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• The 10 Best TV Comedies of 2018

  13-12-2018 23:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  Although we had to say farewell to far too many far too soon, this year produced an embarrassment of riches when it came to TV comedies. This bountiful crop of comedies helped to fill in the gaps left by the departed, such as the comically bleak The Last Man on...More »
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: ‘Vertigo,’ Through Two Artists’ Eyes

  13-12-2018 23:48 via nytimes.com
  Jean Curran’s dye-transfer prints from film frames, and a stop-time movie by Catherine Opie, continue the 60-year love affair with Hitchcock’s “Vertigo.”
  
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• Anatomy of a Scene: How Shopping for a Crib Turns Violent in Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Roma’

  13-12-2018 23:38 via nytimes.com
  The director and writer discusses the work that went into recreating the Corpus Christi massacre of 1971.
  
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• ‘Roma’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  13-12-2018 23:33 via nytimes.com
  The writer and director Alfonso Cuarón discusses a sequence from his film.
  
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• Songs From 1975 for Fans of the 1975

  13-12-2018 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yes, the 1975 got their name from a Jack Kerouac book. No, Matt Healy doesn’t remember which one. And yes, this can be seen as romantic but is mostly immature, like being 15-years-old and naming your third-wave emo band Forever Enjoying Sex or something. However, give credit where credit is...More »
  
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• All It Took Was One Twitter Spree for Kanye to Get His Apology From Drake

  13-12-2018 23:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  In this edition of Guess What Kanye Tweeted, he’s back to being in his feelings about his frenemy Drake. Earlier this year, Kanye tweeted his many apologies to the rapper with whom he’s had a falling out over, oh I don’t know, everything. Then, a couple of weeks later, took...More »
  
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• The Women of Superstore Are Busting Taboos and Breaking Barriers

  13-12-2018 23:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of network television’s most consistently and quietly revolutionary sitcoms, NBC’s Superstore has always foregrounded its politics. But over the last three years, the show has eschewed the popular issue-of-the-episode approach, instead injecting its commentary into character, theme, and story with ever-increasing intelligence and sophistication. Centered on floor workers at...More »
  
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• Billy Connolly’s Ultimate World Tour review – a reflective reminder of his brilliance

  13-12-2018 23:00
  The comedian makes his way through Florida in this thoughtful travelogue that also revisits past adventuresThe television programmes Billy Connolly has made have become increasingly meditative since he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease five years ago. Billy Connolly’s Ultimate World Tour was the latest and gentlest of all, broadcast just after the 76-year-old comedian announced his retirement from live performance.This new travelogue – which is also a look at previous trav
  
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• Rina Sawayama Is the Future of Pop

  13-12-2018 22:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are three Asian women tattooed on Rina Sawayama’s wrist. Their bodies intertwine, and a central bare-breasted woman tugs on the ponytails of the pair who flank her. The design, Sawayama explains, is by the late Chinese photographer Ren Hang, whose images capture east Asian bodies in playful, polyamorous moments...More »
  
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• Bohemian Rhapsody Is Now the Highest-Grossing Musician Biopic Ever, So Good Job, Rami Malek

  13-12-2018 22:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Not only did Bohemian Rhapsody recently secure nominations for both the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild awards, it’s now also the highest grossing biopic about a musician of all time. Domestically, the film about Freddy Mercury has taken in more than $175 million, and at the international box...More »
  
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• ‘The House That Jack Built’ Review: Sick, Violent and a Total Bore

  13-12-2018 22:30 via nytimes.com
  Matt Dillon may play a serial killer in Lars von Trier’s latest movie, but its real subject seems to be its director.
  
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• This Week in True-Crime Podcasts: Minds of Madness, Criminal, and More

  13-12-2018 22:18 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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• Melissa and Joe Gorga's Daughter Antonia Dishes on Her Red Carpet Debut

  13-12-2018 22:07 via feeds.eonline.com
  Gorga style!Real Housewives of New Jersey star Melissa Gorga and Joe Gorga stepped out with their 13-year-old daughter Antonia Gorga on Wednesday night. The trio attended the New York...
  
