Like most people, you’d probably never heard the name “Cambridge Analytica,” or were even aware of the company’s existence before March of 2018, when the New York Times and the Guardian began reporting on the firm’s harvesting of private Facebook user information. Unless, of course, you were a member of …
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From the second that geek supreme Jesse Eisenberg signs up for a karate class to end his fear of bullies, The Art of Self-Defense sets itself up as the 90-pound weakling destined to live forever in the shadow of Fight Club. The good news is that writer-director Riley Stearns gets …
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So what can you enjoy from the temperature-controlled sanctuary of the living room? Streaming-service subscribers who can’t take the heat (literally) can check out a cult sensation’s (second) second coming, a revival of a rom-com classic and a violent elbow to superhero TVs ribs. Plus Netflix trots out one of …
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The early reviews for Ari Aster‘s latest A24 horror flick,Midsommar, are in, and the general consensus appears to be, “It’s a great horror. It’s a great summer rom-com. It’s both!” It’s apparently both very scary and – perhaps upping the campy melodrama of its predecessor Hereditary – very funny. The …
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In this TV spring of “Are we sure a second season’s a good idea?”, Big Little Lies may be the most dubious entry on paper. Barry came back with questions about whether it could balance its tone (which it didn’t always do well) and Killing Eve with questSions about whether …
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The 2020 Democratic presidential primary is shaping up to be an outsize field, with two dozen declared candidates in the running. On Tuesday, Jimmy Kimmel Live! unveiled a song to help voters remember them all. Kimmel’s jaunty piano singalong bounced through the names of all 24 major contenders, from party frontrunners …
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After significant blowback from fans following the first trailer for the live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie – and then a promise to change Sonic’s bizarre look before the movie’s immanent November 2019 release date – director Jeff Fowler took to Twitter once more to announce that the film’s release date …
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Nine-year-old Japanese drum prodigy Yoyoka Soma returned to The Ellen Degeneres Show Tuesday where she received a surprise from one of her idols, Dave Grohl. Soma, who’s completely self-taught, became a viral sensation last year with a remarkable cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Good Times Bad Times.” She continued to post …
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This week: Second trailers for two new movies starring superheroes, i.e Spider-Man and Cate Blanchett, respectively; first looks at HBO‘s take on the greatest men-in-capes tale ever told (revisionist edition), the final season of FX’s god-level mindbender Legion and the It sequel; and peeks at a fictional horror movie involving …
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The new teaser trailer for the biopicJudy was released on Friday, featuring Renée Zellweger as Hollywood icon Judy Garland. The film takes place in winter 1968, six months before Garland’s untimely death; the singer and actress arrives in London to perform a five-week sold-out run at famed nightclub The Talk …
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