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• Final Destination Is Being Rebooted by a Pair of Saw Writers, So the 2000s Are Extremely Back

  11-01-2019 23:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s been almost two decades since Devon Sawa pulled Ali Larter off a plane and thwarted Death’s grand plan, thereby setting in motion a sequence of events that would stretch on for five sequels and 11 years. Now New Line is firing up the engines of fate once more and...More »
  
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• Teen crashes car after driving blindfolded for Bird Box challenge

  11-01-2019 23:27
  A 17-year-old in Utah was involved in a highway collision involving another car after reportedly taking part in the social media challenge based on the Netflix horror hitA 17-year-old has caused a highway collision after driving blindfolded as part of the Bird Box challenge. Related: Flying high: how Bird Box became Netflix's biggest hit to date Bird Box Challenge while driving...predictable result. This happened on Monday as a result of the driver covering her eyes while driving on Layton Parkw
  
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• Where Do Music Festivals Go Now?

  11-01-2019 23:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Are you ready for music-festival nostalgia? Over the next few years, we’re likely to bear witness to fond remembrances and supersized celebrations as some of the biggest North American music festivals achieve a point of longevity meriting acknowledgment. Coachella unofficially turns 20 this year, but the fest itself hasn’t made...More »
  
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• Can R. Kelly Salvage What’s Left of His Career? Crisis PR and Legal Experts Weigh In

  11-01-2019 23:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  R. Kelly needs to keep his mouth shut and disappear. That’s the near-unanimous feeling of the millions of people who watched Lifetime’s Surviving R. Kelly — and the advice most publicists and lawyers would give to the singer in the wake of even more stories of abuse, statutory rape, and...More »
  
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• R. Kelly’s Chicago Studio to Be Inspected by the City; Meanwhile, His Lawyer Dodges Questions

  11-01-2019 21:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  R. Kelly’s Chicago-warehouse recording studio, which was depicted in the bombshell Lifetime doc as a hub for his alleged “sex cult,” will undergo an inspection by the city. On Friday, a judge granted the city an emergency motion to enter the studio following an anonymous 311 complaint that people had...More »
  
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• Buffalo Boys Is a Spaghetti-Western Revenge Story With a Good Bloody Payoff

  11-01-2019 21:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Movies have variously depicted the murderous, imperialist ways of the Brits, the Spanish, the Germans, the Japanese, the U.S. (though not often enough, probably), and other rapacious nation states, but it falls to Indonesia in the moderately entertaining, immoderately splattery spaghetti Western Buffalo Boys to remind us that the Dutch...More »
  
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• 3 and a Half Years Later, True Detective Is Back. Why Did It Take So Long?

  11-01-2019 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Time may be a flat circle, but for True Detective, the last seven years have often played out like a roller-coaster ride through the pop-culture Zeitgeist. Nic Pizzolatto’s crime drama was first born way back in early 2012, when HBO gave it a straight-to-series order amid intense interest from other...More »
  
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• Mamá to Madre? ‘Roma’ Subtitles in Spain Anger Alfonso Cuarón

  11-01-2019 21:01 via nytimes.com
  Netflix has dropped Spanish subtitles from “Roma" after the director Alfonso Cuarón called them “parochial, ignorant and offensive to Spaniards themselves.”
  
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• Troy Ave Gives Colorful Interview After Court Appearance

  11-01-2019 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  While Troy Ave’s appearance in Manhattan court on Friday was brief, the always fashionable rapper took time to speak at length about his love of fur, fishing, and apparently, vintage newsprint.The “More Money More Problems” performer, whose legal name is Roland Collins, faces charges related to a fatal May 2016 shootout...More »
  
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• The Identical Strangers on Being at the Center of a Media Frenzy — Again

  11-01-2019 20:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  When you consider the demands of the Oscar season, it’s a wonder anyone in Hollywood gets any work done at all. The Venice Film Festival, which serves as the traditional opening bell, unrolls its carpets in late August, and the Academy doesn’t hand out its awards until late February; in...More »
  
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• Britney Spears’s …Baby One More Time Is Weirder Than You Remember

  11-01-2019 20:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  The first time Britney Jean Spears ever left America was to go to Stockholm in 1998. It was spring, and in less than a year, the fruits of ten days of labor there would be out in the universe. With it, the hardest-working, most successful teenage superstar of the 1990s...More »
  
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• Replicas Can’t Even Succeed at Being Fun Trash

  11-01-2019 20:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  I guess it’s encouraging that we’ve reached a place in sci-fi where utter bullshit just doesn’t fly anymore. Unlike in, say, political discourse, there actually seems to be a limit to how far you can stretch scientific truth before an idea becomes unviable. Maybe we’ve been spoiled by a string...More »
  
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• The Carpetbagger: Russell Hornsby on ‘The Hate U Give’ and Complex Black Masculinity

  11-01-2019 19:45 via nytimes.com
  The actor, considered a potential Oscar contender for his performance as a flawed but loving father, says, “We don’t see enough of those men and they do exist.”
  
