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• Facebook to prioritise news rated trustworthy by users

  19-01-2018 23:51 via ft.com
  Social network will begin testing in US and will look to highlight more local stories
  
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• Let Rian Johnson Silently Show You the Precedent for That Luke Twist in The Last Jedi

  19-01-2018 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  As you may expect, spoilers follow for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.A lot of cool things happen in The Last Jedi, and for reasons of varying validity, some people are mad at them. Specifically, near the end of the film, Luke Skywalker appears on the salt planet of Crait in...More »
  
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• The Trailer for HBO’s Paterno Will Make You Wonder How Much the Coach Knew

  19-01-2018 22:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Friday HBO released the first trailer for its upcoming film Paterno, which stars Al Pacino as the titular Penn State coach in the run-up to his 2011 resignation. Despite Joe Paterno’s testimony before a grand jury stating that he had no idea his longtime assistant Jerry Sandusky had molested...More »
  
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• The Most Powerful Testimony From Ex-USA Gymnastics Doctor Larry Nassar Hearing

  19-01-2018 22:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Over 100 women are expected to speak in the sentencing hearing of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, which started on Tuesday, and is expected to continue well into next week.Since September 2016, Nassar has been accused of sexual abuse by over 140 women and girls. In November, he pleaded guilty to seven...More »
  
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• Why Mo’Nique Is Asking Her Fans to Boycott Netflix

  19-01-2018 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Earlier today, Mo’Nique posted a plea on Instagram to her fans, asking them to boycott Netflix because of gender and racial bias. In it, Mo’Nique tries to make the case for why she should get Amy Schumer, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle money for her stand-up special, but, unintentionally, she also...More »
  
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• The Lack of Feeling of Justin Timberlake’s ‘Supplies’ Is Kind of Awe-Inspiring

  19-01-2018 20:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  To be fair, there may be words in the English language less arousing than supplies. But Justin Timberlake didn’t name his latest single “Pliers,” or “401(k),” or “Arbitration,” or “Chernobyl,” or “Larry King Live.” He named it “Supplies.” The beat, crafted by the Neptunes, might have been sinuous, or at...More »
  
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• Marion Cotillard on Woody Allen: 'The experience we had together was very odd'

  19-01-2018 20:20
  The Midnight in Paris star said she was ‘ignorant’ of stories of alleged sexual abuse and would ‘dig more’ if he asked her to work with him againOscar-winning actor Marion Cotillard has spoken about her experience of working with Woody Allen on the set of Midnight in Paris.The star, who won best actress for La Vie En Rose in 2008, was asked to give her thoughts on Allen after his estranged daughter Dylan Farrow reiterated, in a televised interview, her claim that he sexua
  
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• Skunks Hate Dakota Johnson

  19-01-2018 20:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  People around the world, they pay good money to see the Fifty Shades movies, but the skunks? The skunks hate Dakota Johnson. In a revealing conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, Johnson said she’s developed a “skunk situation” at her Hollywood Hills home. “This was the fourth time in a year,...More »
  
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• Taraji P. Henson Outsourced a Wings-Eating Challenge to Her Large and Unflappable Bodyguard

  19-01-2018 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  While on the press trail to promote Proud Mary, Taraji P. Henson stopped by Complex’s Hot Ones to talk about her life, her Instagram, and to see how many hot wings she could eat before tapping out. The array of wings laid out before Henson got gradually hotter as she...More »
  
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• Take Vulture’s Breaking Bad Superfan Quiz

  19-01-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This quiz originally ran before the finale of Breaking Bad in September 2013. We’re republishing it to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the show’s premiere.After the Breaking Bad series finale, TV viewers won’t have Walter White and his merry meth-making pals to kick around anymore. So Vulture is pouring one out for our fallen...More »
  
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• Kim Cattrall Names Her Top Replacements for Samantha in Sex and the City 3

  19-01-2018 19:57 via feeds.eonline.com
  Kim Cattrall won't be in Sex and the City 3, but she will share who she thinks should play Samantha in the next movie!The actress took to Twitter to react to former co-star...
  
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• Marion Cotillard Says She Probably Wouldn’t Work With Woody Allen Again, Mostly Because He Was ‘Odd’

  19-01-2018 19:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  As numerous actors have come forward recently to say that they regret working with Woody Allen in light of Dylan Farrow’s abuse allegations against the director, Marion Cotillard, who starred in Midnight in Paris, has expressed similar sentiments, though not for entirely the same reasons. “I don’t think it would...More »
  
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• Kanye and Kim’s New Baby Has Another Geography-Inspired Name

  19-01-2018 19:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Introducing, lil’ baby Chi! Kanye West and Kim Kardashian have announced the name of their new baby girl born earlier this week: Chicago West. Not Donda, not Kimye, not whatever less-creative name you were brainstorming, but yet another geographic-inspired name with a more specific location. She’s named, of course, after...More »
  
