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• Kumail Nanjiani Is the Latest to Enter The Twilight Zone

  15-11-2018 23:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  The wheels of production are turning for Jordan Peele’s revival of The Twilight Zone, which will start airing on CBS All Access sometime next year. Given the anthology format, Peele has some staffing up to do. So stay tuned here for Twilight casting updates as they come in.— Sanaa Lathan will...More »
  
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• Jinn Is a Radically Empathetic Tale of a Teen’s Religious Conversion

  15-11-2018 23:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s actually quite hard to find a film — especially a non-“faith-based” film — that treats crises and conversions of religious faith as face-value issues, and not metaphors for something broader and more secular. Outside of this year’s excellent First Reformed, clergymen in crises are mere tropes and gateways to...More »
  
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• The Best Tool for Creativity on Your iPhone Might Just Be the Notes App

  15-11-2018 23:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Everywhere you go is an opportunity to draw, whether you have a pen and paper, a computer, a tablet, or just your phone. When I first met Chris Ritter, a graphic artist and producer, I was what you might call a “traditionalist” — hopelessly devoted to my sketchbook and my...More »
  
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• The Lambily Got Mariah Carey’s Glitter Soundtrack to No. 1 on iTunes 17 Years Later

  15-11-2018 23:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yet again, Mariah Carey gets the last laugh. Though many will remember (and fondly, because you all are mean) her 2001 biopic-ish Glitter as a historic flop, her fans will not allow her legacy to be sullied by it. Sure, the film was … well, you saw it. But its...More »
  
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• Escape at Dannemora Is an Extraordinary Prison Break Turned Humdrum

  15-11-2018 23:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Not every story needs to be a TV series, and Showtime’s Escape at Dannemora offers further proof. Based on a real-life 2015 incident in the uppermost county of upstate New York, it’s about a prison employee (Patricia Arquette) who gets embroiled in sexual relationships with two convicted murderers (Paul Dano...More »
  
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• Baltimore ‘Fiddler’ Disrupted by ‘Heil Hitler, Heil Trump’

  15-11-2018 23:19 via nytimes.com
  A man was removed from the Hippodrome Theater in Baltimore after he loudly yelled pro-Hitler slogans during intermission.
  
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• Inside the Foreign Office review – Brexit and diplomacy don’t make for thrilling TV

  15-11-2018 23:00
  You have to bring a lot of prior knowledge to stay with this documentary, and one excited civil servant looks very much the same as an unexcited oneImagine greasy lard being tipped gently from an oiled spoon down a wary gullet, massaged through an unwilling gut by soft perfumed hands, expelled as a loose and painless stool from a gently lubricated bum that is then wiped with a balm-infused tissue as the effluvia is flushed noiselessly away. Ladies and gentlemen, thus hath 300 years of British di
  
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• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Is a Tedious Slog, But It Ends Well

  15-11-2018 22:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Though it was written by J. K. Rowling herself, 2016’s Harry Potter expansion franchise Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was a weak attempt to recapture the magic of her earlier stories. Gone were the engaging original characters, replaced by a bunch of empty vessels. And the mythology that...More »
  
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•  Instant Family Is Both Utterly Heartfelt and Utterly Shameless

  15-11-2018 22:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Not content to be another mild, treacly comedy about the perils of parenthood and acceptance (à la Mark Wahlberg’s Daddy’s Home pictures), the foster-care epic Instant Family is a surprisingly foul-mouthed, filled-to-bursting roller coaster of a comedy-melodrama that tosses you in eight different directions before leaving you a teary, conflicted mess. And when it...More »
  
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• This Week in True-Crime Podcasts: Suspicion, Small Town Dicks, and More

  15-11-2018 22:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  The true-crime podcast universe is ever expanding. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week, our crack team of podcast...More »
  
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• Tyler, the Creator Got You a Grinch-Inspired Holiday EP for Christmas

  15-11-2018 22:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Grinch might be as cuddly as a cactus, as charming as an eel — but Tyler, the Creator is not! Even though the rapper contributed two songs to the new Grinch movie’s soundtrack (an original song called “I Am the Grinch,” and a remake of “You’re a Mean One,...More »
  
