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• Chadwick Boseman Explains the Importance of Black Panther's International Success

  31-05-2018 23:56 via feeds.eonline.com
  When Black Panther released to theaters in February, it turned the box office on its head.
  As the second highest-grossing film of 2018, the third highest-grossing film ever in the United...
  
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• Taika Waititi’s Next Film Is a WWII Satire in Which He Plays Hitler

  31-05-2018 23:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Taika Waititi’s next movie, Jojo Rabbit, has started filming, and the director shared a bit about what makes him so excited to get this World War II picture underway. “I’m stoked to begin shooting my anti-war satire,” Waititi said in a statement. “We’ve assembled an incredible cast and I couldn’t...More »
  
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• Arrested Development Recap: God’s Laughing

  31-05-2018 23:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Is anyone else noticing that the family isn’t quite as we remember them?” Michael asks in the middle of this episode. He’s referring to the actors Tobias has hired to portray key Bluth family members in their absence, another of this season’s many meta-jokes about how difficult it’s been to...More »
  
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• Ambulance review – crews rarely have a quiet Saturday night, but this is off the scale

  31-05-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  The Bafta-winning documentary is there for the big one – a crash that leaves six people dead or dying. And it brilliantly focuses on the team as they deal with a desperate, hopeless situation‘Hope it’s nice and quiet for us all,” says paramedic Nick, at 6pm, the start of his shift. “Oh, you’ve said it now,” says his ambulance crew mate Katie,” shaking her head. “You’ve jinxed it.”It was always going to be too much to hope for &nda
  
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• Parkland Drama Teacher Will Receive Tonys’ Education Award

  31-05-2018 22:40 via nytimes.com
  Melody Herzfeld, a survivor of the school shooting in Florida, will be given an excellence in theater education award from the Tonys and Carnegie Mellon University.
  
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• Upgrade Is a Gory, Often Transcendentally Funny Bit of Sci-Fi Horror

  31-05-2018 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  In an age of great advances in the art of opening credits, Upgrade gets points for ingenuity. Over an array of reverberating lines of sound waves, the names of the various production companies are recited in a chilly, Siri-like feminine AI voice — no text or flashy typefaces to be...More »
  
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• Brian Huskey’s Mr. Neighbor’s House Returns to Adult Swim Next Month

  31-05-2018 22:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Brian Huskey, Jason Mantzoukas, Jesse Falcon, and Rob Corddry’s Mr. Neighbor’s House returns to Adult Swim next month for a brand-new special. The network announced today that a sequel to the group’s 2016 special, titled Mr. Neighbor’s House 2, will debut late next month. The half-hour special is described as...More »
  
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• Why ‘With or Without You’ Was the Perfect Song Choice for The Americans Finale

  31-05-2018 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Over the years, The Americans has excelled at excavating some of the more obscure pop songs from the 1980s to underscore intense and emotional moments. But for one of the most dramatic sequences in its final episode, the series decided to go with a song as massive as they could find.As...More »
  
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• Jason Bateman Wants to Play a Woman, Like in Tootsie, But Without Remaking Tootsie

  31-05-2018 21:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jason Bateman, careening full-on into “just saying whatever” territory, decided to tell his industry colleagues at a Hollywood Reporter roundtable that he would like to play a woman, like in Tootsie, but without remaking Tootsie. (The interview was conducted “in late April,” and before the recent New York Times interview...More »
  
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• How Broadway’s Tiny Musical Made Its Big Song

  31-05-2018 21:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Band’s Visit runs 90 minutes. It doesn’t have an intermission. It doesn’t have an 11 o’clock number, partly because it doesn’t have a second act. The Broadway musical adapted from the 2007 Israeli indie film eschews flash and theatrics in favor of subtlety and silence. What it does have...More »
  
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• The Blistering Vulnerability of The Americans Finale’s Best Scene

  31-05-2018 21:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  The heart of The Americans series finale, which aired Wednesday night, is a single, stripped-down scene in a dank parking garage. Here, the lies that festered between two friends — the conflicted Russian spy Philip Jennings (Matthew Rhys) and the obsessively focused FBI agent Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich) — erupt...More »
  
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• Jennifer Garner Wants Justice in Killer Peppermint Trailer

  31-05-2018 21:02 via feeds.eonline.com
  After the system fails her, Jennifer Garner seeks justice in her new movie, Peppermint.In the upcoming action-packed drama, the Golden Globe winner plays Riley North, a mom who wakes up...
  
