When actress Tessa Thompson met musician Arooj Aftab in London last summer, she felt like they were long-lost sisters. “I honestly can’t remember not listening to Arooj. Can’t be sure how she first came into my ears, but her music was instantly familiar and essential,” Thompson tells Rolling Stone. “Maybe …
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It’s a truth universally acknowledged that the Marvel Cinematic Universe — or, and we’re just coining this term right this very second, the “MCU” — has had a shaky time trying to find a post-Infinity Saga groove. But one of the major highlights of the past few years has been …
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The Adonis Creed that we meet at the start of Michael B. Jordan’s Creed III isn’t yet the Creed that we know, a headstrong champion laboring in his father’s shadow. Here, he’s just 15 years old. He’s a sidekick to an older teen named Damian — “Diamond Dame,” they call …
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Go back and rewatch that first Thor movie if you haven’t seen it in a while. You might have forgotten how self-serious it is. Sure, you’ve got Tom Hiddleston’s trickster-bro Loki, and Thor eating enough pancakes to give a rhino a cardiac arrest, and our man throwing a mug on …
Read More »'Westworld' Season Four Trailer Previews Surreal New Worlds
Westworld will return for an eight-episode fourth season June 26 on HBO Max. The sci-fi drama, which aired its third season over two years ago, hinted at what’s to come in an unsettling teaser trailer titled, “It doesn’t look like anything to me.” The trailer, set to Lou Reed’s “Perfect …
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