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• Critics on Justice League: At Least It’s Not Batman v Superman

  15-11-2017 23:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  The embargo on Justice League reviews was lifted this morning and the hot takes have begun to roll in. Though Rotten Tomatoes won’t be releasing their score until Thursday, the critical response to Justice League has been thoroughly mediocre. At best, it is portrayed as a fun, easy throwaway, and...More »
  
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• Peaky Blinders recap: series four, episode one: The Noose

  15-11-2017 23:00
  This cracker of an opening episode was tense, well-paced and tightly plotted, with a vengeance-driven bad guy played by Adrien BrodyHello, and welcome back. Let’s all take a deep breath and raise a glass to John Shelby. He wasn’t the smartest brother, nor even the best at killing people, but I always had a soft spot for the hot-headed John with his empty bravado, big “We’re the Peaky fucking Blinders” speeches and not-so-deeply buried pain. Oh John, if only you coul
  
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• Modern Love: Modern Love Podcast: Andrew Rannells, Live From Toronto

  15-11-2017 22:33 via nytimes.com
  On this week’s podcast, the “Girls” star tells the story of one of the most consequential evenings of his life.
  
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• Theater Review: Actually Is Theater for This Weinstein Moment

  15-11-2017 22:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Leaving Anna Ziegler’s taut, devastating new play Actually — directed with a deft, unsparing sense of forward motion by Lileana Blain-Cruz at MTC — I was haunted by echoes of sound designer Jane Shaw’s effective and deceptively upbeat preshow. It’s a collection of contemporary club music, the most bump-and-grindable earworm...More »
  
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• RIP Warped Tour, the Festival of Your Youth

  15-11-2017 22:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thnks fr th Mmrs: The Vans Warped Tour has officially kicked the bucket. Founder Kevin Lyman has announced to Billboard that his seminal pop-rock traveling festival, which birthed a generation of disaffected tweens with unfortunate haircuts, will make its final run in 2018 after 24 years on the scene. “Traveling...More »
  
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• Tencent plans $3bn drive to ramp up YouTube-style content

  15-11-2017 22:00 via ft.com
  Group joins push by Chinese tech into retro model to lure more users to platforms
  
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• Owen Wilson Reveals Julia Roberts' Secret On-Set Hobby and You'll Never Guess It

  15-11-2017 21:56 via feeds.eonline.com
  For Owen Wilson, being able to say he played the husband to Julia Roberts in the new film Wonder is akin to getting a degree from Harvard.At the Wonder premiere in Los Angeles, the...
  
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• The Magnificent Weeping Men of This Is Us

  15-11-2017 21:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last night, This is Us — everybody’s favorite sob-along television show — offered perhaps the best, most devastating cry in the series’ two-season run. Kevin (Justin Hartley), who’s been on a season-long downward spiral, finally caved under the weight of Vicodin abuse, booze, sex, and unresolved daddy issues. The episode ends...More »
  
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• Review: ‘A Fantastic Woman’ Lives Up to Its Title, in More Ways Than One

  15-11-2017 21:34 via nytimes.com
  Facing a lover’s death and a society’s intolerance, in a film by Sebastián Lelio.
  
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• Review: Good Art, Bad Men and Samuel Pepys in ‘17c’

  15-11-2017 21:20 via nytimes.com
  Big Dance Theater’s animated investigation of Samuel Pepys reads like a refraction of our recent monster parade.
  
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• Now Pass the Mic to Tatum O’Neal

  15-11-2017 21:11 via nytimes.com
  After many public struggles, the actress is the latest to turn to podcasting, and has a painful #MeAt14 story to tell.
  
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• Paddington 2, the Weinstein Company’s Last Hope, Has Been Sold to Warner Bros.

  15-11-2017 20:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Paddington would very much like to be removed from this narrative, one that he never asked to be a part of. Do you hear that? That’s the sound of Paddington — the fictional children’s book bear — listening to “Since U Been Gone” or “Bye Bye Bye” or, most likely,...More »
  
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• Brett Ratner Accuser Actress Natasha Henstridge Claims Harvey Weinstein Masturbated in Front of Her

  15-11-2017 20:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Species actress Natasha Henstridge, who was one of the first women to accuse Brett Ratner of sexual assault, now says Harvey Weinstein was also inappropriate with her. She previously said Ratner forced her to perform oral sex on him in the ’90s, which he denied. The actress revealed on Megyn...More »
  
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• Park Avenue Armory Unveils Its 2018 Season

  15-11-2017 20:33 via nytimes.com
  Its vast drill hall will host productions by artists including Ivo van Hove, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and William Kentridge.
  
