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• Ringo Lam, Director of Hong Kong Classic ‘City on Fire,’ Dies at 63

  04-01-2019 23:54 via nytimes.com
  He achieved renown with a string of crime dramas, including a 1987 thriller that influenced Quentin Tarantino’s “Reservoir Dogs.”
  
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• Disney Releases Character Posters for Live-Action Dumbo Film

  04-01-2019 23:53 via feeds.eonline.com
  The character posters for Disney's upcoming live-action Dumbo film have been revealed!Colin Farrell, Danny DeVito, Eva Green and Michael Keaton all star in Tim Burton's...
  
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• Ishmael Reed’s Play Challenging ‘Hamilton’ Will Get Reading

  04-01-2019 23:50 via nytimes.com
  “The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda,” will be read this weekend at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe on the Lower East Side.
  
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• Oscar Futures: Can A Quiet Place and Crazy Rich Asians Crack Best Picture?

  04-01-2019 23:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Between now and February 24, 2019, when the winners of the Academy Awards are announced, Vulture will consult its crystal ball on a regular basis to determine the changing fortunes in this year’s Oscars race. In our Oscar Futures column, we’ll let you in on insider gossip, parse brand-new developments,...More »
  
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• Please Enjoy These Very Satisfying GIFs From Tidying Up With Marie Kondo

  04-01-2019 23:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Take a dash of Hoarders, add a pinch of HGTV aesthetics, finish off with the unique stylings of Japanese tidying phenomenon Marie Kondo, and you’ve got Tidying Up, Netflix’s unusually calming home makeover show. Kondo’s famous KonMari method involves learning how to fold properly, sure, but it’s essentially defined as...More »
  
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• Where Are Kevin Hart’s Past Apologies? An Investigation

  04-01-2019 23:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week, Ellen DeGeneres released clips of her new interview with Kevin Hart, coming nearly a month after the comedian stepped down from hosting the Oscars after dozens of his old homophobic tweets resurfaced. At the time of his resignation, Hart revealed his decision to step away from the gig...More »
  
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• 10 Books Added to the Public Domain Worth Reading

  04-01-2019 23:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  On January 1, just as you were absolutely 100 percent adding “read more classic literature” to your list of New Year’s resolutions, a pile of great work became available in the public domain. What that means, essentially, is that more than 50,000 previously copyrighted works can suddenly be yours, as...More »
  
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• Farewell Luther, you aggressively stupid beast. Please end on a high

  04-01-2019 23:00
  Idris Elba’s rogue cop has surely been stripped of his coat for good this time – and the finale was as tense and awful as TV gets. How fitting Spoiler alert: this article contains spoilers from series five of Luther. Do not read on if you haven’t watched.
  With any luck, we’ve just watched the final ever episode of Luther. Oh sure, it’s bound to come back in one form or another; the series has already managed to claw its way back from two definitive-seeming endings i
  
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• Farewell Luther, fitfully brilliant, occasionally terrible … and as tense as TV can get

  04-01-2019 23:00
  Idris Elba’s rogue cop has surely been stripped of his coat for good this time – he should be left alone nowSpoiler alert: this article contains spoilers from series five of Luther. Do not read on if you haven’t watched.
  With any luck, we’ve just watched the final ever episode of Luther. Oh sure, it’s bound to come back in one form or another; the series has already managed to claw its way back from two definitive-seeming endings in 2010 and 2012, and Idris Elba see
  
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• Surviving R. Kelly Is a Necessary Awakening, But It Asks the Wrong Questions

  04-01-2019 22:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  At what point does a documentary shift from honoring the voices of brutalized women to exploiting them for every salacious detail? This is the question that haunted me while watching Lifetime’s six-part docuseries Surviving R. Kelly, which aired its first two installments on Thursday. Produced by Dream Hampton, the documentary...More »
  
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• 36 Albums We Can’t Wait to Hear in 2019

  04-01-2019 22:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last year, we were bombarded by big-deal releases. Beyoncé and Jay-Z released an album together. Kanye West was involved in no less than five albums in as many weeks. Christina Aguilera made a comeback and the year was so packed that it barely got noticed. Mariah Carey came in at...More »
  
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• More Black People Directed Top Films, Study Says

  04-01-2019 21:12 via nytimes.com
  But those movies were almost all directed by men, according to a report by the University of Southern California Annenberg Inclusion Initiative.
  
