Actor and internet darling Penn Badgley wants to set the record straight: He’s not a nepo baby — but he is a daddy. While he’s perhaps best known for his role of Dan Humphrey in the OG Gossip Girl, life has changed a lot since Badgley last put on a …
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In the Nineties teen rom-com 10 Things I Hate About You, Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles), the film’s Riot Grrrl rebel who listens to Letters to Cleo and idolizes Sylvia Plath, wants nothing more than to attend Sarah Lawrence College. The choice tracks. A liberal arts college with fewer than 2,000 …
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When Harlem first aired in December 2021, Camille — the show’s protagonist, played by Meagan Good — reckoned with the changes to the once predominantly Black neighborhood. “The number of actual dateable men is bleak,” she lectured both to her television audience and a room of fictional students at Columbia …
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When there is a Black principal actor in a scary movie, we all know what their fate entails. Enter Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman and vet movie critic Mark H. Harris, who have made it their duty to hunt down the controversial cultural schisms in horror cinema from 1968 on …
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You’re never quite sure what Steven Soderbergh is going to do next. And that mercurial sensibility is part of his charm. The man who burst onto the scene at the age of 26 with his erotic thriller Sex, Lies, and Videotape has played in so many sandboxes, from crime comedies …
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A U.S. fighter jet shooting down China’s bizarrely conspicuous spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina is all people could talk about on Saturday, after days of the balloon floating over the country ahead of a high-level diplomatic meeting between U.S. and Chinese officials. And SNL opened tonight’s show …
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Following a fun cold open boasting Bowen Yang as the shot-down Chinese spy balloon, SNL aired a fake trailer for a dystopian The Last of Us-style HBO version of Mario Kart, starring host Pedro Pascal as Mario and Chloe Fineman as Princess Peach, as well as Kenan Thompson as Bowser. …
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After a fun cold open starring Bowen Yang as the shot-down Chinese spy balloon floating in the ocean, as well as a fake trailer for a gritty/dystopian Mario Kart HBO series in the vein of The Last of Us, featuring host Pedro Pascal as Mario, it was time for SNL’s …
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Between host Pedro Pascal, who played Mario in a The Last of Us-style spoof of Mario Kart, Bowen Yang’s angry Chinese spy balloon floating in the ocean after being shot down, and the Weekend Update team unloading on pathological liar (and Republican congressman) George Santos, there was quite a bit …
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Back in 1993, Hollywood had the shot of a lifetime. A shot at an opportunity to change the movie industry forever. They had all the ingredients: the rights to the highest-selling Nintendo video game and an untapped market greedy for more content. But they missed. The arrow didn’t even hit …
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