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• Black Earth Rising recap: the finale – it has been a grim pleasure

  29-10-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  In the final act, there was reckoning, Shakespearean bloodletting, and the prospect of a dusty road to better possibilities Last week, Kate learned the astonishing truth about her back story: that what she thought was the most fundamentally true thing about her was a lie, to expedite her passage to safety in the UK. We also learned why Eunice, Eve, Michel and Alice had kept the truth from her, and that Tutsis as well as Hutus were capable of atrocities. Continue reading...
  
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• Armie Hammer Says Call Me by Your Name Sequel Might Be a Few Years Away

  29-10-2018 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  At the Savannah Film Festival on Monday, Armie Hammer again confirmed that the Call Me by Your Name sequel is totally, fully, and definitely happening. “Luca [Guadagnino] has walked me through the movie: where it starts, where it goes, where it ends, all the characters, and everything that’s supposed to...More »
  
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• Steven Yeun Explains How His Burning Character Speaks ‘Textbook’ Korean

  29-10-2018 21:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Steven Yeun’s Burning character will leave you with a chill. The Lee Chang-dong movie is about an unsettling love triangle that unravels: protagonist Jong-su (Yoo Ah-in) jockeys against the wealthy Ben (Yeun) for the attention of Jong-su’s childhood friend, a young woman named Hae-mi (Jeon Jong-seo). Ben is as meticulous...More »
  
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• How Scary Is The Haunting of Hill House, Really?

  29-10-2018 21:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Whenever a horror film or TV show erupts into mainstream awareness — like The Haunting of Hill House has in October — you have to ask yourself the same dreaded question: Is this thing too scary for me? Everyone’s talking about how good it is! And you want to know what...More »
  
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• Farewell, FilmStruck: A Bittersweet Guide to the Movies to Catch Before It’s Gone

  29-10-2018 21:21 via nytimes.com
  The streaming service goes away next month — and with it, potentially, a lot of hard-to-find classic and art house films. Here are some of our favorites.
  
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• Diane Lane Accidentally Referred to Bechdel Test As the ‘Rectal Test’

  29-10-2018 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Diane Lane tried to make the apt point that her role in House of Cards doesn’t pass the Bechdel Test — except she couldn’t quite remember the phrase. She was close, though, by which I mean that she asked the interviewer if “rectal test” was right. (In her...More »
  
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• Here’s a Terrible New Instagram Trend: Throwing Yourself on a Pile of Open Books

  29-10-2018 20:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Over the past several years, we book lovers have endured quite a bit. First there were the rainbow-hued shelves, (dis)organized by color, aesthetically pleasing but mayhem for anyone desperately hunting for one of Meg Wolitzer’s kaleidoscopically spined books. Then came the backlash to that biblio-psychedelia: books shelved spine-in, with the...More »
  
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• Brandon Victor Dixon, Vanessa Hudgens to Go Ouuuuut Tonight with Live Rent Musical

  29-10-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It was announced all the way back in May of last year that Fox was setting up Rent as their next live musical event, and the cast has just been announced. Kiersey Clemons will star as Joanne Jefferson, the squared away lawyer who dates free spirited artist Maureen Johnson, played...More »
  
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• Heathers Episodes Pulled (Again) in Wake of Pittsburgh Shooting

  29-10-2018 19:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  The two episodes of the Paramount Network’s Heathers reboot, which were initially pulled from the air in the wake of the Parkland shooting, were pulled from the air Sunday night in the wake of the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh Saturday. According to The Hollywood Reporter,...More »
  
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• German broadcaster buys US dating site eharmony

  29-10-2018 19:38 via ft.com
  ProSieben already owns stake in Parship Elite, a successful German dating business
  
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• Apu’s Future on ‘The Simpsons’ and More: Pop Culture Today

  29-10-2018 19:33 via nytimes.com
  Here are six things you should know about in TV, movie and pop music news this Monday.
  
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• Apu’s Fate on ‘The Simpsons’ Is Still Unclear: Pop Culture Today

  29-10-2018 19:33 via nytimes.com
  Here are six things you should know about in TV, movie and pop music news this Monday.
  