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• Armie Hammer Is Sorry for His ‘Asshat’ Tweet About Stan Lee

  15-11-2018 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Gather ‘round Hammer Heads, Armie Wives, and the real-life Winklevoss twins who definitely smugly read that New York Times Facebook exposé: After Armie Hammer shaded fans for posting selfies with Stan Lee after the comic-book icon’s death, Hammer has apologized. “While attempting to provide some unnecessary social commentary about the...More »
  
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• Sarah Silverman Gets a New Gig As White House Press Secretary on I Love You, America

  15-11-2018 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The season finale of Sarah Silverman’s Hulu series I Love You, America debuts later today, and in case you can’t take the wait, here’s a little taste. In the above clip, Silverman takes over Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s gig as Donald Trump’s White House press secretary and fields all kinds of...More »
  
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• There Are Actually a Lot of Good Reasons to Make Music With Your Phone

  15-11-2018 21:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  One summer night years ago, I wandered, with no context, into the erstwhile Williamsburg avant-haven called Zebulon. A single man was on stage holding an instrument no larger than his hand. But the sound coming from the house PA was larger than life: swirls of electronics, disembodied and stacked voices,...More »
  
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• Desiree Akhavan on Finding Slapstick Comedy in The Bisexual’s Awkward Sex Scenes

  15-11-2018 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  In Hulu’s The Bisexual, Leila (Desiree Akhavan) finds herself on a break from a longtime partner and on a personal exploration of her own sexuality. But if it sounds like a typical coming out story, it’s not: Leila is in her early 30s and identifies as a lesbian; now she’s...More »
  
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• John Green Loves Podcasting Because It Reminds Him of Early YouTube

  15-11-2018 21:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s a very good chance you’ve heard of the Green brothers, who are prolific makers of stuff on a variety of fronts. Hank Green is an entrepreneur, musician, and newly published author (An Absolutely Remarkable Thing); John is an accomplished writer and YA novelist (The Fault in Our Stars, Paper...More »
  
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• A24 Will Produce Movies Movies For Apple

  15-11-2018 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The indie studio A24 has made a name for itself in coming-of-age stories (a lot of them), tender emotional dramas, horror movies, and the spiritual turmoil of hot priest Ethan Hawke. Now the NYC-based company is getting even more big time. On Thursday Apple announced it has partnered with A24 on...More »
  
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• Watch Angela Bassett Narrate a Leopard Attack Specifically for the Way She Pronounces ‘Impala’

  15-11-2018 21:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Angela Bassett is a treasure who can pull off Lady Macbeth at the drop of a hat and so it’s not at all surprising that she’s incredibly good at narrating nature documentaries, in fact she should probably just narrate them all from here on out. In a clip from National...More »
  
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• Critic’s Pick: Review: A ‘Chinese Lady’ on Heart-Rending Display

  15-11-2018 20:54 via nytimes.com
  Lloyd Suh’s rich play follows an immigrant and her translator over decades.
  
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• The Haunting of Hill House and the Madness of Family

  15-11-2018 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  See Mother. See her glow, bathed in light as if touched, beckoned by a being far more benevolent than the one who consumes her in the end. “Everybody alive?” she asks — Carla Gugino’s first line as Olivia Crain — during an unspecified then at Hill House. The words trail...More »
  
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• Madeline Brewer on Trading Her Handmaid Robes for a Flogger in Cam

  15-11-2018 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the new movie Cam, Madeline Brewer plays three characters. One is Alice, a casual jeans-and-hoodies kind of girl who is close with her brother and mom, and who is semi-secretly making a good living as a cam girl. The second character is Lola, Alice’s schoolgirl-esque online alter ego, a...More »
  
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• The 69th National Book Awards Reminded Us It’s a Big World Out There

  15-11-2018 20:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  During the cocktail hour of last night’s annual ceremony for the National Book Awards, the country’s most prestigious literary prize this side of the Pulitzer, agent Joy Harris had two things on her mind: the “mess in Washington,” and the thirst for good books. “I think if we don’t read good...More »
  
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• Monopoly for Millennials Should Not Pass Go: 5 Things in Pop Culture Today

  15-11-2018 19:43 via nytimes.com
  What you need to know from Thursday’s TV, music and movie news.
  
