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• Let’s Talk About The Torture Scene In Piercing

  02-02-2019 22:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  This post contains spoilers for the movie Piercing.The skeleton of Nicolas Pesce’s new movie Piercing, based on the novel of the same name by Ryū Murakami, is straightforward. A husband and father named Reed (Christopher Abbott) has a compulsion to kill, so he endeavors to exercise this impulse on a...More »
  
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• Chelsea Peretti’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine Departure Wasn’t ‘Fully’ Her Decision

  02-02-2019 22:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  The human form of the 100 emoji, Gina Linetti, appeared in her final Brooklyn Nine-Nine episode this week as a regular, when she decided to bid the precinct adieu in favor of some bigger and jazz hands-ier life experiences. She’ll be missed tremendously — good luck finding an assistant as...More »
  
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• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Recap: Let’s All Go to Raging Waters

  02-02-2019 21:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  On the surface, this episode seemed like it would be silly fun. We finally get to go to Raging Waters! It’s Rebecca’s Paris! But the waterslides are just window-dressing, because the real thrust of the episode is as pitch-black as Dr. Dark’s Tunnel of Terror. Both Rebecca and Paula get...More »
  
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• Ellsworth Kelly Is Making Mail Cool Again

  02-02-2019 20:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  The art of the email. So passé! So gauche! So … electronic! Sometimes you just need a master of abstractionism to let himself in and shake things up, or maybe even give you a reason to eschew refreshing your Gmail one thousand times a day in favor of mailing a...More »
  
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• Russian Doll Recap: That’s What Friends Are For

  02-02-2019 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hey, quick question: Who heard that Amy Poehler was making a show with Orange is the New Black comic-relief provider Nicky Nichols and rom-com filmmaker Leslye Headland and accurately predicted, “Ooh, that’ll be fun right up until it turns into the motherfucking Shining?!?!”Next question: Can I write “WTF” a few...More »
  
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• The ‘Prepared to Suck His Dick’ Guy From Netflix’s Fyre Festival Documentary Is Getting His Own Show

  02-02-2019 18:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Perhaps the most shocking moment from both Hulu and Netflix’s competing Fyre Festival documentaries came from Andy King, a veteran event producer who coordinated (or rather, attempted to coordinate) the festival’s logistics in the lead-up to its spectacular failure. As he recounted in Netflix’s Fyre, the detainment of Evian water...More »
  
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• Finally, The Sopranos and the Sex and the City Universes Meet

  02-02-2019 17:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  According to the popular self-help book The Secret, the key to happiness is using the law of attraction to manifest what you truly want in your life. Just think about your deepest desires, and the universe will bring them to you. As of today, we’re ready to become The Secret’s greatest evangelist,...More »
  
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• Cardi B Says She Declined ‘a Lot of Money’ to Perform the Super Bowl Halftime Show

  02-02-2019 17:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sunday evening will bring forth the strange sonic medley of Maroon 5, Travis Scott, and Big Boi at the Super Bowl Halftime Show, a decision that didn’t come lightly for all of the musicians. Confirming she was offered to make that Halftime trio a quartet, Cardi B explained during a...More »
  
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• Rami Malek Admits Working With Ex-Bohemian Rhapsody Director Bryan Singer Was ‘Not Pleasant’

  02-02-2019 16:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  As Bohemian Rhapsody continues to solidify its Oscar villain status, the film’s star, Rami Malek, is getting more candid about the firing of original director Bryan Singer — a firing we still have conflicting narratives about. But as Malek explained during a Friday evening panel at the Santa Barbara Film...More »
  
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• Stephen Colbert Takes Psychology for a Spin to Unpack Donald Trump’s Family Trauma

  02-02-2019 15:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  He can’t say for sure, but Stephen Colbert has an inkling that Donald Trump’s many assurances of his lack of family “trauma” translates to, well, our president having a geyser full of pain and suffering in his McDonalds-sized heart just waiting to erupt. When will that happen! Who knows. Daddy...More »
  
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• Russian Doll Recap: Mirror, Mirror

  02-02-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Can I give this episode of Russian Doll six stars? It’s the one that made me fall in love, the one that grabbed me by the feels and refused to let go long after Alan’s wrenching rooftop confession. Nadia thrills me, she makes me laugh, but Alan moves me. His...More »
  
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• Saturday's best TV: The Radical Story of Patty Hearst; Mayans MC

  02-02-2019 07:00 via theguardian.com
  The wild story of a famous American kidnapping is recalled while a Sons of Anarchy spin-off offered another saga of shifting loyalties9pm, PBS America Continue reading...
  