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• Avatar Picks a New Font a Year After SNL’s ‘Papyrus’ Sketch

  29-10-2018 19:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s been a little over a year since SNL writer Julio Torres gave us the truly riveting “Papyrus” sketch starring Ryan Gosling, and now, it’s officially made a lasting impact on Avatar itself. While we can count on James Cameron to release a whopping four Avatar sequels over the next...More »
  
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• Lena Dunham to Adapt a Syrian Refugee’s Survival Story for Spielberg and Abrams

  29-10-2018 18:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Lena Dunham is zagging into new territory. Between Camping and her small part in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Variety reports that Steven Spielberg and J.J. Abrams have hired Dunham to adapt the nonfiction book A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee’s Incredible Story of...More »
  
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• The 24 Most Terrifying TV Episodes to Watch This Halloween

  29-10-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This post was originally published in 2017 and has been updated to include even more terrifying television.With Halloween right around the corner, it’s the perfect time for a marathon of television frights. When people think about TV horror, they probably think of the zombies of The Walking Dead or an...More »
  
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• Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’s Tati Gabrielle Modeled Her Witch on Eartha Kitt

  29-10-2018 17:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, which premiered Friday on Netflix, is the perfect dark confection for the Halloween season. The show boasts a plethora of pleasures from its audacious visual choices to its distinctive performances. One of its most entrancing creations is Prudence, the HBIC witch of the Academy of...More »
  
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• Why Just Play Scrooge When You Can Play Everyone?

  29-10-2018 17:47 via nytimes.com
  Jefferson Mays, a renowned Broadway shape-shifter, takes on more roles than he can count (including writer) in a new one-man “Christmas Carol”
  
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• How Now That’s What I Call Music Took Over America

  29-10-2018 17:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Before streaming services let people listen to any song, before iTunes “cracked open” the album, allowing consumers to purchase an individual track, and just as WinAmp was allowing users to create a playlist of their MP3s, there was Now That’s What I Call Music. NOW essentially created the first take-home...More »
  
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• Bob Saget to Host a ‘Risqué’ America’s Funniest Home Videos for ABC

  29-10-2018 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bob Saget is returning to ABC to host a series filled with funny home-video clips, but it’s not the kind you can watch with your kids. According to Variety, the network has ordered a new series hosted by Saget titled Videos After Dark, which will feature clips collected by the...More »
  
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• German centre’s collapse brings Merkel era to a close

  29-10-2018 17:05 via ft.com
  The chancellor’s Christian Democrats and coalition partners are on the wane
  
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• The Story Behind Nikki Glaser’s Best Roast Jokes

  29-10-2018 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Roast jokes are deceptive little things. They tend to be very short, very to-the-point. But they’re often weeks and weeks in the making. Beyond the writing staff tasked with amassing a pile of jokes to be divided among the celebrity members of a Comedy Central dais, every comedian involved is...More »
  
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• Tekashi 6ix9ine Does Surprise Performance Days After Avoiding Jail Time for Sexual Misconduct

  29-10-2018 16:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Friday, rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine got off with four years’ probation for pleading guilty to the use of a child in a sexual performance back in 2015. He later celebrated at a post-sentencing afterparty in midtown New York where his bodyguard was reportedly shot. The tense celebrations continued on Sunday...More »
  
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• Every Boston Celeb Went to the World Series Game Last Night, How D’ya Like Them Apples?

  29-10-2018 16:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you woke up to the soft hum — okay, loud rumble — of “Sweet Caroline” this morning, here’s why: The Boston Red Sox won the World Series last night in Game 5. It’s been five long years since the Sox won the World Series last — five years since...More »
  
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• What does Hasan Minhaj's Netflix show bring to late-night comedy?

  29-10-2018 16:24 via theguardian.com
  The ex-Daily Show comedian has launched Patriot Act on the streaming platform, calling it a weekly ‘woke TED talk’, promising to deliver more than the average If deployed properly, self-deprecation can be the most valuable weapon in a comedian’s arsenal. Make a pointed critique of yourself before someone else can, play it off as a joke, and just like that, the potential diss has been neutralized. That’s surely what Hasan Minhaj is going for when he refers to his news-come
  
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• Trauma, Guilt, and Vengeance: A Look Back at Postwar Japanese Horror

  29-10-2018 16:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  A screaming man is flayed alive, and his gruesome, steaming innards are exposed for all to see. A woman’s torso is grotesquely torn from her head. A terrified couple is boiled inside a giant flaming cauldron. A shrieking baby floats down a river of blood. While Alfred Hitchcock was scandalizing...More »
  
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• Saturday Night Live Hosts’ Best Recurring Characters, Ranked

  29-10-2018 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Jonah Hill hosts Saturday Night Live on November 3, it will be his fifth time doing crazy make-’em-ups, as fellow repeat host Christopher Walken might say. For SNL nerds, this represents his entry into the Five Timers Club, that elite designation for folks who have hosted the show five...More »
  
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• Here’s How the Today Show Filled Megyn Kelly’s Place Today

  29-10-2018 15:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Today, as you know, we are starting a new chapter in the third hour of our show as it evolves. We want you to know that the entire TODAY family will continue to bring you informative and important stories, just as we always have.” TODAY (@TODAYshow) October 29, 2018...More »
  