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• Three Sentence Reviews of Marlene Dumas, Dan Colen, and 11 Other Art-World Big Shots

  31-05-2018 20:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  To coincide with several big art fairs and last week’s massive auctions, many larger galleries mounted shows of their bigger artists. So let’s read the tea leaves on the upper end of the food chain.Huang Yong Ping Bank of Sand, Sand of Bank Gladstone GalleryCritic Peter Schjeldahl coined the term...More »
  
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• Samantha Bee Apologizes for Calling Ivanka Trump a C*nt: ‘I Crossed a Line’

  31-05-2018 20:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Samantha Bee has come under fire for her Full Frontal segment on the 1,500 missing migrant children from last night. The segment, in which Bee called Ivanka Trump a “feckless cunt” for refusing to act against her father’s cruel immigration policies, drew intense criticism from White House press secretary Sarah...More »
  
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• Fire and Fury Publisher Details Trump Memo: ‘How Do You Say ‘F You’ to the President’

  31-05-2018 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  During a panel this morning at Book Expo America, the annual publishing conference that opened yesterday, three leading CEOs discussed trends and challenges in the book business — mostly financial but also political. It was one of the first times Macmillan’s John Sargent has spoken publicly about the scathing memo...More »
  
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• The Peppermint Trailer Is Your Ticket to the Jennifer Garner Gun Show

  31-05-2018 19:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  As any self-respecting Alias fan knows, Jennifer Garner was built to be an action-movie heroine. She just needed the right project to bring her gifts to the big screen. Enter Taken director Pierre Morel. For Peppermint, the man who gave you Liam Neeson’s ass-kicking film is now serving you the...More »
  
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• 15 Things You Never Knew About Pixar's Finding Nemo

  31-05-2018 19:45 via feeds.eonline.com
  Fifteen years ago yesterday, Finding Nemo swam into theaters.The Pixar project, written and directed by Andrew Stanton, went on to become an instant phenomenon, earning $940.3 million...
  
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• Grammy President Neil Portnow Will Reportedly Exit Next Year

  31-05-2018 19:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Months after Recording Academy president Neil Portnow said women need to “step up” to solve their underrpresentation in the Grammy nominations, he’s stepping down. Billboard reports that Portnow won’t return as president when his contract expires next year. Portnow has been in the position since 2002, and reportedly, a successor...More »
  
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• Trump steps up attack on Disney chief executive

  31-05-2018 19:15 via ft.com
  President demands Iger apologise for coverage on Disney’s ABC television network
  
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• 'Thanks for a great drive': Matt LeBlanc to leave Top Gear

  31-05-2018 19:10 via theguardian.com
  Star will leave BBC show after 26th series to spend more time with family and friendsMatt LeBlanc is to leave Top Gear after the next series, BBC Studios has announced. The actor thanked the team for “a great drive” and said he was leaving the motoring show to spend more time with his family and friends. Continue reading...
  
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• Trump considering Martha Stewart pardon after Dinesh D'Souza

  31-05-2018 19:03
  Trump offered a pardon to far-right film-maker and spoke of pardoning Stewart and commuting Rod Blagojevich’s sentenceDonald Trump has offered a full pardon to the far-right documentary film-maker Dinesh D’Souza and talked about pardoning Martha Stewart and commuting the prison sentence of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich.In a flurry of controversial moves on Thursday, the president tweeted his intention to pardon D’Souza and then while aboard Air Force One on his way t
  
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• American Animals Director Bart Layton on His ‘Slick As Fuck’ Heist Movie

  31-05-2018 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bart Layton knows the questions that creep in once you leave the theater after a “based on a true story” movie. “You get out of the cinema and you’re like, ‘Well, what did Molly from Molly’s Game really look like?’ or the same question about Tonya from I, Tonya,” the...More »
  
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• The Bold and Bawdy New Queens of Comedy

  31-05-2018 18:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Is it Nicole Kidman?” my friend leans over and whispers to me.I shrug; I have no clue. We’re nearing midnight on a Friday at Caveat, a downtown “new speakeasy” space on the Lower East Side. Hosts Matt Rogers and Dave Mizzoni are just getting warmed up during their monthly comedy...More »
  
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• Hayley Kiyoko and Kehlani’s ‘What I Need’ Video Is Exactly What #20GayTeen Needs

