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• MoviePass’s Garbage Summer Continues With Terrible User Feedback

  28-08-2018 22:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s been a cruel summer for MoviePass. Over the past few weeks, the embattled movie-ticket subscription service has been jolted by one distressing development after another. Users became livid when the company raised its price from $9.95 to $14.95 a month, implemented surge pricing, and began limiting attendance to first-run...More »
  
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• Here’s How You Can Watch Aretha Franklin’s Funeral

  28-08-2018 22:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  The funeral for legendary soul singer Aretha Franklin will take place at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, Michigan, this Friday, and the general public will be able to watch live. Locally, networks including WDIV-TV, WJBK-TV, and WXYZ-TV will air the service in its entirety, while those outside the area...More »
  
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• Mini-Vows: Rave Reviews and a Surprise Ending for a Broadway Star

  28-08-2018 22:34 via nytimes.com
  Nikki James met Derk Oosterman four years ago at a bar in Manhattan. Then he moved to London.
  
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• What the Rise of Black Pink and BTS Says About the Future of K-pop

  28-08-2018 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the late 1990s, the early K-pop pioneers began their international venture with the neighboring Asian markets: Taiwan, Japan, and China. But the United States — the world’s largest market and the fountainhead of modern pop music — has always been the ultimate prize. BTS finally claimed that prize earlier...More »
  
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• The Great British Bake Off review – triumphant return for TV’s own form of comfort food

  28-08-2018 22:15 via theguardian.com
  Yes, it’s cosy, safe, and mostly middle class, but one of the joys of Bake Off is the competitive spirit – everyone just wants to win. And the Channel 4 team are just getting into their strideCan there be anything more delightful than a giant penis rendered in pink royal icing? Hours later, I’m still laughing to myself about it. “What are you holding?” Kim-Joy asks fellow baker Dan. “A baby,” says the stay-at-home dad, referring to the showstopper tablea
  
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• The Great British Bake Off 2018: episode one - as it happened

  28-08-2018 22:13 via theguardian.com
  The world’s favourite baking show is back. You’ve met the contestants, we know there’s going to be a vegan week, but who triumphed tonight? 9.13pm BST So that’s it for Week One! I’m more shattered than a box full of hammered toffee. Seems like a decent bunch of bakers this year, am looking forward to a fun series, and it’s lovely to be back at the liveblog helm.Let’s do this all again next Wednesday for Cake Week, I’m off to refine my list of spong
  
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• Aretha Franklin Will Be Buried in Red Louboutins, Naturally

  28-08-2018 21:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tuesday began a week of services honoring the late legend Aretha Franklin, who died at 76 of pancreatic cancer on August 16, leading up to her funeral on Friday at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit. After being received at the Swanson Funeral Home in Flint, Franklin’s body was brought...More »
  
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• The Great British Bake Off 2018: episode one - live!

  28-08-2018 21:14 via theguardian.com
  The world’s favourite baking show is back. You’ve met the contestants, we know there’s going to be a vegan week, but who will triumph tonight? Find out here 8.14pm BST Terry (with the ‘tache) is making Lake District ginger shortbreads with lambs on. Hope they won’t be baaaad.8.12pm BST Jon is making Welsh Aberffrw biscuits, whilst Kim-Joy is making orange blossom biscuits. Karen is making Yorkshire Perkins, whatever they are.
  I’m quite taken with Noel’s
  
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• This New Suspiria Clip Has Dakota Johnson Writhing, and Also an Evil Beast

  28-08-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Whether it’s 1977 or 2018, poor Susie (né Suzy) Bannion will always be saddled with that link to the dark side. In this new Suspiria clip, Dakota Johnson’s Bannion is instructed by dance academy dictator Madame Blanc (Tilda Swinton) to “improvise freely” for a new performance piece that will explore “rebirth.” Susie’s...More »
  
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• Review: In ‘Operation Finale,’ the Agonizing Hunt for a Nazi

  28-08-2018 20:49 via nytimes.com
  The film tackles the ethical puzzles facing an Israeli agent played by Oscar Isaac who is part of the team capturing Ben Kingsley’s Adolf Eichmann.
  
