The national opioid crisis has inspired a new series that hopes to lead to change. On Tuesday, Netflix released the trailer for Painkiller, a six-episode fictional series inspired by the real events that led to the rise of Purdue Pharma and Oxycontin. Uzo Aduba plays the lead prosecutor Edie Flowers, …
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Jennifer Lawrence is hilarious. Sure, she made her name as an actor in dead-serious indie dramas (The Burning Plain, Winter’s Bone), franchise tent poles (The Hunger Games trilogy, those X-Men 2.0 blockbusters), the kind of nerve-shredding films that fall somewhere between horror and thriller (House at the End of the …
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J. Harrison Ghee started their day eating a bacon, egg, and cheese McGriddle. They ended the night making history as the first non-binary performer to win a Tony Award for best leading actor in a musical for their role as Jerry/Daphne in the new musical comedy Some Like It Hot, …
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Jennifer Lawrence staves off losing the family home by “dating” a wealthy albeit socially awkward teenager in the red band trailer for No Hard Feelings, the actress’ first foray into non-doomsday big-screen comedy. After an ex-boyfriend/tow truck driver (played by Ebon Moss-Bachrach) repossesses her car, Lawrence’s Maddie — a now-out-of-work …
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