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• The Best Films of 2018, So Far

  29-06-2018 23:59 via nytimes.com
  Our critics share their recommendations for catching up on new movies during the long, hot holiday.
  
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• Marvel’s Luke Cage Recap: We Need a Favor

  29-06-2018 23:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  The eighth episode of Luke Cage begins with Shades reconciling with murdering Comanche — he didn’t want to do it, really. But he had to. Or at least he probably had to. Eventually, he visits Comanche’s mother, dropping her some cash. He even nearly almost tells her what really brought...More »
  
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• The Bridge recap: season four, episode eight – an emotional goodbye to Saga

  29-06-2018 23:00
  There’s trauma, tasers and a gut-punch of a twist in an affecting final episode of the Scandi-crime drama, as its troubled detective finds something like hopeSPOILER ALERT: This is for people watching The Bridge at BBC Two pace. Don’t read on if you haven’t seen episode eight of the fourth series – and if you’ve seen further ahead, please do not post spoilers.You can read the previous recaps here Continue reading...
  
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• Your Complete Guide to Drake’s New Album, Scorpion

  29-06-2018 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Drake album release is never dull. Last night, he birthed his fifth studio album, Scorpion, months after the birth of his own child, which he confirms on the album. And that’s just the first of many bombshells dropped throughout the album. But beyond the breaking news, there’s a number...More »
  
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• Queer Eye Season-Finale Recap: Make America Gay Again

  29-06-2018 21:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  My two favorite parts of this otherwise mediocre episode come at the very beginning. The first is Tan France, an English-born Pakistani whose last name is as continental as a breakfast of yogurt and pain au chocolat, calling America tacky. Yes, we are the home of glamour shots and truck...More »
  
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• Asia O’Hara on Drag Race’s Season 10 Finale, the Failed Butterfly Stunt, and Arguing With RuPaul

  29-06-2018 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Her name was etched in sorrow, but now it’s blasted in lights. Although Asia O’Hara bowed out of the finals on RuPaul’s Drag Race season 10, she’s left an indelible mark on the drag community with her stunning looks, winning personality, and a social media presence that is both lively...More »
  
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• Matt Walsh, Sasheer Zamata, and More on Their Favorite Del Close Marathon Memories

  29-06-2018 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  For many years in the hot, sweaty, labyrinthian basement below Gristedes that was the Upright Citizens Brigade’s Chelsea theater, throngs of improvisers and onlookers have gathered to perform, party, and watch the chaos of the UCB’s annual Del Close Marathon ensue every summer, a New York tradition now entering a...More »
  
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• See Julia Roberts and Her Bangs in Sam Esmail’s Creepy Homecoming Adaptation

  29-06-2018 21:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  One by one, all the big movie stars are coming to TV, and Julia Roberts is next. Roberts is starring Homecoming, in a new Amazon series from Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail based on the mystery podcast series. Roberts plays Heidi Bergman, a caseworker at a center that helps soldiers...More »
  
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• Woman Walks Ahead Is Blandly Tasteful

  29-06-2018 21:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Woman Walks Ahead” is the Native American name given to Catherine Weldon, a hard-charging, 44-year-old Swiss-born divorcee who traveled with her 12-year-old son (from an affair with a married man) to North Dakota in 1889 at the behest of the National Indian Defense Association (NIDA) to work as an aide...More »
  
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• RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 10 Winner Aquaria on Victory, Vigilance, and the Vixen

  29-06-2018 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you haven’t yet heard, honey, it is the dawning of the Age of Aquaria. After turning looks and stunting pretty all season long, the 22-year-old “bitch from New York City” was named America’s Next Drag Superstar by RuPaul in a tight competition that came down to the very last...More »
  
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• New on Amazon Prime: July 2018

  29-06-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Because one of the best shows ever just came to an end: The Americans, Season 6For six years, The Americans was one of the best things you could watch on a television, although it didn’t necessarily seem like that on the surface. The Americans was deceptively plain. It was rarely...More »
  
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• GLOW Recap: Child Support

  29-06-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In an earlier season-two GLOW episode, we discussed the nuances of being “buried” in pro wrestling. After this fourth installment, it might be time for a quick primer on heels and faces. Yes, they are parts of the body or — if you prefer — things you put on parts...More »
  
