Michael Gambon, the BAFTA-winning British actor best known for portraying Professor Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter film series, has died at the age of 82. Gambon died following a bout with pneumonia, his publicist told the BBC. His family added in a statement, “We are devastated to announce the …
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It was 20 years ago this month that Jack Black put on a bow tie, walked into a prep school, and told a bunch of fourth graders to get the Led out. His star turn as the lovable loser in Richard Linklater’s School of Rock helped the film gross nearly …
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The golden rule is usually, “Show, don’t tell.” And Wes Anderson is a filmmaker who — judging by the overly meticulous mise-en-scène, the highly mannered methods of his storytelling, the obsessive curating and compulsive footnoting of onscreen bric-a-brac — seems to love the structure that comes with obeying unwritten rules. …
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The ultimate serial vacationer, Dua Lipa, isn’t actually all that relaxed in the official trailer for Argylle, the Apple TV+ film scheduled to arrive in theaters on Feb. 2. She stars alongside Henry Cavill as a slick-talking spy ready to face off with her rival in a shimmering gold dress. …
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In case you’ve somehow forgotten how much middle school sucks, the trailer for the seventh season of Big Mouth is a fine reminder. There are guys having aggro freakouts in gym class, people’s crushes getting interested in other students, and, maybe worst of all, one student (John Mulaney‘s character, Andrew …
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This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The Masked Singer. Following the Season 10 premiere of The Masked Singer Wednesday night, actor and comedian Anthony Anderson was the first celebrity to be unmasked after being correctly guessed by panelist Ken Jeong. Stunned, Jeong praised Anderson for the fun …
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After 148 days, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike will officially end at midnight. Following a tentative agreement after more than five months of bitter negotiations, the board of the WGA West and council of the WGA East voted unanimously on Tuesday to end the strike at 12:01 a.m. …
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This post contains spoilers for the Reservation Dogs series finale, which is now streaming on Hulu. Two weeks ago, Reservation Dogs dropped an episode that could have easily functioned as a series finale. It featured callbacks galore, a full-circle moment where Bear invites Jackie’s crew to join the Rez Dogs, …
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This post contains spoilers for the series finale of Reservation Dogs, which we recapped here. The finale is now streaming on Hulu. Why? This seems to be the most pressing question for Reservation Dogs co-creator Sterlin Harjo. The Indigenous teen comedy just finished its third and final season, having only …
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Let’s say you’re a band — a famous and well-regarded one — and you are deep into a tour that’s ambitious, theatrical, and almost triples the number of musicians you normally have onstage. Once upon a time, you played stark post-punk songs and Al Green covers at CBGB. Now your …
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