Cinema, Theater & TV news

• New Safety Standards for Moviegoing as U.S. Theaters Reopen

  21-08-2020 23:23 via nytimes.com
  
  The nation’s major multiplex chains are selling tickets again, and they have announced uniform health protocols to make patrons feel safer.
  
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• From Ai Weiwei, a Portrait of Wuhan’s Draconian Covid Lockdown

  21-08-2020 21:57 via nytimes.com
  
  Ai said the documentary film “Coronation,” which he directed remotely from Europe, “is trying to reflect what ordinary Chinese people went through.”
  
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• Direct from Edinburgh: Theaters Are Closed, but a ‘Zoo’ Is Open

  21-08-2020 21:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Among the performances you can catch online are a one-woman show about sexual assault and riffs on “Heart of Darkness” and “Rocky.”
  
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• What Would You Include in the Criterion Collection?

  21-08-2020 20:52 via nytimes.com
  
  The prestigious Blu-ray/DVD archive is overwhelmingly white. We want to hear your suggestions.
  
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• Answering the Many Questions About ‘The One and Only Ivan’

  21-08-2020 20:44 via nytimes.com
  
  The new Disney+ film about a talented gorilla might leave you wondering about the real great ape that inspired the story. We have answers.
  
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• Netflix, Accused of Sexualizing Girls, Pulls Artwork for ‘Cuties’

  21-08-2020 19:59 via nytimes.com
  
  Conspiracy theorists and concerned parents complained about the image associated with “Cuties,” a French film that examines how children are encouraged to be sexualized.
  
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• ‘Tenet’ Review: Christopher Nolan’s Time-Bending Take on James Bond

  21-08-2020 18:09 via nytimes.com
  
  John David Washington stars as an unnamed, uncreased C.I.A. agent in a spectacle full of scenes running backward and forward.
  
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• Tony Awards Ceremony Will Go Ahead, Online

  21-08-2020 17:15 via nytimes.com
  
  Decision comes after months of uncertainty following a Broadway shutdown that kept many shows from opening.
  
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• Selling Sunset is the most tone-deaf show on TV – and it works

  21-08-2020 15:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Netflix’s series about an LA estate agency is both unapologetic property porn and brilliant escapism for tough timesEven with all of anguish 2020 has wrought, the inevitableclosure of the Argos catalogue still felt like a blow when it was announced in July. Although I can’t remember the last time I flicked through one, it once interested me more than any magazine. For many kids, it was a magic book that transported you into another, more affluent, realm, where Furbys roamed the land
  
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• Cinemas await Tenet release to test movie-goers' appetite for big screen

  21-08-2020 15:00
  
  Christopher Nolan sci-fi film is first Hollywood blockbuster to open in cinemas since lockdownCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCinema owners will be holding their breath next Wednesday when Christoper Nolan’s sci-fi film Tenet becomes the first Hollywood blockbuster to be released since March as it is the first test of whether movie fans are ready to head back to big screens in their masses.The UK cinema industry, destined for the worst year at the box offi
  
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• Hoops review – puerile animation is perfect for Trump's America

  21-08-2020 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Jewish kids are nerds, black men are fetishised, and women hardly figure at all in Netflix’s tedious, toxic pageant of frat-boy idiocy and penis gagsCoach Ben Hopkins has a problem. His high-school basketball team sucks. And to make matters worse, it is filled with hateful stereotypes. The token yokel has rabies. The token gay kid doesn’t like sport. The token fat kid is the subject of a misogynistic and fattist running gag. The token Jewish kid is the kind of bespectacled nebbish of
  
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• This week's home entertainment: from Harry Hill's World of TV to I Hate Suzie

  21-08-2020 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The high-collared comic studies the secrets of must-see telly, while Billie Piper unleashes her inner diva as a starlet scorned Continue reading...
  
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• Relive Kim Cattrall's Most DGAF Quotes About Sex and the City, Her Co-Stars and More

  21-08-2020 13:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  You can always count on Kim Cattrall to tell it like it is.If the last few years of back-and-forth with literally anyone who's had something to say about the scrapped plans for a...
  