  31-05-2018 18:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  You know how Thelma & Louise was always a film about how men are vile and women should just be with each other, but Hollywood wouldn’t let them be great until their dying breaths? Well, Kehlani and Hayley Kiyoko felt! that! and are here to issue a corrective. In their...More »
  
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• The Tragedy of Henry Jennings in The Americans Series Finale

  31-05-2018 18:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you know your television tropes, you’re probably familiar with Chuck Cunningham Syndrome, the rather clinical name given to TV’s long-standing tradition of sidelining characters — often children in family sitcoms and dramas — with little to no explanation as to why they aren’t more present in their own households.Chuck Cunningham...More »
  
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• Robert Pattinson Joins Timothée Chalamet Movie Because Apparently Netflix Wants to Send Stan Twitter Into Cardiac Arrest

  31-05-2018 18:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a move clearly orchestrated by (or at least for) stan Twitter, Robert Pattinson has joined in Netflix’s David Michod–directed drama The King. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Pattinson, Sean Harris, Ben Mendelsohn, and Lily-Rose Depp will appear alongside Timothée Chalamet in the period drama. Based on Shakespeare’s Henry the IV and V,...More »
  
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• Megan Amram’s 101 Best Trump Tweets, Ranked

  31-05-2018 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Megan Amram is many things: She’s a beloved comedian, an accomplished television writer, a published author, and an Emmy-deserving creator and star of her very own web series, An Emmy for Megan, which you should check out right here if you haven’t already. Additionally, Amram has delivered the most consistently funny and scathing Trump Twitter takedowns for...More »
  
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• The Americans: In Memoriam

  31-05-2018 17:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Although the FX drama The Americans has finally ended, Soviet spies Philip and Elizabeth Jennings don’t escape unscathed. Beyond the major tragedies they suffer in the series finale, both leave behind a long trail of death and destruction in their wake. Over six seasons, the Jennings committed dozens of horrific...More »
  
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• Tom Arnold Responds to Roseanne Cancellation: ‘She Wanted It to Happen’

  31-05-2018 17:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Roseanne revival was canceled on Tuesday after its star, Roseanne Barr, tweeted a racist message about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, one of many hateful things the comedian has posted online. According to Tom Arnold, Barr’s ex-husband and a former writer on the original run of Roseanne, she knew...More »
  
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• Exclusive: Meet The Ten Guests of Hotel Artemis

  31-05-2018 17:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Let’s do a Hotel Artemis roll call: Jodie Foster. Sterling K. Brown. Jeff Goldblum. Sofia Boutella. Dave Bautista. Brian Tyree Henry. Charlie Day. Jenny Slate. Kenneth Choi. Zachary Quinto. In the crime thriller directed by Drew Pearce, these ten are stuck in a members-only hospital for criminals. Vulture’s exclusive trailer...More »
  
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• Review: In ‘Breath,’ Tasty Waves and Gnomic Truths

  31-05-2018 17:10 via nytimes.com
  In his feature directing debut, the actor Simon Baker plays a surfing guru who tutors two teens in the Way of the Wave.
  
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• Cosby Accuser Andrea Constand Gives First Interview Detailing Her Sexual Assault: ‘I Was Crying Out Inside’

  31-05-2018 17:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  The only woman Bill Cosby has been convicted of sexually assaulting is speaking out for the first time. Andrea Constand, who was at the center of both his trials, has given her first interview in 13 years to NBC’s Dateline. In a clip from the interview, the former Temple University...More »
  
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• The 10 Best Musical Moments in The Americans

  31-05-2018 16:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Don’t dream it’s over. The Americans concluded its gut-wrenching run on Wednesday night, but as that Crowded House standout from the season-six premiere illustrated, the FX drama used pop music the way Philip and Elizabeth Jennings used wigs: frequently, and to powerful effect. Over the course of six seasons, showrunners...More »
  
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• Jane Fonda’s Extreme Bravery, Then and Now

  31-05-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 1971 film Klute, starring Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland, finds a new way to terrify me every time I watch it. The first in what is now known as director Alan J. Pakula’s “paranoia trilogy,” Klute is dark in all respects — set in a time when New York...More »
  
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• Samantha Bee to Ivanka Trump: ‘Do Something About Your Dad’s Immigration Practices, You Feckless C*nt!’

