The 71st annual Emmy awards announced their nominations, with the usual mix of the familiar (Better Call Saul‘s Bob Odenkirk, Veep‘s Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the behemoth that is Game of Thrones) and intriguing fresh faces/choices (Barry‘s Anthony Carrigan, our beloved Fleabag, Catherine O’Hara and Eugene Levy for Schitt’s Creek!). Looking at …
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Lynn Shelton makes magnificently messy movies. A low-key fixture on the indie scene that gave us the Duplass brothers and various other prolific ragged-glory filmmakers, she’s a writer-director who specializes in skewed character studies; her best work — notably 2011’s Your Sister’s Sister — sands down the idiosyncrasies just enough …
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Renée Zellweger captures the tumultuous and remarkable final peak of Judy Garland‘s career in the new trailer for Judy, out September 27th. The film is centered around a five-week residency Garland performed at the Talk of the Town in London in the winter of 1968, just months before she died …
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This column contains full spoilers for Stranger Things 3. If you want general impressions of Season Three without spoilers, click here. Three major developments happen towards the end of Stranger Things‘ third season: 1. Eleven appears to lose her powers as a result of being bitten by a piece of …
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Unbeknownst to just about everybody, Kevin Costner could not have become Kevin Costner — that is to say, the biggest movie star around for a 10-year run starting in the late 1980s, with him swinging bats at balls in Bull Durham (1988) and Field of Dreams (1989), flashing badges at …
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The Good Place, which Rolling Stone dubbed “the Smartest, Funniest Sitcom on TV,” will come to an end following its upcoming fourth season, the series’ creator Mike Schur announced Friday. As Schur wrote in a lengthy statement, it was the show’s creative team – and not the network – that …
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