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• Milo Is Building an Indie Rap Empire

  15-11-2017 20:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Three years ago, Rory Ferreira was holed up in a converted storage shed in Echo Park, with a laptop and a space heater, trying to stave off panic attacks. The Chicago-born rapper, better known as Milo, was 22, and had moved to Los Angeles earlier that fall with three friends...More »
  
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• In Praise of Alias Grace’s Conniving Woman

  15-11-2017 20:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  One thing we always get wrong about the Victorians: They weren’t all terrified of the specter of sex. Just as history belongs to the victors, it also belongs to the wealthy, and so our vision of 19th-century fair maidens in white frocks is one that tilts toward the wives and...More »
  
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• Call Me by Your Name Book Club, Part Two: Boundaries Begin to Blur

  15-11-2017 20:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  And we’re back: Vulture’s book club has returned to Italy, to the 1980s, to Billowy and apricocks, and of course, the summer love of Oliver and Elio. This second installment is a supersized edition, where we’re talking through the two middle chapters of André Aciman’s novel Call Me by Your...More »
  
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• Plaza Hotel Launches Home Alone-Inspired "Kevin McCallister" Contest

  15-11-2017 19:59 via feeds.eonline.com
  The Plaza wants you to "live like Kevin."In celebration of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York's 25th anniversary, the New York City hotel is offering a "Kevin...
  
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• Coco Is a Charming If Belabored Adventure Right Out of the Pixar Playbook

  15-11-2017 19:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  As obstacles for the heroes of children’s films go, Miguel’s is a little, shall we say, cerebral. The rebellious 12-year-old protagonist of Coco longs to be a musician, but his family of shoemakers … hates music. Not just the music of local hero and “greatest musician that ever lived” Ernesto...More »
  
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• What ASAP Ferg Can’t Live Without

  15-11-2017 19:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re like us, you’ve probably wondered what famous people add to their carts. Not the JAR brooch and Louis XV chair, but the hand sanitizer and the electric toothbrush. We asked rapper ASAP Ferg about the hairbrush, hand cream, and organic snacks he can’t live without....More »
  
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• Justice League Reviews Are Savage AF--but Wonder Woman Saves the Movie

  15-11-2017 19:30 via feeds.eonline.com
  Of course Wonder Woman saves the day.Warner Bros.' Justice League is in theaters Friday, and early reviews are...not great. The cast includes Amy Adams as Lois Lane, Ben Affleck as...
  
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• You’re the Worst Will End After Its Fifth Season

  15-11-2017 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The saga of Gretchen, Jimmy, and their accompanying neuroses is coming to an end. FX Networks announced today that You’re the Worst, which will air its season-four finale tonight, has been renewed for a fifth and final season. “I am thankful to have the opportunity to be thoroughly judged whether...More »
  
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• Emma Stone Teases Jennifer Lawrence for Losing Easy A Role: "You Suck!"

  15-11-2017 19:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Jennifer Lawrence was almost Olive Penderghast?!That's right, the actress opened up about losing the role to Emma Stone in The Hollywood Reporter's Actress Roundtable. During a...
  
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• ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ to Close on Broadway

  15-11-2017 18:37 via nytimes.com
  The show, starring Christian Borle as Willy Wonka, opened in April with high hopes after a London production was retooled.
  
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• Nico Muhly on His New Opera and Women’s ‘Pressurized’ Lives

  15-11-2017 18:12 via nytimes.com
  “Marnie,” based on a novel that inspired a Hitchcock film, opens in London on Saturday before coming to the Metropolitan Opera next season.
  
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• Review: ‘Rebels on Pointe,’ and in Tutus

  15-11-2017 18:10 via nytimes.com
  The Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo meld technique with comedy, and tour more than two-thirds of the years
  
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• Keith Barron: from coppers to adulterers, a star of hit TV to the end

  15-11-2017 18:08
  The prolific actor, who died this week, kept viewers coming back to shows such as Duty Free and Haggard with his charm, vocal clarity and sharp comic timingWhereas many frontline actors conduct parallel careers in television, stage and film, Keith Barron, who has died aged 83, was essentially a peak-time TV specialist. His small-screen career stretched a remarkable 55 years, from the 1961 BBC comedy A Chance of Thunder to the ITV police series DCI Banks, in which, as recently as last year, he pl
  
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• 15 Things You Learn While Hanging Out With Armie Hammer

  15-11-2017 17:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  The words tumble out of Armie Hammer’s mouth so fast that sometimes they hit their mark before you realize what he’s even said. That attribute made Hammer perfect to play Oliver, the grad student who beguiles young Elio (Timothée Chalamet) in Luca Guadagnino’s Italian romance Call Me by Your Name,...More »
  
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• Late-night hosts on Sessions' testimony: he's got 'collusion confusion'

  15-11-2017 17:07
  Comics, including Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers and Trevor Noah, discussed Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump Jr’s contacts with WikiLeaks, and Trump’s trip to Asia.Late-night hosts on Tuesday discussed new revelations about Donald Trump Jr’s contacts with WikiLeaks, Jeff Sessions’ testimony before the House judiciary committee and the president’s two-week trip abroad.“Folks, Donald Trump has been gone for 12 days,” Stephen Colbert began. “You know what th
  
