Melissa McCarthy is a lock for a Best Actress Oscar nomination for Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the true story of Lee Israel, a lonely, embittered author of celebrity biographies who took up forgery to pay the bills when her jobs dried up. The Academy previously rewarded McCarthy with a …
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In his most recent stand-up special, Saturday Night Live alumnus John Mulaney jokes at one point that, “Building a gazebo during the Civil War is like doing stand-up comedy now.” It’s a little hard to understand what he’s saying without hearing his inflection, but in essence he’s pointing out the …
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The ongoing efforts to reverse Steven Avery’s murder conviction are highlighted in the new trailer for Season Two of Making a Murderer. The show returns to Netflix October 19th. The new clip touches on the breakout success of Making a Murderer and how the show has changed Avery’s life, even …
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In this week’s batch o’ trailers, we get a sneak previews of: a superheroine going dark (very dark); Michael B. Jordan getting the eye of the tiger; the next Harry Potter side franchise and a new Transformers spin-offs; and the final season of House of Cards before the Netflix show …
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Zoë Kravitz will star as the lead role in the upcoming TV adaptation of Nick Hornby’s novel, High Fidelity. The series will run for 10 episodes on Disney‘s upcoming streaming service, according to Variety. The show will depart from the 1995 book, which featureda London record storeowner in his mid-30s …
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Samantha Bee dissected the hypocrisy and spin surrounding the coverage of the sexual assault allegations that have upended the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Full Frontal Wednesday. On Sunday, Christine Blasey Ford, came forward and accused Kavanaugh of drunkenly pinning her to a bed and groping her …
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John Oliver opened Sunday’s Last Week Tonight by recapping the White House’s week of President Trump criticisms –from the anonymous senior official’s New York Times op-ed that called Trump’s actions “detrimental to the health of our republic” to the slew of harsh quotes from various staffers featured in Bob Woodward’s …
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Paul McCartney and Jimmy Fallon surprised unsuspecting fans in a hilarious sketch that aired on Thursday’s The Tonight Show. Groups of different fans were riding an elevator under the guise of being taken on an NBC Studios tour in 30 Rockefeller Center. Instead, the elevator opened to a scene of Paul …
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At first glance, Random Acts of Flyness might sound like something you’ve seen before: a block of programming where a stable of actors run through sketches, intercut with musical performances and acerbic takes on the issues of the day. But the new HBO series from Terence Nance isn’t like anything …
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With the debut of Amazon’s Jack Ryan, John Krasinski will be the fifth actor to play the title character, a CIA analyst introduced in a series of best-selling Eighties novels by Tom Clancy(*). Krasinski follows Alec Baldwin in The Hunt For Red October, Harrison Ford in Patriot Games and A …
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