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• Millennial Monopoly, Go Directly to Jail: 5 Things in Pop Culture Today

  15-11-2018 19:43 via nytimes.com
  What you need to know from Thursday’s TV, music and movie news.
  
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• Review: ‘A Chorus Line,’ Still High-Stepping but Showing Its Age

  15-11-2018 19:29 via nytimes.com
  City Center’s production of the landmark musical from 1975 is a pleasure, an education and a problem.
  
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• ‘Green Book’ Review: A Road Trip Through a Land of Racial Clichés

  15-11-2018 19:19 via nytimes.com
  A real-life story starring Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen becomes a feel-good fable buoyed by its lead performances.
  
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• Syfy Is Making an Animated Late-Night Show Starring Will Forte and Heidi Gardner

  15-11-2018 19:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  What if there were a late-night comedy show, only instead of live-action it were animated? And what if, instead of humans, it were hosted by aliens? And what if those aliens had the voices of current and former Saturday Night Live cast members and the show had the backing of...More »
  
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• Winter Music Preview: Lana Del Rey, Ariana Grande, Meek Mill, and More

  15-11-2018 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Even though new music releases arrive more unexpectedly than ever these days, it’s still possible to plan ahead for when some of the biggest and most promising artists are planning to drop a new project. Here’s a comprehensive-as-possible guide to the records you should be keeping your eyes and ears...More »
  
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• ‘At Eternity’s Gate’ Review: An Exquisite Portrayal of van Gogh at Work

  15-11-2018 18:37 via nytimes.com
  A magnificent Willem Dafoe stars in Julian Schnabel’s film, a work that Manohla Dargis calls “an argument for art.”
  
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• Podcast: how to publish your business book

  15-11-2018 18:07 via ft.com
  Aspiring writers ask a panel of industry experts what makes a standout proposal
  
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• What 10 Critics Think of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

  15-11-2018 18:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Warner Bros. Pictures' Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald--the second of five original adventures in J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World--is premiering in theaters nationwide...
  
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• Ralph Breaks the Internet and the Rise of Mash-up Cinema

  15-11-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the opening minutes of Ralph Breaks the Internet, John C. Reilly’s Ralph and Sarah Silverman’s Vanellope Von Schweetz — stars of the film’s 2012 predecessor, Wreck-It Ralph — sit in a sort of Grand Central Terminal for video-game characters and play a round of “I Spy.” “I spy with...More »
  
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• The A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding Trailer Somehow Has Even More Blog Scandals

  15-11-2018 17:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sing hosannas and sound the royal Aldovian trumpets because the trailer for A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding is finally here. Netflix’s sequel to last year’s ignominiously famous Christmas special will return to the story of intrepid blogger and accidental prince-wooer Amber Moore, now in the process of planning her...More »
  
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• It’s Time for SNL Alum Danitra Vance to Get Her Due

  15-11-2018 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re someone who prefers to run through a checklist of a comedian’s credits before deciding if they’re worth your time, then you’ll want to have your pencil sharpened — and maybe even have a backup writing utensil at the ready — before giving Marina Franklin’s filmography a once-over. In...More »
  
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• Critic’s Pick: Review: At the Big Apple Circus, Discs Fly and So Do People

  15-11-2018 17:20 via nytimes.com
  The Big Apple Circus returns with oversize airborne cranberries, a steamy aerial ballet and a prancing pig.
  
