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• Gun No 6 review – a magisterial portrait of the misery wreaked by a single firearm

  02-12-2018 23:10 via theguardian.com
  This daring documentary got closer to explaining why people resort to using guns as weapons than any film I have seenTen years, 11 shootings, three murders, one gun. This was the basic story of Sunday night’s documentary by James Newton, Gun No 6 (BBC Two). But it was so much more.The opening few minutes induced a faint, shadowy sense, a tiny pulsing in the breast, of something approaching national pride. We learned that, thanks to legislation introduced swiftly and almost without controve
  
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• The Little Drummer Girl episode six recap: an explosive and satisfying finale

  02-12-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Florence Pugh’s Charlie meets her end game as Park Chan-wook’s stylish Le Carre adaptation goes out with a bangWhen someone walks into a restricted area with a briefcase crammed with semtex you might expect amateur dramatics to go out the window in favour of a slightly more tactical response. But in the bowels of the very 70s-looking Polytechnic of Greater London, spy ringmaster Kurtz (Michael Shannon) insisted his leading lady, Charlie (Florence Pugh), run her lines even as an old&n
  
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• Wes Anderson’s Next Film, The French Dispatch, Is a ‘Love Letter to Journalists’

  02-12-2018 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  He’s trading in some twee stop-motion foxes for some twee live-action humans. Wes Anderson is currently in the midst of shooting his tenth film, The French Dispatch, in southern France with a bunch of his favorite actors in tow. Per intel from IndieWire, the film — which is not a...More »
  
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• How 3 Actors Overcame Trump’s Travel Ban to Take the New York Stage

  02-12-2018 22:10 via nytimes.com
  Two Iranians and a Syrian were allowed entry to perform “The Jungle,” a play about refugees, after urgings by Sting and an ex-archbishop of Canterbury.
  
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• Nexstar to buy Tribune Media for $4.1bn

  02-12-2018 21:41 via ft.com
  Deal would make media group the biggest operator of local TV stations in US
  
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• Michelle Obama Is Done With the Gospel of ‘Lean In’

  02-12-2018 21:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Michelle Obama set the record straight during an appearance at Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Saturday night, one of the many stops on her Becoming book tour. Speaking about work life balance, and finding a way to excel in your career and marriage, Obama spoke frankly about what works and what doesn’t —...More »
  
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• Strictly Come Dancing: week 11 results – as it happened

  02-12-2018 21:01 via theguardian.com
  It’s Musicals Week as the competition headed towards the business end, and the contestants danced for a place in the semi finals 8.01pm GMT So that’s IT for another week! Only two shows left! I’m starting to feel like Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption, when he feels simultaneously excited about freedom, but also entirely institutionalised and scared of the outside world. What are weekends away and Saturday nights out again? I’ve forgotten.I’ll be back at 6.
  
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• Doctor Who recap: Series 37, episode 9 – It Takes You Away

  02-12-2018 20:20 via theguardian.com
  The Doctor stirs a touch of Scandi noir into the mix in the first episode of the series to really present a grand sci-fi concept“Ah, nice fjord!” states Graham as the Doctor whizzes around tasting soil to ascertain the time and location the Tardis landed our gang in this time. It is hardly the most electrifying start to an episode from the writer Ed Hime (Skins), that points toward a generic cabin-in-the-woods romp with something monstrous stalking the hills. Oh, how quickly things c
  
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• ‘The Favourite’ Shines on a Quiet Box-Office Weekend

  02-12-2018 19:58 via nytimes.com
  Showing in just 34 theaters, “The Favourite” had early results in line with two of last year’s Oscar-season hits, “Lady Bird” and “The Shape of Water.”
  
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• Strictly Come Dancing: week 11 results – live!

  02-12-2018 19:48 via theguardian.com
  It’s Musicals Week as the competition headed towards the business end, and the contestants danced for a place in the semi finals 6.48pm GMT Evening all, and welcome back for tonight’s Strictly results show! Last night’s Musicals Week was rather fabulous, I thought – enjoy the quality, because we’re moving to TWO DANCES next week and things will all start to get a bit shaky. I have no idea who’s going to be in the bottom two tonight (and have managed to avoid s
  
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• PBS’s Les Misérables Trailer: Do You Hear the People Sing for Another Olivia Colman Period Drama?

