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• The Carpetbagger: Blockbusters, #MeToo and More: 4 Takeaways From the Oscar Nominations

  23-01-2019 23:55 via nytimes.com
  There was heartening news for an academy that nearly introduced a popular-film award. But accusations against the director of “Bohemian Rhapsody” show the group’s limits.
  
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• Critic’s Pick: ‘The Image Book’ Review: Godard Looks at Violence, and Movies

  23-01-2019 23:41 via nytimes.com
  Jean-Luc Godard’s latest film is a gloomy, lively essay on some disturbing history, cinema and himself.
  
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• Danny Dyer’s Right Royal Family review – let's get regalled out of our brains!

  23-01-2019 23:01 via theguardian.com
  Now that he’s established his aristocratic lineage on Who Do You Think You Are, who better than this cockney geezer to take us on a right nutty caper?
  As night follows day, as rivers flow to sea, as fourth gins unleash tears of regret, so inevitable was Danny Dyer’s Right Royal Family (BBC One). It was ordained from the moment his turn on Who Do You Think You Are? revealed him to be a descendant of Thomas Cromwell, Elizabeth Seymour and therefore also Edward III, who is his 22x great
  
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• What Will Happen to Bohemian Rhapsody Now?

  23-01-2019 22:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Wednesday morning, the Atlantic published the article that had been whispered about for months: a year-in-the-making exposé of director Bryan Singer, in which multiple men accused the filmmaker of sexual assault and statutory rape. There’s much to discuss about the story — the allegations themselves (Singer has issued a...More »
  
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• Extremely Theater News: Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon Are Doing Frankie and Johnny

  23-01-2019 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you were looking for a good 80th birthday present, you could do worse than having Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon star in one of your plays on Broadway. That’s the gift Terrence McNally, who turned 80 last November, will be getting next spring with a revival of his play...More »
  
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• Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon to Star in ‘Frankie and Johnny’ on Broadway

  23-01-2019 22:30 via nytimes.com
  The acclaimed performers will perform a revival of the intense and intimate Terrence McNally play starting in May.
  
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• Harvey Weinstein hires lawyers who represented Rose McGowan

  23-01-2019 22:20
  Producer accused of sexual assault by multiple women, including McGowan, to be represented by Jose Baez and Ronald SullivanDisgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has hired a new legal team – including lawyers who once represented one of his most prominent accusers, Rose McGowan.Weinstein, who is battling sexual assault charges in New York, parted ways with his high-powered lawyer Benjamin Brafman and brought on new lawyers to represent him in the case. Continue reading...
  
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• Why Are British Soft Boys Taking Over Netflix?

  23-01-2019 22:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Netflix right now, you can watch a TV series about an awkward, adolescent British boy who keeps trying to do the right thing, but ends up torturing himself internally when things go wrong. He’s slim, pale, preternaturally intelligent, but fumbles when talking to other people, especially girls. He’s supposed...More »
  
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• Jonas Mekas, ‘Godfather’ of American Avant-Garde Film, Dies at 96

  23-01-2019 22:18 via nytimes.com
  Lithuanian-born, he arrived in New York in 1949 and became a prolific filmmaker, curator, critic and evangelist for independent movies, especially experimental ones.
  
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• The Most Radical Sports Film I’ve Ever Seen

  23-01-2019 22:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  It is sort of amazing — particularly in our current late-stage capitalism, perpetually on-the-cusp-of-all-out class-warfare culture — just how long it has been since there has been a lockout or a strike in any of our major North American professional sports leagues. The last work stoppage was the NHL’s in...More »
  
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• ‘King of Thieves’ Review: Michael Caine Leads a Crew of Artful Codgers

  23-01-2019 22:07 via nytimes.com
  Based on the 2015 Hatton Garden burglary, the film has many familiar faces. They’re just a bit older now.
  
