Disenchantment, Simpsons creator Matt Groening‘s new animated fantasy parody for Netflix, uses the same art style that’s been the cartoonist’s trademark his entire career. Sweet, hapless Elfo (Nat Faxon) doesn’t look too far removed from Lisa and Maggie’s beloved Happy Little Elves; an obnoxious prince gets transformed into a swine …
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“When I’m out there, I feel like I’m all alone,” Sean “Dud” Dudley (Wyatt Russell) says. “But it’s different in here. I can see what this place is. I can feel it. Can’t you?” The sweetly dim surfer at the center of AMC’s Lodge 49 (premiering August 6th) is describing …
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Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga‘s remake of A Star is Born, Ryan Gosling‘s Neil Armstrong biopic, First Man, as well as new films from Barry Jenkins and Steve McQueen will show at the 2018 Toronto Film Festival. A Star Is Born marks Cooper’s directorial debut and finds the actor playing …
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Oh god, you want to love it. You really, really want to love it, or at least, y’know, like it a lot, to stand up and cheer with it. I mean, a movie about journalists, real ones, doing what they do best, pounding the pavement and searching for the truth? …
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The annual Emmy square dance is here – per usual, it’s a routine of three steps forward, two steps back. This year even allowed more room than usual for the unexpected as several major players from last year – Veep, Master of None, Better Call Saul, House of Cards – …
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A review of the Legion season finale – and thoughts on Season Two as a whole – coming up just as soon as I repeat the story about the time I cut the head off a Minotaur … Late in “Chapter 19,” David Haller‘s friends stage an extreme intervention for …
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Jerry Maren, the last surviving munchkin from The Wizard of Oz, has died at the age of 98. TMZ reports that Maren died last week at a San Diego nursing care facility, where the actor had spent the past few years as he battled dementia, and was laid to rest …
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In terms of opening scenes,Baltasar Kormákur’s true-story survivalist drama opens with a doozy: A young woman, bloodied and barely conscious, suddenly jolts awake. She’s below deck in a boat, which is filling up with water fast; you can hear the vessel creaking and groaning ominously all around her. A wave …
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After Roseanne Barr posted a tweet Tuesday morning comparing Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett to an ape, ABC has announced it has canceled the rebooted version of Roseanne, which had been the number-one show in television. “Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided …
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Kanye West‘s tweets are a catalyst for death in a Saturday Night Live sketch, dubbed “A Kanye Place,” that spoofed both the horror film A Quiet Place and the rapper’s social media activities. Like the recently released movie, the five protagonists, including SNL host Donald Glover, must stay perfectly quiet …
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