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• Carmen Sandiego Trailer: Gina Rodriguez Will Rob You Now

  04-01-2019 21:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  As it turns out, we may have been asking the wrong “five Ws” questions all along. Because in the trailer for Netflix’s new Carmen Sandiego series, our gal, perfectly voiced by Gina Rodriguez, is traveling all over the world for her thief-y pursuits without much mystery — but we don’t...More »
  
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• A Short Conversation About What the Hell Is Going on in Where Hands Touch

  04-01-2019 20:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  At the climax of Where Hands Touch, a historical fiction romance that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, two lovers lock eyes. Panic engulfs a Nazi concentration camp, and Leyna (Amandla Stenberg), a black young woman, rushes to embrace Lutz (George MacKay), her lover. She’s a prisoner...More »
  
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• American Hangman Is a Cheap, Dumb, Off-Brand Black Mirror Episode

  04-01-2019 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  American Hangman is college-level death penalty discourse, appropriately armed with what appears to be a college-level production budget. By “college-level discourse,” I mean something fairly specific: there’s a working understanding of the intricacies and contradictions and consequences of an issue as morally complex as the death penalty, but it’s not...More »
  
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• Netflix Wants You to Fix Your Life, One Reality Show at a Time

  04-01-2019 20:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  The intro to Netflix’s latest reality show, Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, greets the viewer with the image of Kondo smiling happily and announcing, “I love mess.” Her delight seems improbable because she’s staring at piles of someone else’s junk, but she appears sincere as she approaches it with both...More »
  
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• The Favourite, A Star Is Born Among Producers Guild Awards 2019 Nominees

  04-01-2019 20:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  We guess we can say the producers … produced … their nominees for the worthiest films of the year. Ushering in Oscars season just a little bit more, the Producers Guild of America released their ten picks for outstanding cinematic production, and you should all be pretty familiar with the...More »
  
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• The Funniest Moments From Bob Einstein’s Legendary Comedy Career

  04-01-2019 20:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bob Einstein, who passed away on Wednesday at the age of 76, sustained a half-century-long comedy career that spanned from The Smothers Brothers to Curb Your Enthusiasm. He created indelible characters, from Super Dave Osborne to Marty Funkhouser, starred on several TV shows, and wrote and produced many shows for...More »
  
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• Streaming Movie Review: ‘Newly Single’ Review: A Breakup Leaves a Director Directionless

  04-01-2019 19:42 via nytimes.com
  Adam Christian Clark’s alter ego in his unflinching new semi-autobiographical film plays like a Todd Solondz character trapped in a Woody Allen film.
  
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• Conspiracy Fiction Once Helped Us Tell the Truth. Now It’s a Weapon for Liars.

  04-01-2019 19:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  I think we may have come to a fork in the road where conspiracies are concerned. For many years, conspiracy fiction and conspiracy theories traveled happily together, interacting and keeping each other in check. I grew up in the golden age of conspiracy fiction, which roughly went from, say, Thomas...More »
  
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• Ellen DeGeneres: Academy Should Reinstate Kevin Hart as Oscars Host

  04-01-2019 19:35 via nytimes.com
  In an interview released Friday, DeGeneres told Hart that she called the academy to ask it to make him the host of the award.
  
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• You Can Now See Ally's Billboard From A Star Is Born IRL

  04-01-2019 19:28 via feeds.eonline.com
  All the feels.Remember Ally's billboard from A Star Is Born? As she was reaching a new career milestone, Ally (Lady Gaga) and Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) stepped outside to take...
  
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• Oz: novelist whose sorrowing gaze extended beyond Israel

  04-01-2019 19:21 via ft.com
  The author was an incomparable transcriber of the work of the senses
  
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• Britney Spears Cancels Las Vegas Residency Due to Her Father’s Illness

  04-01-2019 19:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  After deciding to extend her time in Las Vegas with a new, massive-payday residency, Britney Spears is packing up and leaving the city due to unexpected family circumstances. As revealed on her Twitter account this afternoon, Spears has canceled all of her upcoming Domination shows — set to debut in...More »
  
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• Amy Zimmer Likes the Brevity of Twitter

  04-01-2019 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Amy Zimmer (@oneamyzimmer) is a writer and comedian living in New York. She is deeply online. If you like her tweets, you can also find her on Instagram at @aezimmer_. And if you don’t like her tweets, why not try her Instagram @aezimmer_ instead?This week, Zimmer talked with me about...More »
  
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• ‘Us’ and the Best and Worst Trailers of the New Year

  04-01-2019 18:55 via nytimes.com
  The clip for Jordan Peele’s follow-up to “Get Out” is worth
  
