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• Nothing Will Prepare You For The Twist In This Spies In Disguise Trailer

  02-11-2018 23:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Remember the shock you felt when that thing with the car happened in Hereditary? Or the betrayal you experienced while watching Peter Parker dissolve in the arms of Tony Stark in Avengers: Infinity War? Those twists were pedestrian — complete rookie moves! — compared to the narrative swerve in the trailer...More »
  
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• Outlander’s John Bell Has a Knitting Auntie Who Lives for Those Sex Scenes

  02-11-2018 23:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Outlander viewers of all ages are united by one thing: a shared appreciation for the best sex scenes that TV has to offer. Among those fans, we can now count co-star John Bell’s great-auntie Jean. Vulture caught up with the Scottish actor, who plays “Young” Ian Fraser on the Starz...More »
  
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• The Carpetbagger: Carey Mulligan Makes a Mess in ‘Wildlife,’ and Men are Vexed

  02-11-2018 22:52 via nytimes.com
  She plays a complicated mother, and some male viewers can’t seem to handle it: “They don’t like seeing a woman who’s out of line,” she says.
  
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• Hulu Orders Kat Dennings Comedy Dollface to Series

  02-11-2018 22:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kat Dennings is heading to Hulu to star in her own comedy. The streaming network announced today that it’s handed out a ten-episode series order to a show titled Dollface starring and executive-produced by the 2 Broke Girls alum. The show centers on “a young woman who — after being...More »
  
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• 19 More Titles for More Avatar Sequels

  02-11-2018 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week, the world finally stopped holding its breath, as the BBC revealed what it says are the official titles for the four forthcoming Avatar sequels: Avatar: The Way of Water, Avatar: The Seed Bearer, Avatar: The Tulkun Rider, and Avatar: The Quest for Eywa. Those movies will take us...More »
  
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• The Avatar Sequels Finally Have the Dramatic Titles They Deserve

  02-11-2018 22:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Our long national nightmare is over. More news about the only sequel more hotly anticipated than Call Me by Your Name 2 has arrived: the Avatar sequels. The BBC has “seen documentation” confirming the titles for the four (yes — four!) Avatar follow-ups. Are you ready for Avatar: The Way...More »
  
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• On Vince Staples’s FM!, Everybody Dies

  02-11-2018 22:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Do you really wanna know about some gangster shit? You don’t, and Vince Staples is here to tell you why. The Long Beach rapper writes stark, unflinching verses about the cold reality of life in gang country, where death is the only thing that’s promised, and life can end abruptly...More »
  
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• Girl Talk Was the DJ at Gwyneth Paltrow’s Wedding, Just Like at Your 2010 Frat Party

  02-11-2018 22:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Gwyneth Paltrow consciously coupled with TV producer Brad Falchuk back in September, but we’re only now learning the details of her wedding day, courtesy of GOOP. She wore a dress that “defies adjectives,” he wore something, and the whole shindig is described as having been “a dance party for the...More »
  
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• Tales From the Tour Bus Creator Mike Judge on Funk, Silicon Valley, and Reviving King of the Hill

  02-11-2018 21:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sometimes it’s good to be Mike Judge. Those times, however, tend to occur later than they should. Judge, who first came to acclaim — and first earned derision — as the creator of the dynamic dumbass duo known as Beavis and Butt-Head, has an unfortunate history of seeing cinematic projects...More »
  
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• How Imogen Heap Conjured Her Magical Tracks for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

  02-11-2018 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  At first, Imogen Heap wasn’t even aware that her music was being used for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. In early rehearsals for the play, the show’s movement director Steven Hoggett had selected a few tracks from Heap’s back catalogue to accompany a few scenes. “The first I heard...More »
  
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• Another One! (DJ Khaled Jet Ski Accident, That Is)

  02-11-2018 21:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  We Da Best Music Group are not da best Jet Skiers. DJ Khaled rescued his friend/co-producer, Ayo Juan, after Juan fell off his Jet Ski Thursday. TMZ has video of the “Wild Thoughts” star helping his bud out of the Miami waters. Khaled appeared to be the advance party, finding...More »
  
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• House of Cards Recap: Hey Ladies!

