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• Streaming Movie Review: ‘Solo’ Review: Alone, Like All the Others

  17-01-2019 23:53 via nytimes.com
  With this opulent Spanish survival saga, Netflix enters some curiously well-populated territory.
  
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• You Is a Gigantic Hit For Netflix, According to Netflix

  17-01-2019 23:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix is suddenly getting chatty about viewing stats for its original films and TV shows. In a letter to shareholders Thursday, the streaming behemoth said its recently acquired-from-Lifetime thriller You will be streamed in an estimated 40 million homes within its first month on the service, while its new critically...More »
  
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• All the Animated Movies Disney Is Remaking as Live-Action Films

  17-01-2019 23:47 via feeds.eonline.com
  Get ready, Disney fans! Another live-action remake is coming your way.
  That's right! The House of Mouse is reportedly revamping its 1996 classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame....
  
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• This Week in Rap: Big K.R.I.T. Gets Emotional, Tree and Vic Spencer Release a Tour De Force, More

  17-01-2019 23:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Every week, Vulture runs through the best, most interesting, and sometimes most confusing rap releases. In this installment: Jacksonville’s Foolio has a breakout moment, Tree and Vic Spencer release a career-defining album, Robb Banks, with the help of Wifisfuneral, has another moment in the sun, and Big K.R.I.T. collects some loose gems...More »
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel to Host a Halftime Tribute to Trump Next Week

  17-01-2019 23:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  We’ve somehow reached the halfway point of Donald Trump’s presidency, so Jimmy Kimmel has decided to celebrate this milestone with a special episode of his late-night show next week. Titled Jimmy Kimmel Live Intermission Accomplished: A Halftime Tribute to Trump, the special is described as an “all-American tribute to our...More »
  
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• Netflix adds 8.8 million subscribers as its stock falls over spending fears

  17-01-2019 23:26
  Company’s fourth-quarter earnings were in line with analyst estimates and came after it announced a subscription price hikeNetflix added 8.8 million paid subscribers in the last quarter, up 34% compared with the year-earlier period, as the streaming media company launched hits including the movies Bird Box and Roma and the series You, The Haunting of Hill House and Sex Education.The company’s fourth-quarter earnings were broadly in line with analyst estimates and came after the strea
  
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• Netflix’s Bird Box Slammed for Using Real Disaster Footage

  17-01-2019 23:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Netflix’s Bird Box once again finds itself at the center of controversy. Earlier this week, the movie sparked a change in YouTube’s guidelines after people started posting videos of themselves doing potentially dangerous things (like driving) blindfolded. Today, the streaming giant came under fire for using real footage in Bird...More »
  
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• American History’s Biggest Fibs review — Trump would put Lucy Worsley up against the wall

  17-01-2019 23:00 via theguardian.com
  The historian unravels all the lies about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Top marks! Two years ago, Lucy Worsley delivered unto us the three-part series British History’s Biggest Fibs. She took us through the spin Henry VIII put on the Wars of the Roses and how Shakespeare took it and ran with it, helping to preserve big H’s not entirely unbiased account of it as one of the most attractive pieces in the national reliquary. She pointed out that the bloodless Glorious Revol
  
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• Grimes and Azealia Banks Subpoenaed in Elon Musk Tesla Tweet Fiasco, Can’t Delete DMs or Texts

  17-01-2019 22:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  The feud that will outlive us all has a new wrinkle: Both Grimes and Azealia Banks have been subpoenaed in the Elon Musk lawsuit over the firestorm he caused when he tweeted a weed joke about taking Tesla private at $420 per share. Banks and Grimes are now ordered to...More »
  
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• Netflix quarterly results draw poor reviews

  17-01-2019 22:45 via ft.com
  Stock slides 3.8% in after hours trading after mixed performance on revenues, earnings
  
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• Netflix mixed results underwhelm investors

  17-01-2019 22:45 via ft.com
  Shares slide 3% on earnings release despite flagging of fee rise
  
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• Watch Lauren Lapkus and Nick Rutherford Attempt a Threesome in the Unicorn Trailer

