No comedy on television churns through more story ideas, in more surprising ways, than NBC’s The Good Place. The first season seemed to be about a group of flawed people who had somehow found their way into a version of Heaven, only for the finale to stun them — and …
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After the extreme highs of last week, there was nowhere for Saturday Night Live to go but down this time around. This Amy Schumer-led episode wasn’t bad by any stretch, but featured a miss for every hit. That consistent inconsistency made it difficult for the episode to gather any momentum: …
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Just in time for Mother’s Day comes Tully, starring a firing-on-all-cylinders Charlize Theron as Marlo, a wife and mom of three, including a newborn. She’s about to come apart at the seams, and you’re about to say that you’ve seen this before. Think again. Director Jason Reitman is guided at …
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Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah,Seth Meyers andJames Cordendefended Michelle Wolf’s scathing and controversial routine at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on their respective late-night shows Monday. On The Late Show, Colbert not only praised Wolf for not pulling any punches, but chastised the White House Correspondents’ Association for distancing themselves from …
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A crew of surfers who helped change the sport tumble into each other’s company in a new clip from Momentum Generation, a documentary executive-produced by Robert Redford (among others), that’s set to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film tracks the rise of athletes who eventually “win world titles …
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The cast of GLOW, Netflix‘s comedy series about an Eighties all-female wrestling company, lip sync to the Flashdance classic “Maniac” to reveal the premiere date of the show’s second season. GLOW‘s Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin and the rest of the Glorious Ladies of Wrestling get pumped for their matches in …
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There’s a scene in Rampage, the latest movie adaptation of an old-ass – sorry, “vintage” – video game, in which an albino silverback gorilla named George flips the bird at Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. How did this great ape know exactly what we were thinking? Look, we’re willing to cut …
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With Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman hosting this week’s Saturday Night Live, Studio 8H focused on the world of Wakanda with a pair of sketches on the latest episode. Before Boseman reprises his T’Challa role in the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War, the King of Wakanda returned as a contestant on …
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Arnaud Desplechin loves stories – the ones you show on a screen, the ones people regale others with that reveal delusions and dreams, the ones we tell ourselves in order to survive. A French filmmaker who’s given us some of the warmest and most eccentric movies to come out of …
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Bill Hader and the SNL cast channeled some of 1992’s biggest celebrities in a hilarious sketch imagining rejected auditions from Jurassic Park. The bit opens with Alex Moffat conjuring Hugh Grant in his screen test for Dr. Alan Grant. “I hate to be a bother, but if you look behind …
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