In the new season 3 trailer for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Midge (Rachel Brosnahan) and her manager Susie (Alex Borstein) take their comedy act across the country, making tour stops in Chicago, Miami and more. Set to the show tune “Perfectly Marvelous” from Cabaret — recorded by Sutton Foster — the …
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If only Oscar-winning Taiwanese film master Ang Lee would get past his obsession with digital gimmicks and return to the soulful humanism he lavished on classics like Eat Drink Man Woman, The Ice Storm and Brokeback Mountain. Unfortunately, he has instead given us Gemini Man, a substandard action movie any …
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Hey guys, have you heard about this show called Fleabag? Have you watched it? You totally should! I’ll wait. You don’t have to read this recap right away. Go ahead, watch it. Read Alan Sepinwall’s review if you need more convincing. OK, just wanted to get that out of the …
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Pippi Longstocking, the superhumanly strong redhead child from the iconic eponymous book series, is headed to theaters in a new film adaptation. Studiocanal and David Heyman’s Heyday Films, who produced the recent Paddington movies, will team with the Astrid Lindgren Company for the upcoming project. The character, a freckled nine-year-old …
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The first major co-production between DreamWorks and China’s Pearl Studio, Abominable — a warm and fuzzy animated guide book they could have titled How to Train Your Yeti — is good family fun as far it goes. It also could have gone further. The Chinese setting and characters are welcome …
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Back in the summer, I spent two days on the set of The Good Place, chatting with the cast and crew about saying goodbye to the wonderfully weird and thoughtful NBC metaphysical comedy. My interviews with the show’s six regular actors — Kristen Bell, Ted Danson, D’Arcy Carden, William Jackson …
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Daniel Craig plays a distinguished detective unweaving family deceit in the thrilling new trailer for Rian Johnson‘s black-comedy murder-mystery film Knives Out. Like the previous preview, the clip unfolds the basic plot: Craig’s character, the sophisticated Benoit Blanc, steps in to investigate after author Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found …
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Eddie Murphy embodies the wild true story of Rudy Ray Moore in the trailer for My Name Is Dolemite, the new Netflix film based on the comedian and Blaxploitation filmmaker. The comedy, which premieres in September at the Toronto International Film Festival, also features Wesley Snipes, Mike Epps, Craig Robinson, …
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Rutger Hauer, the Dutch actor best known for his turn as the replicant Roy Batty in Blade Runner, died last Friday at his home in the Netherlands, the actor’s agent, Steve Kenis, confirmed to Rolling Stone. He was 75. While Kenis did not give a cause of death, Variety reported …
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A father must protect his daughter by disguising her as his son after a plague wipes out most of the female population in the trailer for Casey Affleck’s new film, Light of My Life. The film will be released in theaters, and via digital on demand services August 9th. Affleck …
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