This post contains spoilers for this week’s Better Call Saul, “Nippy,” which we recapped here. Better Call Saul viewers can be forgiven for assuming that AMC aired the wrong episode this week. “Nippy,” an episode-length trip into the black-and-white world of Gene Takovic from Cinnabon — a.k.a. the fugitive alias …
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“I’mdeeply cracked from a combination of Talmud and LSD,” says Natasha Lyonne, flicking a cigarette in her hand from the couch of her Los Angeles home, where she’s been chatting by Zoom for over an hour. She is attempting to explain the underpinnings of her show Russian Doll, a metaphysical …
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There’s a moment in the third episode of And Just Like That,the new Sex and the Cityrevival, that offers a glimmer of what made the original franchise so iconic. Emboldened after watching the (frankly, terrible) Netflix stand-up special taping of Carrie’s podcast co-host Che (played by Sara Ramirez), Miranda (Cynthia …
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There are stories that, for better or worse, stay with you forever. You just can’t shake them. If I squint and close my eyes, I can almost see myself in early 2007 and how it went, sitting there high atop a rooftop patio at the shabby, glitzy, infamous Chateau Marmont …
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We do not like Oscar prognosticating. We do not like it on a boat, we do not like it with a goat. We do not like it with eggs and salmon, and we do not like it from Pete Hammond. Nothing against the journalists who cover this beat, of course; …
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It starts with a rumble, an earthshaking sonic blast that sounds like the “Zimmer Honk” played through some sort of cosmic coliseum’s P.A. system. It is an announcement: Something massive is underway. An opening quote, “Dreams are messages from the deep,” suggests you’re about to go on a tour of …
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“It is not a TV show. It’s a movie. It’s going to be on a TV channel, but it’s not a TV show.” This is Sopranos creator David Chase, summing up why he was so excited to make The Many Saints of Newark, a Sopranos prequel film that will be …
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It’s the start of July in southeast London, and Mica Levi is enjoying a rare, semi-hot day in their garden. They can’t quite remember when they handed in the final music files for Zola. “It’s kind of a bit of a blur, to be honest with you,” Levi tells Rolling …
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It was shortly after Eddie Huang got out of an Italian jail cell and was in the doghouse with his third TV show that he thought: “Maybe it’s time to make that coming-of-age sports movie I’ve been thinking about.” To hear the 39-year-old raconteur, Renaissance man, and director of the …
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“What?” Oprah Winfrey can be many things in her capacity as an interviewer: Serene. Nurturing. Familiar. Probing. Occasionally naive in the way that only someone as rich and famous as her can be. What she almost never is, though? Flummoxed. Yet with that one quick syllable, and the expression that …
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