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• Matt Smith Will Spend Some Time in a Galaxy Far, Far Away for Star Wars: Episode IX

  28-08-2018 20:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Matt Smith is officially a part of the Star Wars universe. Per Variety, The Crown star has joined Star Wars: Episode IX, which is currently in production in the U.K. It’s unknown whether Smith is on team Empire or team rebel alliance — another mauve-haired admiral or maybe another shady,...More »
  
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• Rick and Morty’s Justin Roiland Gets New Animated Sci-Fi Comedy From Hulu

  28-08-2018 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hulu, where you can already stream several seasons of Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty, is cutting to the chase and getting its own new show straight from the source. The streaming service announced today that it has ordered two seasons of a new comedy from Rick and Morty co-creator Justin...More »
  
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• Louis CK performs first standup set since sexual misconduct allegations

  28-08-2018 19:31 via theguardian.com
  The comic returned to the Comedy Cellar in New York, less than a year after he admitted to abusing his positionWhen Louis CK admitted to a number of acts of sexual misconduct last year, he said in an apparently heartfelt statement: “I have spent my long and lucky career talking and saying anything I want. I will now step back and take a long time to listen.”Less than 10 months later, it appears CK’s listening window may be coming to a close. Last night he made his first public
  
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• Woody Allen faces 'career break' for the first time in 45 years

  28-08-2018 19:20
  The prolific director’s one-film-a-year pace may no longer be sustainable, say insidersCinemagoers could face a year without a new Woody Allen movie in 2019 – which would be the first such creative break for the veteran director since 1974. Allen’s 48th feature film, A Rainy Day in New York, is awaiting release by Amazon before the end of this year. Beyond that, the 82-year-old film-maker has no new film projects in the pipeline. The Internet Movie Database lists only an &ldquo
  
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• Kim Kardashian, Serial and the unbridled joy of coming to things late

  28-08-2018 18:35 via theguardian.com
  The reality star has been widely mocked for just discovering 2014’s biggest podcast. But there is small delight in discovering things after the hype dies down. Let me tell you about this great new film La La Land ...Kim Kardashian West has been roundly teased by the internet for tweeting her discovery of this great new podcast called Serial. She is on episode four and is “dying to know what you guys think? Is he guilty or innocent?!?!” It’s a question under consideration
  
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• Wyatt Cenac Breaks Down the Eddie Murphy–Produced 1989 Pilot What’s Alan Watching?

  28-08-2018 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the 1980s, it was commonplace for networks to air their passed-on pilots as prime-time specials. Wyatt Cenac caught What’s Alan Watching?, a 1989 CBS sketch-sitcom hybrid produced by Eddie Murphy, on one such summer special. Besides giving Alan Sepinwall the name of his blog, What’s Alan Watching? provided early...More »
  
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• The 11 Big Winners of Summer TV

  28-08-2018 18:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Breakout hits don’t come along as often as they used to in television, and this summer has been no exception. It’s not that audiences abandoned TV after Memorial Day: Unscripted warm-weather warhorses such as America’s Got Talent, Big Brother, and The Bachelorette keep plugging along on the broadcast networks, while...More »
  
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• Ethan Hawke Is Right About Superhero Movies — For Now

  28-08-2018 17:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  My first instinct was to agree with Ethan Hawke.The actor sat down with the Film Stage the other day to gab about an array of topics and the conversation eventually turned to the pillar upon which contemporary Hollywood is built: superhero movies. To put it simply, he’s not much of...More »
  
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• Is Toni Collette really the first woman to orgasm on BBC One?

  28-08-2018 17:01 via theguardian.com
  The Australian actor claims she has broken new ground, in BBC One’s drama Wanderlust. But what about Joely Richardson in Lady Chatterley? Then there’s BBC Two …Toni Collette has had what she believes to be BBC One’s first on-screen female orgasm, in Wanderlust, the channel’s steamy new drama about a married couple which embarks on “seeing” other people – questioning whether monogamy is “possible or even desirable”. Is this cl
  
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• Pete Davidson Proposed to Ariana Grande in a Super Chill, Non-Corny Way

  28-08-2018 16:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  How did Pete Davidson propose to Ariana Grande? “I didn’t want to do something corny,” he told Variety in a new cover story. Instead of doing something big and How He Asked-y, the Saturday Night Live star kept it simple: “We were in bed hanging, after watching a movie. I...More »
  
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• Paul Banks of Interpol on the Band’s New Album, His Weird Paintings, and Gummy Bear Tea

  28-08-2018 16:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s tough to talk about the early-aughts indie-rock boom without name-checking Interpol’s 2002 debut album, Turn on the Bright Lights. That keen intersection of punk and dance, coupled with Paul Banks’s baritone vocal growl and obtuse lyrics, hurled them into the spotlight — and was a seismic encapsulation of what...More »
  
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• Nev Schulman Says Stress From Sexual-Harassment Allegations Gave Him … Shingles

  28-08-2018 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Catfish impresario Nev Schulman was so panicked about the sexual-harassment accusations against him that he came down with shingles. According to People, on Josh Peck’s podcast Curious Schulman said that his own strain from MTV’s internal inquiry (into accusations that he made inappropriate and sexual comments toward a woman) gave him...More »
  
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• Why Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively Made Henry Golding Nervous

  28-08-2018 15:45 via feeds.eonline.com
  In Hollywood, Henry Golding is as good as gold.The 31-year-old actor is on his way to becoming a household name, thanks to his starring role as Nick Young in Warner Bros.' Crazy Rich...
  