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• Antoni Porowski’s 21 Queer Eye Recipes, Ranked

  29-06-2018 20:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  We’ve spent two seasons of Queer Eye celebrating and scrutinizing the culinary capabilities of food and wine expert Antoni Porowski. And we assume that you too have gobbled up the latest eight-episode season by now, which wasn’t as tear-inducing as the first, right? Whether you’re caught up or not, and...More »
  
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• A History of the New York Drag Scene That Launched RuPaul

  29-06-2018 20:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Long before runways, a hit reality-TV show, and international stardom, RuPaul circulated in New York City’s burgeoning drag scene. In the late 1980s and early ’90s, drag queens flocked to the bars and clubs of the Lower East Side, eventually expanding visibility into their community with the launch of Wigstock,...More »
  
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• The price of a song: tune in, fork out

  29-06-2018 20:25 via ft.com
  If music rights be the food of recurring income, play on
  
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• Charli XCX Drops Two New Singles, Because She Wants the World to Be Better for You

  29-06-2018 19:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s good to be a Charli XCX fan. After taking that long album break following the release of Sucker in 2014, it feels like she’s either putting out full-length releases of her own, casually dropping perfect loosies like “Boys,” or showing up as the best part of collaborations with your...More »
  
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• Greta Gerwig Might Direct a Dream Little Women With Saoirse Ronan, Meryl Streep, Emma Stone, and Timothée Chalamet

  29-06-2018 19:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Greta Gerwig, queen of the female coming-of-age movie, might just make the perfect Little Women. Variety reports that Gerwig is in talks to direct a film adaptation of Little Women. Lady Bird’s Saoirse Ronan is also in talks to star in the film as Jo, alongside Meryl Streep (as Marmee),...More »
  
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• House sales and Sky bid are links in UK’s chain pains

  29-06-2018 19:05 via ft.com
  Disney’s increased offer for Fox puts the Takeover Panel in uncomfortable territory
  
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• Jimmy O. Yang to Play an Aspiring Stand-up Comedian in The Opening Act

  29-06-2018 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Comedian and Silicon Valley/Crazy Rich Asians star Jimmy O. Yang is heading to the big screen in a leading role. Deadline reports that Yang has signed on to star in a coming-of-age comedy written and directed by Steve Byrne called The Opening Act, in which he’ll play an aspiring stand-up...More »
  
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• Patricia Clarkson Gets Very Candid About Justin Timberlake's Penis Size

  29-06-2018 18:50 via feeds.eonline.com
  Patricia Clarkson had something to say about Justin Timberlake--and it involved down there.The Oscar nominee got very candid during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy...
  
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• A Director Looks for Beauty in Her Home’s Opioid Struggle

  29-06-2018 18:42 via nytimes.com
  With “Recovery Boys,” Elaine McMillion Sheldon aimed to tell the story of West Virginia’s opioid epidemic through the eyes of people who are fighting through it.
  
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• The Many Legacies of Harlan Ellison

  29-06-2018 18:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 1987, the Nemo Press released The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective, a collection of writings spanning the long career of Harlan Ellison. It speaks volumes about Ellison’s work that this attempt to distill his bibliography down to something that could be called “essential” still resulted in a book well...More »
  
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• How GLOW Season Two Made Its Flashiest ’80s Costumes

  29-06-2018 18:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  As GLOW returns for its second season on Netflix today, the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling are getting makeovers. Quite a few characters have new additions to their in-ring costumes, though others are still sporting the same hole-ridden sweaters in their day-to-day life (cough, Ruth). Still, fans can expect season two’s...More »
  
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• Jordan Klepper Ends The Opposition With an Epiphany: ‘I Think the Bad Guys Won’

  29-06-2018 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  After nine months on the air, Jordan Klepper’s late-night series ended its run on Comedy Central last night. For the show’s final “Just Between Us” segment, Klepper’s so-called “alt-right asshole” character had a rare moment of clarity. “I think the bad guys won. I think maybe we’re bad,” he said....More »
  
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• This Week in Comedy Podcasts: ‘Staind Glass’ Returns

  29-06-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week...More »
  
