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• The Good Fight review – a controlled explosion of fury at the Trump era

  28-03-2019 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Now in its third season, the legal spinoff has become a vehicle for channelling liberal anger at these grotesque times. Prepare to be swept along entirely
  There is an extraordinary monologue in the opening episode of the latest series of The Good Fight that exemplifies exactly what the legal drama has become – an extended jazz riff on the traditional television drama form that wants to find out exactly how far it can go. Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski), who has long been the show&rsquo
  
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• Toy Story 4 Will Still Include the Late Don Rickles as Mr. Potato Head: Here's How

  28-03-2019 20:08 via feeds.eonline.com
  The voice of the late Don Rickles will be used again to portray Mr. Potato Head.The legendary insult comedian had signed on to do Toy Story 4 in 2014. In 2017, he died at age 90....
  
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• Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand to star in Joel Coen's Macbeth

  28-03-2019 19:51
  The Oscar winners are set to take on lead roles in a new adaptation of the William Shakespeare tragedyDenzel Washington is set to star alongside Frances McDormand in a new adaptation of Macbeth.The film will be directed by McDormand’s husband Joel Coen based on his own original script with no confirmation on whether his brother, frequent collaborator Ethan, will be involved. The latest version of William Shakespeare’s tragedy will be produced by Scott Rudin, who has previously worked
  
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• Critic’s Pick: Review: A Magnificent Road to Ruin in ‘The Lehman Trilogy’

  28-03-2019 19:03 via nytimes.com
  This three-hour-plus portrait of the creation and destruction of the house of Lehman, directed by Sam Mendes, is an endlessly absorbing epic tragedy.
  
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• ‘A Vigilante’ Review: Vengeance Is Hers

  28-03-2019 17:55 via nytimes.com
  Olivia Wilde stars as an avenger of domestic-abuse victims in Sarah Daggar-Nickson’s satisfyingly lean, mean genre movie.
  
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• Five things we learnt from Apple’s latest launch

  28-03-2019 17:28 via ft.com
  The shift to services from video to finance may well mark a historic turning point
  
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• Russia threatens non-compliant VPN providers with ban

  28-03-2019 16:31 via ft.com
  Country’s internet censor stepping up efforts to eliminate anonymous internet traffic
  
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• ‘Us’ Reflects a Mirror Image of ‘The Twilight Zone’

  28-03-2019 15:40 via nytimes.com
  For his latest horror hit, Jordan Peele appears to draw inspiration from Rod Serling’s classic series in more ways than one.
  
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• Canadian film made in language spoken by just 20 people in the world

  28-03-2019 15:06
  The film aims to preserve the endangered dialects of British Columbia’s Haida peoplePlenty of films are somewhat incomprehensible, but a forthcoming movie is in a language that only about 20 people in the world can speak fluently.With subtitles, audiences will be able to understand a feature film titled SGaawaay K’uuna, translated as Edge of the Knife, which has its UK premiere in April. Related: Canada’s Haida Gwaii archipelago: kayaking to the edge of the worldContinue readin
  
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• Time Out audience engagement hit by Facebook changes

  28-03-2019 14:28 via ft.com
  Media group gains momentum from digital advertising campaigns and food markets
  
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• China’s official newspaper taps into the censorship boom

  28-03-2019 14:16 via ft.com
  People’s Daily emerges as a leading outsourcer in Beijing’s drive to clean up the internet
  
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• Killing Eve's Bafta eligibility in question after bumper TV nominations haul

  28-03-2019 13:50 via theguardian.com
  Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s smash-hit spy comedy is the 2019 TV Bafta awards frontrunner ... but should it be in the running at all?
  It’s the runaway leader for nominations at this year’s British Academy Television awards, a commercial hit acclaimed for its sardonic British wit and created by arguably the nation’s most in-demand TV figure. Yet it seems that Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s spy comedy Killing Eve might have only been included in the running for this year’s aw
  
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• Sandra Bullock Almost Starred in The Matrix Instead of Keanu Reeves

  28-03-2019 13:39 via feeds.eonline.com
  It's been two decades since the release of The Matrix, but fans only recently discovered that the movie almost featured a completely different star.As fans will recall, Keanu Reeves...
  
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• Seth Rogen launches cannabis company

  28-03-2019 13:28
  With long-time collaborator Evan Goldberg, Rogen has set up Houseplant, a Canadian weed supplier, ‘to make it easier for people to learn to love cannabis’The film collaborations of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg – including Superbad, Pineapple Express and Sausage Party – have been successful and, in the case of The Interview, nearly triggered a war between the US and North Korea. Related: Marijuana legalization, explained: the key facts about Canada's new lawsContinue readi
  
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• ‘Tigerland’ Review: Conservation Documentary Lacks Claws

  28-03-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  The film falls into a common trap of advocacy documentaries, which is to inform on an urgent issue without a particularly urgent cinematic narrative to match it.
  
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• ‘The Last’ Review: A Revelation Leaves a Family Shattered

  28-03-2019 12:00 via nytimes.com
  This drama, written and directed by Jeff Lipsky, explores a monstrous idea with complexity.
  