  02-11-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In House of Cards, as in life, everything improves when bumbling, boring men get out of the way and let formidable, complicated women take over. How much better is the second half of this episode than everything we’ve seen so far? It’s an improvement by miles, all thanks to the...More »
  
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• Homecoming Recap: Memory Blank

  02-11-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last episode, Walter proposed a hypothetical cross-country “road trip” to Yosemite in a session with Heidi, as a way of demonstrating true intimacy. His theory was that two people, given 3,000 miles of road together, would eventually get bored reading to each other or joking around or talking about all...More »
  
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• Rosamund Pike Gives a Career-Best Performance in A Private War

  02-11-2018 20:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you ever want to feel bad about your job, watch A Private War. Plenty of films, especially in recent years, have sought to valorize the work of journalists, turning grueling days of source-gathering and fact-checking and staring at computer screens into compelling cinema. These process-oriented tales are both empathetic...More »
  
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• Encounters: Sunny Suljic of ‘Mid90s’ Checks Out His Favorite Skate Shop

  02-11-2018 20:19 via nytimes.com
  The 13-year-old actor is a star of Jonah Hill’s coming-of-age skateboarding movie.
  
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• Ilana Glazer Event at Synagogue Canceled Over Violent, Anti-Semitic Graffiti

  02-11-2018 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  A political event at a Brooklyn synagogue featuring Broad City star Ilana Glazer was canceled after hateful messages like “Die Jew Rats” were discovered on the walls — the latest in a string of anti-Semitic vandalizations around New York City.Per the New York Times, Glazer was scheduled to host a get-out-the-vote at the Union...More »
  
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• You Better Believe Yodel Boy Is Out Here Covering Christmas Carols

  02-11-2018 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  I don’t want a lot for Christmas. There is just one thing I neeeeeed: Mason Ramsey, or as you know him, Yodel Boy, caroling us into the holiday season. Right on schedule (read: two days into November), country music’s second coming of Hank Williams has released his cover of “White...More »
  
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• Orson Welles’ Final Movie and More: 7 Things to Know From the Week in Pop Culture

  02-11-2018 19:51 via nytimes.com
  What you need to know from this week’s TV, music and movie news.
  
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• HBO, Game of Thrones Cast Slam Trump’s ‘Winter Is Coming’ Meme

  02-11-2018 19:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  As perhaps the one piece of contemporary popular culture that appeals equally to red and blue America, Game of Thrones has long been a political Rorschach test. Is it a metaphor for humanity ignoring an impending climate disaster, or is it a stirring endorsement of nihilistic power politics? The answer,...More »
  
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• Alec Baldwin Has Been Arrested For Punching Someone Over A Parking Spot

  02-11-2018 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alec Baldwin was arrested today in New York City following a dispute over a parking spot, the NYPD has confirmed to Vulture. A police spokesperson said that an officer responded to a call at 28 East 10th Street at 1:30 p.m. on Friday. When the officer arrived, he observed a...More »
  
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• Gemma Chan and Peter Capaldi Will Ruin You in the Watership Down Mini-Series

  02-11-2018 18:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s been two years since the upcoming remake of Watership Down was first reported, with John Boyega, Nicholas Hoult, Gemma Arterton, James McAvoy, and Ben Kingsley announced as voice talent for the mini-series about a group of rabbits fleeing death and destruction. Today, another handful of Brits joined the cast,...More »
  
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• Kayode Ojo’s Show Has a Male Chastity System and Balenciaga Jeans

  02-11-2018 18:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of the sculptures in Kayode Ojo’s solo show “Equilibrium” at Martos Gallery features a male chastity system. I wouldn’t have had any idea what the menacing shiny metal contraption was if I hadn’t read the exhibition checklist. Same goes for the vaguely medical-looking syringe guns that lay next to...More »
  
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• Rachel Pegram Loves Commenting on Life

