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• The Kardashian-Jenner-Wests Really Outdid Themselves This Christmas

  26-12-2018 23:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’ve not been keeping up with the Kardashians (and the Jenners and the Wests and whoever else would like to join), they added a whole nursery’s worth of new babies to the clan this year. So to celebrate this Christmas, they went bigger and more opulent than ever before...More »
  
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• New Year’s Eve: A Guide to Music and Comedy Events

  26-12-2018 23:01 via nytimes.com
  Phish at the Garden, drag shows in Brooklyn, jazz in the Village, comedy perilously close to Times Square and more: Where to laugh, dance, mosh and jam in 2019.
  
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• The ABC Murders review – John Malkovich’s suffering Poirot is magnificent

  26-12-2018 23:00
  Scorned by the police and nursing a secret pain, the latent violence in Malkovich’s performance is as potent as everMy husband and I married across many divides – class, political, minimal personal hygiene levels – but nothing separates us so firmly as our attitudes to Poirot. And by Poirot I mean the bespoke-padded, neatly-pomaded form of David Suchet, who dominated the Christie cultural landscape for a quarter of a century. From the moment he smoothed down his moustache and s
  
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• Streaming Movie Review: ‘Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski’ Review: A Sharp Look at a Tangled Legacy

  26-12-2018 20:19 via nytimes.com
  This intimate portrait of the Polish artist Stanislaw Szukalski wrestles with questions about whether and how art can be separated from the artist.
  
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• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Isn’t Just a ‘Feel-Good Show’

  26-12-2018 19:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which premiered its second season earlier this month on Amazon, is one of the most unabashedly colorful and kinetic series on television right now. And it also happens to be one where the creators and executive producers — the married team of Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan...More »
  
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• Holmes & Watson Has an Elementary Zero Percent Rotten Tomatoes Score

  26-12-2018 18:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you solely enjoy choosing your movies based on a fluctuating review-aggregation barometer, the results are in for Holmes & Watson, and you should briskly walk away from the theaters à la encountering those Baskerville hounds. Per THR, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly’s comedic take on the chummy literary...More »
  
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• Rewind: Gifts Galore: ‘Easy Living,’ With Jean Arthur and a Coat From the Heavens

  26-12-2018 18:06 via nytimes.com
  This classic screwball comedy starring the charming Jean Arthur, with a food riot in a Manhattan automat, is a holiday gift from Film Forum.
  
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• Here's 5 Hours of Noah Centineo's Peter Kavinsky in a Hot Tub Because Why Not

  26-12-2018 17:57 via feeds.eonline.com
  Were you dreaming of a Peter Kavinsky Christmas? Well, you probably didn't get Noah Centineo under you tree (and if you did, please tell us how that happened), but the next best thing is here...
  
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• O Human Being Will Terrify You Through Your First Days of 2019

  26-12-2018 17:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  You should be careful here. Take a deep breath. Hold on to a loved one. What you’re about to see will scar you. That’s a promise. It’ll also make you laugh … probably.Written, directed, animated, and produced by an absolute team of sickos at Anomaly & Unreasonable Studios and featuring...More »
  
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• How Christian Bale Became Dick Cheney (and Other Tales of Transformation)

  26-12-2018 17:11 via nytimes.com
  The Hollywood prosthetics industry has evolved from making monsters to creating startling likenesses.
  
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• Did Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth Get Married?

  26-12-2018 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Miley Cyrus hopped off a plane in central Tennessee with a dream and an ivory dress, which can (maybe) only mean one thing: She got married?! And Liam Hemsworth is the groom! According to Instagram Story screenshots snapped by People, a party that resembled a wedding reception took place at...More »
  
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• Drake Is of Course That Dad Who Thinks His Baby’s Finger Painting Is Up There With Picasso

  26-12-2018 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  It was the revelation of the year that Drake had fathered a secret son, thanks to Pusha T(ea)’s detective work, and since then Drake has mostly shied away from the subject except to confirm the news on his album Scorpion. But perhaps a few too many eggnogs later and Drake...More »
  
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• Now Playing: The Movies Before the Movies

  26-12-2018 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Theaters like Nitehawk Cinema and Alamo Drafthouse don’t just play trailers before their features. Audiences get a more elaborate preshow.
  