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• Stop Using Game of Thrones Memes in Politics

  04-01-2019 17:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Appropriating stories from fiction to make a political point is nothing new. It’s certainly not new for the Trump administation, which posted an Instagram image of himself above the phrase “The Wall Is Coming” written in a Game of Thrones-esque font on Thursday: Donald Trump tweeted a similar meme in...More »
  
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• Why Kenan Thompson Is the Most Underrated SNL Cast Member Ever

  04-01-2019 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jan Hooks used to refer to Phil Hartman as “The Glue.” As a Saturday Night Live cast member from 1986–1994, Hartman discovered that the most effective way to separate himself from the rest of the herd was by binding the herd together. Even if he didn’t possess the showy, singular...More »
  
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• 71 TV Shows We Can’t Wait to See in 2019

  04-01-2019 16:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The year ahead promises to be a pivotal one for the TV industry: HBO is charting a path into its post–Game of Thrones future with a flurry of high-profile adaptations; Netflix will face serious challenges from a trio of new streaming services by Disney, Apple, and WarnerMedia; and the march...More »
  
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• Kevin Hart Defends Himself on Ellen, She Insists He Should Still Host the Oscars

  04-01-2019 15:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  I believe in forgiveness. I believe in second chances. And I believe in . Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) January 4, 2019In that clip, Hart describes confronting “an onslaught on social media of my past” the day after he was announced as a host. Hart insisted that he had addressed and apologized...More »
  
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• The Big Bang Theory Recap: Paint(ball)ed Into a Corner

  04-01-2019 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Super Asymmetry, Super Asymmetry, Super Asymmetry … that’s going to be the main Shamy story line for the rest of the series, apparently, and I’m already wishing for a big time jump that might allow us to go into the future to find out what else is going to happen...More »
  
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• Ethan Hawke on the ‘Dark and Incendiary’ First Reformed — and His Own Stolen Journals

  04-01-2019 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  First Reformed is like nothing Ethan Hawke is famous for. The hero in Paul Schrader’s movie about religion and corruption and the environment isn’t greasy and flirtatious or artfully disheveled; he’s not even funny. He’s desperate and jumpy, holding everything inside. Reverend Toller’s faith in the church has decayed somewhat,...More »
  
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• ‘Blade Runner’ palls as real life is already too dystopian

  04-01-2019 15:00 via ft.com
  It’s now 2019 and we’re doing a fine job of worst-case scenarios without the imaginings of clever film-makers
  
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• This Week in Arts: Roy Hargrove, Caleb Teicher, Prototype Festival

  04-01-2019 14:00 via nytimes.com
  The virtuoso trumpeter, who died last year, will be honored at two venues.
  
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• This week’s best home entertainment: from Brexit: The Uncivil War to Catastrophe

  04-01-2019 12:59
  Benedict Cumberbatch stars in Channel 4’s referendum drama while Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney return for season four of CatastropheAmid all the talks of no deal, backstops and Canada-plus, what we all could do with is some escape from Brex … oh. At least this one-off drama on the referendum campaign is marked by its quality, penned by playwright James Graham and starring Rory Kinnear as Remain head Craig Oliver and Benedict Cumberbatch as Vote Leave savant Dominic Cummings.
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• Desmond's at 30: 'I wrote it for white people'

  04-01-2019 12:55
  The tale of Peckham’s most inept barber is Britain’s most successful black sitcom. On its 30th anniversary, its creator and star talk guns, dominoes – and why more writers of colour need to be heard
  One morning in 1988, Trix Worrell, a young St Lucia-born writer, was sat on the top deck of the number 36 bus going from Peckham to central London. He had just won Channel 4’s debut writing competition, and had been invited to meet distinguished producer Humphrey Barclay and p
  
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• Lady Gaga tipped to win at diverse, 'Trump-free' Golden Globes

  04-01-2019 12:49
  Awards season kicks off with record showing for films from directors of colourStars will be out in force on Sunday to kick off this year’s awards season with the 76th Golden Globes, a ceremony that typically acts as a more raucous alternative to the Oscars.But there will be one noticeable A-list absentee. In 2017, Meryl Streep’s powerful onstage criticism of Donald Trump’s rhetoric helped set the tone for a tense relationship between the president and Hollywood, but 2019 co-hos
  
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• Kevin Hart may return as Oscars host to 'take a stand against the trolls'

  04-01-2019 11:55
  In remarkable interview with Ellen DeGeneres, comic says he is rethinking decision to step down after homophobic tweets came to lightKevin Hart, the comedian and actor who stepped down as Oscars host three days after his appointment was confirmed, now seems set to return to the post.In an hour-long interview on Ellen DeGeneres’s chatshow, Hart said he was considering his options following a confused episode in which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences reportedly asked him to ap
  
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• The Choreographed Cacophony of ‘Ferryman’

  04-01-2019 11:27 via nytimes.com
  With a cast of 21, plus a live goose and rabbit, the dizzying number of comings and goings in this Broadway show requires an incredible attention to detail.
  