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• Courtney Love’s Incredibly Petty Feud With Kathleen Hanna Lives On

  23-01-2019 21:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Last week, Bikini Kill announced their first reunion shows in more than two decades, which is great news for Bikini Kill fans and even greater news for their archenemy Courtney Love. For today’s lesson in history’s delightful feuds, you’ll recall that Love and Bikini Kill front woman Kathleen Hanna once...More »
  
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• The Very Necessary Timeline of Jimmy Page and Robbie Williams’s Mansion Feud

  23-01-2019 21:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  No matter what happens in the world, we can always distract ourselves by seeking refuge in the Magic 8-Ball of petty celebrity feuds. Who will be next?! And what will prove to be the catalyst of such succulent beef?! Well, if we were to look overseas to the fancy London...More »
  
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• Jay-Z and Meek Mill Launch Prison-Reform Alliance, Pledge $50 Million

  23-01-2019 20:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  An unlikely group that includes two of the biggest rappers in the world and three of the country’s biggest sports team owners have joined forces to rectify America’s broken judicial system. Meek Mill, Jay-Z, Patriots owner Robert Kraft, 76ers co-owner Michael Rubin, Nets co-owner Clara Wu Tsai, and more have...More »
  
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• Hulu Is Boosting the Price of Live TV, But Its Cheapest Plans Will Get Cheaper

  23-01-2019 20:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Days after Netflix said it was hiking prices across the board, rival streamer Hulu today announced it was slashing the cost of its cheapest plan. Starting February 26, the basic ad-supported level of the service will drop to $5.99 per month, a 25-percent decrease from the current $7.99 rate. The...More »
  
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• How The Masked Singer Can Become a Better Version of Itself

  23-01-2019 19:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  I was swept into both the mystery and the bizarre spectacle of The Masked Singer’s premiere. Between the ornate costumes and the mysteries they held, it was a riot of unexpected weirdness that temporarily made me forgive the weak spots, which are literally everything else about the Fox show.When I...More »
  
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• Kate Winslet Is Coming Back to HBO for a Dark and Moody Crime Miniseries

  23-01-2019 19:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 2011, back before A-list movie actresses were signing up for TV shows like Sharp Objects and Big Little Lies willy-nilly, Kate Winslet won an Emmy for doing the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce. Now, she’s back to reclaim her dark miniseries throne on HBO once again, signing up to star...More »
  
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• Harvey Weinstein Hires Casey Anthony’s Lawyer

  23-01-2019 19:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Harvey Weinstein’s new legal team has been announced for his sexual-assault case, and it includes the high-profile lawyers who repped Casey Anthony, onetime New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez, and former Los Angeles Laker Kobe Bryant.“I can confirm that I along with Harvard Law Professor Ronald S. Sullivan have been retained...More »
  
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• It Started as a Movie. As It Ballooned, Its Troubles Mounted.

  23-01-2019 19:06 via nytimes.com
  “DAU” is a project so ambitious, it can be hard to pin down exactly what it is. After repeated problems and delays, the genre-defying work is finally opening in Paris.
  
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• Jonas Mekas, titan of underground filmmaking, dies aged 96

  23-01-2019 18:52
  The Lithuanian director escaped the Nazis and moved to New York, where he became a totemic figure for artists including Andy Warhol and John LennonThe film-maker Jonas Mekas, widely regarded as the godfather of underground cinema, has died aged 96. Born in Lithunia, he fled the Nazis and went on to work with the cream of the New York 1960s avant garde, including Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, John Lennon and Yoko Ono.Mekas’s death was announced on his Facebook page, which said: “Jonas
  
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• Broad City Is Back for One Last Time, and That Feels Right

  23-01-2019 18:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  The first episode of the fifth and final season of Broad City follows Abbi (Abbi Jacobson) and her forever BFF Ilana (Ilana Glazer) as they celebrate Abbi’s 3oth birthday by walking from the top of Manhattan all the way to the island’s bottom. Naturally, they livestream much of the journey,...More »
  
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• Mindy Kaling Says Kelly Kapoor Is Probably in Jail for Murder

  23-01-2019 18:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  While it seems unlikely that we’ll ever get to see a true The Office reunion, one cast member has provided a notable update about what one former Dunder Mifflin employee is up to today. Speaking with Variety, former writer and cast member Mindy Kaling was asked for her thoughts on...More »
  
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• King of Thieves Wastes Its Once-in-a-Lifetime Cast

  23-01-2019 18:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  “He may seem like a sad old man, but he’s capable of severe nastiness when he’s cornered.” Someone says this about Michael Caine’s aging crook Brian Reader in King of Thieves, but it could just as easily apply to any number of Brian’s chums, played by an assortment of British...More »
  
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• What will it take for Britain to turn on Ant and Dec?

