Midway through Dare Me, a new USA drama set in the world of high school cheerleading, we see local cheer coach Colette French (Willa Fitzgerald) watching the classic Forties film noir Double Indemnity, based on the novel by James M. Cain. The scene is less interested in revealing something about …
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Danny Aiello — the Oscar-nominated character actor who featured in films like Do the Right Thing, Moonstruck, and The Purple Rose of Cairo — has died at the age of 86. Aiello’s literary agent, Jennifer De Chiara, confirmed to Rolling Stone that Aiello died Thursday night; Aiello’s family said in …
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Everyone’s favorite stalker is back on Netflix on December 26th: Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley), bookstore manager-turned-killer, returns for You Season 2, and this time Joe has moved to sunny L.A. “You know, love has taken me to some pretty dark places,” Joe says in the trailer, referring to how he …
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Oprah Winfrey has signed on to produce a new documentary about sexual abuse in the music industry that will premiere on Apple TV+ next year. Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering will helm the project, which, per a press release, will follow “a brilliant former music executive who grapples with whether …
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It’s a strange feeling to watch an episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by first-ballot All-Time Cast Member Will Ferrell and think, “Hmm, maybe Ryan Reynolds should have hosted this one instead?” Rather than look at this episode as a failure, perhaps it’s better look at it as the prime …
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The Daily Show‘s Trevor Noah mocked President Trump on Monday over his “virtually impenetrable” U.S./Mexico border wall, following reports that smugglers have cut through sections of the barrier using specialized blades and popular cordless power tools available at many hardware stores for around $100. Trump boasted about the wall’s sturdiness …
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Game of Thrones co-creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have dropped out of a new Star Wars trilogy that was supposed to start hitting theaters in 2022, Variety reports. In February 2018, the pair were tapped to write and produce a new series of films separate from the franchise’s primary …
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It’s been 10 years since the original, but Zombieland seems like yesterday to the returning cast: Woody Harrelson as the redneck warrior Tallahassee; Jesse Eisenberg as the nerdy Columbus; Emma Stone as seen-it-all Wichita; and Abigail Breslin as Little Rock, her little sister. In case you forgot, they’re all named …
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“This is probably not something I should be saying to you, but this movie, strictly speaking, does not need to exist.” This was Vince Gilligan, late in a long phone conversation about El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. Despite having created one of the greatest TV series ever, and its …
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“I got guns,” legendary gangster Bumpy Johnson (Forest Whitaker) announces. “I got soldiers,” Malcolm X (Nigel Thatch) replies. For Epix’s new Godfather of Harlem — a Sixties period piece that mixes Mob action with civil-rights rhetoric — it’s a match made in gritty-drama heaven. Co-created by the Narcos team of …
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