackouts, cyber-attacks, and unlikely (though deeply untrustworthy) unions with one another. In the trailer for the film, which arrives on Dec. 8, Julia …
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Last Week Tonight, the late-night program hosted by John Oliver, usually sticks to adding context to complicated news stories — breaking down bills, the implications of different political decisions, the fallout from structural failures. But this week, Oliver had to strip the show down to an elementary level to explain …
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