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• Ringo Lam, Hong Kong Director of ‘City on Fire,’ Dies at 63

  04-01-2019 11:10 via nytimes.com
  The veteran Hong Kong filmmaker whose 1987 hit movie famously influenced “Reservoir Dogs” died in his home of an unknown cause.
  
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• Tidying Up With Marie Kondo review – TV destined for the bin bag of shame

  04-01-2019 10:00
  The lifestyle guru tries to fix America’s messy homes with her ‘if in doubt, throw it out’ spirit. And that’s precisely what Netflix should have doneShows where lifestyle gurus waft into unhappy homes and fix something aren’t really about that thing. Supernanny distributed wisdom about naughty steps and regular bedtimes, but really she was schooling parents in how to do a task for which they’d never been instructed. On It’s Me or the Dog, Victoria Stilwe
  
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• Only Two Musicians Agreed to Be Interviewed for Surviving R. Kelly

  04-01-2019 07:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Surviving R. Kelly, the Lifetime documentary series, features over 50 interviews. Oddly for a musician, only two fellow artists are featured: John Legend and Stephanie “Sparkle” Edwards. In an interview with the Detroit Free Press, executive producer dream hampton said many artists were asked to be interviewed but declined. “When...More »
  
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• The strange story of McDonalds' push into pizza – podcasts of the week

  04-01-2019 07:00
  Brian Thompson’s unravelling of a pizza-burger conspiracy has, improbably, reached its 100th episode. Plus: a picture-perfect postcard podcast
  In what seems to be becoming a daily occurrence, another podcast is being adapted for the small screen, with a new version of popular supernatural fiction pod The Black Tapes in development at NBC, according to Deadline. Continue reading...
  
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• Friday’s best TV: The Big Fat Quiz of Everything; Billy Connolly: Made in Scotland

  04-01-2019 07:00
  Jimmy Carr is bag with celeb-packed trivia teasers. Plus! The second part of the Big Yin’s return to GlasgowWhat was Pierce Brosnan banned from doing while he played James Bond? Which film was released in Poland as Electronic Murderer? And who is Digger the Crab? All these questions and more from the last 100,000 years of human history will be answered as unflappable question-master Jimmy Carr tests the knowledge of Sandi Toksvig, Joe Lycett, Katherine Ryan, Big Narstie, David Baddiel and
  
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• Jennifer Coolidge and Kris Jenner Are Queens of the Ad Lib in the ‘Thank u, Next’ Bloopers

  04-01-2019 06:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ariana Grande is bringing her “Thank u, next” energy into the new year with that most cherished of 90’s comedy traditions: the blooper reel. You can now see the ad libbing skills of Kris Jenner (“I told her…if she ever had sex without a condom, she’d get chlamydia and die.”)...More »
  
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• Why there is no need to panic about fake news

  04-01-2019 06:00 via ft.com
  The phrase has long since ceased to be useful but is deployed as a political cudgel
  
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• Michael B. Jordan Got Chadwick Boseman’s All My Children Role after Boseman Was Fired

  04-01-2019 05:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Michael B. Jordan and Chadwick Boseman’s paths crossed long before Black Panther. Both men had brief stints on long-running soap All My Children, although Boseman’s was way shorter. According to The Wrap’s Oscar issue, Boseman was brought on to the soap as Reggie Montgomery, a teen adopted by Susan Lucci’s...More »
  
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• Number of Hollywood hits directed by women falls to 20-year low

  04-01-2019 05:23
  ‘Radical underrepresentation’ of women in the film industry remains unchanged, says annual studyOnly 8% of Hollywood’s top films in 2018 were directed by women, down from 11% the previous year, despite high-profile efforts to improve gender equality.The percentage is roughly unchanged from two decades ago, according to an annual study, which found a “radical underrepresentation” of women in the industry. Related: Hollywood must drop fixation with beauty, says Night
  
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