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• Why the MPAA Got So Pissed Off Over Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built

  29-11-2018 23:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  When the news broke on Wednesday that IFC Films was facing possible sanctions from the Motion Picture Association of America for screening an unrated “director’s cut” of enfant terrible filmmaker Lars von Trier’s serial-killer drama The House That Jack Built, reactions generally tended in two directions. There were the inevitable...More »
  
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• Christian Bale’s Knowledge of Dick Cheney’s Health Issues Saved Adam McKay From a Heart Attack

  29-11-2018 23:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  We all know that Christian Bale goes deep into his characters, and fortunately in the case of Vice, he learned enough about former Vice-President Dick Cheney’s health problems to help director Adam McKay avert serious disaster when the filmmaker suffered a heart attack of his own. In an interview with...More »
  
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• PG-Uh Oh: In Rare Move, M.P.A.A. May Sanction Lars von Trier Film

  29-11-2018 23:21 via nytimes.com
  A screening of an unrated version of the controversial new “The House That Jack Built” ran afoul of M.P.A.A. rules, the association said.
  
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• Tekashi 6ix9ine Gets Lost in His Own Album

  29-11-2018 23:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Every generation gets the stars it deserves. The ’60s sprouted psychedelic stoners and mystics in direct correlation to the G-rated wholesomeness of mainstream culture at the time. The coked-up lawyers and accountants of the ’80s felt a kinship to normie pop kings like Lionel Richie, Huey Lewis, and Phil Collins....More »
  
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• Drake and Meek Mill Will Settle Their Beef Once and for All on Meek’s New Album

  29-11-2018 22:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sneaky, sneaky. Meek Mill recently hinted to Vulture that he’d be open to reuniting on a song with his frenemy Drake, and it turns out they already have. Meek has shared the full track list for his new album Championships, featuring none other than Drake. (And Jay-Z and Rick Ross...More »
  
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• What Happens After You Win The Great British Baking Show?

  29-11-2018 22:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Following a countless stream of signatures, technicals, and showstoppers in that ungodly balmy tent — and only one trash-bin disaster! — The Great British Baking Show has managed to produce nine seasons of culinary perfection, seven of which are available for us Americans to watch. So now, time for some...More »
  
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• Kristin Chenoweth Talks Through the Wild Costumes That Didn’t Make It on Trial & Error

  29-11-2018 21:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  As we near the end of the year, it is time to look back upon all the best shows we watched over the past 12 months — specifically those that involved Kristin Chenoweth overpronouncing the word “lawyer.” That would include the second season of Trial & Error, in which Chenoweth...More »
  
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• Comedy Central Cancels Another Period After 3 Seasons

  29-11-2018 21:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome’s Comedy Central series Another Period has seen its last day. The network has confirmed that the show, a Keeping Up With the Kardashians–style parody set in early 20th-century Rhode Island, will not return for another season. The show originally debuted back in 2015, wrapped up...More »
  
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• Here's Proof Chris Evans May Not Be Retiring From the Marvel Franchise

  29-11-2018 21:14 via feeds.eonline.com
  Don't take away Chris Evans' shield just yet!Marvel fans have been speculating for months about whether or not the Hollywood actor will be retiring from his Captain America role...
  
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• Brexit scuppers £2.9bn Intu deal — isn’t that convenient?

  29-11-2018 21:06 via ft.com
  Shopping centre group’s biggest problem predates UK political uncertainty
  
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• 10 Essential 1975 Songs

  29-11-2018 20:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Let’s get something out of the way: The 1975 are not just some up-and-coming group. The British pop-rockers’ self-titled debut from 2013 has since been certified platinum, and its follow-up — the try-saying-this-one-three-times-fast I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It —...More »
  
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• Media allies help Orban tighten grip on freedom of speech

  29-11-2018 20:47 via ft.com
  TV and press mergers reinforce premier’s power but critics fear latest sign of Hungarian autocracy
  
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• Forget Art Basel Miami Beach — Put on Your Puffer Coat and Head North to Toronto

  29-11-2018 20:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you want to avoid the hype Jacuzzi of Art Basel Miami Beach, head north, instead, to Toronto to see Mickalene Thomas’s solo show Femme Noires, which opens this week at Art Gallery of Ontario. (The comparatively decorous local version of Art Basel, Art Toronto, happened last month.) Thanks to...More »
  
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• This Week in True-Crime Podcasts: Welcome to Murderville

  29-11-2018 20:30 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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• The Carpetbagger: New York Film Critics Circle Honors ‘Roma,’ ‘First Reformed’

  29-11-2018 20:25 via nytimes.com
  Alfonso Cuarón’s black-and-white Netflix movie picked up three awards, including Best Film.
  
