So Adele sang on Saturday Night Live after all — even if it was just a comic medley of her classic hits, playing herself in a parody of The Bachelor. It was the only singing she did all night, but it was enough. Her gig hosting SNL was a tantalizing …
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So it’s about … does the plot matter? It’s Borat. And the full title of this sequel, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, does sort of say it all. It’s been 14 years since Borat Sagdiyev (Sacha Baron …
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Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7, which is now streaming on Netflix, has the benefit of good timing. The movie, as is clear from its title, is taking on the notorious legal battle waged against the so-called “Chicago Seven,” a disjointed crew of anti-Vietnam War activists and counterculturalists …
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See Mark angry. His girlfriend has just broken up with him at a bar. See Mark run. Run, Mark, run! He gets back to his Harvard dorm room and he opens up his laptop; because it’s 2003, it is already set to LiveJournal.com. See Mark type out several angry missives …
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Dave Chappelle, Lizzo, Kim Kardashian and Robert Downey Jr. will serve as guests on David Letterman’s My Next Guest Needs No Introduction. The third season of the former Late Show host’s Netflix talk show will arrive on the streaming service on October 21st. As opposed to previous seasons, Season 3 …
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Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz’s Antebellum begins where you can rightly expect a film with a title this brash to begin: on a plantation. This is the kind of movie that makes a point of throwing its audience, to say nothing of its characters, into the deep end. And so, …
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Diana Rigg — the celebrated British actress with roles in Game of Thrones, The Avengers and the James Bond flick On Her Majesty’s Secret —died Thursday, September 10th, the BBC reports. She was 82. Rigg’s daughter said she died of cancer after being diagnosed in March. “She spent her last …
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Frances McDormand drifts through a vast campground in the new teaser for Chloé Zhao’s next film, Nomadland, set to arrive on December 4th. Per a press release, Nomadland stars McDormand as Fern, a woman who leaves her rural Nevada hometown after its economic collapse and hits the road, “exploring a …
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DC FanDome has shared the much-anticipated and gritty first look at Robert Pattinson in The Batman, where the young Dark Knight is on the search for “vengeance.” The trailer, soundtracked by Nirvana’s “Something in the Way,” returns the Dark Knight to the role of “vigilante detective” — as opposed to …
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Jimmy Fallon marked The Tonight Show’s return to its studio in Rockefeller Center for the first time since the COVID-19 lockdown by speaking with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo about how the city recovered from being the epicenter of the pandemic. While conditions in New York have improved enough for …
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