  23-01-2019 18:33 via theguardian.com
  With only Piers Morgan attempting a backlash against the Geordie duo’s award after a difficult 2018, it goes to show the presenters bring out the best in usPresent-day English nationalism, said the Irish thinker Fintan O’Toole, has a problem: it knows who “them” are; it doesn’t know who “us” are. Can patriotic progressives help? Are we the NHS? Can’t we just leave this to Danny Boyle? Are we the women’s movement, the trades union movement, th
  
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• Michael Jackson Musical to Open in Chicago

  23-01-2019 18:32 via nytimes.com
  The show, “Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough,” will run this fall, from Oct. 29 to Dec. 1, at the James M. Nederlander Theater.
  
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• The Beach Bum Trailer: Matthew McConaughey Has ‘Pissed Away His Talent on Women and Booze’

  23-01-2019 18:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  After putting in his time for the McConaissance, why shouldn’t Matthew McConaughey kick up his heels and have some highbrow high jinks? Meet Moondog (McConaughey), a drunken poet who just wants to have some fun, man. In Harmony Korine’s The Beach Bum, Moondog drinks and smokes and snorts his way...More »
  
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• To Whom Does Ariana Grande’s ‘7 Rings’ Owe Its Sound?

  23-01-2019 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ariana Grande’s Sweetener is less than six months old, but Thank U, Next, the announced title of her fifth studio album, is already on the books. Ari is moving into her next era, or eschewing the old-school sensibilities of eras altogether — not unlike other pop juggernauts such as Beyoncé,...More »
  
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• Polar Is Putrid, Soulless, and Worst of All, Stale

  23-01-2019 18:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ad directors turned feature directors seem to always fall into one of two extremely polarized (har har) camps. On the one hand, you have the David Finchers and Jonathan Glazers, directors who have found the right material to bring soul and narrative drive to their hyperspecific visual imaginations. And then...More »
  
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• Sexy, stupid and still spot on: the timeless genius of Smack the Pony

  23-01-2019 17:36 via theguardian.com
  As Smack the Pony announce their comeback, we look at the beloved sketch show’s best offerings so far … and find they haven’t aged at all
  In news that will have comedy fans feeling that perhaps 2019 will not be a totally grim year – as the world seemingly falls apart at the seams – the cast of the much loved sketch show, Smack the Pony, has told the Guardian it is working on new material.When the show first aired on Channel 4, it was a female produced-and-fronted v
  
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• UK watchdog targets 'influencer' endorsements

  23-01-2019 17:34 via ft.com
  Celebrities told to make clear any rewards for online posting
  
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• Patty Jenkins Says Female Directors Snubbed at Oscars Because Voting Academy Is Still ‘Very Limited’

  23-01-2019 17:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hours after the Oscar nominations were read Tuesday morning, Vulture caught Patty Jenkins at the premiere of her new TNT noir series I Am the Night. A half-dozen women directed critically acclaimed movies that could’ve been serious awards-season contenders this year: Debra Granik had Leave No Trace, Chloé Zhao had...More »
  
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• ‘Glass’: 5 Things That Left Us Scratching Our Heads

  23-01-2019 17:16 via nytimes.com
  M. Night Shyamalan’s latest film left a lot of lingering questions, not least of which was: Why did it feel so anticlimactic?
  
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• Mitra Jouhari and Sandy Honig’s Left of Centre Is Dead-on

  23-01-2019 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Okay, pop quiz. What happens when a male feminist named Jude who’s sewn his urethra shut in an effort to “understand the female plight” syncs up with his old, involuntarily celibate high-school friend, Hamburger Kennedy, in an effort to find common, pro-feminist ground?Oh, come on! You don’t know this?!Left of...More »
  
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• From blaring bhangra to the new grime: 30 years of brilliant British Asian broadcasting

  23-01-2019 16:52 via theguardian.com
  As Sunrise Radio marks three decades on air, British Asian stars from Bobby Friction to Nabihah Iqbal open up about roots, racism and rebellionWhile I was growing up in Hounslow, my grandmother lived with us for 10 years. I remember many things from that time: the rich smell of her cooking; the endless TV she would consume, from 60s Bollywood movies to Neighbours; the thickness of her reading glasses. But above all, I recall the constant crackle of an AM signal tuning in to Sunrise Radio.For my
  
