During the Daily Show‘s Monday episode, Jon Stewart criticized both left and right media for playing the blame game in the immediate aftermath of a mass shooting. The host opened his monologue by pointing out the “six mass shootings in 24 hours,” including the tragic shooting at a Michigan Mormon …
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Aimee Lou Wood has no regrets about calling out Saturday Night Live for the way they portrayed her White Lotus character. Back in April, the actor slammed Sarah Sherman’s impression as “mean and unfunny.” Now, in a new BBC News interview, Wood says she stands by every word. “I don’t …
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After Emma Watson offered a thoughtful and nuanced account of her relationship with J.K. Rowling in light of the Harry Potter creator’s anti-trans stances, Rowling responded by lambasting the actress as “ignorant.” During a recent podcast appearance, Watson described how she’s still able to value Rowling as a person, and …
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One Battle After Another, the sui generis 162-minute epic that’s now in wide release, is many movies in one. It’s writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s fiendishly inspired riff on postmodern master Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland; it’s a riveting action flick; it’s a hilarious stoner comedy; it’s a treatise on the …
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George Clooney got everything he could have wanted in the teaser trailer for Noah Baumbach‘s Jay Kelly. The actor fittingly plays an actor in the titular role — but one who doesn’t know what comes after fame and fortune. “Are you running to something, or from something?” his manager Ron …
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President Donald Trump appears keen on reviving his roundly criticized threat to impose a 100 percent tariff on movies made outside the United States. Trump made the announcement on Truth Social Monday, Sept. 29, writing, “Our movie making business has been stolen from the United States of America, by other …
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You hear him before you see him. First, there are a child’s drawings of soldiers and conflict, Irish flags and burning pubs and bodies separated from their limbs. Then a pastoral landscape appears, a portrait of nature that would be idyllic were it not for the ominous gray skies. A …
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“I’d like a Coke, with ice,” Paul Thomas Anderson says, addressing the waiter standing before his table. “And I’d like a Coke, with ice,” Leonardo DiCaprio echoes, emphasizing the words to the point that the renowned filmmaker sitting to his right immediately starts laughing as the server walks off. Anderson …
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The Trump administration’s attempt to silence Jimmy Kimmel appears to have backfired. The host’s broadcast return to late-night television on Tuesday brought in 6.2 million views, four timeshis usual audience, according to data from Nielsen. Meanwhile, Kimmel’s monologue on YouTube has reached 21 million views and counting, making it his …
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The Office stars Oscar Nuñez and Kate Flannery scored big on Thursday’s season finale of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. The actors, playing for Planned Parenthood and Philadelphia food bank Philabundance, won the coveted $1 million prize. On the game show, the duo reached the final question: “The word …
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