Sheryl Lee Ralph delivered an impassioned speech that evoked Rihanna during a rally for striking writers and actors Wednesday in Los Angeles. “You know why we’re here. You know what we deserve. And in the words of one of our SAG members, ‘Pay us what you owe us. Don’t act …
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One of the more wonderful surprises out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival was Cassandro, director Roger Ross Williams’ tender and poignant portrait of Saúl Armendáriz (Gael García Bernal), a gay lucha libre wrestler from El Paso (who spent much of his youth across the border in Juárez) who rose …
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“Politics and Potatoes” would have been a better name for the cooking show at the center of the Apple TV+ limited series Lessons in Chemistry. Set in the early 1950s, the eight-episode series stars Brie Larson as Elizabeth Zott, a chemist who ends up cooking in front of the nation …
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First-hand witness accounts shape the narrative for the second season of Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal. The second of three installments in the Netflix documentary series continues to delve into the night of June 7, 2021, when Alex Murdaugh murdered his wife, Maggie, and his son, Paul. This time, the …
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Frasier has re-entered the building, and he’s just as snobby as the last time you saw him in Seattle. A new trailer for the smash sitcom’s reboot series has finally arrived ahead of its premiere on Oct. 12 on Paramount+. The new clip opens with arguably the most Frasier of …
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Megan Thee Stallion is bringing her “Bongos” to Big Mouth. On Thursday, Netflix released a teaser for the animated show’s seventh season, featuring Megan Thee Stallion joining the case as a “hormone monstress.” Big Mouth 7 is set to premiere on Oct. 20. “Aw shit, booty fatter than a pear, …
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Dunkin‘ Donuts superfan Ben Affleck is back in his ad campaign for the brand (now technically known as Dunkin’). In a new commercial, which aired during the VMAs, Affleck is joined by rapper Ice Spice to promote Dunkin’s fall-themed frozen pumpkin spice drink, which inexplicably features ground-up pumpkin spice Munchkins …
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The new documentary Mr. Jimmy tells the story of a Japanese kimono salesman named Akio Sakurai, who worships Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page. For three decades, Sakurai has adopted the persona of “Mr. Jimmy,” playing guitar like Page and attempting note-for-note recreations of Led Zeppelin concerts in Tokyo clubs. After …
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Visual effects workers at Marvel Studios have voted to form a first-of-its-kind union with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. The Marvel VFX shop not only enjoyed a historic victory, but a landslide one as well: All votes cast in the election — held by mail between Aug. 21 …
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Bill Cosby is facing another sexual assault lawsuit, this one filed by Linda Ridgway-Whitedeer, who accused the disgraced actor of forcing her to perform oral sex on him during an audition in 1971. Ridgway-Whitedeer, 77, was part of an early wave of Cosby accusers, first accusing him of assault in …
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