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• Are You Ready to Meet Hollywood’s Next ‘It’ Boy, Suspiria’s Lutz Ebersdorf?

  30-08-2018 23:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  No director has done more for Thirst Twitter™ than Luca Guadagnino, the only man who has not disappointed us yet in the year of our Lord 2018. Guadagnino introduced us to Timothée Chalamet and reintroduced to us to Armie Hammer with last year’s Call Me by Your Name, a movie...More »
  
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• Summer Movie Scorecard: Some Crazy Rich Hits and Shocking Misses

  30-08-2018 23:39 via nytimes.com
  The return of the rom-com and the ho-hum performance of blockbuster franchises hold lessons for Hollywood. Will the industry listen?
  
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• 'I watch TV to unwind': Theresa May not a fan of BBC's Bodyguard

  30-08-2018 23:30
  Prime minister suggests show about female home secretary is not relaxing television for herTheresa May has said she did not enjoy watching the BBC drama Bodyguard, which focused on the relationship between a rightwing home secretary and her personal protection officer.The prime minister switched off after 20 minutes of the first episode and told reporters while visiting Africa that she preferred watching programmes that were not so close to home. Continue reading...
  
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• A Timeline of Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves’s 30-Year Friendship

  30-08-2018 23:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  After three movies together and 30 years of being friends, Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder have made a romantic comedy, or at least a comedy that is cynically romantic: In Destination Wedding, Reeves and Ryder play a pair of misanthropes who meet when they arrive at a wedding alone together....More »
  
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• Our Everest Challenge review – Ben Fogle, Victoria Pendleton and some vertiginous cliches

  30-08-2018 23:02
  Only one of these two makes it past halfway in this gruelling spin on the celebrity challenge show. Plus, the Coco Chanel story is better than fictionBen Fogle has achieved something noble and profound: he has made those series where semi-famous people sweat over contrived ordeals, such as pretending to be an Edwardian serf or going on quite a long walk, look even more trivial. In Our Everest Challenge With Ben Fogle & Victoria Pendleton (ITV), the adventurer and his Olympian pal literally t
  
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• 8 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend

  30-08-2018 23:00
  Previews, openings and some last-chance picks.
  
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• Leaving Netflix: September 2018

  30-08-2018 22:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Whether it’s intentional or not (and I suspect it is), one of the meanest tricks in the streaming age is the way all movies related to anticipated theatrical releases will disappear in advance of their premiere. To wit: A Star Is Born, the Bradley Cooper–directed remake starring none other than...More »
  
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• Marvel Comics Legend Marie Severin Dies at 89

  30-08-2018 22:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Artist Marie Severin died today at the age of 89. Within the comics world, she loomed large, though she was never a household name in the way that contemporaries like Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were. Severin recently suffered a stroke and one of her close friends confirmed her death...More »
  
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• Gérard Depardieu Under Investigation After Rape Accusation

  30-08-2018 22:43 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Depardieu, a towering figure in French cinema who is also a Hollywood star, denied the charges through his lawyer.
  
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• 5 Extremely ’80s Albums That Influenced Wild Nothing’s Indigo

  30-08-2018 22:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Since indie stylist Jack Tatum’s Wild Nothing project broke big onto the scene with its 2010 debut Gemini, Tatum has made exploring the sounds of the 1980s into its own pure virtue by capturing the era’s eerie, shimmering glow through a lo-fi lens. Wild Nothing’s fourth album, Indigo, still finds...More »
  
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• Soulpepper Looks to Britain for New Executive Director

  30-08-2018 22:11
  After two leaders resigned in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations, the prominent Canadian theater company will put Emma Stenning in charge
  
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• Let These Photos of Lady Gaga on a Boat Be Your Substitute for Central Air-Conditioning

  30-08-2018 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bradley Cooper may have wiped Lady Gaga’s makeup off with a wipe he mysteriously had on hand when she auditioned for A Star Is Born, but that has not stopped Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta from breaking out all the glamour she can muster for the movie’s press tour. Gaga has...More »
  
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• Ozark’s Second Season Is a Trip to Lake Flaccid