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• Critic’s Pick: Review: In ‘Chambre Noire,’ Puppets Make Poetry Painfully Real

  11-01-2019 19:31 via nytimes.com
  This stunning Under the Radar festival show tells the story of Valerie Solanas, the feminist agitator who shot Andy Warhol.
  
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• Janeane Garofalo on Louis C.K.: ‘I Don’t Believe in Kicking a Person When They’re Down’

  11-01-2019 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  As the debate continues around whether or not Louis C.K. should be able to return to stand-up in the wake of the New York Times reporting on his sexual misconduct, one of the comedian’s longtime friends has come to his defense. During the most recent episode of Bust’s podcast Poptarts,...More »
  
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• Bryan Yang Loves Reacting to the News

  11-01-2019 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bryan Yang is a stand-up comedian, writer, and technically an actor since he was in one commercial. He’s an alumnus of the 2018 NBC Late Night Writers Workshop, a two-time StandUp NBC Showcase semifinalist, and has been named a comic to watch by BuzzFeed.This week, Yang talked with me about...More »
  
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• ‘Green Book’ Writer Apologizes for Anti-Muslim Twitter Post From 2015

  11-01-2019 18:45 via nytimes.com
  Vallelonga apologized for agreeing with Donald J. Trump’s false claim that thousands of Muslims danced on rooftops in Jersey City after September 11.
  
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• Let’s Talk About the Ending of You’s Season Finale

  11-01-2019 18:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the last episode of You’s first season, romantic heroine Beck finally realizes that the gorgeous, thoughtful man she’s been dating, Joe, is actually a monstrous serial killer who’s been stalking her, manipulating her, and will probably kill her. We the viewers have known this from the jump, because You...More »
  
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• Netflix sued over Bandersnatch's similarities to Choose Your Own Adventure

  11-01-2019 18:34 via theguardian.com
  Publishers of book series claim Netflix is using an association with the brand to increase awareness of the Black Mirror episode
  Netflix is being sued over its recent interactive episode of Black Mirror.The streaming platform released the feature-length Bandersnatch in December which allowed viewers to make decisions at various points of the story, affecting what outcome they might then encounter. But the publishers behind the long-running Choose Your Own Adventure series of books is claiming th
  
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• The Joys of Korean TV: A Beginner’s Guide to the Best of K-drama

  11-01-2019 18:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Korean TV first came to the wider attention of U.S. audiences earlier this decade, it was primarily pitched as an addictive guilty pleasure. But like the poor girls of old-school melodramas who Cinderella-ed up the social hierarchy, Korean TV has acquired fancy new trappings in recent years thanks to...More »
  
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• Fiona Bruce acclaimed for cool, calm Question Time debut

  11-01-2019 18:07 via theguardian.com
  The presenter’s sharp interventions impressed critics and audiences“Welcome to all of you here, and of course all of you at home. It’s lovely to be here.” And with that, and a knowing smile to the camera, Fiona Bruce swept away 25 years of David Dimbleby’s Question Time and claimed the nation’s highest-profile political programme absolutely as her own.Bruce had confessed to feeling uncharacteristically apprehensive before her debut on the BBC One programme on
  
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• ‘Bumblebee’ Through the Eyes of an Animator

  11-01-2019 17:55 via nytimes.com
  The film’s director, Travis Knight, used his background in animation to help shine a new light on a Transformers robot.
  
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• Encounters: Danielle Macdonald of ‘Bird Box’ Tries Her Hand at Graffiti

  11-01-2019 17:20 via nytimes.com
  The Australian actress also stars in “Dumplin’” alongside Jennifer Aniston.
  