  02-11-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rachel Pegram (@rachelpegram) is a comedian, writer, actor, singer, and general dumb/cool bitch from around the block (kind of like Jenny). Rachel lives in Brooklyn and hopes to someday find a nice rent-stabilized one-bedroom to settle down in somewhere in Fort Greene.This week, Pegram talked with me about crying at...More »
  
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• Homecoming Recap: Road Trip

  02-11-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of the chief pleasures of the Homecoming podcast is its sound design. Without images to supplement the story or a narrator to set the scene, the creators had to think about specific sounds that might bring the world of the show to life. Yet the sound work is minimal:...More »
  
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• Jane Fonda: Trump shares parallels with 'rise of Third Reich and Adolf Hitler'

  02-11-2018 17:46
  The Oscar-winning actor has spoken out about the president’s attack on the media, calling it ‘the first step towards fascism’Jane Fonda has spoken out about Donald Trump’s attack on the media, comparing him to Adolf Hitler.Speaking at the Women’s Media Center Awards in New York, the Oscar-winning actor noted similarities between the sitting president and the Nazi party leader. Related: Seth Meyers: Republicans have made up 'a racist scam to scare people'Continue rea
  
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• Shut Up and Dribble Makes a Powerful Case for Athletes Who Speak Up

  02-11-2018 17:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Shut Up and Dribble is a three-part Showtime documentary about the modern history of political activism in basketball. It is also a big ol’ middle finger to Fox News host Laura Ingraham, who uttered the words that give this mini-series its name.The trio of hour-long episodes — executive produced by...More »
  
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• Les Moonves Says He’s Not Trying to Come Back to TV Because He’s ‘Retired’

  02-11-2018 17:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Les Moonves was forced out at CBS following allegations of sexual misconduct and assault, but right now he’s insisting that he’s not coming back to TV because he’s “retired.” TMZ ambushed Moonves and his wife Julie Chen, as they are wont to do, and asked Moonves if he has any...More »
  
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• Bad Mistakes, It Makes a Few — But Bohemian Rhapsody Comes Through

  02-11-2018 17:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  With the first exultant chords of the notoriously troubled Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody and the first sight of the snake-hipped Rami Malek sashaying onto the stage of a roaring Wembley Stadium, it’s clear that this movie itself will have to be very bad to lose us entirely — and...More »
  
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• Andrew Rannells on Playing a ‘Shady’ Guy in The Romanoffs Episode About Misconduct

  02-11-2018 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The sixth episode of Matthew Weiner’s The Romanoffs is a story about misconduct. In “Bright and High Circle,” Diane Lane and Ron Livingston play a wealthy Los Angeles couple, Katherine and Alex, who learn that their sons’ piano teacher, David (Andrew Rannells), has been accused of some sort of vague,...More »
  
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• The Kids Have Had Enough of Jimmy Kimmel’s Halloween Candy Prank

  02-11-2018 17:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Year after year, Jimmy Kimmel insists on being the Grinch who stole Halloween. For the past eight Octobers, he’s encouraged parents to prank their kids by pretending they ate all of the Halloween candy. The kids understandably go mental. They worked very hard at being cute to get those Milky...More »
  
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• The Ugly Betty Cast Would Revive the Show ‘In a Minute!’

  02-11-2018 17:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s been eight years since we said goodbye to beloved dramedy Ugly Betty, and our lives have been sadly poncho-free ever since. So would the cast return to revive it and end this fashion nightmare? “In a minute!” Michael Urie told Vulture at the Torch Song after-party at Sony Hall on...More »
  
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• In Defense of Prudence Night on Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

  02-11-2018 17:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Witches have long been a vehicle for filmmakers to consider notions of power and womanhood, sexism, and adolescence. Whether a sprightly romance like Bell, Book, and Candle, a horrifying yet immaculate children’s film like The Witches, or a feminist-tinged cult TV masterpiece like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, what unites these...More »
  
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• How Bodyguard Scripted Its 4 Most Heart-Pounding Scenes

  02-11-2018 17:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  The British crime drama Bodyguard keeps its audience guessing every which way: Who is really behind the terror attacks plaguing London? Why is someone trying to kill Britain’s war hawk of a home secretary, Julia Montague (Keeley Hawes)? And just how dedicated is Sgt. David Budd (Richard Madden) to protecting...More »
  