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• Widows Proves Lukas Haas Is the King of the Pussy Posse

  15-11-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Pussy Posse, as christened by New York writer Nancy Jo Sales in 1998, takes up an inordinate amount of space in my brain. There were, more or less, a half-dozen of them: DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Q-Tip, David Blaine, Kevin Connolly, and Lukas Haas. (As of late, they’ve started going...More »
  
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• This New Comedy Central Show From Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider Looks Pretty Great

  15-11-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The wait for former Saturday Night Live co-head writers Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider’s new comedy series is almost over. Comedy Central just debuted the first trailer for their upcoming show The Other Two, which was ordered to series last year and premieres after Broad City on Thursday, January 24,...More »
  
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• Stanley Tucci Reacts to Pete Davidson’s ‘Tucci Gang’ SNL Sketch

  15-11-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Sam Rockwell hosted Saturday Night Live way back in January, Pete Davidson released into the world a perfect “Gucci Gang” parody about actor Stanley Tucci called, of course, “Tucci Gang.” During his visit to last night’s Late Night With Seth Meyers, Tucci was asked about the sketch, and he...More »
  
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• South Park Recap: Son of ManBearPig

  15-11-2018 16:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last week, South Park atoned for its past dismissal of global warming by urging viewers to take the matter seriously where the show once did not. And how better to demonstrate its commitment to taking this all super cereal you guys than with a two-part episode culminating in the death...More »
  
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• Kacey Musgraves Stole the Show at the CMAs

  15-11-2018 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last night’s Country Music Association Awards (the CMAs) saw a mixed bag of both the usual and the totally unpredictable for what’s regarded as the Grammys of country music. Once again, Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood were your hosts, and, once again, Paisley fully leaned into being as corny as...More »
  
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• American Horror Story: Apocalypse Finale Recap: The End Justifies The Mean

  15-11-2018 15:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  We did it folks, we watched the greatest season of American Horror Story and lived to tell the tale. Let’s start with the beginning of the end.Myrtle Snow (Frances Conroy) arrives at the Silicon Valley startup currently orchestrating the apocalypse, not much unlike our favorite tech company presently dismantling democracy....More »
  
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• This Week in Comedy Podcasts: 2 Dope Queens Says Good-bye

  15-11-2018 15:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week...More »
  
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• The Wine Show Season Two: More Wine, More British Accents, and More Charming Puns

  15-11-2018 15:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  As we’ve previously established on this website, The Wine Show — whose second season debuts Thursday night on Ovation — is an utter delight that satisfies on a number of television-viewing levels. If you enjoy watching British actors discuss tannins in their charming British accents, boy, does it ever check that...More »
  
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• Widows Is a Thoroughly Entertaining Caper

  15-11-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This review originally ran during the Toronto International Film Festival.Say what you will about Steve McQueen’s films (Hunger, Shame, 12 Years a Slave) — I can say plenty — you’ll agree that they’re reliably punishing, that McQueen is bent on driving home the mortification of his characters’ flesh via starvation, addiction, or...More »
  
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• When Alfonso Cuarón Adapted Stephen King

  15-11-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  With the 2004 film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, director Alfonso Cuarón attempted the difficult task of adapting a story by one of the most famous fantasy authors in the world, marrying his filmmaking sensibility to someone else’s distinctive vision in the hopes of finding a rich middle...More »
  
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• Steve McQueen and Viola Davis on Hollywood, Race and Power

  15-11-2018 14:33 via nytimes.com
  The director and star of “Widows” discuss authenticity in art and why Hollywood needs its own civil rights movement.
  
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• ‘Under the Wire’ Review: Portrait of a War Reporter

  15-11-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  The emotional testimony of the war photographer Paul Conroy dominates this heated and harrowing account of Marie Colvin’s last weeks.
  
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• ‘The Last Race’ Review: Long Island’s Fading Car Craze

  15-11-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  This documentary explores the region’s long history of auto racing and the lively and eccentric culture it attracted.
  
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• ‘The Clovehitch Killer’ Review: Unsolved Murders Haunt a Small Town

  15-11-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  Favoring atmosphere over action, this slow-burning thriller follows the search for a serial killer in a Kentucky town.
  
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• ‘Of Fathers and Sons’ Review: A Look at Terrorists in Training

  15-11-2018 13:00 via nytimes.com
  In this documentary a filmmaker embeds himself with a jihadist family, presenting himself as a sympathizer, but sheds little light on their inner lives.
  
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