  30-08-2018 21:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  The first season of Ozark invited us to watch as Marty and Wendy Byrde dug themselves into a hole of corruption that they probably couldn’t escape. The second season shows how the Byrdes behave once they’re stuck down there.Being trapped in a dark pit also captures how it feels to...More »
  
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• Watch the First Teaser for HBO’s My Brilliant Friend Adaptation

  30-08-2018 21:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bring on My Brilliant Friend: HBO has released the first teaser for its Elena Ferrante adaptation, due in November. Directed by Saverio Costanzo, the eight-episode series follows the friendship of Elena Greco and Raffaella “Lila” Cerullo. The girls meet as primary-school students in 1950, and the teaser shows them running...More »
  
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• Operation Finale Makes a Great Story Feel Sluggish

  30-08-2018 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  The title of Operation Finale denotes the Mossad’s celebrated mission of 1960, when a team of Israeli agents slipped into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann, the so-called architect of the Nazis’ “Final Solution.” The hard part wasn’t kidnapping him (a good German, he was described as “metronomical” in his habits)...More »
  
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• Michelle Yeoh and Awkwafina in Talks to Join an ‘Interdimensional Action Film,’ and We’re In

  30-08-2018 21:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  The halo around Crazy Rich Asians continues to burn bright. Yesterday it was announced that Jon M. Chu will direct Ken Jeong’s first-ever Netflix comedy special, and now it’s being reported that Michelle Yeoh and Awkwafina are in talks to work together again in an “interdimensional action film” called Everything...More »
  
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• Jack Ryan Is (Literally) an Explosive Throwback

  30-08-2018 21:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the first episode of Jack Ryan, there’s a moment when it’s easy to buy that this really is a Tom Clancy story. Ryan, played in this Amazon series by John Krasinski, is at a fancy-pants party that he didn’t want to attend. He’s accosted by his former Wall Street...More »
  
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• Jemima Kirke’s 10 Favorite Books

  30-08-2018 20:11 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 artist and actress Jemima Kirke’s list....More »
  
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• Roma Is a Huge, Technically Stunning Epic

  30-08-2018 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The house at the center of Roma is so minutely detailed that by the end of the film you’ll feel as if you spent your life there, too: its packed bookcases, sensible couches, dog-shit-smeared carport and the Ford Galaxy that’s just a little too big for it, the commercial jet...More »
  
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• Emmy Rossum Announces She’s Leaving Shameless

  30-08-2018 19:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  The eldest Gallagher is flying the coop: Emmy Rossum has announced her exit from Shameless after seven years on the show. Rossum has starred as the oldest Gallagher sister and pseudo matriarch Fiona, alongside William H. Macy, for nine seasons. In a lengthy Facebook post, Rossum reflected on joining the...More »
  
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• Chris Hemsworth Doing a Netflix Film About a Hostage That’s Not Chris Hemsworth Doing a Netflix Film

  30-08-2018 19:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you cannot be bothered to leave your house to see Chris Hemsworth’s giant muscles in a movie theater, do not fear, for Chris Hemsworth’s giant muscles are coming to a relatively smaller screen near you. Per Deadline, Chris Hemsworth is making a Netflix movie that is sadly not a rom-com...More »
  
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• French Actor Gérard Depardieu Accused of Rape

  30-08-2018 19:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  French actor Gérard Depardieu has been accused of rape and sexual assault by a 22-year-old actress and dancer, the BBC reports.The actress filed a formal complaint with French police on Monday, alleging she was sexually assaulted by Depardieu, a 69-year-old icon in the French film industry, according to French radio. A lawyer...More »
  
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• Woody Allen's new film shelved by Amazon

  30-08-2018 19:36
  A Rainy Day in New York may never be screened, after distributor says no release date has been setWoody Allen’s latest film, A Rainy Day in New York, has been left in limbo after Amazon Studios appeared to shelve it indefinitely.The production company, which was contractually obliged to distribute the film, said on Thursday: “No release date has ever been set.” Related: Actors are lining up to condemn Woody Allen. Why now?Continue reading...
  