  02-12-2018 19:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Finally, the inspiration behind “Diner Lobster” is getting its due. The BBC and PBS would like to cordially present the trailer for their Les Misérables miniseries, which is so embodied in the cultural lexicon at this point that we’re not even going to bother typing out the plot description. So...More »
  
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• SNL Let Claire Foy Give a Master Class on Reese Witherspoon’s Accent, Y’all

  02-12-2018 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  While we gotta give props to Cecily Strong’s deranged vendor who unravels at an alarming speed during her first HSN showcase — it does not stand for “Homosexual Shopping Network,” by the way — let’s also give a round of applause for Claire Foy’s accent work, which is a dead...More »
  
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• Egyptian Actress Dressed to Impress. She Could Be Jailed for Debauchery.

  02-12-2018 17:32 via nytimes.com
  Rania Youssef’s lacy, revealing dress at a Cairo film festival spurred three lawyers to sue her. A trial has been scheduled for January.
  
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• Egyptian actor facing decency trial says dress not meant to offend

  02-12-2018 17:19
  Rania Youseff’s outfit at the Cairo international film festival has sparked debate on the country’s conservatismAn Egyptian actor facing trial on public obscenity charges for wearing a revealing dress has said she didn’t mean to offend anyone.In a Facebook post made late on Saturday, Rania Youssef said she may have misjudged how people would react to the dress she wore at the closing ceremony of this year’s Cairo international film festival, which revealed her legs throu
  
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• Claire Foy’s Meeting With the Queen Didn’t Even Include Crown Talk

  02-12-2018 16:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  While we wait for the inevitable photo opp of The Crown’s entire original cast having afternoon tea with the Windsors at Buckingham Palace — c’mon royals, Prince Philip isn’t getting any younger, you know — Claire Foy’s SNL monologue can provide us with some quality fan service in the meantime....More »
  
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• SNL’s Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough Are Horny for Each Other, Baby

  02-12-2018 15:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sure, Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough might still be in that lovely honeymoon phase following their secret wedding last month, but these Morning Joe hosts really need to keep their boners in check while giving America the news every morning. Because frankly, this is some soft-core stuff, folks! And Willie...More »
  
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• Nightflyers Is a Space Plodyssey

  02-12-2018 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Based on George R.R. Martin’s novella and a series of short stories—and a same-titled 1987 film adaptation—SyFy’s Nightflyers is a encyclopedia of science fiction and horror cinema influences, but despite outstanding production values and some fine sequences of terror and body horror, it succeeds mainly at making you want to revisit the...More »
  
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• Saturday Night Live Recap: The Best and Worst Claire Foy Sketches

  02-12-2018 14:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Though she told Jimmy Fallon that she felt like “a complete imposter” hosting SNL, nevertheless British actor Claire Foy took the reins at 8H for the first time this Saturday night. Foy has steadily built a career with a series of dramatic roles, including a Golden Globe-winning turn as Queen...More »
  
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• Saturday Night Live: Baldwin-Trump is back with Claire Foy a queenly host

  02-12-2018 13:05 via theguardian.com
  All SNL wants for Christmas is Robert Mueller – its audience was happy to settle for a consistently funny showAlec Baldwin returns for the first time since his arrest. Donald Trump, in Argentina for the G20 summit, is stressing out over the Mueller investigation. He confides in his usual rogue’s gallery: an unsympathetic Melania (Cecily Strong), the Nosferatu-like Rudy Giuliani (Kate McKinnon), a nervous, recalcitrant Michael Cohen (Ben Stiller). Related: Saturday Night Live: Steve C
  
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• Give I’m a Celebrity’s skimpy shower scenes the cold shoulder | Barbara Ellen

  02-12-2018 11:00 via theguardian.com
  Contestants seem to feel obliged to prance semi-clad under the outdoor ablutions. Time for a private bathIn the midst of this #MeToo era, isn’t it time the I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here jungle shower was disabled for good? Over the years, young female celebrities have become almost obliged to make the grim, bikini-clad trudge to said shower in order to stretch, arch, undulate and generally prance about in scenes that are about as natural and unforced as a Playboy centrefold s
  
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• Beck Bennett Personifies the Worst Person You Meet at Every Coffeeshop on Saturday Night Live

