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• The Michael Jackson Documentary at Sundance Is Already Causing Controversy

  25-01-2019 23:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  A documentary about child sex-abuse allegations against Michael Jackson premiered at the Sundance Film Festival Friday morning and it is already causing controversy. Leaving Neverland, directed by Dan Reed, features extensive interviews with Wade Robson and James Safechuck, two men who have accused Jackson of sexually abusing them as children....More »
  
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• You Loved the Detective Pikachu Trailer So Much, a Sequel Is Already in the Works

  25-01-2019 23:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hollywood heard how much you loved the Detective Pikachu trailer, saw that you’ve been putting the movie on your most anticipated of 2019 lists, and now is giving you more of what you crave. So even though the movie doesn’t premiere until May 10 a sequel is already being developed,...More »
  
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• Michael Jackson Documentary Leaving Neverland Draws Shock at Sundance Film Festival Screening

  25-01-2019 23:29 via feeds.eonline.com
  A new documentary about past allegations of child sexual abuse made against the late Michael Jackson drew emotional reactions after it premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival on...
  
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• John Cena Will Get Trapped in a Bunch of Movies at Netflix

  25-01-2019 23:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Beloved comedy star John Cena is teaming up with Jason Bateman for a new movie in the works at Netflix. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cena has signed on to star in an untitled action-comedy for the streaming network, which Bateman is attached to direct and also likely appear in....More »
  
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• Terrence McNally’s 10 Favorite Books

  25-01-2019 23:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bookseller One Grand Books has asked celebrities to name the ten titles they’d take to a desert island, and they’ve shared the results with Vulture. Below is playwright Terrence McNally’s list....More »
  
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• Why Do I Feel So Conflicted About Chidi and Eleanor on The Good Place?

  25-01-2019 23:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers below for The Good Place season finale.In the third-season finale of The Good Place, Eleanor and Chidi basically broke up and started their relationship from scratch again. Because this is The Good Place, it happened because Chidi needed to wipe his brain of all memories of his ex-girlfriend, Simone...More »
  
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• The Ocean’s Effect: How the 2001 Film Changed the Heist Movie For a Generation

  25-01-2019 22:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  There’s always going to be something compelling about a crew pulling off an elaborate theft onscreen. Heist movies have suspense, stakes, and conflict baked into the structure. It’s why the format has survived and thrived well into the 21st century.But it wasn’t easy: Over the last two decades, studio output...More »
  
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• Finding the Fun in Weezer’s Teal Album

  25-01-2019 22:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you asked me 25 years ago to identify Weezer’s most bankable quality, I probably would have gushed about Rivers Cuomo being one of the great guitar players of the alt-rock ’90s, both in terms of tart four-chord riffs that hold your brain hostage and solos that make your heart...More »
  
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• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Recap: Sliding Dorks

  25-01-2019 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of the best things about Kimmy Schmidt: it takes a timeout once a season to do an episode that’s completely batshit, fun, and mostly irrelevant to the overall plot. These “do-whatever” episodes often turn out to be among the show’s best, setting it free from the shackles of “lessons...More »
  
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• How TV on the Radio Influenced Popular Rock Music

  25-01-2019 22:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  After a half-decade of facing declarations of its total obsolescence, modern rock — specifically, the drifting, melodic, mid-tempo pop-rock that regularly appears on radio stations, streaming-service playlists, and advertisements — is everywhere again, and it’s more critically loathed than ever. Part of this negativity-laden phenomenon can be credited to the...More »
  
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• Alex Gibney’s Theranos Documentary Stares Deeply — Maybe Too Deeply — Into Elizabeth Holmes’s Eyes

  25-01-2019 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alex Gibney is obsessed with Elizabeth Holmes’s face, and by the end of The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, you probably will be, too. We see a lot of it, often in extreme close-up, that crush of mascara and smear of eyeshadow, the unblinking Mona Lisa smile. It...More »
  
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• The Trailer for The Death and Life of John F. Donovan Is Finally Here and It Has Lots of Movie Stars

  25-01-2019 20:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Death and Live of John F. Donovan is finally making its way to a theatrical release after debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival last year and existing as an idea for what feels like a lifetime. From writer and director Xavier Dolan, Donovan centers on a young boy...More »
  
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• Zac Efron As Ted Bundy Is a Smizing Serial Killer in This New Trailer

  25-01-2019 20:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Zac Efron isn’t just hot, he’s a hot murderer. (We have truly strayed so far from the light.) In Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, Efron stars as the notorious serial killer, kidnapper, rapist, burglar, and necrophile Ted Bundy. Efron has a twinkle in his eye as he dodges prying...More »
  
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• Brad, Leo, Tans! Here Are Some New Photos From Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

  25-01-2019 20:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jackson Maine, sweetie, I’m so sorry! Once Upon a Time in Hollywood — Brad Pitt specifically — is coming for your rosy, sun-drenched glow! Quentin Tarantino’s newest movie is an L.A.-set period piece starring Pitt as the stunt double of Leonardo DiCaprio, playing a TV star. The boys live next...More »
  
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• Were Spotify Accounts Hacked to Boost Streams for Fake Artists?

  25-01-2019 20:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  If your last Spotify year-in-review looked a little fishy, there’s some bad news to explain why: Your account might’ve been compromised. The BBC reports that several Spotify accounts were victim to a breach where plays for fake artists were planted in people’s listening histories to generate fake streams. Dubbed as...More »
  
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• Apollo 11 Documentary Shows the U.S. Flag Being Planted on the Moon, Are You Happy Now?

