HBO has ordered a Game of Thrones prequel series titled House of the Dragon, which will center around House Targaryen, Variety reports. House of the Dragon is based on George R.R. Martin’s 2018 book, Fire and Blood, a companion to the main A Song of Ice and Fire series, which …
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Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke discussed his plan to end America’s mass incarceration crisis during an interview with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show Monday. Noah asked O’Rourke about the less obvious, but still important solutions needed to lower prison rates, and O’Rourke noted that change needs to begin at …
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Helen Mirren is an extraordinary actor. This is a fact as indisputable as the rising of the sun, the receding of the tides or the notion that borscht is actually best served cold rather than piping hot. We tend to take this basic truth for granted. So, unfortunately, do producers …
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The Lighthouse seeps into your bones with the chill of the sea wind. Stunningly directed by Robert Eggers from a script he wrote with his brother, Max, and shot in black and white in the boxy aspect ratio common in the silent era, The Lighthouseis set in the 1890s on …
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Stranger Things‘ Finn Wolfhard stars in the unsettling new trailer for The Turning, director Floria Sigismondi’s upcoming film adaptation of the 1898 Henry James novella, The Turn of the Screw. The clip follows Mackenzie Davis as a nanny who lands an unfortunate gig: watching after two creepy kids (Wolfhard and …
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Vice President Mike Pence and Saturday Night Live‘s cadre of White House characters talk strategy amid the ever-growing impeachment chatter in a cold open sketch that also featured guest Matthew Broderick debuting in the role of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. With Donald Trump out of office – “He’s meeting …
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Following his extensive coverage on the Russia investigation, or “Stupid Watergate,” John Oliver delved into President Trump’s political “sequel,” the Ukraine scandal, on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight. The comedian dubbed the political dustup “Stupid Watergate II: The Stupidest Watergate.” Oliver started off by summarizing the story: On a phone call …
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Matt Damon and Christian Bale attempt to upheave the race car industry in the new trailer for Ford v Ferrari, a retelling of the Ford Motor Company’s efforts to end Enzo Ferrari’s racing stranglehold in 1966. The James Mangold-directed film – which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and recently …
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Hilter is a very bad friend in the official trailer for director Taika Waititi‘s World World II satire JoJo Rabbit. The film follows a lonely German boy named JoJo, played by Roman Griffin Davis, who discovers his single mother (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a young Jewish girl (Thomasin McKenzie) in their …
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In “Safe Room,” the members of the Roy family are sequestered for their own protection. It makes for one of the series’ strongest episodes to date. Succession thrives in bottle episodes. Think: Tom’s bachelor party at a dark sex party; group therapy in an Arizona mansion; various castles scattered across …
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