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• Your Guide to Maggie Rogers, SNL’s Next Musical Guest

  02-11-2018 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Saturday Night Live kicked off its 44th season with a stacked lineup of musical guests. Veritable legends Paul Simon and Kanye West performed, as did current chart-topper Travis Scott. This week, however, the show hosts its first non-A-lister of the fall: rising pop phenom Maggie Rogers.Only 24 years old, Rogers...More »
  
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• House of Cards Recap: I Want to Hold Your Hand

  02-11-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Does the America of House of Cards ever have any real problems that require a president’s attention? I ask because it feels like, in the six seasons of this gloomily lit program, the presidents are always mighty busy arranging fake catastrophes or exaggerating perfectly manageable problems so as to stoke...More »
  
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• Grey’s Anatomy Recap: Day of the Dead

  02-11-2018 16:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  If anyone is an authority on death, it’s Meredith Grey. And not just because of the surgeon thing — because of the “losing everyone she loves” thing. We love her for her strength in the face of tragedy and trauma. It’s who she is! It is why we’re here —...More »
  
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• The 50 Greatest Movie Dance Scenes of All Time

  02-11-2018 16:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  This weekend, Luca Guadagnino’s maximalist reworking of Italian horror classic Suspiria jetés into wide release. Dakota Johnson stars as an American ballerina attending a prestigious academy in pre-reunification Berlin, tutored by severe instructors giving her a faintly Satanic vibe. (Perhaps it has something to do with all the meat hooks?)...More »
  
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• Review: Tyler Perry Turns Tiffany Haddish Loose in ‘Nobody’s Fool’

  02-11-2018 16:34 via nytimes.com
  This romantic comedy-drama is a showcase for Haddish, but there’s also some well-placed cameos.
  
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• Meryl Streep and JK Rowling sign letter to UN over death of Jamal Khashoggi

  02-11-2018 16:33
  More than 100 writers, actors and activists have signed an open letter urging the UN to launch an independent investigationMeryl Streep, JK Rowling and Zadie Smith have all added their names to an open letter calling on the United Nations to investigate the death of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.More than 100 artists, writers and activists have shown support on the international day to end impunity for crimes against journalists, a month after the Washington Post journalist was killed at the Sa
  
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• Mike Myers Teases Austin Powers 4: "It's Looking Good"

  02-11-2018 16:32 via feeds.eonline.com
  Mike Myers is saying "yeah, baby, yeah!" to a fourth Austin Powers movie.The 55-year-old actor, who starred in all three Austin Powers films from 1997 to 2002's Austin Powers...
  
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• Jake Kean Mayman’s Deceptively Decorative Paintings Will Teach You History

  02-11-2018 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  About a mile from the Venice Boardwalk — with its drum-circle artist vagabonds selling mandala paintings by the sand, preening gym rats flexing at Muscle Beach, and T-shirt vendors trying to hold ground against the green wave of weed dispensaries — there’s a tiny, skylit A-frame garage behind a 1920s...More »
  
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• Mark Gatiss: ‘The League of Gentlemen was a premonition of Brexit’

  02-11-2018 16:08
  After a turn on stage as George III, the co-founder of the League is returning to horror to recreate Dracula for TV. What he finds ‘frightening and debilitating’ now, though, is leaving the EUMark Gatiss is recalling an early memory, rocking back and forth on the sofa as he talks. It is an “extraordinarily vivid” moment from when he lived opposite a psychiatric hospital in County Durham. The institution was central to his childhood, a “colony” in which his mot
  
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• Step Aside, Kevin Can Wait, Because Kevin Can F*** Himself Is in the Works

  02-11-2018 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Remember when Kevin James cast Erinn Hayes in his CBS sitcom Kevin Can Wait then decided to kill her character off because, in James’s words, they were “literally just running out of ideas”? Well, that’s resulted in probably the best TV news item of 2018. According to TVLine, Rashida Jones and...More »
  
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