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• Issa Rae Says Insecure’s Issa and Daniel Are ‘Connected’

  23-07-2018 23:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Could Issa and Daniel actually be endgame on Insecure? Despite their inability to work out their complicated relationship, actors Issa Rae and Y’lan Noel seem to be holding out for these two. “I always have hope for Issa and Daniel. I feel like they’re connected,” Rae tells Vulture at Insecure Fest in L.A....More »
  
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• The Best and Worst Movie Trailers From Comic-Con

  23-07-2018 23:17 via nytimes.com
  From the surprising “Glass” and giddy “Shazam!,” to the questionable “Robin Hood,” here’s our take on the previews. What do you think?
  
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• GLOW’s Radical Message About Loving Problematic Art

  23-07-2018 20:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the first season of Netflix’s GLOW, the show-within-the-show’s trust-fund producer Bash Howard (Chris Lowell) explains that pro wrestling is all about archetypes, except what he really means to say is broad stereotypes. Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, he explains, depends on characters that conform to and reinforce existing cultural ideas:...More »
  
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• ‘We Did Something Revolutionary’

  23-07-2018 20:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Oh God, it has just been a wild ride,” Janet Mock says as she takes a seat across from me at one of the window tables of Chelsea Square Diner, just as many of the characters in Pose, for which she writes, directs, and produces, have over the course of...More »
  
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• Chocolate Factory Unveils Final Season in Its Current Home

  23-07-2018 20:34 via nytimes.com
  The season — with work by Melanie Maar, Miguel Gutierrez and Niall Jones — is focused on creative process, ahead of a move to a new facility in 2020.
  
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• Robert De Niro in Talks to Join DC Universe for Joker Movie

  23-07-2018 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Robert De Niro has been busy of late — The Irishman, SNL, and generally making his displeasure with Donald Trump very, very well-known. Something new on his agenda, according to The Hollywood Reporter: the DC Cinematic Universe. De Niro is in talks to join Todd Phillips’s stand-alone Joker film, starring...More »
  
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• Get Ready for a New Podcast Network ‘by Women, for Everyone, No Creeps Allowed’

  23-07-2018 20:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Three women in Los Angeles are teaming up to create what looks to be the most exciting thing to happen to comedy podcasts in some time. Writers, actors, and podcasters Amanda Lund and Maria Blasucci, along with former producer-agent and current writer, director, and advice columnist Priyanka Mattoo, launched a...More »
  
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• The Alita: Battle Angel Trailer Promises a Lot of CGI Punching

  23-07-2018 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  The first official trailer for Robert Rodriguez’s Alita: Battle Angel is here, and it’s got more than just moody shots of the principal characters! It opens with a voice-over from Alita (Rosa Salazar) telling us about a war and a world where “the powerful prey on the week.” Then bad...More »
  
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• HBO Orders 4 More 2 Dope Queens Specials

  23-07-2018 19:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson are returning to HBO with more 2 Dope Queens specials. The network announced today that Williams and Robinson’s podcast will return next year with four new hour-long specials. The first round of specials, which were directed by Tig Notaro, debuted earlier this year featuring special...More »
  
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• Let’s Compare Jason Spencer’s Who Is America? Appearance With His Statement

  23-07-2018 18:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Georgia state representative Jason Spencer’s appearance on Sunday’s episode of Who Is America? was so bad that his fellow Georgia Republicans are calling on him to resign. Georgia governor Nathan Deal called Spencer’s behavior “appalling and offensive” and speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives David Ralston said “Georgia is...More »
  
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• Just for Laughs Announces Its 2018 New Faces

  23-07-2018 18:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 2017 Just for Laughs festival is currently underway in Montreal, and today they revealed their annual list of up-and-coming comedians to highlight for their “New Faces” showcase. Like past years, the list includes categories for stand-up (New Faces of Comedy), sketch (New Faces: Characters), comedians without managers (New Faces:...More »
  
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• Issa Rae Confirms Insecure Season 3 Is Taking a Break From Lawrence