  17-01-2019 22:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re a fan of Lauren Lapkus, the Good Neighbor guys, and threesomes, then the upcoming comedy The Unicorn was made just for you. Directed by Robert Schwartzman and co-written by Rutherford, Kirk C. Johnson, and Will Elliott, the film centers on Rutherford and Lapkus as an engaged couple “whose...More »
  
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• This Week in True-Crime Podcasts: Canada Delivers Dark Poutine

  17-01-2019 22:33 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 enthusiasts and...More »
  
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• Kiernan Shipka Leads a Very Charming Cast of Teens for Netflix’s John Green Adaption Let It Snow

  17-01-2019 22:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  John Green adaptations were kind of like Netflix movies before Netflix movies existed, so it makes sense that one of his works is finally being adapted by the streamer. The studio announced today that Let It Snow, a YA novel Green wrote with Lauren Myracle and Maureen Johnson, is being...More »
  
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• Greta Van Fleet on Nostalgia, Criticism, Playing SNL, and All Those Grammys They’re Nominated For

  17-01-2019 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last March, a journalist asked Led Zeppelin front man Robert Plant to name a group that he currently enjoyed. “There’s a band in Detroit called Greta Van Fleet,” responded the rock icon, (they’re actually native to Frankenmuth, Michigan). “They are Led Zeppelin I.” It’s a co-sign that shouldn’t come as...More »
  
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• The Riverdale Teens Will Take Time Away From Their Cults and Gangs to Do Heathers: The Musical

  17-01-2019 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  After the success (well, minus that murder) of last year’s production of Carrie: The Musical, the clearly very theater-nerdy teens of Riverdale High have chosen their next big production. According to EW, this year the Riverdale teens will be performing Heathers: The Musical, the stage adaptation of the Winona Ryder...More »
  
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• Anatomy of a Scene: How Christian Bale Uses Silence to Speak Volumes in ‘Vice’

  17-01-2019 21:28 via nytimes.com
  The writer-director Adam McKay discusses a quiet scene from his film that changes the course of history.
  
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• 8 Shows About Horny British Youths You Can Stream Right Now

  17-01-2019 21:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  It doesn’t matter if you grew up around the cornfields of Indiana or the industrial wastelands of Manchester: Teenage years usually suck from every angle. You’re horny most of the time and awkward all of the time, but if you could time-machine back to school with the knowledge you have...More »
  
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• ‘Vice’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  17-01-2019 21:23 via nytimes.com
  The director Adam McKay narrates a sequence where Dick Cheney (Christian Bale) receives a phone call that changes the course of history.
  
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• R. Kelly ‘Wanted to Fight’ Dave Chappelle Over ‘Piss on You’ Sketch

  17-01-2019 20:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  The 2003 Chappelle’s Show sketch about R. Kelly, “Piss on You,” recently received a mention in Lifetime’s new docu-series Surviving R. Kelly. Chappelle’s Show co-creators Dave Chappelle and Neal Brennan have both since spoken about the sketch, and the response it received from R. Kelly himself at the time.At the...More »
  
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• Dana Schutz Takes Back Her Painterly Name

  17-01-2019 20:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  In her new work, artist Dana Schutz takes back her painterly name. Her current canvasses are hyperassertive, full of operatic grandeur, self-mocking turbulence, acidified flooded color, disfigured hideousness, and the psychopathology of her figures — all clawing in some Malthusian struggle for existence. Like this work or not, Schutz is...More »
  
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• ‘Bird Box’ Footage of Canadian Tragedy Will Not be Removed

  17-01-2019 20:21 via nytimes.com
  Despite complaints from the town, Netflix said it would not edit out video showing explosive fires that killed 47 people in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, in 2013.
  
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• How 45 Live Comedy Shows Got Their Names

  17-01-2019 20:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Comedy shows come in all shapes and sizes, from the simplest of stand-up showcases to the most elaborate of interactive spectacles. Independent shows are often started by comics looking to increase their stage time and become more connected to their local scene. But a successful show takes a lot of...More »
  
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• An Acceptable Loss Is Just So-so, But Jamie Lee Curtis Is Fascinating

  17-01-2019 19:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  In a December essay in the Washington Post, the journalist James Mann makes a provocative case that Adam McKay’s Dick Cheney anti-hagiography Vice misses the point of the ex-vice-president’s legacy: It wasn’t, writes Mann, a “soulless quest for power” (as portrayed by McKay and the actor Christian Bale) but “the...More »
  
