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• ‘Aquaman’ Is the Big Finale in a Strong Year for the Box Office

  23-12-2018 22:43 via nytimes.com
  Is Netflix killing ticket sales? Not this year. They are expected to hit $11.8 billion, a 6 percent increase from 2017.
  
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• Watership Down review – CGI rabbits can't save this Christmas turkey

  23-12-2018 22:00
  The 1970s cartoon traumatised generations of children, but the new version is tame, drab and deeply unsatisfying. What, really, was the point?When Richard Adams created Watership Down – published in 1972 and never out of print since – he said he wanted to write a grownup book for children, and he did. When Martin Rosen put together his 1978 animated adaptation, it was a children’s cartoon for adults. It somehow received a U certificate – presumably from a board who waved
  
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• So, Who Is Will Ferrell’s ‘Easy’ Answer for the Worst SNL Host Ever?

  23-12-2018 20:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Will Ferrell, a notoriously nice fella, doesn’t want the encumbrance of starting beef with anyone, so allow us to do the man’s dirty work for the sake of a holiday brain-teaser. While swinging by The Late Late Show last week to pal around and (potentially) eat gross foods with James...More »
  
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• Paul McCartney’s Carpool Karaoke Now Has 100 Percent More Christmas

  23-12-2018 18:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  The yearning for yuletide content has infiltrated the booming Carpool Karaoke industry, with James Corden releasing a new segment that confirms your lingering suspicions: Yes, he did make everyone from Paul McCartney to Cardi B to Ariana Grande to Barbra Streisand croon “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” during their journeys,...More »
  
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• Some Drunk Arsehole Tried to Destroy a Banksy Mural

  23-12-2018 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Allow us to momentarily divert your attention to this amusing story from the snoozy Welsh town of Port Talbot, as we promise it’ll feature 1) Silly art drama 2) The phrase “drunk nitwit”, and 3) A surprising celebrity cameo! The BBC is reporting that noted disguised artist Banksy surprised this...More »
  
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• Make Your Day Better and Watch Pixar’s Bao for Free Right Now

  23-12-2018 16:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you didn’t catch the Incredibles 2 in theaters, then you’ve likely also missed out on Bao, the short film that ran before the Pixar film. Now, Bao has been short-listed for an Oscar, but there’s arguably nothing else like it: A story of a older Asian woman whose bao dumpling comes to life and needs...More »
  
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• The White House Thwarted Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America? Interview With Ben Carson

  23-12-2018 16:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  Everyone from Bernie Sanders to Dick Cheney to Sarah Palin: Special Publicity Consultant (Inadvertent) received a good ole’ fashioned bipartisan pranking courtesy of Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America? this year, but interestingly, there was one Trump administration official who was ultimately able to avoid making a fool of himself...More »
  
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• Mary Poppins: The Peculiar Challenge of Animating Her World

  23-12-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Rob Marshall was thrilled and anxious to be asked to direct the sequel to “Mary Poppins,” which was the first movie he ever saw.
  
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• Did Steve Carell Really Improv Anchorman’s ‘I Love Lamp,’ Or Is He Just Saying It Because He Saw It?

  23-12-2018 15:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  Carpet. Desk. Lamp. Those are the iconic three items Steve Carell’s perpetually awkward weatherman, Brick Tamland, declares his love for in one of Anchorman’s funniest scenes, much to the confusion of his Channel 4 News Team. (Just wait until he kills a guy with a trident.) There’s a solid chance...More »
  
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• Can You Like a Movie or Song That Has Something Wrong? Times Readers Respond.

  23-12-2018 14:33 via nytimes.com
  Readers (and one rock star) answered our questions about how to balance a love of classic movies and songs, like “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” with the cringing they can produce.
  
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• Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan’s great big quiz of the year

  23-12-2018 14:00
  Put your trivia knowledge – and your knowledge of Delaney and Horgan’s show Catastrophe – to the testThis year Teen Vogue published an article with which of the following titles?Who is Karl Marx: Meet the Anti-Capitalist ScholarMeet Hannah Arendt: Queen Who Coined 'The Banality of Evil'Here’s William Moulton Marston: Wonder Woman’s Polyamorous DadDario Antiseri: The Link Between Fallibilism and HermeneuticsWhat awful facial adornment did Ted Cruz debut in late 2018?
  