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• But Isn’t Judging CBS’ Frankenstein Detective Pilot The Exact Mistake Frankenstein Warned Against?

  02-02-2019 06:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  Scared, panicky, quick to anger and confusion: looks like somebody didn’t internalize the lessons of Mary Shelley’s groundbreaking sci-fi novel. In an announcement made yesterday, CBS placed a pilot order for Frankenstein, which, yes, is a detective show effectively starring one of Frankenstein’s monsters. Reads the show’s logline, “A San...More »
  
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• Seth Rogen, Eddie Redmayne and Sacha Baron Cohen, Together At Last, In Aaron Sorkin’s Chicago 7

  02-02-2019 05:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you find yourself wanting to draw parallels between today’s political unrest and the tumultuous late ‘60s, Aaron Sorkin is here with a gigantic sketch pad and 1,000,000 sharpened pencils. The West Wing creator is set to direct The Trial of the Chicago 7, which, according to a casting announcement...More »
  
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• RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Recap: A Star Is Fallen

  02-02-2019 03:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Well, owwwwkaayyy. Forgive me for gagging so, but I genuinely thought we’d seen the most shocking elimination of the year with Monique ousting Latrice a few episodes ago. That is simply not the case, honey. Naomi Smalls, quietly strong all throughout the season, lets frontrunner Manila Luzon fully have it...More »
  
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• Dick Miller, 90, Dies; Character Actor and Roger Corman Mainstay

  02-02-2019 03:00 via nytimes.com
  He appeared in dozens of low-budget films for Mr. Corman and later in “The Terminator,” “Gremlins” and other movies directed by Corman acolytes.
  
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• Upgrade Fans Rejoice, Leigh Whannell Is Directing The New Escape From New York

  02-02-2019 02:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s a very good week to be Leigh Whannell. The Upgrade writer and director (and half of the brain trust behind Saw and Insidious) locked a deal to helm a revival of The Invisible Man for Blumhouse and Universal earlier this week, and now according to The Hollywood Reporter he...More »
  
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• Russian Doll Recap: Double Vision

  02-02-2019 02:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Readers … I dunno. We’re now officially in the back end of Russian Doll’s first season and I’ve got a lot of theories — inklings of ideas, flashes of smart-sounding whatnot I want to say — but I really don’t know how to tie them all together. So for this...More »
  
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• New Dune Continues Its Mission To Become The Sexiest Dune Ever, Casts Javier Bardem

  02-02-2019 01:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thank goodness the Dune cast is so large, because these updates make for some great daily highlights. This week alone, director Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of the classic Frank Herbert novel signed up Oscar Isaac (as Leto Atreides I) and Zendaya (as Arrakis inhabitant Chani), and as we close out the...More »
  
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• Comedy Central Stops Advertising With Every Comedian’s Worst Enemy

  02-02-2019 01:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’ve watched the Fyre Festival documentaries on Hulu and Netflix, you may be familiar with Jerry Media, the social-media agency hired to promote the now-infamous event (the company was also a producer on the Netflix doc). Jerry Media first started as the extremely popular @fuckjerry Instagram account, and if...More »
  
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• MoviePass Hoping To Pull Itself From The Grave With Giant Billboards

  02-02-2019 00:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  MoviePass is not dead yet. The beleaguered movie ticket subscription service, which burned through hundreds of millions of dollars last year and reportedly lost more than half of its subscribers, has purchased prime real estate on some Times Square billboards and is letting people know they are still in business....More »
  
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• Look Away From Never Look Away

  02-02-2019 00:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s objectively unfair to be harder on a clunky film that has been nominated for an Oscar than on one that few people will see, but objectivity is overvalued and I’m going to give Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Best Foreign Language Film nominee Never Look Away the Middlebrow Beanbag Award...More »
  
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• All the Super Bowl Commercials Released So Far

  02-02-2019 00:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  As network TV seems to wither on the vine, one thing is for certain: The Super Bowl remains an evening of programming that advertisers can count on to bring in millions of eyes. We’ve come a long way from Farrah Fawcett and quarterback Joe Namath looking hot and selling shaving...More »
  
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