Power of the Dog director Jane Campion garnered the full spectrum of internet love and hate over the weekend, first with her necessary quip about Sam Elliott, and then with an unnecessary quip about Venus and Serena Williams. On Saturday, March 12, Campion was on the red carpet for the …
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Following its debut Saturday at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival, Apple TV+ has dropped the new trailer for They Call Me Magic, the streaming service’s four-part documentary about Los Angeles Lakers great Earvin “Magic” Johnson. Featuring new interviews with Johnson, Barack Obama, NBA stars like Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and …
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Peacock has shared a new teaser from Bel-Air, the Fresh Prince of Bel Air reboot, which arrives on the streaming service on Super Bowl Sunday. The 45-second preview focuses on the confrontation at a West Philadelphia pickup basketball game that leads to the character Will Smith’s sojourn to Bel Air. …
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Edward Norton remembered his Fight Club co-star Meat Loaf on social media Friday following news of the Bat Out of Hell singer’s death at the age of 74. In one of the 1999 cult film’s opening scenes, Norton’s character is shown being enthusiastically hugged by Meat Loaf’s “Bob,” a fellow …
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Following the release of the Bel-Air trailer earlier this week — a dramatic spin on the Fresh Prince series— Saturday Night Live pitched a Peacock reboot of the ’90s sitcom Family Matters starring Urkel. “ Instead of California, the trailer for this “series” features the streets of Chicago and a …
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The second season of The White Lotus has booked its first guest, with actor Michael Imperioli checking in as the first confirmed cast member for Season 2 of the HBO black comedy series. According to Deadline, Imperioli will portray Dominic Di Grasso, who travels with his elderly father and recent …
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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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The word that kept coming to mind while watching The Matrix Resurrections was “echo.” Not déjà vu — not the spooky sensation of having dreamt or lived something already without being able to account for when or where it happened. But echo: in which you know the origin, you can …
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Like a lot of us, Aaron Sorkin loves Lucy. (For the record, the writer-director seems pretty fond of Desi as well.) He digs the way that former model Lucille Ball took her knocks as a contract player at RKO and transitioned to radio, where her manner of goosing punchlines through …
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A child actor who appeared in the 2012 film Beasts of the Southern Wild was shot and killed in New Orleans last week. Jonshel Alexander, who as a 12-year-old appeared in the role of Joy Strong in the award-winning indie film, died at the age of 22 in her native …
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