Maybe the simplest way to describe Mike Mills’s new film C’mon C’mon is as an adventure in babysitting. Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) is a radio producer who’s undertaken an ambitious project to travel the country interviewing young people about the future and their feelings about it — about climate change, animal …
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When the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve, 2022 will bring with it the HBO Max premiere of Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts. The retrospective special will feature stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson joining director Chris Columbus for a celebration of the beloved franchise. …
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The first thing you need to know about the new Paramount+ drama Mayor of Kingstown is that it is not a spinoff, reboot, or in any other way tied to Mare of Easttown, despite the two shows having sound-alike names. It’s the most confusing bit of series nomenclature since NCIS …
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Back home in her native Ukraine — where she “grew up on a Soviet military base in the Arctic Circle surrounded by reindeer and nuclear submarines,” according to her personal website — Halyna Hutchins studied investigative journalism at Kyiv National University. After graduation, she channeled her curiosity and nose for …
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Back in the day — “the day” being 14th-century France, when the loyal soldiers of King Charles VI fought the English in the Hundred Years War, and women had slightly more rights than livestock — you did not meet the slander of your good name with a strongly worded letter …
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A review of this week’s Ted Lasso, “No Weddings and a Funeral,” coming up just as soon as I fat-shame a baby to tears… The title of “No Weddings and a Funeral” is, of course, a nod to Richard Curtis’ breakthrough movie as a writer of rom-coms, Four Weddings and …
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Norm Macdonald always had a way of making mundane, everyday things — the habits of a moth, Germans’ inexplicable love of David Hasselhoff, crime in New York City — absolutely hilarious. Unlike other comics, he wasn’t prone to exaggeration or absurdity; he simply presented the world as he saw it, …
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Jeopardy! has announced that Mike Richards and Mayim Bialik will both serve as full-time hosts of the quiz game show when it returns for its 38th season this fall, the Daily Beast first reported and producers later confirmed. Richards — as initially reported by Variety earlier this month — will …
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Blame Johnny Depp. I mean, listen, feel free to blame the actor for any number of things, if you want. But specifically, in terms of riot-act reading, let’s go back to 2003, when Mr. Depp slapped on a head scarf, trotted out his best Keef Richards wobble and slur, and …
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MGM has unveiled the first trailer for Flag Day, a new film directed by and starring Sean Penn. Based on Jennifer Vogel’s memoir, Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life, the film details the relationship between Jennifer and her father John Vogel, the most notorious counterfeiter in …
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