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• Review: Joan Didion’s ‘The White Album,’ Now in Living Color

  29-11-2018 20:03 via nytimes.com
  A gorgeously illustrated stage version of the classic essay about 1960s California ennui may miss the point.
  
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• Roma, Women Named Regina Win Big at New York Film Critics Circle Awards

  29-11-2018 19:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Much like 2013-era Miley Cyrus, the awards-season race can’t stop! After the Gothams and the NBRs, next up is the New York Film Critics Circle. Roma took home the two biggest prizes, winning Best Film, and Best Director for Alfonso Cuarón. In the acting categories, the Reginas prospered! Regina King...More »
  
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• Jameela Jamil Will Ask Very Cringeworthy Questions on New TBS Game Show

  29-11-2018 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Good Place’s Jameela Jamil just got another TV gig. TBS announced that Jamil has signed on to host a new comedy game show for the network titled The Misery Index, which is inspired by the card game Shit Happens. Serving as the show’s “ringleader,” Jamil will deliver “entertainingly cringeworthy...More »
  
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• A Dear Evan Hansen Movie Is Waving Into Development

  29-11-2018 19:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  That trademark blue polo shirt might soon be seen on the big screen. According to Deadline, Tony-winning Best Musical Dear Evan Hansen, which follows an awkward high schooler who attempts to get close to the family of a classmate who dies by suicide, is being developed into a movie. Marc...More »
  
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• Unbought and Unbossed! Viola Davis Will Play Shirley Chisholm in Amazon Movie

  29-11-2018 19:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Days after she signed a first-look deal with Amazon, Viola Davis has arrived to lead you … to freedom! Per a release, the Widows star will lead an Amazon series about U.S. representative Shirley Chisholm, the first woman and the first person of color to seek a major American political...More »
  
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• Please Enjoy This Video of Young Offset Dancing Backup for Whitney Houston

  29-11-2018 19:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Not much is known about the personal life of Migos member Offset outside of his relationship with wife Cardi B and his four kids, and you won’t glean too much more from his new New York Times profile. (He’ll apparently open up more on his debut solo album, out December...More »
  
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• Which Joe Alwyn Is Right for You This Fall?

  29-11-2018 19:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Weeks after breaking her silence on the Tennessee senate election, Taylor Swift kept the ball rolling last Friday by weighing in on the fall Oscar race, urging her Instagram followers in New York and Los Angeles to see Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite on its opening weekend. The reason does not...More »
  
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• Hugh Jackman’s ‘Showman’ Tour and More: 5 Things in Pop Culture Today

  29-11-2018 19:14 via nytimes.com
  What you need to know from Thursday’s TV, music and movie news.
  
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• Hugh Jackman Will Tour the World: 5 Things in Pop Culture Today

  29-11-2018 19:14 via nytimes.com
  What you need to know from Thursday’s TV, music and movie news.
  
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• Review: ‘The Good Swimmer’ Stays Out of the Deep End

  29-11-2018 19:08 via nytimes.com
  Heidi Rodewald and Donna Di Novelli’s song cycle at the Brooklyn Academy of Music is beautifully delivered but frustratingly opaque.
  
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• Stephen Colbert Is Suing Donald Trump for Stealing a Colbert Report Joke

  29-11-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A legal showdown between Donald Trump and Late Show host Stephen Colbert is brewing. During last night’s show, Colbert highlighted a quote from Trump’s recent interview with the Washington Post in which he said, “I have a gut, and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s brain can...More »
  
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• Richard Madden Flirts With the Idea of Playing James Bond Amid Rumors

  29-11-2018 18:58 via feeds.eonline.com
  The name is Madden, Richard Madden?In October, the Mail on Sunday reported that the 32-year-old Scottish actor, who famously played Robb Stark on Game of Thrones and now stars on the new...
  