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• New on HBO: July 2018

  29-06-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Because it might be the buzziest show of the summer: Sharp ObjectsThe long-awaited adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s novel of the same name, Sharp Objects stars Amy Adams as reporter Camille Preaker, sent back to her hometown to cover the murder of two girls — an assignment that ends up hitting...More »
  
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• GLOW Recap: Bowel Trouble

  29-06-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s been plenty of TV punch lines over the years about women’s menstrual cycles syncing up, but how often do we hear about the highs and lows of their gastrointestinal comings and goings? (Okay, maybe Broad City is an exception.) In this third and, to this point, high-water mark episode...More »
  
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• The Sorry to Bother You Cast Dishes on Their Group Texts

  29-06-2018 17:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  God bless sweet prince Omari Hardwick, who had the good fortune of not being part of a riotous group text until he joined the cast of Sorry to Bother You. In this video from Vulture’s Sundance Film Festival studio, the cast of Boots Riley’s new movie explained just how wild...More »
  
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• China’s Biggest Movie Stars Get a Pay Cut (From the Government)

  29-06-2018 17:45 via nytimes.com
  Officials said limiting actors’ pay would help curb tax evasion and celebrity worship. But the government also wants to make China’s film industry a force abroad.
  
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• Juliet, Naked Trailer: Rose Byrne and the Summer of Hot Ethan Hawke!

  29-06-2018 17:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Might it be the summer of Ethan Hawke? In Juliet, Naked, humble, cardigan-wearing Annie (Rose Byrne) finds herself in an extended flirtatious email correspondence with Tucker Crowe (Hawke — still a hottie), an early-’90s American rocker. The twist: Annie only heard about him from her ex-boyfriend, Duncan (Chris O’Dowd —...More »
  
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• How the Long Fuse on Chelsea’s Art Boom Was Lit

  29-06-2018 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  In celebration of New York Magazine’s 50th anniversary, this series, which will continue through October 2018, tells the stories behind key moments that shaped the city’s culture.On a long list of exotic locales associated with the Dia Art Foundation — the dusty desert in New Mexico, rocky shoreline around Utah’s Great Salt...More »
  
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• We Baked A Drake Cake To Celebrate The Release of Scorpion

  29-06-2018 16:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Drake is a man of many dimensions. From his early days as an actor on Degrassi, to his genre-hopping musical career, no one can deny that the artist has a lot of layers. And what else has layers? Cake! And what does cake rhyme with? Drake! Starting to make sense?...More »
  
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• Patricia Clarkson, of All People, Would Like to Say Justin Timberlake Is Well-Endowed

  29-06-2018 16:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Patricia Clarkson has apparently decided to just say things and see what happens, and it is very, very delightful. On Watch What Happens Live, playing a game themed around her Sharp Objects co-star Elizabeth Perkins’s appearance in Big, Clarkson decided to tell the world that fellow Friends With Benefits cast...More »
  
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• Tessa Thompson Says She ‘Attracted to Men and Also to Women’

  29-06-2018 16:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tessa Thompson likes men and women. In a new interview with the luxury fashion site Net-A-Porter, Thompson spoke openly about her sexuality and her rumored relationship with Janelle Monáe. “I’m attracted to men and also to women. If I bring a woman home, [or] a man, [in my family] we don’t even...More »
  
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• Florence and the Machine and Gorillaz Fight for the Future on Their New Albums

  29-06-2018 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Calling the world from isolation / ’Cause right now, that’s the ball where we’ll be chained” — Gorillaz, “Humility”This year feels like freefall, but it’s tough to guess how far and fast we’ll fall. I’m apprehensively revisiting histories of blighted and oppressed people — obsessing over 1930s Italy, 1940s Nuremberg,...More »
  
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• Streaming: The Bounty of Netflix International

  29-06-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  “Sunday’s Illness,” a Spanish film, leads the pack in the latest offerings of Netflix’s foreign-language pictures.
  
