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• Three Movie Subscription Services, and When They’re Worth It

  10-04-2019 23:30 via nytimes.com
  MoviePass made waves when it launched, but it’s not the only movie subscription designed to lure you to the theater. Here are a few popular ones, who they’re for, and whether you’ll save money with one.
  
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• Jackie Chan Denies Signing on for Rush Hour 4 After Chris Tucker Reunion Sparks Hope

  10-04-2019 22:55 via feeds.eonline.com
  Sorry Jackie Chan fans, reports that he has signed on to appear in Rush Hour 4 and The Karate Kid 2 are simply false.On Sunday, his Rush Hour co-star Chris Tucker posted on Instagram a...
  
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• ‘Stockholm’ Review: Seduced by a Hostage Taker

  10-04-2019 22:06 via nytimes.com
  Ethan Hawke is the main reason to see this movie, which revisits the 1973 crime that inspired the condition known as Stockholm syndrome.
  
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• Harlem School of the Arts Announces $9.5 Million Renovation

  10-04-2019 21:00 via nytimes.com
  The extensive project, funded by the Herb Alpert Foundation, will replace the building’s facade and update its public gallery space.
  
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• Movies Primed Us for Black Holes. Here are 6 to Watch.

  10-04-2019 20:50 via nytimes.com
  The unveiling of the first ever image of a black hole tapped into a longstanding fascination. Where did that come from? In part, from movies like these.
  
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• UK culture secretary shrugs off online regulation fears

  10-04-2019 20:37 via ft.com
  Critics say new measures could be used as a weapon to silence some debates
  
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• ‘Little’ Review: Too Much Caution and Not Enough Regina Hall

  10-04-2019 20:02 via nytimes.com
  In this version of the body-switch comedy, Hall turns into her 13-year-old self, played by the amazing young actress Marsai Martin.
  
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• Critic’s Pick: ‘Her Smell’ Review: The Road to Rock ’n’ Roll Transcendence Goes Through the Gutter

  10-04-2019 19:57 via nytimes.com
  Elisabeth Moss is raw and charismatic in Alex Ross Perry’s portrait of a musician running off the rails.
  
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• No Regrets: Taking 500 L.G.B.T Teenagers to ‘The Prom’ on Broadway

  10-04-2019 19:53 via nytimes.com
  And “Killing Eve” celebrates Season 2 with intimate cocktails on Central Park West.
  
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• Forget Fleabag, let’s see more Derry Girls | Brief letters

  10-04-2019 19:06
  Fleabag and Derry Girls | Guardian supplements | Kids’ puzzles | Irish passports | FilmsThis week I watched the last episodes of two superb TV comedy series. Both episodes were sublime, redemptive, uplifting, life-affirming conclusions to excellent character comedies. So why is it that the London-based, middle-class Fleabag and its creator merit multiple articles and columns in your pages, while the Northern Ireland-based, working-class Derry Girls has been virtually ignored?
  Corinne Male
  
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• White House plans to screen anti-abortion film Gosnell

  10-04-2019 18:30
  The graphic drama about Kermit Gosnell, a doctor found guilty of murdering three babies, will reportedly be screened by the Trump administrationThe White House has plans to host a screening of anti-abortion indie film Gosnell this Friday, Slate reports. This screening takes place just weeks after the Donald Trump raised concerns about late-term abortions following the passing of New York’s Reproductive Health Act. Invitations to the screening of the film, which depicts second- and third-tr
  
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• Jim Jarmusch’s ‘The Dead Don’t Die’ to Open Cannes Film Festival

  10-04-2019 18:29 via nytimes.com
  The zombie movie features a cast of the director’s regular players including Bill Murray, Adam Driver and Tilda Swinton. Selena Gomez and Iggy Pop also appear.
  
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• Review: Marilyn Monroe Goes to War in ‘Norma Jeane Baker of Troy’

  10-04-2019 18:15 via nytimes.com
  Ben Whishaw and Renée Fleming provide the oxygen in Anne Carson’s hypnotic and exasperating work, which imagines the actress as a Euripides heroine.
  