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• Almost 500 Scripted Shows Aired in 2018, But We Still Haven’t Hit Peak TV

  13-12-2018 22:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Peak TV hasn’t peaked yet, but it may be slowing down just a bit. A record 495 original scripted streaming, cable, and broadcast series were released in 2018, a slight increase from the 487 shows that came out in 2017, according to research released Thursday by FX Networks. What’s more,...More »
  
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• Cybill Shepherd Says Her CBS Show Was Canceled After Rebuffing a Les Moonves Advance

  13-12-2018 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Les Moonves is out as CEO of CBS, and it’s unknown whether or not he will receive the massive compensation package he was once entitled to upon leaving the company. But new claims of misconduct continue to come in, and actress Cybill Shepherd is the latest woman to allege that...More »
  
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• ‘Strange Window: The Turn of the Screw’ Review: Henry James for the Gig Economy

  13-12-2018 21:12 via nytimes.com
  This multimedia adaptation for the era of TED Talks and smartphones is visually and aurally striking, but it lacks the spookiness of the original novella.
  
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• Jennifer Garner and J.J. Abrams Are Working Together Again on a New Apple Show

  13-12-2018 20:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jennifer Garner and J.J. Abrams are not giving the world the spinoff about her minor character on Felicity that we (okay, maybe just me) so desperately crave, but they are working together again! Vulture can confirm that Garner, who rose to fame on Alias, everyone’s favorite J.J. Abrams show about...More »
  
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• ‘The Mule’ Review: Clint Eastwood’s Very Strange Drug Trip

  13-12-2018 20:12 via nytimes.com
  In his latest exploration of modern masculinity, the veteran filmmaker plays an unlikely courier for a cartel who finds redemption. It’s a rough ride.
  
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• A Long Talk With David Lee Roth

  13-12-2018 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Do you ever do that thing where you take a pill, and then you forget that you took it, so you take another one?” asks David Lee Roth, lead singer of Van Halen and now a fledgling entrepreneur, immediately upon arriving in New York’s offices last Friday. “I did that...More »
  
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• Oprah Winfrey Wants Her Chicken Seasoned: 5 Things in Pop Culture Today

  13-12-2018 20:01 via nytimes.com
  What you need to know from Thursday’s TV, music and movie news.
  
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• Sable Elyse Smith Uses a Coloring Book for Kids in Court To Critique the Violence of Social Control

  13-12-2018 19:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Harlem-based artist Sable Elyse Smith has held onto a used children’s coloring book she found on 125th Street for about five years. The book, which features a smiling white woman character named “Judge Friendly,” was meant to teach children how to interface with court systems. Its faux-innocent treacle struck her...More »
  
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• Critic’s Pick: ‘Capernaum’ Review: A Heartbreaking and Defiant Look at a Boy’s Life in Beirut

  13-12-2018 19:15 via nytimes.com
  Like a Charles Dickens hero, Zain makes his way through a city where cruelty and injustice threaten to overwhelm kindness and decency.
  
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• ‘Capernaum’ Review: A Heartbreaking and Defiant Look at a Boy’s Life in Beirut

  13-12-2018 19:15 via nytimes.com
  Like a Charles Dickens hero, Zain makes his way through a city where cruelty and injustice threaten to overwhelm kindness and decency.
  
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• Here’s Your Adorable Polaroid Introduction to Greta Gerwig’s Little Women

  13-12-2018 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Greta Gerwig’s Little Women looks like the world’s ultimate cool white girl group hang, complete with Polaroid group photos. The film, based on Louisa May Alcott’s novel, released its first official photo of the cast all together, with Emma Watson as Meg March, Saoirse Ronan as Jo, Florence Pugh as...More »
  
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• Spider-Ham’s Very Unkosher Journey From Joke to Spider-Verse Star

  13-12-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  “After December 14, we will live in a world where everyone knows Peter Porker,” says comics writer Dan Slott. “Laymen on the street. Kids with their lunch boxes and onesies. Everyone is gonna know who Spider-Ham is.” He pauses. He laughs at the ridiculousness of it all. “What a world.”No,...More »
  
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• Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 Trailer: Hark, the Red Angel Signals

  13-12-2018 18:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Season two of Star Trek: Discovery: now with even more creepy space clouds. CBS All Access has released the trailer for the next installment of its streaming sci-fi series, which will premiere on January 17. “After answering a distress signal from the U.S.S. Enterprise, season two of Star Trek: Discovery finds...More »
  