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• Domhnall Gleeson’s New Movie The Little Stranger Is Like Downton Abbey’s ‘Weird Cousin Down the Row’

  30-08-2018 19:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Domhnall Gleeson has quietly racked up a formidable résumé — acclaimed stage work, tertiary roles in two of the biggest cinematic franchises ever to storm the silver screen, indie successes running the gamut from cerebral sci-fi to hanky-dampening melodrama — but he still uncomfortably chuckles whenever he receives a compliment....More »
  
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• Mark Read to be unveiled as new WPP chief

  30-08-2018 19:03 via ft.com
  Co-COO and internal favourite to replace Martin Sorrell had run digital agency Wunderman
  
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• French investigation opens after Gérard Depardieu accused of rape

  30-08-2018 19:01
  Preliminary investigation launched after police receive complaint against actorThe French public prosecutor has opened a preliminary investigation into rape and sexual assault allegations against the actor Gérard Depardieu, according to reports.A 22-year-old female actor made a complaint to police on Monday in Bouches-du-Rhône, southern France, over an assault alleged to have occurred at Depardieu’s home in Paris’s Left Bank between 7 and 13 August. Continue reading...
  
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• How George Wallace Became the Funniest Person on Twitter

  30-08-2018 18:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  George Wallace opens his 2004 comedy album Large and in Charge with a bit called “New Kids Today.” In traditional boomer fashion — except it’s George Wallace, so of course it’s funnier and sharper than any boomer diatribe you’re used to hearing — Wallace mocks the luxury and ease that...More »
  
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• New Trailer: ‘The Front Runner,’ With Hugh Jackman

  30-08-2018 18:49 via nytimes.com
  Hugh Jackman plays the U.S. senator Gary Hart in period political drama from Jason Reitman.
  
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• Saturday-night fever: the substitutes’ bench can’t save Strictly, I’m A Celebrity and X Factor

  30-08-2018 18:35
  Are the wheels flying off your TV franchise? It’s surely time to scrap it if you’re roping in Holly Willoughby, Mr and Mrs Robbie Williams and Lee from BlueThe X Factor begins going through the motions again on Saturday, marking Lost in Showbiz’s duvet-and-Deliveroo descent into autumn competition television that doesn’t end until Tess Daly lets out that final “keep dancing” from behind her 1,000-mile stare, nothing left to give, clasping Claudia’s
  
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• Review: This ‘Destination Wedding’ Does No One Any Favors

  30-08-2018 18:00 via nytimes.com
  Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder play damaged misanthropes in this grating romantic comedy.
  
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• In Destination Wedding, Winona Ryder Meets an Incel and Sparks Fly

  30-08-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It would be interesting, if it were at all possible, to do a study to determine which era of romantic comedy had the best talkers. The odds-on favorite would probably be the screwball comedies of the ’30s and ’40s. But there would have to be some consideration for the ’90s,...More »
  
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• Telluride film festival boasts Robert Redford and Nicole Kidman in star-studded lineup

  30-08-2018 17:32
  The Old Man & the Gun, The Front Runner and White Boy Rick among premieres screening at the weekendThe Telluride film festival kicks off this week with a heavy dose of star power, featuring the world premieres of movies starring Robert Redford, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman and Matthew McConaughey.The boutique event in the Colorado mountains, which prides itself on its lack of a red carpet and its egalitarian organisation, is sandwiched between the Venice film festival, which ends on Saturday,
  
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• Bradley Cooper Removed Lady Gaga’s Makeup With a Wipe for Her Star Is Born Audition

  30-08-2018 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Like a scene straight out of Phantom Thread, genius first-time director Bradley Cooper once ordered Lady Gaga to take it off. Her makeup, that is. According to the Los Angeles Times, when Cooper showed up at Gaga’s home for her screen test for A Star Is Born — on Warner...More »
  
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• The Front Runner Trailer: Known Showman Hugh Jackman Faces a Political Sex Scandal

  30-08-2018 17:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Whoa, is politics the greatest show? In Jason Reitman’s new movie The Front Runner, erstwhile circus guy Hugh Jackman plays Gary Hart, who was the Democratic front-runner in the 1988 presidential race until reports surfaced that he was having an affair, in one of the biggest instances of tabloid reporting...More »
  
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• The Five Faces of Jack Ryan, From Alec Baldwin to John Krasinski