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• Relx continues deal spree after spending nearly £800m this year

  21-08-2020 12:39 via ft.com
  FTSE 100 group scoops up Cambridge-based SciBite as academic publishing helps offset trade show decline
  
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• How Julia Louis-Dreyfus roasted Donald Trump while hosting the DNC – video

  21-08-2020 11:15
  
  Actor Julia Louis-Dreyfus brought a great deal of levity while hosting the final night of the Democratic national convention. The comedian and star of Veep roasted Donald Trump and urged Americans to vote this November, joking that not even 'Facebook, Fox News and Vladimir Putin' can stop the democratic processEx-rivals rally around Biden at mostly successful virtual convention: key takeaways from DNC finale Continue reading...
  
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• How Julia Louis-Dreyfus roasted Donald Trump in DNC finale – video

  21-08-2020 11:15
  
  Actor Julia Louis-Dreyfus brought a great deal of levity while hosting the final night of the Democratic national convention. The comedian and star of Veep roasted Donald Trump and urged Americans to vote this November, joking that not even 'Facebook, Fox News and Vladimir Putin' can stop the democratic processEx-rivals rally around Biden at mostly successful virtual convention: key takeaways from DNC finale Continue reading...
  
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• RuPaul’s Drag Race star Chi Chi Devayne dies aged 34

  21-08-2020 11:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Host leads tributes to ‘kind and beautiful soul’ who came to prominence on the show in 2016Former RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant Chi Chi DeVayne has died aged 34.DeVayne, who was born Zavion Davenport, appeared on two series of the hit reality show, in 2016 and 2018. Having been hospitalised earlier this year for suspected kidney failure, DeVayne was readmitted with pneumonia. In a video message last week, DeVayne had asked fans to “keep me in your prayers, I’ll be b
  
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• Vanessa Engle on Carl Beech: 'I didn’t want to tell the story of a liar at the expense of genuine victims'

  21-08-2020 10:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The filmmaker explains why her documentary about the fantasist jailed for making false child sexual abuse allegations is vital in the era of #MeToo and Black Lives Matter
  The film-maker Vanessa Engle calls it “vagina snap”: female-centred fluff that meets diversity targets, but is not the sort of documentary commissioners boast about, and certainly is not about to enter for awards submissions. “You’ve got a vagina,” says Engle, explaining the concept, “the sub
  
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• TV tonight: V festival goes live and virtual

  21-08-2020 09:56 via theguardian.com
  
  The music festival returns with live performances and archive footage. Plus: locusts sweep Kenya and luxury yachts divulge their secrets. Here’s what to watch tonight Continue reading...
  
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• The Vow review – unsettling Nxivm cult series burrows under your skin

  21-08-2020 09:52 via theguardian.com
  
  A nine-hour docuseries on the appeal and deep psychological manipulation of the Nxivm cult is a searing portrait of gaslighting and abuseThe Vow, the nine-part HBO series on the Nxivm cult, opens with footage of leader Keith Raniere, 59, in one of the group’s slickly produced marketing materials for its “executive success program”, a “methodology which “allows people to optimize their experience and behavior. Raniere’s language seems innocuous, strikingly ubiq
  
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• ‘The Sleepover’ Review: My Mother, the Jewel Thief

  21-08-2020 09:01 via nytimes.com
  
  In this Netflix movie, kids on an adventure to rescue their mother discover more about her past.
  
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• Enjoy These Magical Details About Your Favorite Disney Movies

  21-08-2020 09:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  Raise your hand if you felt yourself getting a least a little misty during this past spring's Disney Family Singalong(s). Same.
  There's much to be said about the pureness of the...
  
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• A blackly comic quest for the meaning of life – podcasts of the week

  21-08-2020 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Comic Kim Noble hosts a bleak, uncomfortable comedy podcast about his existence. Plus: more delightful tales from LGBT celebrities in Out with Suzi Ruffell Futile Attempts at Surviving TomorrowAt the outset of his new series, comic Kim Noble – formerly of comedy duo Noble and Silver – tells listeners that things haven’t worked out for him in life: either they “went wrong or I fucked them up completely”. His solution to having disappointed both himself and those arou
  
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• ‘Chemical Hearts’ Review: Trauma Catalyzes a Teen Romance

  21-08-2020 06:01 via nytimes.com
  
  An angsty high schooler tries to solve the puzzle of his crush’s grief in this romantic drama that locks viewers in its protagonist’s myopic point of view.
  
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• 'Unhinged' Producer Bets on Turnout Despite Pandemic

  21-08-2020 05:54 via nytimes.com
  
  The producer Mark Gill was already following a contrarian’s path before he decided to put “Unhinged” in nearly 2,000 theaters during a pandemic.
  
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