  23-07-2018 17:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  You’ve been warned, Lawrence Hive: There’s a good chance that Jay Ellis won’t return for Insecure’s third season. Fans witnessed Issa (Issa Rae) and Lawrence’s (Ellis) crushing good-bye at the end of season two when Lawrence discovered Issa’s relationship with Daniel (Y’lan Noel), and going by this new teaser, he’s nowhere...More »
  
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• Channel 4 trims shortlist for new national HQ

  23-07-2018 17:26 via ft.com
  Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds selected from initial 13 cities
  
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• Georgia Governor Says He’s ‘Saddened and Disgusted’ by Jason Spencer’s Who Is America? Appearance

  23-07-2018 16:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Georgia state representative Jason Spencer is no longer most famous for introducing a 2016 bill to ban Muslims from wearing veils or threatening a black female Democrat by telling her he couldn’t “guarantee you won’t be met with torches but something a lot more definitive.” No, thanks to Sacha Baron...More »
  
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• How Wynonna Earp Built the World’s Nicest TV Fandom

  23-07-2018 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last October, Morgan Jarrett made an offer to Wynonna Earp fans: She was headed to Derby City Comic-Con in Louisville, Kentucky, and had an extra bed in her hotel room. Did anybody need a place to stay? She put the offer on Twitter — adding that she’d pay for their...More »
  
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• What’s the Point of Pranking Corinne from The Bachelor?

  23-07-2018 16:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are moments when Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America? really says something. In segments like the Kinder-Guardians prank — or, in episode two, the Arizona focus group about building an enormous mosque — the Showtime series takes on controversial topics and does exactly what its title suggests. It reveals...More »
  
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• The Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: Peace in Our Time

  23-07-2018 16:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The episode starts with Gizelle and Monique finishing up their fight from last week and Monique is so concerned with appearing like a goodly Christian woman that she throws any and all blame for inviting Kyndall onto Charisse. Gizelle also says that she wakes up every morning and knows that...More »
  
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• The 9 Biggest Surprises From San Diego Comic-Con 2018

  23-07-2018 16:22 via feeds.eonline.com
  Comic-Con 2018 is officially over. Five days (including the preview nights of Wednesday and Thursday) full of pop culture merriment, new trailers, casting news and parties have officially come to...
  
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• The 8 Worst Lines on R. Kelly’s 19-Minute New Song, ‘I Admit’

  23-07-2018 16:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you were hoping to start your week on a good note, exit this post. Nothing but pain and suffering lie ahead. R. Kelly has dropped a new 19-minute song on Instagram Live called “I Admit,” which is an extended admission of a lifetime of reprehensible behavior that falls just...More »
  
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• How Naomi Ekperigin Put Together Her Late-Night Debut

  23-07-2018 16:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Naomi Ekperigin, one of the 20 comedians on Vulture’s last list of comedians you will and should know, co-host of the Couples Therapy podcast, and a former writer on Broad City and Great News, is so very funny. She has an inviting, conversational style that makes you feel like you’re...More »
  
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• From Aquaman to The Walking Dead: 10 things we learned from Comic-Con 2018

  23-07-2018 16:12 via theguardian.com
  The much-anticipated fan convention in San Diego brought with it a host of new footage and info from new movies and returning seasonsContinue reading...
  
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• Patricia Clarkson’s Provocative Women

  23-07-2018 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “I call this my Streetcar Named Desire staircase,” Patricia Clarkson says on a balmy day at the end of June, addressing the inky-black, iron-wrought staircase cascading around us, when I visit her at her apartment in New York. Clarkson has been living here for 11 years, but it speaks to...More »
  
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• Disney Should Know the Difference Between James Gunn and Roseanne

  23-07-2018 15:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last Friday, the Walt Disney Company abruptly severed its professional relationship with writer-director James Gunn. Gunn’s third movie for the company, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, was to start production this fall; his first two Guardians films (sorry, “volumes”) grossed a combined $1.6 billion for Disney. So this was...More »
  
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• Tom Cruise Suffers Hard For You in Mission: Impossible — Fallout