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• ‘The Possession of Hannah Grace’ Review: A Demon Makes for a Noisy Corpse

  29-11-2018 18:25 via nytimes.com
  This horror film from Diederik Van Rooijen establishes a tense mood by alternating between ear-shattering demonism and extended periods of suspenseful silence.
  
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• Critic’s Pick: ‘Happy as Lazzaro’ Review: This Modern Fairy Tale Is an Instant Classic

  29-11-2018 18:12 via nytimes.com
  A man’s journey from the feudal countryside to the modern city has the urgency of a news bulletin. A.O. Scott calls it one of the year’s best films.
  
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• Happy Birthday Anna Faris! Celebrate the Comedic Actress' Birthday By Voting on Her Top LOL-Worthy Roles

  29-11-2018 18:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Grab your Playboy bunny ears, because everyone's favorite bunny turned sorority house mom is turning 42 years old!Yes, Anna Faris, who played the adorable Shelley Darlingson in the...
  
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• Comedy Central Orders New Shows From Awkwafina and Rory Scovel

  29-11-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Comedy Central just added two new half-hour series to its slate, and both of them sound very promising.First up is a ten-episode order to a series from rapper, comedian, and Crazy Rich Asians star Awkwafina titled — wait for it — Awkwafina. The half-hour series centers on Awkwafina as “a...More »
  
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• Ariana Grande Shares Emotional Letter on Manchester Bombing in New Docuseries

  29-11-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ariana Grande’s new YouTube docuseries on her 2017 Dangerous Woman World Tour and the making of Sweetener is mostly light and silly, chronicling all her behind-the-scenes shenanigans. (Enjoy her attempting to make sense of that “The Light Is Coming” video and impersonating her nonna.) But, of course, that tour was...More »
  
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• Kylie and Travis Ride Roller Coaster at His Concert, Take Love to Literal New Heights

  29-11-2018 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s PDA and then there’s Travis Scott and Kylie Jenner, whose whirlwind baby-makes-three love story, you’ll recall, began at Coachella. Turns out, their preference for date nights at concerts is still going strong. At night two of Scott’s sold-out Madison Square Garden shows on his Astroworld tour, Kylie made a...More »
  
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• City Girls Are Our Greatest Scammers

  29-11-2018 17:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the year of the grifter, the Miami rap duo City Girls have written the manual on how it’s done. Before last year, one half of the group had never even thought to rap. Twenty-four-year-old Caresha Brownlee was getting by just fine with an Instagram hustle promoting her own fashion...More »
  
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• For Reigning Fantasy Queen N.K. Jemisin, There’s No Escape From Reality

  29-11-2018 17:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  At the very northern tip of Manhattan lies one of the last wild places in New York City, a swath of ancient forest that has survived more or less undisturbed for hundreds of years. On an overcast afternoon, the park is relatively quiet, save for the occasional squawk of migrating...More »
  
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• The Complicated Legacy of Bernardo Bertolucci

  29-11-2018 16:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  This is not the first time I’ve shared this personal anecdote — it’s not even the first time I’ve shared this personal anecdote with a caveat about how it’s not the first time I’ve shared this personal anecdote — but now that Bernardo Bertolucci has died, there is probably no...More »
  
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• WME and Ari Emanuel Tried to Keep Agent Who Assaulted Terry Crews

  29-11-2018 16:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  WME agent Adam Venit resigned from the company as part of WME’s settlement with Terry Crews over his sexual assault. After the extended legal battle between Crews, Venit, and the company, the super agency’s initial response to Crews’s allegations was to sweep the incident — in which Venit groped Crews’s...More »
  
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• Nick Jonas Got Together With Priyanka Chopra by Sliding Into Her Twitter DMs

  29-11-2018 16:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  The world’s foremost hot international pairing of fellow hot people Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra are getting married, so they’ve also booked a whole Vogue story about their relationship. As you might expect, the tale winds through events that hot, famous people love, like trips to the Met Gala, a...More »
  
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• Trevor Noah to Host a ‘Self-Deportation Edition’ of The Daily Show in South Africa Next Week

  29-11-2018 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Trevor Noah is heading home next week for a special episode of The Daily Show. Comedy Central just announced that Noah will host an episode of his late-night show from South Africa titled The Daily Show With Trevor Noah: Self-Deportation Edition. In the special, Noah will give Daily Show viewers...More »
  
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• South Park Recap: An Anxious Reaction

  29-11-2018 16:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week’s episode of South Park begins with a misdiagnosis and builds outward from that false premise, progressing in the wrong direction like an ingrown hair. Like any sane human being in the year 2018, Eric Cartman has been feeling uneasy as of late. The continuing grotesquerie of public violence,...More »
  
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• The best X Factor finalists – ranked!