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• Alec Baldwin Pleads Guilty in Parking-Spot Fight

  23-01-2019 16:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alec Baldwin pleaded guilty to second-degree harassment, a violation, in Manhattan Criminal Court on Wednesday in a row over a parking spot the afternoon of November 2.“Are you pleading guilty because you are guilty?” asked Judge Herbert Moses.“Yes, sir,” Baldwin said somberly during the three-minute-long proceeding.“I accept your plea,” Moses said,...More »
  
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• Bryan Singer Hit With New Allegations of Sexual Abuse and Molestation, Dating Back To 1990s

  23-01-2019 16:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  As Bohemian Rhapsody heads to the Oscars, The Atlantic published an investigation Wednesday morning reporting new sexual-abuse and molestation accusations against director Bryan Singer. Four men accuse Singer of abuse, dating back to the 1990s: “Some of the alleged victims say they were seduced by the director while underage; others...More »
  
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• Will a New Play Restart a Fire?

  23-01-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Years after the Supreme Court ruled that New Haven unfairly treated white firefighters who were seeking promotion, “Good Faith” checks in on a wounded city.
  
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• How First Man Crafted Its Most Uncomfortable Scene

  23-01-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Once again, Vulture is speaking to the screenwriters behind the awards season’s most acclaimed movies about the scenes they found most difficult to crack. Our first post of the year takes a look at one of the standout sequences of Damien Chazelle’s First Man, in which Janet Armstrong (Claire Foy)...More »
  
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• Conan O’Brien Debuts His New Half-Hour Late-Night Show, and Don’t Worry It’s Mostly the Same

  23-01-2019 15:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s been a long wait since Conan O’Brien went off the air, but the so-called three-month Conan shutdown finally came to an end last night when the TBS host debuted the new, slimmer version of his late-night show alongside Andy Richter and his first guest Tom Hanks. This time around,...More »
  
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• Oscar Nominations 2019: ‘Roma,’ ‘The Favourite’ and ‘Black Panther’ Break Ground

  23-01-2019 15:52 via nytimes.com
  Netflix got its first best picture nod. The 91st Academy Awards are scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 24.
  
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• James Bulger's parents 'disgusted' as film about son's killers gets Oscar nomination

  23-01-2019 15:40
  Denise Fergus and Ralph Bulger attack shortlisting of Detainment, a drama based on the police interrogation of Robert Thompson and Jon VenablesJames Bulger’s parents have expressed their disgust after the film about their two-year-old son’s killers was nominated for the best live-action short film Oscar.Detainment, written and directed by Irish film-maker Vincent Lambe, is a reconstruction of the police interrogation of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, the 10-year-olds convicted of
  
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• If I Hate Violence So Much, Why Do I Love Writing About It?

  23-01-2019 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  For our weeklong series on crime fiction, we asked two writers to reflect on the ethics of depicting violent crimes in their novels. Below, New York contributing editor Adam Sternbergh, most recently the author of The Blinds, considers the topic with the help of other crime novelists. Read Cartel trilogy...More »
  
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• I Write Fiction About Border Crime, But Unlike Trump I Tell the Truth.

  23-01-2019 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  For our weeklong series on crime fiction, we asked two writers to reflect on the ethics of depicting violent crimes in their novels. Below, Don Winslow, whose Cartel trilogy concludes next month with the publication of The Border, distinguishes between his depictions of brutal border crime and the current administration’s...More »
  
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• 18 Movies We Can’t Wait to See at Sundance

  23-01-2019 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It may not look so on the surface, but the Sundance Film Festival has been in a state of transition the last few years. It wasn’t long ago that it served as a solid launching pad for some of the year’s more prominent Oscar contenders; talk of future awards glory...More »
  
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• I Quit Watching The Magicians and That Was a Huge Mistake

  23-01-2019 14:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Every TV show has a rhythm. The Americans was a logarithmic acceleration; Brooklyn Nine-Nine is a burst of fizzy bubbles; the rhythm of any cop procedural is a reliable clockwork ticking. When Syfy’s The Magicians premiered three years ago, it felt uneasy, caught too tightly inside the Lev Grossman novels...More »
  
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