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• A Monopoly Movie Starring Kevin Hart Is Advancing Toward Go

  17-01-2019 19:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kevin Hart may no longer be this year’s Oscars host, but he has a new gig lined up instead: starring in a movie based on a board game. According to Deadline, Hart has signed on to star in an upcoming live-action Monopoly movie from Lionsgate and Hasbro, which Ride Along’s...More »
  
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• Why Star Trek: Discovery’s New Showrunner Made Big Changes in Season Two

  17-01-2019 19:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  To paraphrase the theme song of Star Trek: Enterprise, it’s been a long road getting from Discovery season one to Discovery season two.The latest installment of the Trek franchise, which returns for its second season on CBS All Access today, has had quite a bumpy journey to the airwaves. After...More »
  
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• The John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum Trailer Has Keanu Throwing Guns and Killing on Horseback

  17-01-2019 19:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  The trailer for John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum features three dogs in a horse. If we got to John Wick 6, would Keanu just be commanding a whole army of adorable animals? Never say never! For now, though, it’s still John and his guns (and Halle Berry) against the...More »
  
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• ‘LaBute New Theater Festival’ Review: It’s Neil LaBute in a Minor Key

  17-01-2019 19:05 via nytimes.com
  The festival, presented by St. Louis Actors’ Studio, comprises three one-act plays by Mr. LaBute: “Great Negro Works of Art,” “The Fourth Reich” and “Unlikely Japan.”
  
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• Documentary Now! Season 3 Trailer: John Mulaney Does Company, Cate Blanchett Does Performance Art

  17-01-2019 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  With Bill Hader on Barry, Documentary Now! is changing its format a bit this season, and bringing on many, many great guest stars. IFC has released the trailer for the documentary parody’s third season (or as host Helen Mirren calls it, its 52nd) premiering on February 20, offering glimpses at...More »
  
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• This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Rachel Bloom Joins Off Book

  17-01-2019 18:37 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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• Monopoly film adaptation to star Kevin Hart gets go ahead

  17-01-2019 18:27
  After repeated attempts to get a movie based on the board game off the ground, Hart will play the lead in what is likely to be a live-action caperKevin Hart has signed up to play the lead role in a film based on the Monopoly board game, it has emerged.According to Deadline, Hart has joined the long-gestating project along with Tim Story, who directed him in Ride Along and Night School. Hart is also credited as one of the producers. Other than the suggestion it will be live-action, no other detai
  
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• Watch Halle Berry Team Up With Keanu Reeves in John Wick: Chapter 3 Trailer

  17-01-2019 17:34 via feeds.eonline.com
  Halle Berry is ready for battle, teaming up with Keanu Reeves in John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum.In a just-released trailer for the third film in the action-packed franchise, Reeves...
  
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• ‘Glass’ Review: A Nutty Ride With M. Night Shyamalan

  17-01-2019 17:30 via nytimes.com
  In his enjoyable, messy sequel to “Unbreakable” and “Split,” Shyamalan joins together three adversaries in a world of ordinary terrors.
  
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• ‘Glass’ Movie Review: A Nutty Ride With M. Night Shyamalan

  17-01-2019 17:30 via nytimes.com
  In his enjoyable, messy sequel to “Unbreakable” and “Split,” Shyamalan joins together three adversaries in a world of ordinary terrors.
  
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• Happy Betty White Day! Celebrate the Star's Birthday With Her Greatest Roles Ever

  17-01-2019 17:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Alert the papers: today is a national holiday! OK, it's not actually a national holiday, but it is Betty White's birthday, which if we're being honest should be a national...
  