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• Why Did Magnum P.I.’s Showrunner Think He Didn’t Hire a Latinx Writer?

  28-08-2018 15:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  When showrunner Peter Lenkov said at a press conference three weeks ago that there were no Latinx writers on the new Magnum P.I. — a CBS reboot starring Jay Hernandez — because “it’s incredibly hard to find writers,” it drew plenty of criticism from journalists, other TV writers and producers, and...More »
  
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• Keanu Reeves Flirts With Winona Ryder and Her Flannel Pajamas in Destination Wedding Clip

  28-08-2018 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder — a pair of icons who may or may not be married — star in Destination Wedding, an end-of-summer rom-com stinger. They’re playing Frank and Lindsay, two misanthropic wedding guests traveling solo. One night, alone together in their hotel room, Lindsay ignores Frank’s complaints, uncorks...More »
  
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• Lauryn Hill Has a Bone to Pick With Robert Glasper: ‘Who Are You to Say I Didn’t Do Enough?’

  28-08-2018 15:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just prior to the 20th anniversary of Lauryn Hill’s seminal solo debut, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, musician Robert Glasper made a laundry list of accusations about how involved Hill actually was on the album. He claimed that she stole some of its songs, failed to credit the musicians she...More »
  
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• Why America to Me Director Steve James Made a Show About My High School

  28-08-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Oak Park and River Forest High School is an odd place. I speak from experience: I spent the first 18 years of my life in Oak Park — a Chicago suburb so supposedly liberal, it’s sometimes called the People’s Republic of Oak Park — and attended its 3,000-ish-person public school,...More »
  
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• Every Animal Collective Album, Ranked

  28-08-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Will there ever be another band like Animal Collective? The question may sound trite, but it’s impossible to overstate the temporal singularity of what Noah Lennox (Panda Bear), Brian Weitz (Geologist), Dave Portner (Avey Tare), and Josh Dibb (Deakin) have accomplished over the last 20 years of their career. Since...More »
  
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• See Tobias Menzies As an Older, Sterner Prince Philip in The Crown Season 3

  28-08-2018 14:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Prince Philip is back, and he’s as grumpy as ever. After introducing Olivia Colman as the new Queen Elizabeth II in its third season, The Crown has now given the world a first look at Tobias Menzies, who’s replacing Matt Smith as Prince Philip. Here, we can see Philip adorned...More »
  
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• Bachelor in Paradise Recap: Straight Talk and Bad Behavior

  28-08-2018 14:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  There was something sweeping over Paradise. Something deep and primal. Between Jordan’s expressive pleas for love and Kevin talking openly about going to therapy, I can safely say — THIS. IS. MY. KINK. This is what I want to see on television: Men in tank tops talking about their feelings....More »
  
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• Venice film festival 2018: all star lineup, despite lack of female film-makers

  28-08-2018 12:55
  The festival, opening Wednesday, has come under fire for featuring only one female director in competition – yet this year looks only to cement its position as the prime Oscars launchpadFor the Venice film festival, at least, 75 is the prime of life. As the curtain prepares to rise on a landmark edition, it finds itself in robust health, with a lineup packed with major stars, key directors and films that look certain to dominate the awards season. Described by artistic director Alberto Bar
  
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• Who is America?: Why Sacha Baron Cohen's comedy failed to land a punch

  28-08-2018 11:40 via theguardian.com
  Some people hoped the satirist’s series would be the defining show of our age. Instead, it was just another Ali G – and never managed to worry anyone truly importantI have an apology to make. Last month, before a single episode had even aired, I went and claimed that Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America? had “the potential to be nothing less than the defining television programme of our age”. And, now that the series is over, I would like to walk that statement back a
  
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• Why is reality TV so obsessed with the ‘angry black woman’?

  28-08-2018 10:00 via theguardian.com
  From Big Brother’s Makosi to Alexandra Burke, black women are often stereotyped as ‘divas’ or ‘difficult’ on British showsAs you will know, the fourth series of ITV2’s reality series Love Island recently ended. In a nutshell: beautiful young people enter a villa in Mallorca to compete for love with the hopes of winning the £50,000 prize. As the only black woman in the villa, West End performer Samira Mighty struggled throughout the competition. Left unti
  
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• Ethan Hawke Is Still Taking Ethan Hawke Extremely Seriously

  28-08-2018 10:00 via nytimes.com
  The critics used to hate him, but he worked in defiance of them. Now they’re rapturous, and he’s not sure what to do.
  