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• Zoë Kravitz Says a Director Sexually Harassed Her When She Was 19

  29-10-2018 15:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Zoë Kravitz’s new Rolling Stone cover (which recreates her mother Lisa Bonet’s iconic shoot for the same magazine), the actress recalls being sexually harassed by a director, whom she won’t name, at the start of her career. “I definitely worked with a director who made me very uncomfortable. I...More »
  
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• John Oliver on Fox News's pipe bombs coverage: 'A time for wild speculation'

  29-10-2018 15:49 via theguardian.com
  The Last Week Tonight host criticised the network for promoting unconfirmed conspiracy theories over the spate of pipe bombsJohn Oliver has criticised Fox News over the network’s decision to push unconfirmed conspiracy theories in their coverage of the Florida mail bomb suspect. Related: Seth Meyers: ‘If you’re asking if Trump’s lying or stupid the answer is all of the above’Continue reading...
  
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• The Deuce’s Gary Carr Got to Keep His Pimp Costume

  29-10-2018 15:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers below for Sunday’s episode of The Deuce.Even streetwise, sharply dressed pimps can push people too far, as Gary Carr’s C.C. discovered in last night’s misleadingly titled episode of The Deuce, “Nobody Has to Get Hurt.” Having cashed out of Lori’s porn contract to mobsters who would’ve been happy to...More »
  
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• Daredevil Recap: Karen vs. Fisk

  29-10-2018 15:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Upstairs/Downstairs” is an episode where the good guys trying to regain some ground after being soundly defeated by Fisk. After being confronted by Daredevil, Agent Rahul Nadeem is finally coming around, and beginning to tug at the threads that he’d willfully ignored. Following Daredevil’s tip, He goes through the personnel...More »
  
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• Runaways Actor Kip Pardue Accused of Sexual Assault

  29-10-2018 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Actress Sarah Scott has accused Runaways actor Kip Pardue of sexually assaulting her on set of an independent television pilot filmed this spring. In May, Scott told the Los Angeles Times, she and Pardue were filming a sex scene when he became aroused and put her hand on his erect...More »
  
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• Westside Trailer: It’s a Reality Show, It’s a Musical, It’s a Musical and a Reality Show

  29-10-2018 14:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Why bother making a show about fictional characters who come to Los Angeles trying to make it and sing a lot when you can just find those people in real life (take that, La La Land!). Netflix’s new reality show Westside follows nine musicians in Los Angeles, intercutting documentary scenes...More »
  
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• Doctor Who Recap: Spiders in the City

  29-10-2018 14:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  After last week’s socially relevant “Rosa,” it would be easy to say that “Arachnids in the UK” is a bit of fluff meant only to creep out viewers and have them squirming in their seat. If you suffer from even mild arachnophobia, surely this episode did just that. But to...More »
  
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• Kaling in the name of: how a baby destroyed The Mindy Project’s equilibrium

  29-10-2018 14:00 via theguardian.com
  Mindy Kaling’s quirky comedy about work-life balance started promisingly but soon descended into a mess thanks to chauvinism and sudden lurches in toneWhen it started, The Mindy Project was a warm, witty ode to romantic comedies – and a gentle critique of the unrealistic expectations they promote. Writer and creator Mindy Kaling starred as Mindy Lahiri, a gifted obstetrician-gynaecologist in her early 30s who grew up on Nora Ephron movies but can’t make a long-term relationship
  
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• On the Runway: Making Fun of Fashion, Onstage and in Song

  29-10-2018 13:45 via nytimes.com
  After Anna Wintour, Ryan Raftery takes on Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren and Donna Karan in a satirical bio-musical. Will his subjects be amused?
  
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• Catherine Deneuve auctions off YSL haute couture outfits

  29-10-2018 13:34
  French actor selling collection, including one-off pieces made by Yves Saint LaurentCatherine Deneuve is auctioning her collection of haute couture outfits, many of them one-off pieces made by Yves Saint Laurent.The French actor was the haute couturier’s muse for many years, and at a celebration of the 40th anniversary of his career in 2002 she told Saint Laurent: “My most beautiful love affair is with you.” Continue reading...
  