  23-07-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Whatever the origins of Tom Cruise’s insatiable life force — a billion-odd years of purging extraterrestrial Thetans or 50-odd years of purging terrestrial self-doubt — it shows no signs of slackening, not even after several big flops (one deserving, The Mummy, and one very much undeserving, American Made) and the Mission:...More »
  
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• The 10 Best Mission: Impossible Action Sequences, Ranked

  23-07-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Through the myriad tonal shifts and personnel changes of the Mission: Impossible films, one element has remained consistent: the power of its self-contained action sequences. Some are distinguished by their intricate disguises, miraculous computer work, and split-second timing; others are noteworthy for what can only be described as the death...More »
  
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• Queen of the Mockumentary

  23-07-2018 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  We shot Waiting for Guffman in Austin, and after the first day of shooting, we all piled into a van to go back to the hotel. I lay down in the backseat and pulled my knees to my chest, telling everyone my back hurt. “That’s from holding in laughter,” Eugene...More »
  
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• When good TV goes bad: how an aloof sleuth butchered Midsomer Murders

  23-07-2018 14:00 via theguardian.com
  Without Nettles, it was always going to be a hard sell but it was nepotism that proved to be its downfallJohn Nettles’s first great screen sleuth, 80s heartthrob Jim Bergerac, was something of a boilerplate TV cop: a drink problem, a roving eye, unorthodox methods that get results. But his other telly detective, DCI Tom Barnaby, was a true maverick. The original star of ITV’s Midsomer Murders was a steely-but-cheerful everyman with no demons, apart from his wife Joyce’s cooking
  
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• In Conversation: Billy Joel

  23-07-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  On a July morning, Billy Joel watches through the window of the study at his Long Island estate as a helicopter takes flight. “My wife had to go into the city today,” he says as the Joel family chopper ascends. He smiles. “Life is funny, isn’t it?” It’s a week...More »
  
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• 'Makes me shiver with glee' – a Stephen King superfan on Castle Rock

  23-07-2018 11:00 via theguardian.com
  The new JJ Abrams-produced series brings together elements from the award-winning author’s literary universe for an Easter egg-packed fan’s dreamGod, I love a mystery box. TV shows built around the idea that there’s something going on, but the explanation is teased out over episodes – over seasons – before the resolution is offered. And everything in that show feeds into that central mystery, before being spat out, hopefully satisfying the viewers who’ve stuck
  
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• Netflix’s Dark Tourist and the trouble with ‘extreme’ travel TV

  23-07-2018 10:15 via theguardian.com
  David Farrier’s series follows in the footsteps of Ross Kemp and Vice by making titillating television from war zones and disaster sites. It’s shallow and sordidOne of the most unpleasant rumours I can recall emerging from the Balkan wars of the 1990s was of a German agency who organised trips for tourists to “visit” the conflict and even participate. There’s nothing quite so appalling as that in David “Tickled” Farrier’s new Netflix series Dark To
  
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• Newspaper group Reach appoints new CFO

  23-07-2018 08:28 via ft.com
  Simon Fuller will join from retail group McColl’s
  
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• Monday’s best TV: Storyville: Insha’Allah Democracy; Give It a Year

  23-07-2018 06:59 via theguardian.com
  The story of Pakistan’s turbulent history makes for this week’s best documentary. Plus: Karren Brady returns with a new batch of aspring entrepreneurs10pm, BBC Four
  This film about the turbulent recent history of Pakistan is without question the week’s best documentary. The Arabic phrase “Insha’Allah” translates roughly as “if God wills”: here film-maker Mo Naqvi explains why he is optimistic about the possibility that democracy will take hold in h
  
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• Who Has the Most Damning Appearance in Who Is America Episode 2?