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• Blindspotting Is a Messy Debut From Three First-Time Feature Filmmakers

  19-01-2018 19:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  There is one five-minute sequence in Blindspotting where all its competing elements come together for a brief, shining moment. And it happens to be the story of how Collin (Daveed Diggs) got arrested. Narrated like a speeding train by a random passerby (Utkarsh Ambudkar), we hear and see the unlikely...More »
  
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• Starcrawler Wants to Freak You Out

  19-01-2018 19:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  On a mid-December day in Los Angeles, the members of Starcrawler sat in front of a Silver Lake restaurant nursing iced coffees and picking at a plate of soupy macaroni and cheese. A few days earlier they’d returned to L.A. from the Southwest to play the last show of a...More »
  
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• The Rise of the Messed-Up Parent on TV

  19-01-2018 19:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  As long as there’s been TV, the family has been one of its favorite go-tos. All week long, Vulture is exploring how it’s been represented on our screens.In the early days of television, family sitcoms were grounded in the idea that moms and dads were in charge and had everything...More »
  
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• David Letterman, the chat show host returns on demand

  19-01-2018 19:06 via ft.com
  Former ‘Late Show’ presenter fronts Netflix series to woo the online generation
  
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• Review: In ‘Hindle Wakes,’ Should a Fling Lead Straight to the Altar?

  19-01-2018 18:39 via nytimes.com
  The Mint Theater’s handsome, rough around the edges production makes a better case for this 1912 play as a curiosity than as a forgotten gem.
  
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• Deep Space Nine Is TV’s Most Revolutionary Depiction of Black Fatherhood

  19-01-2018 18:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  As long as there’s been TV, the family has been one of its favorite go-tos. All week long, Vulture is exploring how it’s been represented on our screens.The arc of American history is undergirded by a continuous, pointed degradation of the black family.The crux of this is the pervasive mythology...More »
  
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• Review: In ‘Forever My Girl,’ a Romance Resumes After a Long Break

  19-01-2018 18:22 via nytimes.com
  There are few hard feelings in Bethany Ashton Wolf’s adaptation of a novel by Heidi McLaughlin.
  
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• Why Does the Oft-Delayed Cloverfield Sequel Keep Getting Postponed?

  19-01-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 2016, J.J. Abrams and his production company Bad Robot pulled off a true, rare “holy shit” movie moment, unleashing the existence of the sequel to his found-footage sci-fi hit Cloverfield without having given the moviegoing public even the slightest indication any such sequel was ever in the works. That...More »
  
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• Oscar’s 8 Biggest Categories: Who’s Safe and Who Could Be Snubbed?

  19-01-2018 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Oscar nominations will be announced this Tuesday, and while the unsettled field has gradually come into focus, this still feels like an up-in-the-air year. By now, the potential nominees usually feel so locked in that it becomes boring, but as I rifle through my final predictions, I’m struck by...More »
  
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• Paddington 2 becomes best reviewed film ever

  19-01-2018 17:30
  Bear gets his sticky paws on Rotten Tomatoes record for longest run of positive reviewsIn the lineup of the most critically acclaimed films, Citizen Kane and The Godfather have been bested by a bear from “darkest” Peru. The aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes has declared Paddington 2 to be the best reviewed film in the site’s history.The comedy – which is directed by the British film-maker Paul King and stars Hugh Grant, Sally Hawkins and Hugh Bonneville, – has rec
  
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• Netflix Will Reheat Your Soup Memories With The Joel McHale Show With Joel McHale

  19-01-2018 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hey : I think you misunderstood when I demanded “a lot of green” for my new show. Joel McHale (@joelmchale) January 19, 2018...More »
  
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• Theater News: Kellie Overbey and K.K. Moggie to Star in Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Mary Stuart

  19-01-2018 17:00
  Jenn Thompson directs the production, in which Moggie takes on the title role.
  
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• Colin Firth Says He Also Won’t Work With Woody Allen Again

  19-01-2018 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Actor Colin Firth told The Guardian on Thursday he will not sign onto any more projects with director Woody Allen.“I wouldn’t work with him again,” said Firth, who acted in Allen’s 2013 film Magic in the Moonlight. Firth has also been outspoken about the allegations against Harvey Weinstein, and has said he felt shame for not doing...More »
  
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• Dan Slott Leaving Amazing Spider-Man, Will Write Iron Man Series

  19-01-2018 16:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  How long has Dan Slott been writing Spider-Man stories? In the immortal words of Staind: It’s been a while. The scribe began his run on Marvel Comics’ flagship series, The Amazing Spider-Man, during the 2008 story arc “Brand New Day.” Since then, he’s taken the character on some wild rides:...More »
  