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• The Author of ‘Cat Person’ Wants Her New Book to Make You Uncomfortable

  11-01-2019 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s hard to think of a writer more saddled with the weight of expectation than Kristen Roupenian. Last year, her New Yorker short story “Cat Person” went viral — an extreme rarity for fiction — becoming the second most-read story on the magazine’s website that year, after Ronan Farrow’s Harvey...More »
  
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• The Carpetbagger: Oscars Rewind: The Most Political Ceremony in Academy History

  11-01-2019 17:00 via nytimes.com
  In 1978 Vanessa Redgrave castigated “Zionist hoodlums” in her acceptance speech, Paddy Chayefsky castigated her, and protesters and counterprotesters took to the streets.
  
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• ‘Captain Marvel,’ ‘Little’ and the Week’s Most Interesting Trailers

  11-01-2019 16:46 via nytimes.com
  “Velvet Buzzsaw,” “Polar” and “Hotel Mumbai” round out a wide-ranging crop of teasers in a usually quiet month for movies.
  
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• The irresistible allure of the comedy duo

  11-01-2019 16:44 via ft.com
  Perhaps they are part of a subconscious fantasy that everyone has a perfect other half
  
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• Anatomy of a Scene: Watch Felicity Jones as a Young Ruth Bader Ginsburg in ‘On the Basis of Sex’

  11-01-2019 16:36 via nytimes.com
  The director Mimi Leder narrates a scene from her film featuring Felicity Jones.
  
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• ‘On the Basis of Sex’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  11-01-2019 16:35 via nytimes.com
  The director Mimi Leder narrates a sequence from her film.
  
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• Late Night Makes Crisis Jokes for Crisis Times

  11-01-2019 16:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s a shame that Donald Trump’s stupid and misguided stunt got in the way of two of Hollywood’s best stupid and misguided stunts: The Golden Globes and the cavalcade of thirsty dumb-dumbs that is any Bachelor premiere. What I wouldn’t give to be writing up the best tributes to the...More »
  
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• The Masked Singer: the year's strangest TV show is already here

  11-01-2019 16:28 via theguardian.com
  In a bizarre new singing competition, judges have to guess the celebrities performing while wearing fantastical costumesWe should all be truly thankful for the existence of The Masked Singer. Not because it’s enjoyable or fun or even particularly good, but because it very clearly signals the logical endpoint of the televised singing competition. Related: Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club: the reality show we really didn't needContinue reading...
  
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• Patti LaBelle Is Still Waiting for Elton John to Return Her Tupperware

  11-01-2019 16:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  The people’s auntie Patti LaBelle stopped by Busy Philipps’s show on Thursday night to dish on all the usual hot goss a living legend collects over a few decades in the business. Like, you know, slapping around her goddaughter Mariah Carey presumably whenever she got fresh (the work of Patti’s...More »
  
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• Mungau Dain, Villager Star in Pacific Island Film, Dies at 24

  11-01-2019 16:14 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Dain starred in the Oscar-nominated “Tanna,” which portrayed his village in the remote island nation of Vanuatu. An infection led to his death.
  
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• ‘Harry Potter’ at Night: Historical Society Extends Exhibition Hours

  11-01-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  During the final week of a blockbuster exhibition, the museum will offer visitors a late-night Potter fix.
  
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• A Word With: Matthew Goode Knows How to Charm. Just Ask Lady Mary and Princess Margaret.

  11-01-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Goode talks about playing a vampire in “A Discovery of Witches.” He also discusses the “Downton Abbey” movie and bidding farewell to “The Crown.”
  
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• The Saturday Profile: A Movie Star With a ‘Weird Relationship With Confidence’

  11-01-2019 15:30 via nytimes.com
  The Australian actor and director Joel Edgerton has carved his own path through Hollywood, with the help of a band of filmmaking brothers.
  
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• Oscar Futures: The Knives Come Out for Green Book

  11-01-2019 15:00 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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• Perfect Strangers Is a Comedy About Cell Phone Secrets That Mostly Works

  11-01-2019 14:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Perfect Strangers — a.k.a. Perfectos desconocidos — is a Mexican remake of a 2017 Spanish remake of a 2016 Italian comedy that might also have a 2018 South Korean counterpart (Intimate Strangers), although I have not confirmed the latter. It sounds the same, though. Maybe the Spanish and Mexican versions...More »
  
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• This Week in Arts: a Menagerie, Fresh-Picked Plays and Cuban Dance

  11-01-2019 14:00 via nytimes.com
  Animals from the American Folk Art Museum share a habitat with paintings from Fountain House Gallery that embrace a similar theme.
  
