It’s hard to brand any piece of entertainment that takes place in the Star Wars universe, backed with the full promotional and budgetary firepower of the Disney Galactic Empire, as an underdog. But when Andor debuted in September, starring Diego Luna as the title character (previously seen in 2016’s Rogue …
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The best scene in Meet Me In the Bathroom, the excellent new documentary on the rock & roll scene that slouched into New York in the beginning of the 21st century: a parking lot under the Williamsburg Bridge, Brooklyn, Labor Day weekend, 2002. An afternoon punk show, maybe semi-quasi-not-illegal. The …
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Jennifer Coolidge’s coffee maker is broken. The actress is calling from her home in New Orleans, and she just can’t get her crappy automatic to work. “I hope you don’t think I’m an amoeba because I have no personality,” Coolidge, 61, says, deciding to brave the interview without caffeine. “We …
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More than three months after he was defeated by Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls on the biggest stage of his career, Charles Barkley picked up a basketball for the first time in September 1993 and stared down his next opponent: a stuntman in a knockoff Barney costume. Despite losing …
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Midway through Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, the parody artist, played by the very un-Yankovic-like Daniel Radcliffe, shows up blackout drunk and belligerent to one of his own concerts. His new girlfriend, Madonna (Evan Rachel Wood), is by his side when they’re confronted backstage by his manager, Dr. Demento (Rainn …
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This post contains spoilers for the first season of House of the Dragon, which is now streaming in its entirety on HBO Max. “The Black Queen” was the season finale of House of the Dragon Season One, and its climax appropriately summed up nearly everything about the show, good and …
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You probably have a favorite Cate Blanchett performance — if you’ve watched the Australian actor over the last three decades or so of her career, there are undoubtedly a few turns that rank higher than others in your personal Cate canon. Maybe you go for the big dramatic swings: Think …
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This post contains spoilers for the first season finale of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Early in “Alloyed,” the concluding chapter to Season One of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, engineer Celebrimbor (Charles Edwards) …
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On the latest installment of Celebrity Jeopardy!, host Mayim Bialik was interviewing that night’s contestants when a potentially awkward topic came up: Actor Ike Barinholtz is a huge fan of the other current Jeopardy! host, Ken Jennings. Barinholtz quickly elaborated that he loved watching Jennings as a Jeopardy! superchampion. As …
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Jamie Lee Curtis is deep in the promotional cycle for Halloween Ends, the supposed final chapter of a horror franchise that’s played a pivotal role in her life ever since she was 19 years old. But on this day in mid-August her mind is somewhere else: the little message on …
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