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• Deadpool 2: watch the bizarre first trailer for the gonzo superhero sequel

  15-11-2017 17:07
  Ryan Reynolds’s self-aware hero brushes up on his portraiture in the latest instalment of the comic-book movie’s peculiar promotional campaignA distinctly peculiar teaser trailer for Marvel’s meta comic-book sequel Deadpool 2 has emerged.Paying homage to the cult TV painter Bob Ross, the latest teaser – titled Wet on Wet – sees Ryan Reynolds’ foul-mouthed superhero donning the late artist’s impressive perm and mimicking his syrupy tones. Eventually, afte
  
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• Video Flash: Max Crumm and Lucy DeVito Are a Hot Mess

  15-11-2017 17:00
  Watch clips from Jonathan Silverstein's new comedy.
  
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• Video Flash: John Leguizamo's Latin History for Morons Opens on Broadway Tonight

  15-11-2017 17:00
  The solo show previously played at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the Public Theater.
  
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• Taylor Swift’s Video Director Joseph Kahn Has Something to Say to Her Haters

  15-11-2017 16:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Swifties who’ve watched Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” video 704 million times since it came out on August 27, may or may not recognize the name Joseph Kahn. But they’ve likely been freaking out about the auteurist videos he’s made with Swift for years. Ever since...More »
  
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• Gal Gadot Says Wonder Woman Team ‘Echoed the Same Sentiments’ to Have Brett Ratner Fired

  15-11-2017 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  WATCH: Gal Gadot responds to report she didn’t want to work with Brett Ratner, who has faced sexual harassment allegations, on next installment of Wonder Woman TODAY (@TODAYshow) November 15, 2017She implies that a decision about Ratner had already been made before news of her alleged holdout broke, adding: “Everyone...More »
  
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• Jennifer Lawrence Tells Emma Stone She Really Wanted Her Part in Easy A

  15-11-2017 16:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Emma Stone charmed people’s socks off with her breakout role as a vlogger slash modern-day Hester Prynne in Easy A, but what if America’s other favorite relatable star Jennifer Lawrence had gotten the part? Would Emma Stone have shot arrows at people in The Hunger Games? Maybe Jennifer Lawrence would...More »
  
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• Amazon US Open tennis deal sparks speculation over Premier League bid

  15-11-2017 16:09
  Company is understood to have struck five-year deal for UK rights to tournament as BT and Sky prepare for football battleAmazon is understood to have snapped up the UK TV rights to the US Open tennis tournament, in a move likely to cause further speculation that it is a potential competitor in the upcoming Premier League rights auction.The company is understood to have struck a five-year deal for the US Open, which has previously been shown by Sky and Eurosport in the UK. Amazon is estimated to
  
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• Theater News: Drama League Expands Annual DirectorFest Event

  15-11-2017 16:00
  The event will take place throughout Manhattan this January.
  
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• Theater News: Casting Set for Sovereignty at Arena Stage

  15-11-2017 16:00
  Mary Kathryn Nagle's play is directed by Molly Smith.
  
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• Photo Flash: The Minutes Makes Its World Premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre

  15-11-2017 16:00
  Anna D. Shapiro directs longtime collaborator Tracy Letts's play.
  
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• Photo Flash: Beth Leavel, Christopher Sieber, and Stars of Annie Meet the Press

  15-11-2017 16:00
  Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin, and Thomas Meehan's classic musical comes to Paper Mill Playhouse under the direction of Mark S. Hoebee.
  
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• Terry Crews Details Sexual Assault by WME Agent: ‘I Have Never Felt More Emasculated, More Objectified’

  15-11-2017 15:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  For the first time, Terry Crews has named WME agent Adam Venit as the Hollywood executive whom he alleges sexually assaulted him at a party last year. Crews originally shared his story on Twitter, and after filing a police report against the agent last week, he appeared on Good Morning...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Justice League,’ Better Than the Last One!

  15-11-2017 15:45 via nytimes.com
  In this superhero jamboree, the Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg sign on with the DC Comics team leaders Batman and Wonder Woman. (Psst … where’s Superman?)
  
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• What Is the Next Taylor Swift Single Going to Be?

  15-11-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Taylor Swift has never been content to rest on her laurels, and it shows perhaps most prominently in her singles — not just their quality, but their volume. Her self-titled debut had five singles, as did her sophomore triumph Fearless; Speak Now and Red had six singles apiece; seven tracks...More »
  
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• Pink’s Carpool Karaoke Takes a Detour for Some Upside-Down Singing

  15-11-2017 15:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Pink got in James Corden’s car for Carpool Karaoke, she took him to the Upside Down. Not that Upside Down — they stopped by a random parking lot to test her theory that she sings better upside-down. Pink sounded great, and, naturally, Corden got stuck. “You sing better upside-down,...More »
  
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