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• When Late-Night TV Is the News

  29-06-2018 15:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  It is beyond old hat to say that the world feels fake right now. I’ve personally moved beyond the computer-simulation theory to being 99 percent sure we’re in the Seltzer-Freiberg parody movie of the real world. To wit, Trump’s IRS nominee was Girls Gone Wild auteur Joe Francis’s lawyer during...More »
  
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• The Best Show on TV Is Jane the Virgin

  29-06-2018 15:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Until very recently, I was a Jane the Virgin virgin. I knew that the CW’s telenovela-inspired drama about a woman who gets artificially inseminated by accident was supposed to be a great show, and that a lot of smart TV critics and writers have championed it over the course of...More »
  
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• Terry Crews Responds to Those Questioning His Story of Sexual Assault

  29-06-2018 15:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Tuesday, Terry Crews testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee to advocate for the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights and tell his own story of sexual assault. During his testimony and since, some — including, notably, 50 Cent — questioned his story and asked why he didn’t...More »
  
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• Leave No Trace Made Ben Foster Cry

  29-06-2018 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ben Foster won’t watch Leave No Trace. It’s not the first time he’s skipped out on watching his own performance, but this time, he thought he might have more of a reason to watch it: Debra Granik’s bracingly vulnerable movie is about a nontraditional family, and Foster is a new...More »
  
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• What Does Fear Sound Like?

  29-06-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It doesn’t take a film scholar to know that sound is absolutely essential to an effective horror movie. An exceptional score can help something suspenseful ascend to something brilliant and bone-chilling, and even turn something as mundane as walking into a nail-biting piece of exposition.This year, sound has taken something...More »
  
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• New on Hulu: July 2018

  29-06-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re a big Stephen King fan: Castle RockOne of the most prolific authors of our time, Stephen King boasts a body of work that’s wide-ranging, vast and, as any die-hard fan knows, connected. His sprawling universe rivals that of any comic book publisher, and Castle Rock — a new...More »
  
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• GLOW Recap: Stick It, Billy

  29-06-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In wrestling jargon, getting “buried” isn’t the same as being dead. It just means your momentum is temporarily on ice due to backstage politics, personality clashes, or the outsize influence of a cavalier peer. (Or, more literally, that you’ve lost to WWE legend the Undertaker in his signature Casket Match.)...More »
  
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• Amy Adams Snuck a Fart Machine Onto the Sharp Objects Set

  29-06-2018 14:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Things were bleak as hell on the set of HBO’s upcoming psychological thriller, Sharp Objects. That is, until someone or something ripped a big one. Up-and-comer Taylor John Smith explains how his co-star and the show’s lead, Amy Adams, added some much-needed levity on set.“There was a scene that’s very...More »
  
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• Your Week in Culture: Essence Festival, ‘Leave No Trace,’ Caramoor

  29-06-2018 14:00 via nytimes.com
  The R&B event returns to New Orleans, Debra Granik’s new film arrives and “Inuksuit” comes to Caramoor.
  
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• Which July 2018 Movie Release Are You Going to See in Theaters?

  29-06-2018 14:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Can you believe it's almost July?!Even though the end of June means the summer is getting shorter, it also means that new movies and TV shows are headed our way with the start of a...
  
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• Film about abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell gets US cinema release

  29-06-2018 13:36
  The crowdfunded true-crime film Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer is free to be released, following legal action by a judge portrayed in itA controversial film based on the real-life case of abortion clinic doctor and convicted murderer Kermit Gosnell will now be released in US cinemas, after the conclusion of legal action against it by the judge involved in Gosnell’s 2013 trial.Variety magazine reports that the makers of Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Bigg
  
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• This week’s best home entertainment: from Preacher to Humans

  29-06-2018 13:00
  Jesse and the gang are back on the road to God knows where in Preacher, and is it the end of the line for the synths in HumansFans of the original comic-book series will be pleased to hear that the third season of this freewheeling adaptation is now venturing into some of the original fiction’s best and darkest areas. It’s time to explore Jesse Custer’s difficult childhood. Don’t expect too much hugging and learning, though; Preacher remains, by turns, funny, daring and b
  
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• Plus-size superhero Faith to get own movie

  29-06-2018 12:49
  Sony and Valiant Comics are teaming up to make the ‘sci-fi-loving geek with telekinetic superpowers’ Hollywood’s first plus-sized superheroHollywood is breaking new ground with its first plus-sized superhero, as a film featuring Faith Herbert, AKA Zephyr, from Valiant Comics’ Harbinger stories gets underway.According to Deadline, Sony have hired writer Maria Melnik (American Gods) to work on the project. The film is part of a 2015 deal the studio made with Valiant to deve
  
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