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• Movies Are Returning to Theaters. Will Audiences Follow?

  28-08-2020 23:39 via nytimes.com
  
  Big-budget films are being released for the first time since March, but the willingness of people to sit inside a closed room with strangers for several hours is still uncertain.
  
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• Why Selena Gomez Joined TV Sibling David Henrie to Make This Is the Year an Event

  28-08-2020 22:56 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  We may not have an official Wizards of Waverly Place reunion yet, but David Henrie and Selena Gomez are about to give us the next best thing.The former TV siblings have joined forces on...
  
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• Readers Would Add These African-American Directors to the Criterion Collection

  28-08-2020 22:15 via nytimes.com
  
  As the prestigious archive addresses its severe lack of such filmmakers, we asked you who should be included. You had a lot of ideas.
  
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• Lodgers for Codgers review – can millennials and pensioners coexist?

  28-08-2020 22:00
  
  Cash-poor youngsters play house with older people with space to spare, in an odd-couple experiment that’s lacking in insight but full of cultural clashesThere must be, somewhere deep in the bowels of one of our palaces of learning, a place where producers and their interns go to learn the art of retro-engineering: how to yoke two disparate ideas together via a concept superficially cogent or convincing enough to pass commissioning muster. On the walls are expensively framed portrait photog
  
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• Linda Manz, Young Star of ‘Days of Heaven,’ Dies at 58

  28-08-2020 20:04 via nytimes.com
  
  The actress was in her teens when she narrated Terrence Malick’s 1978 masterpiece. After a couple more films, she disappeared.
  
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• Auli’i Cravalho on Her New Netflix Drama and the Smell of Wet Dog

  28-08-2020 20:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Playing a homeless teen in “All Together Now” was taxing for several reasons, but the voice of “Moana” was happy to continue her run of strong female roles.
  
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• News group Archant closes in on rescue deal with Rcapital Partners

  28-08-2020 19:38 via ft.com
  Publisher blames growing pension deficit and plunging sales for need to restructure
  
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• Review: Chloroform, Lies and Racism Fire Up ‘The Jacksonian’

  28-08-2020 19:00 via nytimes.com
  
  This streamed reading of Beth Henley’s slice of Southern noir offers scorching portraits of bad faith from Ed Harris, Amy Madigan and Bill Pullman.
  
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• AMC: curtain call

  28-08-2020 18:53 via ft.com
  Investors should not expect movie-goers to trek back en masse to indoor venues
  
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• Director of a Storied Paris Theater Is Fired

  28-08-2020 18:11 via nytimes.com
  
  After Ruth Mackenzie was accused of bullying employees, the Théâtre du Châtelet said she would no longer lead the prestigious venue.
  
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• Viral London Tube Singer Charlotte Awbery Officially Releases Her Cover of Lady Gaga's "Shallow"

  28-08-2020 17:35 via feeds.eonline.com
  
  The viral London Tube singer has stepped back into the spotlight in a major way.
  Six months ago in February, Charlotte Awbery rose to viral fame when footage of her singing a part of...
  
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• Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘The Sting’

  28-08-2020 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Sharp clothes, sharp tunes, sharp acting. This Redford-Newman con-men picture swindles viewers, too. But so what? It’s a con that leaves us feeling richer.
  
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• I'll Be Gone in the Dark: the show bringing sensitivity to true crime TV

  28-08-2020 14:34
  
  HBO’s new docuseries about Michelle McNamara’s hunt for the Golden State Killer eschews gore in favour of a humane approach often missing from the genreMichelle McNamara stares into the camera, and says solemnly that the story of the Golden State Killer’s victims “has to be told”. It is not just a soundbite. Before her death, at the age of 46, in 2016, McNamara had become fixated on the case, a series of at least 50 rapes and 13 murders committed by a then-unknown a
  
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• This week's home entertainment: from Strike to The Boys

  28-08-2020 13:00
  
  Robert ‘JK Rowling’ Galbraith’s private detective returns, while Amazon’s anti-superheroes are back and in big troubleContinue reading...
  
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• Dev Patel Was Not a Dickens Fan. (Don’t Tell Armando Iannucci.)

  28-08-2020 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The star of a new “David Copperfield” film learned to see the novelist in a new light after memorizing pages and pages of dialogue, never giving up, just like his character.
  
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• ‘I will have my own kingdom’: Meet Famalam’s Gbemisola Ikumelo

  28-08-2020 11:57
  
  With her award-winning short set to become a BBC sitcom and an appearance in a big US sitcom on the way, the comedian is having a major year – and she’s only getting startedOn the day I speak to Gbemisola Ikumelo, it’s in the midst of the biggest fortnight of her career so far. She has just won a TV Bafta for her short Brain in Gear, had a comedy series based on said short commissioned by the BBC, and has been cast in a big US series, too. It’s also one of the hottest day
  
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• Gbemisola Ikumelo: 'On the day I won the Bafta, I was in my PJs eating Domino's Pizza'

  28-08-2020 11:57
  
  With her award-winning short set to become a BBC sitcom and an appearance in a big US sitcom on the way, the comedian is having a major year – and she’s only getting startedOn the day I speak to Gbemisola Ikumelo, it’s in the midst of the biggest fortnight of her career so far. She has just won a TV Bafta for her short Brain in Gear, had a comedy series based on said short commissioned by the BBC, and has been cast in a big US series, too. It’s also one of the hottest day
  
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• When a Film Festival Goes Virtual, What Do We Lose? Or Gain?

  28-08-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  With the Venice, Toronto and New York events much changed this year, a look at why the in-person experience matters to our love of movies.
  
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• No way José: Football is no soap opera, despite Amazon's efforts

  28-08-2020 10:00
  
  Mourinho steals every scene in All Or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur, but even Tom Hardy can’t add any drama to a gussied up end of season DVDThe most revealing moment in the opening episode of All Or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur occurs during a private meeting between the newly appointed manager, José Mourinho, and his captain, England’s star striker, Harry Kane.“The world looks to English football with respect, but they still think the movie stars of football belong to other
  
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• TV tonight: the first livestreamed night of the Proms

  28-08-2020 07:20
  
  No audience in attendance, but Hannah Kendall’s Basquiat-inspired work and Beethoven are among the musical offerings. Plus: Lodgers for Codgers. Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading...
  
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• Spencer and Vogue bring reality TV to your ears – podcasts of the week

  28-08-2020 07:00
  
  The former Made In Chelsea star and his presenter wife let us into their world in their new series. Plus: the truth about the menopauseSpencer & Vogue
  “Why are we doing this … why do you want an insight into our life?!” So asks Spencer Matthews – formerly of Made of Chelsea, now an inescapable part of the reality TV firmament – at the outset of his new podcast with TV presenter wife Vogue Williams. Weirdly, Matthews spends the majority of this first episode, ou
  
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• ‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’ Review: Be Adequate to Each Other

  28-08-2020 01:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter travel through time to save reality and redeem the honor of Generation X.
  
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