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• ‘The Chaperone’ Review: A Matron and a Movie Star Take a Jazz-Age Journey

  28-03-2019 12:00 via nytimes.com
  Michael Engler’s dull period piece follows a conservative woman who accompanies a young silent film star on a trip to New York City.
  
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• ‘Slut in a Good Way’ Review: And Then They Staged a Sex Strike

  28-03-2019 12:00 via nytimes.com
  In this coming-of-age comedy directed by Sophie Lorain, first comes love. Then comes rebellion.
  
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• ‘Relaxer’ Review: Help! He’s Sitting and He Can’t Get Up

  28-03-2019 12:00 via nytimes.com
  Sad and strange and defiantly gross, Joel Potrykus’s “Relaxer” is a compassionate survival tale swirling with childhood trauma.
  
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• Critic’s Pick: ‘The Burial of Kojo’ Review: A Dazzling Modern Fable

  28-03-2019 12:00 via nytimes.com
  The Ghana-born musician Blitz Bazawule makes a stunning feature directing debut that comes alive with rhythm and color.
  
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• Critic’s Pick: ‘Relaxer’ Review: Help! He’s Sitting and He Can’t Get Up

  28-03-2019 12:00 via nytimes.com
  Sad and strange and defiantly gross, Joel Potrykus’s “Relaxer” is a compassionate survival tale swirling with childhood trauma.
  
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• Critic’s Pick: ‘Diane’ Review: A Vibrant Tale of Love, Sisterhood and Decline

  28-03-2019 12:00 via nytimes.com
  Mary Kay Place is astonishing as a weary widow dealing with guilt, heartache and a diminishing circle of friends.
  
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• TV Baftas 2019: liars and spies loom large in the dark farce of our times

  28-03-2019 11:49 via theguardian.com
  From Bodyguard to Killing Eve, tragi-comedies in which no one in power can be trusted swept the nominations. It’s almost as if TV producers and fans are living through a troubling timeBafta TV awards nominations 2019: Killing Eve and A Very English Scandal dominateThe full list of nominees Viewers, it is often argued by TV executives, need warm and sympathetic characters to draw them into a story. But this theory seems spectacularly challenged by the 2019 Bafta TV nominations.Four dramas g
  
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• Angelina Jolie joins Marvel superhero universe

  28-03-2019 11:42
  Star set to play a superpowered near-immortal human in The Eternals, reports sayThe Marvel Cinematic Universe has landed one of Hollywood’s biggest fish, it has been revealed, after reports suggested Angelina Jolie is closing a deal to star in a superhero movie based on The Eternals.No official announcement has been made, but it is understood that Marvel is moving ahead with the project after studio president Kevin Feige confirmed its development last April, as part of Marvel’s so-ca
  
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• London Theater Reviews: A Pinter Marathon Saves the Best for Last

  28-03-2019 10:47 via nytimes.com
  A revelatory new production of “Betrayal” starring Tom Hiddleston comes after a season of the playwright’s one-act plays.
  
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• Bafta TV awards nominations 2019: Killing Eve and A Very English Scandal dominate

  28-03-2019 09:13 via theguardian.com
  BBC shows Killing Eve, A Very English Scandal and Bodyguard are the frontrunners in a bad year for NetflixBafta TV Awards 2019: full list of nominationsKilling Eve and A Very English Scandal lead the way in the TV Bafta nominations, with 14 and 12 nods respectively.Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s psychosexual cat-and-mouse chase Killing Eve will battle for the best drama gong against Informer, the counter-terror series about a British-Asian man tasked with spying on extremists, Save Me, Lennie Jame
  
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• Hudson Yards: How the Shed Can Live Up to Its Hype: Focus on the Artists

  28-03-2019 09:00 via nytimes.com
  As the arts center rolls out its inaugural season, we offer our hopes not only for its future, but also for New York’s broader cultural landscape.
  
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• TV tonight: welcome to the surprisingly raunchy world of Dorkcraft

  28-03-2019 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Caustic new sitcom Dead Pixels pokes fun at the orc-fuelled, sex-filled world of online gaming. Plus: Secrets of the Heinz FactoryWorld of Dorkcraft: this caustic new sitcom pokes fun at hardcore acolytes of online role-playing games, following exasperated office drone Meg (Raised by Wolves’s brilliant Alexa Davies) and skittish shut-in Nicky (Will Merrick) as they happily ignore any and all real-world responsibilities to pursue intangible gains in the orc-filled world of Kingdom Scrolls.
  
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• Critic’s Pick: Review: African-American Flight 1619 Now Boarding in ‘Ain’t No Mo’

  28-03-2019 03:21 via nytimes.com
  What if black people, sick of injustice, picked up and left the United States? An outrageous satire by Jordan E. Cooper imagines the possibility, and the loss.
  
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• Critic’s Pick: ‘The Brink’ Review: Considering the Unlikely Charm of Stephen Bannon

  28-03-2019 01:56 via nytimes.com
  This documentary trails the former White House adviser as he tours Europe and America promoting right-wing populist nationalism.
  
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• Review: ‘Dumbo’ Goes Bonkers in Dreamland

  28-03-2019 00:16 via nytimes.com
  Tim Burton takes this live-action remake of the 1941 Disney classic to his very own dark place. Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito and Eva Green help.
  
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