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• The Upside Is an Odd-Couple Cliché With a More Interesting Movie Hiding Inside

  11-01-2019 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Upside is the kind of movie whose greatest virtue is that it’s not as bad as it could be — and in this case, what sounds like a backhanded compliment is actually quite a feat. It’s the third filmed adaptation of the story of quadriplegic French billionaire Philippe Pozzo...More »
  
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• Green Book writer apologises for anti-Muslim tweet

  11-01-2019 13:16
  Nick Vallelonga says he is ‘incredibly sorry’ after discovery of a 2015 tweet in which he backed a false claim by Donald Trump about 9/11Nick Vallelonga, the Green Book writer and producer whose late father Tony is a central character in the film, has apologised for a 2015 social media post that triggered accusations of Islamophobia.Vallelonga has come under fire after the discovery of a tweet in which he backed Donald Trump’s false claim during the election campaign that in Ne
  
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• This week’s best home entertainment: from True Detective to Trigger Warning

  11-01-2019 12:59 via theguardian.com
  Macabre drama True Detective is back for a third run, while social activist and hip-hop star Killer Mike tackles social taboosThe second season was as disappointing as the first was revelatory, so the reputation of this macabre crime drama is up for grabs at the start of its third run. This time, the stars include Oscar winner Mahershala Ali, Stephen Dorff and Carmen Ejogo, and the detectives are exploring a child murder that brings back hideous memories for one of them.
  Monday 14 January, 9pm,
  
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• The Last Days of August review – unsettling tale of a porn star's demise

  11-01-2019 12:55 via theguardian.com
  Jon Ronson’s new podcast focuses on the tragic death of August Ames and uncovers some uncomfortable truths about the industry she worked in Jon Ronson’s new podcast, The Last Days of August, is a sparing, delicate and at times harrowing series, ostensibly about the suicide of the porn star August Ames, who killed herself in December 2017, at the age of 23. Ronson first delved into the adult entertainment business with his previous podcast The Butterfly Effect, which offered a sympath
  
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• Is Brexit the result of post-imperial arrogance?

  11-01-2019 12:34 via ft.com
  Two professors argue that an exit from the EU could be a ‘disaster with silver linings’
  
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• Martin Scorsese to direct film about Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue

  11-01-2019 11:33
  Netflix documentary will feature new interviews with the legendary songwriter about his celebrated mid-70s tourNetflix has announced that Martin Scorsese will direct a documentary about Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue tour. Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story will feature new on-camera interviews with the legendary songwriter.The streaming platform says the film “captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that y
  
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• When the public relations industry does PR for itself

  11-01-2019 11:22 via ftalphaville.ft.com
  Everything else is public relations.
  
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• A Tale of Two Studios Worthy of a Dramatic Anime Tale

  11-01-2019 10:00 via nytimes.com
  When Hayao Miyazaki retired and it seemed that Studio Ghibli would be out of commission, the upstart Studio Ponoc went to work. Then the master unretired.
  
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• Sex Education review – a horny teen comedy … and so much more

  11-01-2019 09:00 via theguardian.com
  This Netflix show about life for the son of a sex therapist could so easily have been embarrassing. Instead, it is a glorious, heartfelt, eye-wateringly funny creationAs conversations you don’t want to have as a teenage boy with your mother go, one that begins “Sweetheart – I’ve noticed you’re pretending to masturbate” is right up there. But such is your lot when you are 16-year-old Otis (Asa Butterfield) and your mother is Jean (Gillian Anderson), a sex thera
  
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• Bryan Cranston Reveals Some Gnarly Truths on The Tonight Show

  11-01-2019 07:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Have you ever wondered what it would look like if Jimmy Fallon, Bryan Cranston, and Lana Condor all pretended to be the same age? Well, wonder no longer! The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon gave us a little musical number, “To All the Me’s I Was Before,” about finding nuance...More »
  
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• We’re All the Pawns in LeVar Burton’s Twisted Game in the New Weird City Trailer

  11-01-2019 07:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  The trailer for Jordan Peele and Charlie Sanders’ Weird City has dropped, and we are all in for a dystopian treat. A world with algorithm determined pair-bonding and where technology has made sex obsolete? Sign me up! We got glimpses of the titular city of Weird, where class is divided...More »
  
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