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• Ian Hislop on dissent: 'It's cathartic to say, "This is rubbish"'

  28-08-2018 09:07 via theguardian.com
  From an ‘up yours’ to ancient kings to the pussyhats worn on anti-Trump protests, an exhibition curated by the Private Eye editor celebrates resistance to authority down the ages‘How does it feel to be a brand?” I ask Ian Hislop, editor of Private Eye, over tea at the British Museum. The museum is about to stage a new exhibition, and, unusually, the curator’s name will be above the door – I Object: Ian Hislop’s Search for Dissent. “I was slightly s
  
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• Louis C.K. Returns to Stand-Up for the First Time Since Admitting to Sexual Misconduct

  28-08-2018 07:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said there are no second acts in American lives, and he wasn’t even factoring in everybody finding out about how you showed your penis to your peers and coworkers. Louis C.K. seems ready to put that theory to the test, however, having returned for a surprise...More »
  
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• Tuesday’s best TV: First Dates Hotel; The Great British Bake Off

  28-08-2018 07:20 via theguardian.com
  A handful of romantics hope to find love in the sun, while Paul, Prue, Sandi and Noel put 12 amateur bakers through their paces9.15pm, Channel 4
  Isn’t everything just more romantic in the sun? Such is the logic behind this dating show spinoff, now back for a third run and taking full advantage of a still-border-flexible Europe as Fred Sirieix and co head to Italy. Tattooed, 50s-loving police officer Emma is looking for a protective Viking lookalike, but will Luke be all brawn? Meanwhile, B
  
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• Does University Challenge have a problem with women?

  28-08-2018 07:01 via theguardian.com
  Former contestants cite social media hostility and ‘confidence gap’ as barriers to taking part in TV quizYour starter for 10: why are so few women taking part in University Challenge? Former contestants say it’s because they are too intimidated to audition by the barrage of comments, jokes and even abuse they will inevitably face.Rose McKeown, a star of the winning team from St John’s College, Cambridge, in the last series, and Hannah Rose Woods, captain of the 2015-16 wi
  
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• Human ASMR Video Janet Jackson Makes an ASMR Video Just for You

  28-08-2018 06:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s 2018, so nary a day goes by that isn’t heavy like a first day period. If you desperately need to relax, Janet Jackson’s mellow whisper is here to help, and you don’t even have to experience the tingling of an autonomous sensory meridian response to enjoy it. The “Made...More »
  
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• The Real Housewives of Orange County Recap: Swinging Sisters

  28-08-2018 06:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Let us begin this recap the same way as the episode: with Shannon’s new trainer Steven. I would like to marry Steven. If that is not possible for one reason or another, I would at least like to give Steven a shirtless hug and then feed him a delicious Moroccan...More »
  
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• Alec Baldwin Will Reportedly Play Batman’s Weird Dad in Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker

  28-08-2018 05:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Between Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Marc Maron and Joaquin Phoenix, Todd Phillips’s stand-alone Joker movie was already shaping up to be a unique beast. Now, according to The Hollywood Reporter, the film is reportedly upping the odd ante by casting Alec Baldwin as Batman’s father Thomas Wayne. While at...More »
  
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• After Sexual Harassment Allegations, Matt Later Says He’ll ‘Be Back On TV’

  28-08-2018 04:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Matt Lauer, who was accused of sexual harassment and fired from NBC in 2017, thinks he’s going to be back on television sometime soon. According to Page Six, Lauer was dining at a restaurant in New York City when he told fans that he would be in front of cameras again soon.“I’ve...More »
  
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• John Goodman Confirms Roseanne’s Character Will Have Died in The Conners Spin-Off

  28-08-2018 04:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  While ABC has tried to keep a tight lid on their upcoming Roseanne spin-off The Conners, audiences knew there was always one character who wouldn’t be returning: Roseanne Conner, the TV avatar of Roseanne Barr, whose racist tweet swiftly ended her classic ‘90s sitcom’s brief revival earlier this year. So,...More »
  
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• Better Call Saul Recap: Broad Strokes

  28-08-2018 04:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a matter of weeks, Jimmy went from putting the finishing touches on Wexler-McGill’s office backsplash to baiting CC Mobile customers by painting outlandish rhetorical questions on the storefront’s façade. It’s not that far afield from what Chuck might have deemed the chicanery of Jimmy’s efforts to court business via...More »
  
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• Katy Perry Testified Dr. Luke Didn’t Rape Her In Newly Unsealed Deposition

  28-08-2018 03:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Monday, numerous depositions from Dr. Luke’s ongoing defamation lawsuit against Kesha following her sexual assault allegation against him were unsealed. In a heavily-redacted deposition given in July 2017, Katy Perry denies the assertion that she has ever been sexually assaulted by Dr. Luke, a rumor Lady Gaga and Kesha...More »
  
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• Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood Recap: 808s and Food Fights

  28-08-2018 03:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week’s episode of Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood serves as a public service announcement on the dangers of getting butt injections, a relatively new fad made famous by the likes of Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, and the other famous reality star named Kimberly. The artist formerly known as K....More »
  
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