  30-08-2018 17:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Tom Clancy introduced the world to Jack Ryan in his 1984 novel, The Hunt for Red October, he surely had no idea that the character would still be at the forefront of American pop culture three-plus decades later. Clancy passed away in 2013, but Jack Ryan’s spy-thriller adventures still...More »
  
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• Drake’s New Tour Is Worth Seeing for the Stage Alone

  30-08-2018 16:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 2016, Kanye West rewrote the rules for how artists could think about their live stage show. He posed a single challenge to his production team, an idea he’d been mulling for a decade: “Why do we have to have a stage, anyway?” Turns out, they didn’t.“The corny shit has...More »
  
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• The Price of Everything Trailer: HBO Dives Into the Art Market

  30-08-2018 16:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you have Scrooge McDuck–sized pools of money, perhaps you too could buy the art on display in The Price of Everything. Nathaniel Kahn’s documentary, which HBO picked up at Sundance this year, explores the money-choked contemporary art market, with plenty of commentary from New York Magazine’s Jerry Saltz. There...More »
  
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• ‘Baby Shark’ phenomenon sends SmartStudy soaring

  30-08-2018 16:27 via ft.com
  South Korean start-up’s YouTube video has been viewed more than 1.6bn times
  
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• Cuomo Halted Investigation Into Weinstein Case After $25K Donation From His Former Lawyer

  30-08-2018 16:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  In late June, New York governor Andrew Cuomo quietly ordered the suspension of an ongoing investigation into whether the Manhattan District Attorney’s office had mishandled sexual-assault allegations made against Harvey Weinstein in March of 2015. As it turns out, this decision came just a few days after Weinstein’s former lawyer’s...More »
  
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• Which September Blockbuster Are You Going to See First? Vote Now!

  30-08-2018 16:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Summer is coming to a close and although we aren't exactly ready for beach days and vacation time to be over, there are a few great things to look forward to next month.For starters,...
  
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• Review: In ‘Let the Corpses Tan,’ Bullets Fly. People Die. But a Story? No.

  30-08-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  The directors, Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, are more concerned with their own style than with telling a tale.
  
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• Eli Roth on The House With a Clock in Its Walls: ‘The New Shocking Is Doing a PG Movie’

  30-08-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Although he disavows any association with the genre and blanches at its mere mention, writer-director Eli Roth has become synonymous with so-called “torture porn” horror movies. To wit: In the director’s 2013 gore-fest The Green Inferno, a primary character has his eyeballs plucked out before being torn limb from limb...More »
  
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• Ruth Wilson Says There’s ‘A Much Bigger Story’ Behind Her Affair Exit

  30-08-2018 15:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ruth Wilson has repeatedly said that she’s “not allowed” to talk about her Affair character Alison’s death late into the fourth season. (When Vulture caught up with her at an event earlier this month, Wilson told us that she didn’t have a say in Alison’s arc, or her death.) Now...More »
  
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• Prince Harry Joins ‘Hamilton’ Cast Onstage, and Breaks Into Song

  30-08-2018 13:31
  Harry sang a line from the hit musical at the end of a charity performance in London on Wednesday.
  
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• It’s ‘Hamilton’ and Prince Harry, Together Onstage

  30-08-2018 13:31
  The Duke of Sussex sang a line from the hit musical at the end of a charity performance in London on Wednesday.
  
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• Review: University Spoils a Cinephile in ‘A Paris Education’

  30-08-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  A student befriends artists and fellow film lovers in this drama from Jean Paul Civeyrac.
  
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• Review: Teenagers Tackle Environmental Enemies in ‘Inventing Tomorrow’

  30-08-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  A documentary follows young scientists as they try to create solutions to environmental threats.
  
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• Review: In ‘Reprisal,’ With Bruce Willis as Your Neighbor, You Too Can Fight Crime

  30-08-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  This vigilante thriller is the kind of movie that, once, would have gone straight to video.
  
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• Review: In ‘Prototype,’ Multiple Screens Tell an Apocalyptic Story

  30-08-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  A handmade film of uncompromising vision, “Prototype” is not your major studio’s 3-D movie.
  
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• Review: In ‘Pick of the Litter,’ Good Dogs Compete to Be the Best

  30-08-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  This unexpectedly suspenseful documentary follows the training of guide dogs for the blind.
  
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