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• Louis C.K. Jokes About Masturbation and ‘Retarded’ Kids at San Jose Show

  17-01-2019 16:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Since August, Louis C.K.’s return to stand-up has been mostly limited to venues in New York like the Comedy Cellar and Governor’s in Long Island. Now he has officially delivered his first West Coast performance thanks to the Improv in San Jose, which booked C.K. for three sold-out shows this...More »
  
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• Ousted CBS chief Moonves to fight for $120m severance

  17-01-2019 16:52 via ft.com
  US media company had denied payout after sexual misconduct allegations
  
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• Ousted CBS chief Les Moonves to fight for $120m severance

  17-01-2019 16:52 via ft.com
  US media company had denied payout after sexual misconduct allegations
  
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• Jake Gyllenhaal Confronts Stephen Colbert for Playing Favorites With Maggie

  17-01-2019 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Jake Gyllenhaal appeared on The Late Show Wednesday night, he had some business to settle. Stephen Colbert, he claimed, has been two-timing him. “I was trolling around the internet, and I saw some stuff I probably shouldn’t have seen,” Gyllenhaal began. “Jim, can you show Stephen?” Roll clip! In...More »
  
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• High Flying Bird Trailer: Steven Soderbergh and André Holland Are Fixing Basketball

  17-01-2019 16:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Think Jerry Maguire, but without the late-night diatribe on the evils of the industry, and probably without the “You had me at hello” line, tears and all: Steven Soderbergh’s Netflix movie High Flying Bird is about a sports agent that’s more driven than conflicted.The NBA is in the middle of...More »
  
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• ‘We Are Living in Evil’: Discussing Friday Black’s Horrific Truths

  17-01-2019 16:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Friday Black, a collection of violent, absurdist, frequently dystopian, and always deeply moral stories by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, came out more than two months ago, but the shock of it will take much longer to wear off. There’s the gore, of course — from the opening story, “The Finkelstein 5,”...More »
  
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• Mariah Carey Wages War Against Her Former Alleged Grifter Assistant

  17-01-2019 15:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Time is a construct, but scamming is forever, baby. Mariah Carey is at bitter odds with a former assistant she’s now convinced might just be another grifter in the long line of con artists come before her. Carey is suing Lianna Azarian, a woman she says worked as her executive...More »
  
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• Joel Kim Booster Owns His Stupidity in Very Funny New Stand-up Set

  17-01-2019 15:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Very funny comedian and co-host of Vulture’s own Drag Race podcast Joel Kim Booster appeared on last night’s Late Late Show for a five-minute stand-up set, and as is usually the case with Booster’s late-night performances, it was a pure delight. Booster covers being single; owning his stupidity; driving in...More »
  
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• Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Is Hard to Watch, But It Was Almost Impossible to Make

  17-01-2019 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s not easy to watch Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. The interactive episode of Netflix’s sci-fi anthology series forces you to make all sorts of terrible decisions in what amounts to psychological torture for its main character, an aspiring computer programmer named Stefan. The more Stefan suffers, the longer you keep playing:...More »
  
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• Turkey says Netherlands requested journalist’s deportation

  17-01-2019 14:57 via ft.com
  Ankara claims Ans Boersma’s expulsion is linked to terrorism investigation
  
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• Gillette’s ‘#MeToo’ moment: the best an ad can get?

  17-01-2019 13:58 via ft.com
  Commercial has set social media alight but shows how brands are becoming less passive
  
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• Netflix criticised for using images of real-life rail disaster in Bird Box

  17-01-2019 13:21
  Mayor of Lac-Mégantic, where 47 died in 2013 explosion, demands images of the incident be removed from streaming giant’s sci-fi hitThe mayor of a Canadian town where 47 people were killed in a rail disaster in 2013 has complained to Netflix after images of the incident were used in the hit sci-fi film Bird Box.The accident happened when a train carrying crude oil exploded in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, and the BBC reports that Netflix confirmed that footage of the disaster was incl
  
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• ‘The Standoff at Sparrow Creek’ Review: Finding the Killer in a Warehouse Full of Guns

  17-01-2019 13:01 via nytimes.com
  The film, written and directed by Henry Dunham, strands seven actors in a warehouse to bark exposition at one another.
  
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• ‘I Hate Kids’ Review: A Father-Son Comedy With Few Charms

  17-01-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  This tale of a smarmy, successful writer, who discovers he has a long-lost son, offers mini-sketches of Los Angeles and mild misogyny.
  
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• Critic’s Pick: ‘Who Will Write Our History’ Review: A Vital Holocaust Documentary

  17-01-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  The film, directed by Roberta Grossman, tells the story of Oyneg Shabes, a group of Jews imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto who worked to document their culture.
  
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