  02-12-2018 08:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jules’ dad invented Oxycontin, and he’s privileged enough to see things…a little differently. “You’re looking at the economy like ‘numbers, charts, buy sell.’ Meanwhile, I’m looking at a baby. And I’m thinking ‘That’s what we need! Open eyes, skin so soft. No bones, just love.’” We’ve all met a Jules,...More »
  
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• The week in TV: Mrs Wilson; Death and Nightingales; The Truth About the Menopause and more

  02-12-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Ruth Wilson stars in her own family history for the BBC’s new period drama, while Jamie Dornan is more than the new Ross Poldark in Death and NightingalesMrs Wilson (BBC One) | iPlayer
  Death and Nightingales (BBC Two) | iPlayer
  The Truth about the Menopause (BBC One) | iPlayer
  Jazzology with Soweto Kinch (BBC Four) | iPlayer
  BBC Young Jazz Musician 2018 (BBC Four) | iPlayerA lad is coming through the door to announce, with lack of ego or celebration, that he happened to score a try. A moth
  
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• The week in radio and podcasts: A Sense of Quietness; Collecting the Troubles at the Ulster Museum and more

  02-12-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Two compelling stories from Ireland and a sweet report on immigrants settling happily in Britain are among this week’s best documentariesLights Out: A Sense of Quietness (Radio 4) | iPlayer
  Collecting the Troubles at the Ulster Museum (Radio 4) | iPlayer
  The Documentary: Migrants Mean Business (BBC World Service) | iPlayerMigration and war are never out of the news. Here’s a trio of thoughtful documentaries to demonstrate that migration can be fleeting, as well as permanent, that it
  
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• Saturday Night Live Lays Bare Netflix’s Plans for Total World Domination

  02-12-2018 07:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix may have just cancelled three-fourths of its Defenders, but it still has more content than even God could watch. SNL let us take a peek into Netflix’s plans to bring about the singularity by putting out so many shows that the My List feature folds in on itself. On...More »
  
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• Alec Baldwin Returns to Saturday Night Live for a Star-Studded Cold Open

  02-12-2018 07:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fresh from having his charges downgraded at his arraignment, Alec Baldwin returned to SNL. Trump is at the G20 Summit in Argentina, which means it’s time for another cameo-laden political cold open. Trump was feeling the heat from the Mueller investigation and couldn’t find solace anywhere he looked. His wife...More »
  
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• Sunday's best TV: The Little Drummer Girl; Doctor Who; Dynasties

  02-12-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Charlie is deep undercover in the final of the spy drama, while the Doctor heads to the Norwegian woods and the nature series follows the painted wolf9pm, BBC One Continue reading...
  
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• Eminem Compares Himself to the Manchester Bomber in New Freestyle, ‘Kick Off’

  02-12-2018 04:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Eminem is back to his roots, freestyling in Detroit and threatening violence against women! Eminem recorded his new video/State of the Union Address in the Shelter at St. Andrews, one of his first venues. “I’ve always looked at battle rap as competition,” says Mathers before his 10+ minute freestyle in...More »
  
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• A Pushcart-Nominated Poet Got a Tattoo of Words She Plagiarized from Another Poet

  02-12-2018 04:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The poet Ailey O’Tooleinscribed words on her skin“Ramshackle girl spitting teeth in the sink”an image takenfrom anotherher flesh becomes plagiarismher story hung on a stranger’s bonesJezebel reports:O’Toole nominated for Pushcart Prizebut her next book, cancelledthe words hang unspokendead language on a stolen tonguea hungry mouth, sharp teeth(another word-pictureallegedly plagiarized) Rachel...More »
  
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• Here Are John Waters’ 10 Favorite Films of 2018

  02-12-2018 03:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  John Waters released his annual cinematic top ten list on Artforum, and his number one must-see of 2018 is a French musical about Joan of Arc. “The actors themselves seem like they might burst out laughing, but this is no joke,” he wrote. “It’s the best movie of the year....More »
  
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• Neil deGrasse Tyson Addressed His Sexual Misconduct Accusations on Facebook

  02-12-2018 02:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Neil deGrasse Tyson took to Facebook to address the multiple accusations of sexual misconduct his is now facing. Tyson said he had refrained from commenting previously “on the grounds that serious accusations should not be adjudicated in the press.” He then immediately launched into a defense of his actions, claiming...More »
  
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