  31-05-2018 15:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  During last night’s Full Frontal, Samantha Bee took some time to recap the New York Times’ recent report that the government has lost track of approximately 1,500 migrant children — or as Bee put it at the top of the show, “We are going to talk about racism and I...More »
  
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• Anne Hathaway Dispels Ocean's 8 Catfighting Rumors

  31-05-2018 15:35 via feeds.eonline.com
  Anne Hathaway had the time of her life filming Ocean's 8.The Oscar winner plays Daphne, a celebutante involved in a Met Gala heist. She's part of an all-star ensemble that...
  
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• Spotify’s CEO Now Says Policy Change That Blacklisted R. Kelly Was ‘Rolled Out Wrong’

  31-05-2018 15:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spotify’s CEO is now admitting that his company goofed when it announced its new policy changes. Earlier this month, the streaming service removed R. Kelly and XXXTentacion from its playlists in accordance with a new hate content and hateful conduct policy that allows it to stop promoting artists who violate...More »
  
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• Review: Shailene Woodley Braves the Elements in ‘Adrift’

  31-05-2018 15:00 via nytimes.com
  A true story of survival at sea, directed by Baltasar Kormakur.
  
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• Lisa Ling’s 10 Favorite Books

  31-05-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bookseller One Grand Books has asked celebrities to name the ten titles they’d take to a desert island, and they’ve shared the results with Vulture. Below is CNN journalist Lisa Ling’s list....More »
  
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• In Praise of L3-37, Solo’s Best Star Wars Addition

  31-05-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers below for Solo: A Star Wars Story.The last Disney character I was genuinely excited about was Tessa Thompson in Thor: Ragnarok. I walked out of the theater satisfied with the movie, sure, but legitimately happy about this booze-swilling warrior who rolled her eyes at Thor and palled around with...More »
  
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• How Big Beat the Odds to Become One of the Most Beloved Movies of the ’80s

  31-05-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nobody expected much from Big, and in retrospect, it’s not hard to see why. When the coming-of-age comedy/drama hit theaters 30 years ago this week, it didn’t sound like much: star Tom Hanks had banked as many flops as hits (recent lowlights included Volunteers, The Man With One Red Shoe,...More »
  
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• Tom Cruise Shares the First Photo From Top Gun: Maverick

  31-05-2018 14:30 via feeds.eonline.com
  "Tower, this is Ghost Rider requesting a flyby."Tom Cruise is ready to take flight, as production on Paramount Pictures' Top Gun: Maverick is underway. The actor, reprising...
  
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• Shailene Woodley Is Finally Ready to Call Herself a Feminist

  31-05-2018 14:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Shailene Woodley loves nature, even when it could kill. In Adrift, she suffers through the real-life story of Tami Oldham, who survived 41 days marooned in the Pacific after her two-person yacht was totaled by Hurricane Raymond. Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur opens with the storm’s concussive aftermath: Tami, bloody and...More »
  
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• Picturehouse staff to picket again during Sundance London

  31-05-2018 14:02
  An ongoing pay dispute between union members and the cinema chain over pay and benefits looks set to affect diffusion festival, first disrupted in 2017Cinema workers are set to disrupt Sundance London, the capital’s independent film festival, for a second year in a row. Workers at the Picturehouse Cinemas chain, which hosts screenings and evenings, will picket Thursday’s opening night event, as well as striking for two days. Members of cinema workers’ union, Bectu, have been en
  
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• Review:In ‘Upgrade,’ Better Killing Through Technology

  31-05-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  The futuristic world of “Upgrade” creates a perfect killing machine out of Logan Marshall-Green.
  
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• Review: ‘The Doctor From India’ Pushes Nontraditional Medicine

  31-05-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  The documentary focuses on Vasant Lad and his claims that ayurveda can cure various ailments.
  
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• Review: ‘Rodin,’ a Biopic Heavy as Stone

  31-05-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  The film about the sculptor offers two hours of actors struggling to appear lifelike.
  
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• Review: In ‘Upgrade,’ Better Killing Through Technology

  31-05-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  The futuristic world of “Upgrade” creates a perfect killing machine out of Logan Marshall-Green.
  
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• Review: In ‘Social Animals,’ Stalled Lives and Sexual Frustrations

  31-05-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Noël Wells and Josh Radnor play Austin slackers in this mildly entertaining sex comedy.
  
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• Review: In ‘Nossa Chape,’ Soccer Club Rebuilds After Devastating Loss

  31-05-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  A new documentary follows the Chapecoense, a Brazilian soccer team, after 19 of its players were killed in a plane crash.
  
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