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• Stan & Ollie Is a Synthetic But Sweet Biopic of Two Born Entertainers

  26-12-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  For one reason or another, I’ve seen a lot of vaudeville in movies this year — both recent and old releases. I have started to feel as though any depiction of this bygone working-class, workaday theater tradition isn’t real to me without a little sweat — figurative and literal. Vaudeville’s...More »
  
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• Cold War’s Director On His Oscar-Buzzy Masterpiece

  26-12-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  To put in Tinseltown lingo, Pawel Pawlikowski is “on a roll.” The Polish filmmaker’s 2014 feature Ida, a haunting portrait of a nun-to-be who learns she’s actually Jewish as she makes her first flirtations with sin and adulthood, earned him an Oscar, and he’s an odds-on favorite for a repeat...More »
  
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• Michael McIntyre draws TV's biggest Christmas Day audience

  26-12-2018 14:21
  Comic’s special attracts 6.1m, although Queen’s speech most-watched combined broadcastThe comedian Michael McIntyre’s annual festive special was the surprise Christmas Day TV hit this year, beating the likes of Strictly Come Dancing and EastEnders by drawing 6.1 million viewers on BBC One.The Strictly special, which brought competitors such as Caroline Flack, Anita Rani, Jake Wood, Aston Merrygold, Ann Widdecombe and Michael Vaughan back to the dancefloor, attracted an audience
  
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• WPP/Publicis: ad mission price

  26-12-2018 14:00 via ft.com
  Expect shares to do well in the year ahead
  
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• Past Tense: Josephine Premice and the Tightrope of Race and Talent

  26-12-2018 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Photographs of the actress show a New York star who outshone the roles Hollywood offered black women of her era.
  
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• Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Passion for Puerto Rico

  26-12-2018 10:00 via nytimes.com
  The island has shaped the “Hamilton” creator’s identity. Now he’s bringing the musical to San Juan, and things are getting complicated.
  
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• Nicki Minaj Might Voice an Angry Bird in Angry Birds 2

  26-12-2018 07:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s been quite a year for Nicki Minaj, and it shows no sign of ending before it absolutely has to next week, because calendars. The rapper has been cast in the star-studded sequel to Angry Birds, which is currently titled the very straightforward Angry Birds 2. According to Variety, Minaj...More »
  
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• Boxing Day’s best TV: The ABC Murders; The Midnight Gang

  26-12-2018 07:00
  John Malkovich stars as Hercule Poirot in Sarah Phelps’ dramatisation of Agatha Christie’s fiendish murder mysteryThe Agatha Christie veteran Sarah Phelps dramatises the queen of crime’s fiendish murder mystery, hailed on its publication as “a baffler of the first water”. An ageing Hercule Poirot (played here with added heft by John Malkovich) is contacted by a killer who tours the country by train, leaving a copy of the ABC railway guide at the scene of each murder
  
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• Aquaman Is Definitely Not Underwater This Christmas

  26-12-2018 06:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Before it was even released in the US, Aquaman’s worldwide success was enough to justify starting development on a sequel right away. Now it seems like this was a sign of things to come, as the DC superhero flick starring Jason Momoa is set to make a splash (I’m sorry)...More »
  
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• Is It Possible to Play That Mariah Carey Song Too Much?

  26-12-2018 06:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Christmas has come and gone, and in its wake it leaves the Spotify record for most streams in a single day totally crushed. XXXTentacion’s single ‘Sad! previously held the record with a whopping 10.4 million streams, that is until Christmas eve. Enter the undisputed Queen of Christmas Mariah Carey whose...More »
  
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• Torvill and Dean review – another perfect 6.0 for Britain's favourite skating duo

  26-12-2018 00:15
  To succeed, the good-bad biopic must seem lifted from pages of a Ladybird book version of a historic event, and this one delivered in spadesThe biopic typed by monkeys and screened at random is absolutely – and I mean this sincerely – my favourite genre of programme. It is the satsuma in my stocking, the brandy butter on my Christmas pudding. I don’t want to see anyone’s best work. I want to sit alone on the sofa, put my feet up and as the smashing story unspools, periodi
  
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• Ghost stories and great freezes – this year's Christmas TV

  26-12-2018 00:15
  The Dead Room kicked off Christmas Eve viewing while the Torvill and Dean biopic provided nostalgia and Call the Midwife tackled BrexitThose looking for a comforting escape from the chilly political landscape were confounded by this year’s Christmas TV: a home for ghosts, great freezes and unaccompanied children being banished overseas.Torvill and Dean’s Bolero aside, the ice-capades started with The Dead Room on Christmas Eve. Mark Gatiss’s short, shivery and very funny ghost
  
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