  29-11-2018 16:00
  With the TV talent show’s final taking place this weekend, we have crunched the numbers and counted the votes to put the 45 top-three finishers in orderBy series 10 in 2013, the once star-making talent show had started to eat itself, with man-child Nicholas McDonald being primed as the next Olly Murs. His earnest, screw-faced mugging on the show was followed by his woeful debut single, Answerphone, in which a prospective date correctly ignores the call. Continue reading...
  
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• Relive Birthday Boy Chadwick Boseman's Super (Hero) Roles Over the Years & Vote for Your Favorite to Celebrate

  29-11-2018 16:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  We might not be in Wakanda, but that doesn't mean we can't celebrate the king of the Marvel kingdom.Today is Chadwick Boseman's birthday and as the ruler and hero of Wakanda...
  
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• ‘Anna and the Apocalypse’ Review: They Sing, Dance and Get Eaten

  29-11-2018 15:59 via nytimes.com
  This zombie musical, about a Scottish high school student, feels more like a sketch than a developed movie.
  
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• Are Randall and Beth Getting Divorced on This Is Us?

  29-11-2018 15:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  The midseason finale of This Is Us pulled some very This Is Us tricks on its viewers. There was both a big twist — Nicky Pearson is alive and living in a trailer in Pennsylvania! — and an extension of the future timeline the show has been meagerly parsing out...More »
  
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• Macaulay Culkin Watches Home Alone With Girlfriends: "Whatever Gets Her Motor Running"

  29-11-2018 15:13 via feeds.eonline.com
  In the words of Jimmy Fallon, "This is the hottest time to be Macaulay Culkin."Yes, it certainly is the season--the holiday season. As the child star of one of the most beloved...
  
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• The greatest showman? Hugh Jackman announces world tour

  29-11-2018 15:00
  Actor to perform hits from musicals including The Greatest Showman and Les Misérables across Europe and North AmericaHugh Jackman has announced a live tour that will see him perform songs from hit musicals in arenas across the world.The tour, titled The Man. The Music. The Show., will see Jackman perform four dates in the UK in spring 2019, as well as eight further dates across Europe and 22 in North America, closing with two concerts at the Hollywood Bowl. Related: Hugh Jackman on Pan, W
  
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• The 25 Greatest “Not Dead Yet!” Scares in Movie History

  29-11-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s the most overused of horror clichés: A villain is stabbed or shot repeatedly, blown up, burnt, melted, nuked, thrown off a building — you name it — and somehow still manages to come back for one final shock, usually just as a movie is about to end. But when...More »
  
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• How to Be an Artist? Start by Drawing the Square in Front of You.

  29-11-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  So you want to be an artist (or at least live more creatively), but how to begin? New York Magazine art critic Jerry Saltz has a few suggestions. One of them being: Start by drawing the square in front of you! Saltz gave this assignment on Instagram, and hundreds of...More »
  
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• Anna and the Apocalypse’s Star on Singing and Dancing Through a Zombie Apocalypse

  29-11-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Ella Hunt auditioned for Anna and the Apocalypse, a Christmassy musical-zombie-horror comedy that’s been picking up awards and great reviews throughout its festival-circuit run, one of the scenes she had to read was the movie’s emotional climax between the titular character and her dad. It takes place in a...More »
  
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• 2018 Is the Year of Prestige Peen

  29-11-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Some spoilers below for Roma, Suspiria, The Happy Prince, Border, and Outlaw King.Incongruously violent, random, yet still somehow sensual, the naked martial arts sequence arrives early on in writer-director Alfonso Cuarón’s autobiographical drama Roma. It’s a strange denouement to lovemaking: During the build up, the film’s central character, a nanny-come-housekeeper...More »
  
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