Imagine if, a few episodes into the first season of the Steve Carell version of The Office, NBC opted to pair it on a lineup with Extras, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s follow-up to the UK original Office. That would have seemed strange, right? Even for the millions of viewers …
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Hasan Minhaj implored America to reassess its relationship with Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. “Suddenly, America’s marriage of convenience with Saudi Arabia is starting to feel outdated,” the former Daily Show correspondent said Sunday on his new Netflix series Patriot Act. Minhaj provided …
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A review of this week’s The Deuce, coming up just as soon as I take my mom to see Oh! Calcutta!… “Maybe the next one.” -Candy This episode, “The Feminism Part,” concludes with someone shooting at Vince while he’s out for a drive. Given this season’s Mob wars, it seems …
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Jon Hamm is the latest celebrity to tackle James Corden’s recurring (and stomach churning) segment “Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts.” In the clip, the actor is confronted with a table full of gross-out items like fish eyes, bird saliva, tarantulas and bull penis. Hamm and Corden have to …
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Owen Milgrim (Jonah Hill), the mentally ill hero of the new Netflix drama Maniac, is obsessed with what’s real and what isn’t. It’s hard to blame him, since his illness often manifests itself as a hallucinatory doppelganger of his horrible brother Jed (Billy Magnussen), who sends Owen on nonexistent spy …
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“I keep having these memories. I see flashes. I think I have a life here,” Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers says in the first trailer for Captain Marvel. “But I can’t tell if it’s real.” The clip opens with her dramatically falling from the sky on to a Blockbuster video store’s …
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Last week, I attempted to review Amazon’s Forever despite a pretty exhaustive Do Not Reveal list from the show’s creators, Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard. All eight episodes of the first season are available now, so if you’ve watched it and want to think more about it — or if …
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A Star Is Born, coming off its acclaimed premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, hit a speed bump on the way to awards season when it was revealed that Jon Peters, one of the film’s producers, was accused of sexual harassment on multiple occasions. However, A Star Is Born‘s …
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Anything Liam Neeson can do, Jennifer Garner can do better. At least that’s the premise of this hilariously awful, insanely hard-to-swallow action thriller from Taken director Pierre Morel. Turns out the only ones who’ll be taken by this shoddy rip-off are the audience. Peppermint stars Garner as Riley North, an …
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Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuarón delves into the intertwining lives of working and middle class families in Seventies Mexico in the new trailer forRoma. Roma is centered around two domestic workers of Mixteco heritage, Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) and Adela (Nancy Garcia), who look after the four children of a family in …
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