Saturday Night Live‘s final cold open of Season 44 ended on a musical note as the series’ Trump administration sang a tribute to the president to the tune of Queen‘s “Don’t Stop Me Now.” “I’m on cruise control to a second term and there is nothing the Democrats and Congress …
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A lot happens in each episode of Game of Thrones. So every week, we’re drilling down on one memorable scene in particular. Full spoilers for this week’s episode, “The Bells,” coming up. Two weeks ago, Arya Stark singlehandedly saved the world. This week, she nearly became one of thousands of …
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Alternately smarmy and achingly familiar, Little squeezes Big for one more run through the Hollywood grinder. (For starters, Shazam! does it better.) This time it’s the Tom Hanks movie in reverse: Instead of a kid turning into a grown-up, it’s an adult (Regina Hall) who gets zapped into her bullied, …
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It’s the closest thing to witnessing a miracle — just some cameras, a crowd and a voice touched by God. Over two days in January of 1972, Aretha Franklin got up to sing out her gospel at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, backed by the Southern California …
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Better Things is back. I reviewed Season Three earlier in the week, and I have a review of “Chicago,” the season premiere, coming up just as soon as I get you some more ramen and Plan B pills… “If I told you what my day was like in the first …
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It’s lights out for Madea, the battle-ax sass queen with a criminal background created three decades ago and portrayed by Tyler Perry. That’s right. Perry, 49, says he will no longer put on a gray wig and wiggle his 6-foot-5 frame into the floral print dresses of the geriatric black …
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Bohemian Rhapsody has been approved for theatrical release in China, a decision that reportedly surprised many considering the country’s track record of censoring homosexuality in films, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Despite the approval, certain sections of the movie will be cut, including scenes that feature drug use and Rami …
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Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen develop a professional flirtation in the trailer for political rom-com Long Shot. The film hits theaters on May 3rd. Theron plays Charlotte Field, the Secretary of State who is preparing a presidential bid. At an event, she runs into Fred Flarsky (Seth Rogen), whom she used …
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences clarified its controversial plan to not include four Oscar presentations during the live TV broadcast of this year’s Academy Awards,Variety reports. Earlier this week, Academy president John Bailey sparked outrage among members of the entertainment industry when he announced that the Oscars …
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Steve Buscemi probably isn’t the first actor who comes to mind to play God. James Earl Jones, Meryl Streep, Sir Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett — you want someone with noble and/or mysterious bearing to front any project where the Almighty is a significant character. Buscemi, wonderful though he always is, …
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