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• In This Sick Sad World, at Least Daria Is Coming to Hulu

  25-06-2018 23:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  MTV recently announced that it would be reviving its hit cartoon Daria, but if you want to watch the show’s original run, it’s got a new streaming home. Hulu has signed a deal with Viacom for access to its program library, which means in addition to Daria you can now...More »
  
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• XXXTentacion Gets First Solo Posthumous No. 1 Hit Since Notorious B.I.G.

  25-06-2018 21:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  A week after his death, XXXTentacion has landed his first chart-topper on the Billboard Hot 100. The track “Sad!” had previously peaked at No. 7 back in March, but it just made the jump from 52 all the way up to No. 1. This is the first solo posthumous leap...More »
  
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• Marvel’s Luke Cage Recap: Harlem Rises, She Always Does

  25-06-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  We start the fifth episode with Luke caught in a deposition — and by Cockroach, no less, for that thorough beatdown Harlem’s Hero gave him. And irrespective of the fact that Cockroach was in the process of assaulting his girlfriend, Drea, he tells the story as if he was attempting to...More »
  
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• Britain’s Best Junior Doctors review – celebrating the NHS with a quiz

  25-06-2018 21:00
  Trainee medics from two hospitals went head to head to test their medical knowledge, with Jo Brand adding some bum jokes for the viewers at homeQuiz question. You live in Market Harborough in Leicestershire with your partner, who is taken ill suddenly with severe chest pains. So you bundle them into the car and speed on to the A6. Which way do you turn – north-west towards Leicester Royal Infirmary or south-east towards Kettering General? (For the purpose of my quiz, the hospitals are
  
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• Daniel Kaluuya and Tiffany Haddish join film Academy in fresh diversity push

  25-06-2018 20:49
  A record 928 industry professionals have been recruited to the Academy – 38% of new members people of color and 49% womenThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced a record-breaking 928 new members in an increased push for diversity. Related: Diversity among film directors remains low in Hollywood, report findsContinue reading...
  
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• Every Season of Marvel’s Netflix Shows, Ranked

  25-06-2018 20:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  With the premiere of Luke Cage’s second season on Friday, Netflix has officially released nine seasons of Marvel-fueled television in just three years. That’s a lot of superhero shows, and not all of them have been as good as their cinematic counterparts — but, of course, that’s not an entirely...More »
  
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• Caliphate Is a Breathtaking Investigation of ISIS

  25-06-2018 20:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  At the heart of Caliphate, the New York Times’ limited audio series on the Islamic State, is an ineffable horror. Such is the nature of terrorism: Beyond extreme violence, terrorism typically expresses itself by conjuring a shadow of fear that looms over millions of people. The shadow is intentionally amorphous,...More »
  
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• Racial Tensions Flare Up in The Hate U Give Trailer

  25-06-2018 20:01 via feeds.eonline.com
  At long last, fans are getting their first look at the upcoming drama The Hate U Give.Amandla Stenberg stars as Starr Carter, sharing the screen with KJ Apa, Sabrina Carpenter, Common,...
  
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• The Radical Self-Sufficiency of Mia Wasikowska

  25-06-2018 19:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers for Damsel below.Mia Wasikowska has never allowed herself to be miscast, but in the new Western Damsel, she plays a woman who’s got no choice in the matter. The first half or so of the film follows well-to-do Samuel Alabaster (a cap-toothed Robert Pattinson) on a sojourn across the...More »
  
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• Report: Cardi B and Offset Secretly Married Before They Publicly Got Engaged

  25-06-2018 19:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Cardi B and Migos’ Offset got engaged with a humongous rock at a concert last October, but turns out, the ring was just for insurance. Surprise! TMZ reports that they were already secretly married at the time of their official public engagement, since they filed for a marriage certificate on...More »
  
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• Please Enjoy This Drunk History Clip With a Sloshed Rachel Bloom and Nazi Weird Al

  25-06-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Drunk History continues its fifth season tomorrow night with an episode all about heists. One of those heists includes the tale of how Israeli spies tracked down and captured Adolf Eichmann, a high-ranking Nazi officer/war criminal who fled Germany after the war for Argentina (and yes, there’s a movie about...More »
  
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• Marvel’s Luke Cage Recap: The Hill

  25-06-2018 18:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Luke Cage’s fourth episode, we’re privy to even more stage-setting. Luke’s in a bad spot. Misty’s being hampered by the police department. Mariah is making moves all over the board, and Bushmaster’s setting his own play. But it remains to be seen where their conflicts will take us, or...More »
  
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• Who Said It: Tyler Durden or Screenslaver?

  25-06-2018 18:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the middle of watching Incredibles 2, I was struck by a realization. Around the time the villain Screenslaver started to do his third big monologue about the soul-deadening evils of modern life, it hit me: This guy sounds exactly like Tyler Durden. (Other critics have compared him to the...More »
  
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• Sicario 2: Day of the Soldado Is a Transgressively Bleak Franchise Attempt

  25-06-2018 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Francois Truffaut’s assertion that there is “no such thing as an anti-war film” has been getting a lot of traction in recent years, and if you’re inclined to agree with it, then I think it’s safe to extend the statement to America’s protracted, relentlessly immortalized war on drugs. I certainly...More »
  
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• Toni Collette and Merritt Wever Will Team Up on Netflix’s Unbelievable

  25-06-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix, thank you so much, thanks so much, thank you so much, for teaming up Merritt Wever and Toni Collette. The two actresses will star as detectives “whose lives become intertwined in their mutual pursuit of a possible serial rapist” in Netflix’s eight-episode limited series Unbelievable, which is based on...More »
  
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• Call to boycott Belfast Zoo film over use of live elephant