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• You vs Wild review – I tried so hard to feed Bear Grylls to a crocodile

  10-04-2019 18:00
  This interactive Netflix show is basically a game – and half the fun is trying to bump off Grylls in his own TV adventureBear Grylls is somewhere along the meandering length of a jungle river, with a mean-looking crocodile in his path. Remarkably, he is also seeking my advice regarding the situation in which he finds himself. Should he try and scare the croc away or float past it underwater? I have been anticipating this moment for some time.You vs Wild, which has just begun streaming on N
  
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• Rewind: ‘A Very Curious Girl’: You Mess With Her. You Pay.

  10-04-2019 17:56 via nytimes.com
  Now 50 years old, the French director Nelly Kaplan’s feminist revenge farce is a cult film newly restored and still fresh.
  
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• Darcey Bussell quits Strictly Come Dancing

  10-04-2019 17:13
  After seven years, Bussell waltzes out of the BBC’s hit dance show
  Darcey Bussell has announced she is quitting as a judge on Strictly Come Dancing.After seven series on the BBC’s flagship Saturday night dance show, Bussell is quick-stepping away from Britain’s glitziest judging panel “not because of any upset or disagreement” but to focus on her “many other commitments.” Continue reading...
  
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• From A Walk to Remember to This Is Us: Mandy Moore's Most Lovable Roles Over the Years

  10-04-2019 17:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  In 1999, we were introduced to Mandy Moore thanks to her debut record So Real and hit single "Candy."A few years later, fans learned that not only was the singer not just a one...
  
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• Why Michelle Williams Won't Watch Her Own Movies

  10-04-2019 16:30 via feeds.eonline.com
  Like many actors, Michelle Williams refuses to watch herself act onscreen.The 38-year-old actress, who rose to fame with Dawson's Creek in the late '90s and was later nominated...
  
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• Sorry but Fleabag's priest is an exploitative muppet

  10-04-2019 16:26
  Andrew Scott’s character fits into a lineage of Hot But Horrible men in fiction, which rather than for lusting after exist to warn us away from them in real lifeSo, now that Fleabag has officially finished, where does the Hot Priest fit into the pantheon of ‘hot but mean men’ in pop culture?
  Name withheld, by emailFrom Heathcliff (obsessive stalker, possible murderer) to Rhett Butler (rapist, member of the Ku Klux Klan), there is truly no shortage of male characters in popular
  
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• Hungarian Opera Asks White Cast of ‘Porgy and Bess’ to Say They Are African-American

  10-04-2019 15:05 via nytimes.com
  The Hungarian State Opera’s general director asked singers to sign a declaration that they identified as African-American, although they are all white.
  
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• The Lion King's New Trailer Will Make You Go Wild

  10-04-2019 14:49 via feeds.eonline.com
  The king has returned.Disney dropped its official trailer for the live-action remake of The Lion King on Wednesday and gave fans their first look at several of the film's iconic...
  
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• Tyrion, Daenerys ... Hot Pie? The greatest Game of Thrones characters

  10-04-2019 13:55
  As the final season of the fantasy saga gets underway, our writers pick their favourite Westerosi citizens, from blunt Bronn to ‘deliciously vicious’ CerseiThere’s nothing like a good redemption story to thrill viewers – and Jaime Lannister’s is a redemption like no other. He’s the man who dreamed of knightly glory, only to find that the gold all too quickly wore off, leaving him sustained only by the illicit love he feels for his sociopathic twin Cersei. That
  
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• The race to make the next ‘Game of Thrones’

  10-04-2019 12:26 via ft.com
  As the fantasy phenomenon reaches its conclusion, broadcasters bid to create TV’s new blockbuster
  
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• Dead Pixels: a gamer comedy that's as addictive as World of Warcraft

  10-04-2019 12:00
  You don’t need to know your Azeroth from your elbow to enjoy this gut-bustingly funny new showA feudal empire in chaos. Evil magic on the march. Far-flung warriors gathering their strength for an ultimate reckoning. That might sound like hype for the final season of Game of Thrones but it also describes Kingdom Scrolls, the massive multiplayer video game at the heart of Dead Pixels. This wickedly entertaining new sitcom starring Alexa Davies from Raised by Wolves may have been inspired by
  
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• Damn you, Netflix! Why won't you let me kill Bear Grylls?