  25-01-2019 19:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  The new documentary Apollo 11, which just opened the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, is a masterful work of archival research. Working with NASA and the National Archives, the filmmakers discovered a trove of 65 mm behind-the-scenes footage of the moon landing, and combed through thousands of hours of audio recordings...More »
  
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• Amanda Seales Be Knowin’, and You Should Listen

  25-01-2019 19:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  There are several places where you know you will find black women as the majority audience, consumer, and supporter: Michelle Obama’s sold-out stadium book tour, a Beyoncé concert, Fenty Beauty pop-up stores, marches against police brutality, and Amanda Seales’s HBO comedy special I Be Knowin’, scheduled to premiere on January...More »
  
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• Review: In ‘Skin,’ More Than Words and Sometimes Less

  25-01-2019 19:36 via nytimes.com
  The members of Broken Box Mime Theater skip walking against the wind and trapped in a box in favor of pop culture capers and #MeToo inspired riffs.
  
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• Watch Killer Zac Efron Charm Lily Collins in First Ted Bundy Movie Trailer

  25-01-2019 19:33 via feeds.eonline.com
  Lily Collins falls for killer Zac Efron in their new film, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile.The movie, set to premiere this month at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, is from...
  
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• The Kid Who Would Be King Abounds With Throwback Charm

  25-01-2019 19:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Could all the problems of the world, or at least of the U.K., be solved by children’s movies? Paul King’s Paddington films are among the most cogent anti-Brexit narratives one could find at the cinema in the last couple years, and now Joe Cornish has submitted his own aspirational tale...More »
  
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• Why Is TV So Addicted to Crime?

  25-01-2019 18:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 1949, CBS started broadcasting a show called Man Against Crime. It starred Ralph Bellamy, and the general idea would be familiar to anybody watching TV in 2019: A crime happens, and then a man “solves” it. Bellamy played Detective Mike Barnett, a beefy, gun-wielding tough who would discover clues...More »
  
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• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Ends But Still Feels Alive, Dammit

  25-01-2019 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The closing half of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s fourth and final season includes a nearly hour-long episode inspired by the Gwyneth Paltrow rom-com Sliding Doors.As Kimmy (Ellie Kemper) and Titus (Tituss Burgess) prepare to watch the movie on their streaming platform of choice, HouseFlix, they wonder how the trajectory of their lives...More »
  
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• Paul Harding on His Decade of Trying Not to Think About His Pulitzer Upset

  25-01-2019 18:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Paul Harding won the Pulitzer Prize for Tinkers at the age of 42, it was one of the biggest surprises in the history of American letters. The last time a small-press book won was nearly three decades earlier — John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces. Unlike Dunces, Tinkers...More »
  
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• Streaming Movie Review: ‘Soni’ Review: Two Delhi Policewomen Struggle Against Misogyny

  25-01-2019 18:18 via nytimes.com
  In the world described in Ivan Ayr’s debut feature, men casually assume they are entitled to say or do whatever they want to women.
  
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• Ethan Hawke Is Deeply Emotionally Invested in Paul Schrader’s Oscar Nomination

  25-01-2019 18:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ethan Hawke (and Ethan Hawke’s majestic furrowed brow) were busy opening True West opposite Paul Dano Thursday night, two days after the Oscar nominations were announced. Even though Hawke’s brilliant First Reformed performance was snubbed (despite winning a bounty of critics’ awards), Vulture asked him how happy he is that...More »
  
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• How to Get Away With Murder Recap: Blood Relations

  25-01-2019 18:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  I guess in all the permutations of possible murders on this show, murdering the wrong person altogether had to be an inevitability. It was only a matter of time before someone committed a li’l whoopsie-daisy. There have been crimes of passion and self-defense and well-planned assassinations, so it was definitely...More »
  
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• Let’s Talk About the Bonkers Twist in Serenity

  25-01-2019 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spoilers for Serenity abound.Every January, moviegoers and critics alike are treated to a slate of new releases that major studios dump from their roster during awards season. The quality of these movies varies widely (good, bad, fun-bad, crazy-bad, crazy-fun bad, etc.), but most of them are low-risk, low-confidence projects that...More »
  
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• Why Isn’t Law & Order Streaming Anywhere?

  25-01-2019 17:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s a mystery worthy of Detective Lennie Briscoe: Why isn’t the original Law & Order — the flagship series in what’s arguably the most successful TV brand ever created — currently available on any American streaming platform? Virtually every other big show launched in the 1990s, from ER and Friends...More »
  
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• Alan Alda Says He Would Work With Woody Allen Again: ‘I Don’t Know All the Facts’

  25-01-2019 17:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Alan Alda will be taking home a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Screen Actors Guild Awards this weekend, so the legendary M*A*S*H star has been doing a lot of press this week. Two topics Alda has discussed are some of the most controversial film and comedy figures of the recent...More »
  
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• Liars, Liars

  25-01-2019 17:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jim Carrey has played a lot of transcendentally strange characters in his career, always bringing a dark side to the light and mapping a complex landscape of pathos, pleasure, risk, and fiendish discontent. Now this same winter of his discontent is being brought to bear on the current administration in...More »
  
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• Harvey Weinstein’s New Legal Team Includes Rose McGowan’s Former Lawyers

  25-01-2019 17:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Harvey Weinstein’s new legal team was made official on Friday, though a judge asked him questions relating to how his incoming lawyers had represented Rose McGowan — who has accused Weinstein of rape.Justice James Burke’s decision granting the restructuring of Weinstein’s legal team finalized the departure of high-profile lawyer Benjamin...More »
  
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• Which Late-Night Host Tortured Celebrities Best This Week?

  25-01-2019 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  This week, James Corden berated linebackers while they tried to dance. It was allegedly in the spirit of giving these men some shine. “I actually sympathize,” said Corden, “because my show airs at 12:37 a.m. Literally no one knows we’re here.” It was a surprising admission that the late-night audience...More »
  
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