Early in Hulu’s revival of Veronica Mars, the title character (Kristen Bell) visits one of the many men she put behind bars as a teenager. Realizing that she’s still working as a private investigator, he snipes, “That was your job in high school, right?” Television shows are a product of …
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What we have here is an action-comedy about an Uber driver named Stu. Hence the title, Stuber. These are the jokes, folks. Also not funny — besides the title and the script — is the fact that Stuber traps two talented dudes — Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista — in …
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A review of “Kill Me,” this week’s Big Little Lies, coming up just as soon as I give someone a hug for the length of a nice inhale/exhale… A few episodes back, Madeline broke down at a school assembly as she considered the many ways that parents lie to their …
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The bearded sonic guru of Malibu gets his own Zen documentary! The CW raises the curtain on a BBC acquisition and a possible sci-fi tentpole! HBO rolls out yet another morbidly engrossing true-crime doc! IFC gives us a faux-Soul Train mockumentary Plus millennials get another season of their version of …
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A young songwriter “introduces” the world to the Beatles in Danny Boyle’s upcoming film Yesterday. We have an exclusive clip from the movie, which is out June 28th. The film stars Himesh Patel as Jack, an aspiring, but flailing, musician who’s involved in an accident while riding his bike at …
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The Roy family picks up the Lannister’s torch as HBO’s nastiest, most dysfunctional TV family in the new trailer forSuccession, which returns August 11th. Season Two finds Brian Cox’s Logan Roy — the Rupert Murdoch-esque family patriarch and CEO of the Waystar Royco media empire — welcoming his son Kendall …
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Finally — an Ad Astra trailer! We’ve been waiting to catch a glimpse of the James Gray/Brad Pitt sci-fi opus, and the first look at what these gentleman have in store for people who like space and headscratching existentialism more than delivers. Also: extended peeks at Martin Scorsese’s incredible new …
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20th Century Fox has dropped the first trailer for Brad Pitt‘s Ad Astra, a sci-fi thriller due in theater September 20th. The action-packed trailer shows Pitt as an astronaut who has to help save the Earth when he discovers his father, played by Tommy Lee Jones, has been doing threatening …
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In the annals of legendary sports rivalries, few are more fraught, complex and stomach-churning than the one between competitive eaters Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi. For several years, the pair went head-to-head in the annual Nathan’s Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Contest, and their story is the subject of a …
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You wouldn’t say that Saturday Night Live had an off year per se — any season that gave us the sight of Adam Driver crushing stuffed birds with a cane is not a complete flaming trash-heap of a failure. But there was a certain sense of SNL fatigue that started …
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