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• Five ways the Simpsons could tackle the 'Apu problem'

  29-10-2018 13:01 via theguardian.com
  Rumours are circulating that the Kwik-E-Mart manager could be axed from the cartoon. In the midst of a race row, it may not be that simpleThis could be the end of Apu Nahasapeemapetilon. After 28 years of service – and increasing controversy about the depiction of the character – it has been reported that the Indian-American convenience store worker may no longer appear in The Simpsons.The debate over whether Apu is a harmless caricature or a racially insensitive misstep has been rag
  
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• Unreleased George Michael music to feature in Last Christmas film

  29-10-2018 11:45
  The London-set romantic comedy to be directed by Paul Feig will include the Wham! classic as well as other, unheard tracksPreviously unheard material by George Michael will appear in Last Christmas, a new film by Paul Feig, a representative for the late singer confirmed.Emma Thompson and comedian Bryony Kimmings are writing the screenplay for the Universal Pictures film, which will also feature Wham!’s 1984 hit of the same name. Related: Still saving us from tears: the inside story of Wham
  
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• Can Mike Tyson Interest You In a Scripted TV Comedy About His Marijuana Farm?

  29-10-2018 07:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Take whatever you associate with Mike Tyson (boxing, ear biting, fervent love of pigeons) and toss it out wild into the marijuana fields like the rich, hearty manure it is. That’s probably not how marijuana is grown, but if Tyson succeeds in getting his new TV show made, you’ll find...More »
  
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• The Little Drummer Girl review – Spies, sex and Sunday night thrills

  29-10-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Park Chan-wook’s adaptation of the Le Carré classic sees the Korean auteur take The Night Manager’s globetrotting appeal and better it with gripping espionageWant to give your opinion? Our series recap has comments openI’ve realised that I have the same problem with John le Carré thrillers as I did with The Americans: I don’t understand where reality leaves off and fiction begins. You should have seen my face when it was confirmed for me that there really we
  
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• The Deuce recap: season two, episode eight – he had it coming

  29-10-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  One of the show’s most divisive characters meets their fate as the penultimate episode ups the stakes and violence comes to townSpoiler alert: this recap launches after The Deuce airs on Sunday nights in the US on HBO. Do not read unless you have watched season two, episode seven, which airs in the UK on Sky Atlantic on Tuesday at 10pm.Of all the stories in this sprawling drama, the most likely to end in cataclysm was that of CC the pimp. For weeks, it has felt inevitable that this charism
  
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• Monday’s best TV: True Horror; Black Earth Rising

  29-10-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  A new episode in the chilling docudrama series; Hugo Blick’s thriller reaches its grand finale. Plus: the First Dates restaurant reopens its doors.Writer/director Amanda Boyle’s genuinely scary docudrama recreates the extraordinary chain of events that followed caravan saleswoman Vanessa Mitchell’s purchase of the Tudor cottage The Cage in the Essex village of St Osyth. We watch as Vanessa and her friend Nicole move into a home rumoured to have been a witches’ prison, and
  
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• Jane Fonda in Five Acts review – an unsatisfying portrait of a complex superstar

  29-10-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  The actor has had a tempestuous life – but you wouldn’t know if from this polite and polished performanceThe teenage Jane Fonda was told her mother had died of a heart attack. Only once she had been packed off to boarding school by her father, Henry, did she read in a film magazine the real truth: the desperate woman had cut her own throat in a mental health facility. Meanwhile, her recently remarried father returned to work on Broadway, showing little interest in the wellbeing of hi
  
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• If Will Ferrell Knocks On Your Door, Georgia, He Wants Your Vote for Stacey Abrams, Not to Hang Out

  29-10-2018 04:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Any other week, your friends would be right to roll their eyes at your “Will Ferrell came to my house and we hung out and talked politics” story. This week, however, they should be extremely jealous, because Will Ferrell is canvassing door-to-door in support of Georgia’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey...More »
  
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• You Recap: It Ain’t Me Babe

  29-10-2018 04:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Allow me to float a theory: Anyone who has to say to “I’m happy” to himself over and over and over again is definitely not happy.Three months have passed since the breakup and Joe is, allegedly, a changed man. Peppy music plays in the background of his shiny, smiley relationship...More »
  
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• The Deuce Recap: Moments of Being

  29-10-2018 04:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.” —Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure ReasonThe prevailing trend in this season of The Deuce has been various proverbial chickens coming home to roost. Sure, by the late ‘70s, the New York sex industry has been normalized, complete...More »
  
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• Camping Recap: The Liberation of Carleen

  29-10-2018 03:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thank goodness for Carleen, huh? The naive, ditzy sister to Kathryn McSorley-Jodell is still a caricature of a human being, but thanks to the earnestness in which Ione Skye delivers each line, she’s at least a hoot to watch. I was actually laughing during this episode! Out loud!With the guys...More »
  
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• The Walking Dead Recap: Can’t Let Go

  29-10-2018 03:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  To quote Frank the Tank from Old School, we’re going streaking! That’s two excellent episodes in a row that deliver just about everything you want from The Walking Dead — zombie mayhem, plot twists, really dumb decisions with catastrophic consequences, and not just one but a slew of cliffhangers (plus...More »
  
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