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• Julia Garner in Talks for Devil Wears Prada–Style Weinstein Assistant Movie

  13-12-2018 18:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  The movie about the life of one of Harvey Weinstein’s assistants may have found its lead: Per Deadline, Ozark’s Julia Garner is in talks to star. Kitty Green (Casting JonBenet) will direct the untitled feature, which is based on public records, documents, and interviews. “It’s sort of Devil Wears Prada--esque —...More »
  
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• Watch Jason Momoa Lead an Epic Haka Dance at the Aquaman Premiere

  13-12-2018 18:28 via feeds.eonline.com
  Fans know Jason Momoa can act, but did they know he can also dance?The actor surprised everyone at the Hollywood premiere of Aquaman on Wednesday by performing a haka--a traditional...
  
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• How TV Finally Got Its Own Blockbuster Special Effects

  13-12-2018 18:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last December, Netflix approached Mr. X, a visual-effects house based in Toronto, with a proposition that even a couple of years earlier would have been impossible. They wanted Mr. X to create a pair of snarling, salivating CGI lions that could snap and growl convincingly from a pit in the...More »
  
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• Up on Your Feet! One Day at a Time Will Return for Season 3 in February

  13-12-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rita Moreno was never going to desert you for too long. Netflix has announced that its remake of One Day at a Time will return for a third season on February 8, an exciting development given that it took them a long time to finally commit to giving the show...More »
  
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• No One Wants to Help Maroon 5 Play the Super Bowl

  13-12-2018 17:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just like the Oscars, the NFL is reportedly scrambling to find people willing to have anything to do with them. Per Us Weekly, rumored Super Bowl halftime show headliners Maroon 5 can’t find anyone to perform with them, hence the holdout on announcing their big gig. And the problem supposedly...More »
  
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• Jude Law's Daughter in The Holiday Is a Punk Rocker Now

  13-12-2018 17:53 via feeds.eonline.com
  Those child actors grow up so fast...Miffy Englefield, the British actress who played Sophie, one of Jude Law's character's daughters, in the 2006 rom-com The Holiday, looks...
  
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• Allow Samantha Bee to Introduce Fox News’ Streaming Service: “It’s Like ASMR for Sociopaths”

  13-12-2018 17:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Fox News recently launched its very own streaming service called Fox Nation, and Samantha Bee and her Full Frontal staff checked it out so you don’t have to. After exploring some of the service’s many weird Fox News–adjacent offerings — including shows from Tomi Lahren, Laura Ingraham and some guy...More »
  
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• This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Ted Alexandro on WTF

  13-12-2018 17:21 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 one has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week,...More »
  
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• How The Favourite Created Its Peculiar Soul Train Dance

  13-12-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite has all the trappings of a period drama: Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) moves around her massive palace in ornate, regal gowns. Sitting atop Nicholas Hoult’s head is a wig the size of a mini-fridge. The wide-angle lenses make the lush 18th-century interiors look lonely, but they’re...More »
  
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• Billy Eichner Tries to Cheer Up New Yorkers With Lin-Manuel Miranda

  13-12-2018 16:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Stop what you’re doing because a brand-new installment of Billy on the Street just dropped. This time around, Billy Eichner hits the streets with fellow native New Yorker and Mary Poppins star Lin-Manuel Miranda for a game called “Is Anybody Happy?” that basically entails Eichner using Miranda in an attempt...More »
  
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• ‘Martyr’ Review: Tight Bonds and Isolation in Beirut

  13-12-2018 16:48 via nytimes.com
  Set in a poor section of the city, Mazen Khaled’s film captures the numbness, grief and rage that come out of strife.
  