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• UK's live entertainment industry hits new highs

  19-01-2018 16:49
  Sector takes record £17bn in revenues last year as analysts predict further growth for 2018The West End debut of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, mega gigs including U2 and Guns N’ Roses and the return of Star Wars helped propel the UK’s live entertainment sector to a record £17bn in revenues last year.Growth will continue this year as the UK’s live economy – which ranges from cinema visits to attending music and arts festivals, sports events, and live tours
  
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• The Final Year Gives an Insider’s Perspective of the Obama Presidency

  19-01-2018 16:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  There is a persistent charge that the quietly devastating, on-the-fly documentary The Final Year, covering January 2016 to January 2017 in the administration of Barack Obama, is a piece of propaganda — which is valid only if you believe that portraying U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power, Deputy National Security Adviser Ben...More »
  
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• Beanie Feldstein Is a Champion Best Friend

  19-01-2018 16:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  The first time Beanie Feldstein met her Lady Bird co-star Saoirse Ronan, she knew there was something magical in the air. “I will never forget it,” says Feldstein of that auspicious first encounter, which took place over get-to-know-you bagels and lox at director Greta Gerwig’s New York apartment. “Sersh” —...More »
  
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• Streaming:

  The Hidden Gems of 2017 Movies Are on ... Netflix?

  19-01-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  In these off-season for new releases, why not explore the shadowy corners of your streaming services?
  
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• It’s Time to Take a Serious Look at Michael Stuhlbarg

  19-01-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  The supporting actor had a breakout year with turns in “Call Me by Your Name,” “The Shape of Water” and “The Post.” Will the academy remember?
  
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• Final Bow: Final Bow: Laura Benanti Steps Out of Steve Martin's Meteor Shower

  19-01-2018 16:00
  The Tony winner contemplates her costars and being one of the worst dinner guests on Broadway.
  
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• Jessica Chastain Explains How to Play Female Roles in Movies: Just Say and Do Pretty Much Nothing

  19-01-2018 15:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Not that the world needs another hackneyed rom-com, but we would totally watch a shot-for-shot remake of one where Jessica Chastain plays the male lead — preferably Definitely, Maybe, because we’d totally believe that she could juggle three men. On The Tonight Show, Chastain swapped stereotypical male and female lead...More »
  
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• Author Details Sexual-Harassment Allegations Against Michael Douglas

  19-01-2018 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Journalist and author Susan Braudy appeared on the Today show Friday morning to detail her sexual-harassment allegations against Michael Douglas. Braudy says Douglas frequently harassed her when she worked for his company, Stone Bridge Productions, in the 1980s. Once, she says, he masturbated in front of her during a work...More »
  
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• Theater News: Come From Away and More Win Artios Awards

  19-01-2018 15:00
  Casting directors were honored on January 18.
  
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• The Enduring Legacy of Roseanne, 30 Years Later

  19-01-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  As long as there’s been TV, the family has been one of its favorite go-tos. All week long, Vulture is exploring how it’s been represented on our screens. The following is an excerpt from Joy Press’s forthcoming book, Stealing the Show: How Women Are Revolutionizing Television, out March 6. A...More »
  
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• How to Get Away With Murder Recap: Baby Drama

  19-01-2018 14:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  I’m exhausted. I feel like I watched over 2,000 scenes in How to Get Away With Murder tonight and each one was only 15 seconds long. This must violate some screenwriting dictum or rule. I feel like Shonda herself stands over her writers and shouts,“FASTER! FASTER, YOU FOOLS! MORE SCENES!...More »
  
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• Scandal Recap: Death of a Gladiator

  19-01-2018 14:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of two possible conclusions can be drawn from the cliff-hanger of “Robin,” Scandal’s underwhelming winter premiere. The first possibility is that Rowan Pope finally grew tired of his paleontological hobby and decided a new baby would give his life purpose, so he arranged for a quickie adoption and is...More »
  
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• The Martin Scorsese–Produced A Ciambra Is a Rough-and-Tumble Coming-of-Age Tale

  19-01-2018 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  We need a term for the sort of scripted documentary that’s bubbling up these days from young, independent filmmakers. Like the work of Chloé Zhao, whose The Rider was a standout at Cannes last year, or New York–born Italian-American director Jonas Carpignano’s films, which draw from real life milieus, casting...More »
  
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• Video Flash: Lin-Manuel Miranda Drops Music Video for "I Wrote My Way Out" from Hamilton Mixtape

  19-01-2018 14:00
  Nas, Dave East, and Aloe Blacc join Miranda for this latest addition to the Hamilton archives.
  
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• Theater News: Tammy Blanchard to Join Broadway's Iceman Cometh With Denzel Washington

  19-01-2018 14:00
  George C. Wolfe directs Eugene O'Neill's drama.
  
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