  25-06-2018 17:56
  Peta criticise decision by producers of Zoo, based on a real-life attempt to save animals during the second world warAnimal rights campaigners People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) have called for a boycott of a new film about a real-life attempt to save animals from Belfast Zoo during the second world war.Zoo, written and directed by Colin McIvor and starring Art Parkinson, Penelope Wilton and Toby Jones, is about a 12-year-old boy who rescues a baby elephant from the zoo during th
  
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• Gloria Estefan Will Give Rita Moreno the Archnemesis She Deserves on One Day at a Time

  25-06-2018 17:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Gloria Estefan, the musical legend also responsible for the God-tier earworm that is Netflix’s One Day at a Time theme song, will appear on the show next season. Netflix announced today that Estefan will play Mirtha, the “baby sister and arch-nemesis” of Lydia (Rita Moreno). Gloria Estefan is 60, while...More »
  
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• European streaming joint venture takes on Netflix

  25-06-2018 17:20 via ft.com
  Discovery and ProSiebenSat.1 to build service in Germany that integrates programming
  
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• Jimmy Fallon Will Host the Tonight Show Until There’s No Longer TV and Maybe Even After That

  25-06-2018 17:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 2018 Emmy race has begun, and Vulture will take a close look at the contenders until voting closes on June 25.Last night, the president of these United States tweeted at Jimmy Fallon, suggesting that the Tonight Show host needs to “be a man.” Fallon soon responded by saying he...More »
  
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• The Brexit referendum on TV: reliving 11 hours of agony

  25-06-2018 17:16
  On Saturday, BBC Parliament screened all 11 hours of the 2016 vote coverage, allowing viewers to rewatch the results roll in – this time with the benefit of hindsightImagine an opportunity to rerun the EU referendum vote – effectively the demand of last weekend’s marchers – with the distinct possibility of another outcome, and the stomach-churning anxiety involved for both sides. Now imagine reliving the whole thing already knowing the outcome would be the same. Why would
  
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• Making a Murderer’s Brendan Dassey Appeal Denied by the Supreme Court

  25-06-2018 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Making a Murderer’s Brendan Dassey has been rejected by the Supreme Court. On Monday, they declined a plea to hear Dassey’s appeal of his conviction for the 2007 murder of Teresa Halbach in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, which was the subject of the Netflix true-crime series. In August 2016, a Milwaukee...More »
  
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• Amandla Stenberg Steps It Up in ‘The Hate U Give’ Trailer

  25-06-2018 17:09 via nytimes.com
  She stars in the adaptation of a best-selling young adult novel alongside Common and Issa Rae.
  
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• Kanye Says He Never Said Slavery Was a Choice, and 5 Other Things We Learned from His New Interview

  25-06-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Though much of Kanye West’s latest album rollout was torpedoed long before it ever began, his offhand comment to TMZ that slavery was a choice proved most damaging. But in a new extended interview with the New York Times, he now says he technically never said that. “I said the...More »
  
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• John Oliver on migrant children: 'Trump said he couldn’t do a thing, then did it'

  25-06-2018 16:00
  On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver discussed Trump’s reversal of his family separation policy after a widespread backlashOn Last Week Tonight, John Oliver discussed Donald Trump’s family separation policy, widespread backlash to which caused the president to sign an executive order requiring that migrant families be detained together. Related: John Oliver calls deal between US and North Korea 'close to meaningless'Continue reading...
  
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• 6 Things We Want From Westworld Season 3

  25-06-2018 15:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Now that the second season of Westworld has ended in a flurry of gunshots and philosophical mayhem, where could the hit HBO show go next? Season two definitely fulfilled some of the things we wanted after the first, including a few peeks at the “real” world and a more deft...More »
  
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• TV Land Cancels Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone’s Nobodies

  25-06-2018 15:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  TV Land has decided not to move forward with Nobodies. Deadline reports that the network has canceled the Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone–produced comedy starring co-creators Hugh Davidson, Larry Dorf, and Rachel Ramras. The series debuted last year then bounced around between TV Land and Paramount Network — it was...More »
  
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• How Westworld Season Two Made Its 5 Best Piano Covers

  25-06-2018 15:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  With all those intertwining, head-scratching narratives, we wouldn’t blame you for not keeping too close of an ear to Westworld’s use of music throughout its second season. But for those indeed blessed with a sonic gift, a fascinating musical trend has been prevalent ever since the series premiered in 2016:...More »
  
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• The Star of Leave No Trace on Being the ‘Next Jennifer Lawrence’

  25-06-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  During Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie’s callback for Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace, she had to improvise a scene where her character, Tom, interacts with a rabbit. So the 17-year-old McKenzie, a New Zealand native, went to her next door neighbor’s and got an actual bunny. “They must have just expected me to...More »
  
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• How Coming to America Flipped the Script on Eddie Murphy’s Career

  25-06-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When the Eddie Murphy vehicle Coming to America landed in theaters 30 years ago, it was received in much the same fashion as the comic superstar’s last few pictures (Eddie Murphy: Raw, Beverly Hills Cop II, The Golden Child) — big box office, but middling reviews. A few noted that...More »
  
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• Westworld finale recap: season 2, episode 10 – who will make it out alive?

  25-06-2018 14:25
  A rapidfire 90-minute season-ender saw the hosts and humans fight for control of the park, but who survived and will Ford have the last laugh?Westworld creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan: ‘Death has been very useful for humanity’Spoiler alert: this blog is published after Westworld airs on HBO in the US and Sky Atlantic in the UK on Sunday night/Monday morning. Do not read unless you have watched season two, episode 10.The stakes are high as we enter this 90-minute finale and it&rs
  
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