  10-04-2019 11:37
  You vs Wild is like Bandersnatch for extreme survival fans ... only no matter how hard you try, the git gets out in one piece
  Bandersnatch was fine. Better than fine, in fact. It was bold, it was inventive, it pushed a new method of interactive storytelling into the mainstream. But it failed in one key area: it wasn’t specifically about trying to murder Bear Grylls.Fortunately, Netflix seems to have remedied this. Today the platform released You vs Wild; a Bear Grylls documentary series wh
  
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• Scarlett Johansson warns: paparazzi risk another death like Princess Diana's

  10-04-2019 11:06
  Actor alleged she was pursued through LA by paparazzi who put ‘other drivers and pedestrians at risk’ after her appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!Scarlett Johansson warned of another incident “like Princess Diana” after alleging she was pursued through Los Angeles by a pack of paparazzi.The Hollywood actress said she was leaving a studio following an appearance on US talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! when a group of photographers spotted her. Continue reading...
  
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• What Is a Grip? The Few Women Doing the Job in Hollywood Explain

  10-04-2019 10:00 via nytimes.com
  On a movie set “we control anything over people’s heads,” one female key grip explains. But when you’re the exception on an all-male crew, other factors come into play.
  
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• Dubrovnik, Game of Thrones and overtourism – in pictures

  10-04-2019 09:00
  For Dubrovnik, doubling as King’s Landing in Game of Thrones is a mixed blessing. Stardom has been a boon for business – but has also sparked an inundation of visitors to a city already struggling with overcrowding Continue reading...
  
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• Warner Bros takes legal action against Trump over Batman music

  10-04-2019 08:43
  President’s campaign video featured Hans Zimmer music from The Dark Knight RisesWarner Bros has launched legal action against Donald Trump after he used music from The Dark Knight Rises in a tweet.The US president posted a two-minute video for his 2020 re-election campaign that featured Hans Zimmer’s Why Do We Fall? from the 2012 film. It also featured the film’s title cards.MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! pic.twitter.com/diXWQHuyGj Related: The wall is coming: Trump becomes world's
  
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• TV tonight: Princess Di in drag – did this big night out really happen?

  10-04-2019 07:01
  The new series of Urban Myths gets off to a glittering start with Diana, disguised as a man, partying with Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett. Here’s the best TV to tune in for There were always rumours surrounding Diana, Princess of Wales, and her taste for a walk on the wild side. This amusing series, which dramatises apocryphal celebrity stories, returns for a third run, exploring a famous 80s legend. Did Diana enjoy a night out at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, the gay cabaret bar? It is su
  
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• Becoming Fleabag: Phoebe Waller-Bridge on stage – in pictures

  10-04-2019 07:00
  As her hit TV series and off-Broadway solo show come to an end, take a look back at Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s start in theatre, opposite Fleabag co-stars including Andrew Scott, Hugh Skinner and Olivia Colman Continue reading...
  
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• Can Amazon and Netflix succeed in India?

  10-04-2019 06:00 via ft.com
  The streaming giants are investing in the continent’s television — creating gritty dramas with global appeal
  
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• AT&T/HBO: creative differences

  10-04-2019 05:59 via ft.com
  Plans to divest a European unit to meet deleveraging targets is set to spark turmoil
  
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• AT&T discusses sale of HBO Europe to cut debt

  10-04-2019 05:57 via ft.com
  Comcast seen as potential buyer if telecoms group resolves to sell
  
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• Microsoft worked with Chinese military university on AI

  10-04-2019 05:26 via ft.com
  Group’s Asia research arm published papers on tech that could be used for surveillance
  
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• How ‘Amazing Grace’ Was Born, Buried and Resurrected

  10-04-2019 00:03 via nytimes.com
  The documentary, about the legendary live gospel recording by Aretha Franklin, was as ambitious and as bungled as only Hollywood could manage.
  
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