The second season of Squid Game will premiere this year. In a letter to shareholders, Netflix revealed the slate of shows set to hit the streaming service in 2024, including the second season of the Hwang Dong-hyuk-directed series. “Looking ahead, despite last year’s strikes pushing back the launch of some …
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Ryan Gosling shared his disappointment with the Academy on Tuesday after Barbie star Margot Robbie and director Greta Gerwig failed to earn nominations for Best Actress and Best Director at this year’s Oscars. “There is no Ken without Barbie, and there is no Barbie movie without Greta Gerwig and Margot …
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In Billy Crystal’s musical medley that opened the 1992 Oscars, he sang a tribute to Barbra Streisand’s romantic drama The Prince of Tides to the tune of “Don’t Rain on My Parade,” the song made famous, of course, by Barbra Streisand. He crooned: “Seven nominations on the shelf, did this …
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The double standard is almost as old as hip-hop itself. A decorated filmmaker gets laurels for his or her latest bullet-laden gangster movie. A rock or country star is proclaimed a songwriting genius for violent tales of man’s inhumanity to man. But rappers are held to a different standard, their …
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Hollywood’s biggest night is almost here. Jimmy Kimmel is scheduled to host the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, March 10. And the only thing as exciting as seeing which directors, actors, screenwriters, and more take home an Oscar is knowing which ones have earned nominations for film’s top honor in …
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This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of True Detective: Night Country, now available on HBO and Max. When the first True Detective season concluded 11 years ago, a lot of the finale discourse revolved around the lack of any supernatural elements after the previous episodes had been laced …
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Lana Wilson was in her mid-twenties and working for a non-profit in New York City when she learned that George Tiller, the medical director of one of the only clinics in the U.S. that provided third trimester abortions, had been assassinated by an anti-abortion terrorist. “I was so horrified and …
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A complaint alleging that French actor Gerard Depardieu sexually assaulted actress Hélène Darras during the 2007 filming of Disco has been dismissed by French prosecutors. The prosecutor’s office deemed that a complaint falls outside the statute of limitations, according to Variety. Darras filed the initial complaint in September 2023, having …
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Netflix has released the first official teaser for their upcoming suspense series Ripley, starring All of Us Strangers‘ Andrew Scott. Directed by Academy Award winner Steven Zaillian, the series follows Tom Ripley (Scott) as a New York grifter in the early 1960s. When a wealthy man pays him to venture …
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Glen Powell‘s on-screen characters have been doing a fair amount of pretending recently. The actor recently starred alongside Sydney Sweeney in the box-office hit Anyone But You, deploying the classic fake-dating trope to make rom-com gold. In the first trailer for Richard Linklaster’s Hit Man, Powell is still playing pretend, …
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