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• The week in TV: The Long Song; Searching for Kanye; Grizzly Bear Cubs and Me; and more – review

  23-12-2018 08:00
  A superb adaptation of Andrea Levy’s historical novel managed to be raw, daring and comic. Less edifying was a pursuit of the rapper Kanye WestDramatised by Sarah Williams from Andrea Levy’s 2010 Man Booker-nominated novel, The Long Song, directed by Mahalia Belo, told the 19th-century tale of a Jamaican plantation slave, July (Tamara Lawrance). Born from the rape of her field-slave mother, Kitty (Sharon Duncan-Brewster), by a white overseer, July (the voice of the story) was taken o
  
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• The week in radio and podcasts: The Noisy Page; Clickipedia; Dogs and the City; Baby It’s Cold Outside

  23-12-2018 08:00
  A voyage into the aural aspect of books, non-PG comedy, sweet doggy chats, and a drama about homelessness at ChristmasThe Noisy Page (BBC Radio 4) | BBC Sounds
  Clickipedia (Kench) | BBC Sounds
  Dogs and the City (BBC Local Radio podcasts) | BBC Sounds
  Baby It’s Cold Outside (Storyglass) | iTunesIt’s a funny old week, the one before Christmas. Full of franticness (work deadlines before the Big Day) and forgetfulness (no, your beloved’s present slipped your mind, and now online de
  
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• If You Need Another Reason to Dislike Louis C.K., Here’s An Old Video of Him Saying the N-Word

  23-12-2018 07:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  A video from 2011, in which both Louis C.K. and Ricky Gervais say the n-word made the rounds on Twitter tonight. In a clip from Talking Funny, Chris Rock says of Louis “He’s the blackest white guy I fucking know.”“In all the negative things we think about black people, this...More »
  
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• Sunday's best TV: Agatha & the Truth of Murder; Trollied – the Wedding

  23-12-2018 07:00
  Agatha Christies’s 11-day disappearance in 1926 gets the TV drama treatment while the supermarket sitcom gets a grand send-off in its last ever episode9pm, Channel 5 Continue reading...
  
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• Every Celebrity Is Here in I’m Not Here Trailer

  23-12-2018 05:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Get ready for a star-studded sadness from I’m Not Here. Seriously, there are no more stars in the sky because they’re crying in this trailer. J.K. Simmons plays Steve, a man who’s haunted by his past and relives each painful moment when he interacts with the objects in his home....More »
  
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• Z Nation, Marlon, and Midnight, Texas Cancelled

  23-12-2018 04:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  NBC has announced the cancellation of two of its shows: Marlon and Midnight Texas. Both shows ran for two seasons. If anyone’s looking for another True Blood, Universal Television is shopping around Midnight, Texas (based on the book series by Charlaine Harris) to other networks.The producers of Z Nation announced...More »
  
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• Justin and Hailey Bieber Have a Puppy!

  23-12-2018 03:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Christmas came early in the Bieber household. Hailey Rhode (as in Island) Bieber shared pics and videos of her “Christmas Baby,” Oscar. TMZ believes the pup to be a Maltese Yorkie, but the lil guy is simply to small to be categorized! He is a little sleepy man, as seen...More »
  
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• Peter Masterson, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas creator, Has Died

  23-12-2018 03:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Actor and writer Peter Masterson has died at the age of 84. Masterson was most well-known for co-writing the book of the Broadway musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. The Broadway version of the show was directed by Masterson with fellow Texan Tommy Tune. It won Masterson’s wife, Carlin...More »
  
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• A Holiday Message from Reno 911: Let the Prisoners Out of Your Sex Dungeon

  23-12-2018 02:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  The holidays are tough, especially if you’re trapped in a sex dungeon. That’s why the good folks of the Washoe County Sheriff’s Department have made this PSA to get the good word out: it’s olly olly oxen free on sex dungeons. This informative video, and others like it, will air...More »
  
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• Meet the Offbeat Heroes of DC Universe’s Doom Patrol

  23-12-2018 02:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  We’ve been graced with a teaser DC Universe’s new wacky heroes, Doom Patrol. The teaser for the DC streaming show features all your new favorite weirdos posing for a family photo. First created by Arnold Drake then revived by Grant Morrison, the Doom Patrol are a a group of supers...More »
  
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• Will ‘Black Panther’ Help Redfine ‘Star’ Overseas?

  23-12-2018 00:17 via nytimes.com
  Minority filmmakers have long wanted studios to give them more international promotion. They are hoping some recent global success stories are signs of change.
  
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• Will ‘Black Panther’ Help Redefine ‘Star’ Overseas?

  23-12-2018 00:17 via nytimes.com
  Minority filmmakers have long wanted studios to give them more international promotion. They are hoping some recent global success stories are signs of change.
  
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