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• Taylor Swift’s Reputation Tour Movie Will Arrive on Netflix in Time for New Year’s Day

  13-12-2018 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Taylor Swift New Year’s present to the world doesn’t not involve a lot of snakes. Swift announced today, which is also her birthday, that her Reputation tour movie will premiere on Netflix on 12:01 a.m. PT December 31, basically ensuring that everyone will be able to watch her sing “New...More »
  
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• It’s Official: Robin Thicke and Pharrell Have to Pay Up Over ‘Blurred Lines’

  13-12-2018 15:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  The music trial of the decade has come to its bitter end. On Monday, a California federal judge ruled once and for all that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams will indeed have to pay Marvin Gaye’s family a pretty penny for plagiarizing “Got to Give It Up” in Thicke’s song...More »
  
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• South Park Season Finale Recap: Bezos Goes Up in Smoke

  13-12-2018 15:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  South Park is, economically speaking, artisan television. It represents a pure, unfettered expression of the vision and sensibility (sometimes for the better, sometimes not so much) of two guys who got started working out of their garage. One gets the sense they’re not receiving too many standards-and-practices notes from Comedy...More »
  
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• Janet Jackson, Radiohead, Stevie Nicks to Be Inducted Into Rock Hall of Fame

  13-12-2018 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Your 2019 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class is here and it’s a wild bunch: Janet Jackson, Radiohead, Stevie Nicks, the Cure, Def Leppard, Roxy Music (including Brian Eno), and the Zombies will join rock canon next year, the Hall has announced. Those nominated this year but overlooked include...More »
  
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• Justin Theroux Weighs In on His Instagram Lovefest With RBG

  13-12-2018 15:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  At a screening of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic On the Basis of Sex in New York last night, Armie Hammer and Justin Theroux were clearly still feeling the shine from their dueling Instagram photo ops with the justice the day before. (As you may recall, Theroux’s was boldly captioned...More »
  
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• The 10 Best Performances of 2018

  13-12-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A list of the ten best performances of 2018 needs to begin with a disclaimer: It might have had 50, even 100 names, and still not done justice to the breadth and daring of acting in 2018. This is not an accident but a happy outgrowth (there are a few)...More »
  
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• Seen in Singapore: What Not to Miss Right Now in the Orderly City-State

  13-12-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Singapore has made cultural engagement a focus of government, and public money fertilizes its vibrant scene. Its National Gallery boasts an authoritative collection of southeast Asian art, despite only just turning three years old. It opened an extensive minimalism survey last month to celebrate. Left of center, vital university galleries...More »
  
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• Nathan Englander’s 10 Favorite Books

  13-12-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bookseller One Grand Books has asked celebrities to name the ten titles they’d bring with them to a desert island, and they’ve shared the results with Vulture. Below is author of the forthcoming novel Kaddish.com Nathan Englander’s list....More »
  
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• How Barry Jenkins Brought the Experience of Reading James Baldwin to the Screen

  13-12-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Some spoilers below for If Beale Street Could Talk.Fresh off of the success of his Oscar-winning sophomore feature Moonlight, Barry Jenkins’s next project was one that he had in the works for over five years: a James Baldwin film, faithful in every sense of the idea. Not just bringing Baldwin’s...More »
  
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• Taylor Swift Shares a First Look at Her Netflix Concert Special

  13-12-2018 14:30 via feeds.eonline.com
  "Are you ready for it?"Taylor Swift is a powerhouse performer--so it only makes sense that the 29-year-old singer would team up with a powerhouse platform like Netflix for a...
  
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• How Dirty John Actors Compare to Their Real-life Counterparts

  13-12-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers below for Dirty John, both TV series and podcast.Dirty John is a Bravo original series adapted from an extremely popular true-crime podcast (itself inspired by host Christopher Goffard’s series of L.A. Times articles) about one really bad guy (that would be John) who manipulated a spectacularly wealthy woman (self-made...More »
  
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• Get a First Listen to The Prom’s Original Broadway Cast Recording

  13-12-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Prom might be the funniest show to premiere on Broadway this season, but it also takes the longest to describe. On one hand, it’s a satire about selfish theater-stars who travel to small-town America in search of a cause that’ll make them look good. On the other, it’s an...More »
  
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• Arthouse Marvel? Lucrecia Martel reveals she was approached for Black Widow

  13-12-2018 13:21
  The Argentinian director says she was asked to help bolster Marvel’s female film-maker quotient, and that the studio said they would ‘take care’ of the action sequences for the Scarlett Johansson filmArgentinian auteur Lucrecia Martel has revealed she was approached by Marvel to direct the forthcoming Black Widow film starring Scarlett Johansson, in what would have been a directorial choice remarkable even by Marvel’s idiosyncratic standards.In comments reported by the Pi
  
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