  23-07-2018 06:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  No one comes out of a Sacha Baron Cohen show looking good. Your mere presence on Showtime’s Who Is America? means you’ve already been duped by a guy in a costume. It’s an impossible game to win, but some guests make it out relatively unscathed by refusing to play along.The...More »
  
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• Nathan Fielder Wrote and Directed a Who Is America? Prank

  23-07-2018 06:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nathan for You mastermind Nathan Fielder received a consulting producer credit in the premiere episode of Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America?, but his involvement went up a notch in week two. Fielder is listed as a writer, director, and consulting producer for the second episode, though it’s unknown which...More »
  
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• Lin-Manuel Miranda Announces Arts Fund for Puerto Rico In Wake of Hurricane Maria

  23-07-2018 05:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Sunday, America’s sweetest dad Lin-Manuel Miranda took his unflagging optimism to the next level, touching down in a Puerto Rico still struggling to recover from Hurricane Maria and announcing a multi-million dollar fund to help the island’s artists and arts organizations.“As someone whose life has been transformed by the...More »
  
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• How a Local Arizona Newspaper Covered Sacha Baron Cohen’s Mosque Prank

  23-07-2018 05:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Sacha Baron Cohen went to Kingman, Arizona to film a prank for Who Is America? episode two, he got exactly what he wanted. After his liberal character, Dr. Nira Cain-N’Degeocello, led a focus group about plans to replace a local shopping center with a $385 million mosque funded by...More »
  
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• Preacher Recap: Swamp Pulp Fiction

  23-07-2018 05:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Let’s be clear: one full star of that four-star rating you see is for Humperdoo’s soft-shoe. On the whole, Preacher is a delightfully demented show, but there’s something particularly funny about the sequences focusing on the Grail. Most of that comes down to Pip Torrens as Herr Starr. Though Starr...More »
  
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• Did Sacha Baron Cohen Buy a Multi-Million-Dollar Greek Island for Who Is America?

  23-07-2018 04:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the second episode of Who Is America?, Sacha Baron Cohen introduced yet another new character: Gio Monaldo, a white-haired, bearded Italian billionaire who dupes Bachelor star Corinne Olympios into recording a pro-child soldier PSA and claiming she spent a month helping kids with Ebola in Sierra Leone. Like Baron...More »
  
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• Pose Is a Deeply American Story of Self-Creation

  23-07-2018 04:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  The final episode of Pose’s first season ends with the major characters fending off a challenge from a rival house, then gathering in a Chinese restaurant and affirming their status as a family. The silent images of the characters laughing and embracing — including rival house mothers Elektra (Dominique Jackson)...More »
  
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• Pose Finale Recap: Belles of the Ball

  23-07-2018 04:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Pose has always been a fairy tale; so it’s no doubt that there would be a happy ending in the final episode of the first season. (Yes, it has been renewed for season two.) Things start out low, of course, but you can’t make it to the castle without sweeping...More »
  
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• Sharp Objects recap: season one, episode three – Fix

  23-07-2018 04:15 via theguardian.com
  Camille balances being a good daughter and a responsible big sister as her history in Wind Gap and the tragedy that shaped her is revealedAfter last week’s episode pushed the story forward at a painfully steady pace, Dirt upped the ante, and raised its camp gothic to levels Tennessee Williams might consider ‘a bit much’ (I’m thinking of Adora throwing the roses on the floor in the hospital, or tending her rose bush, blaming Camille for the thorn tearing her hand). But we
  
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• Sharp Objects Recap: War of the Roses

  23-07-2018 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “You love dead girls,” a sloppily drunk Amma coos to Camille in one of the opening scenes of “Fix.” Amma draws out the word “love,” letting it crackle at the end making it ripe with dangerous meaning. This statement — which Amma says as she drapes herself over Camille —...More »
  
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• Led Zeppelin Is a Perfect Fit for Sharp Objects

  23-07-2018 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Camille Preaker, the damaged protagonist of HBO’s Sharp Objects, is obsessed with Led Zeppelin. This week’s episode, “Fix,” finally explains why: In a series of flashbacks, we learn that prior to her return to Wind Gap, Missouri, Camille (Amy Adams) checked into a rehab center and became roommates with Alice...More »
  
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• Review: ‘Smokey Joe’s Cafe’ Is a Feast of Pop Nostalgia

  23-07-2018 03:45 via nytimes.com
  But, racing through 40 classic Leiber and Stoller songs in 90 intermission-less minutes, the show only occasionally slows down enough to breathe.
  
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