Amazon Studios has premiered the first trailer for Mayor Pete, a documentary centered on Pete Buttigieg‘s campaign to be the first openly gay U.S. president. The film, directed by Jesse Moss and co-written by Moss, Amanda McBaine, and Jeff Gilbert, will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on November 12th. “When …
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The newly muscled-up Kumail Nanjiani plays Marvel’s immortal superhero Kingo in November 5th’s Eternals — but that’s just the beginning of the former Silicon Valley star’s radical career makeover. In our recent interview with Nanjiani (coming soon online and in the new issue of Rolling Stone), he also discusses his …
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George Clooney has said he wouldn’t run for president of the United States because he would rather have a “nice life.” In aninterview with the BBC’s Andrew Marr yesterday (October 10th), the Oscar winner said entering politics does not appeal to him, and instead looks forward to reducing his workload. …
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You know how it goes. You’ve got a rowdy kid in the backseat who won’t sit down, won’t shut up and isn’t wearing her seatbelt, so you reach back with one eye still on the road to play parent and gain control over the situation, only to realize that you …
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Just five months after Army of the Dead premiered on Netflix, the zombie film has already spawned a prequel, Army of Thieves. The streaming service revealed the first trailer for the movie Saturday during the streaming service’s Tudum event. While Army of the Dead was an undead action film, its …
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The crowds were gone — that was the first thing you noticed at this year’s Toronto Film Festival. Normally, over the course of the 10 days that this annual gathering of film lovers and lookie-loos fans, you’ll find throngs of people outside the Princess of Wales Theatre or the Roy …
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Roy Kent arrived at the exact right moment in Brett Goldstein’s life. It’s already become a legendary bit of modern showbiz lore. The British actor, 41, was originally hired as a writer on Apple TV+’s breakout hit series Ted Lasso. After the writers room wrapped on the first season, however, …
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Bleecker Street has released the first trailer for Together, a dark comedy starring James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan that takes place during the pandemic. The film, directed by Stephen Daldry, is told over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, following a bickering couple as they deal with both the new …
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Most writers are intimately familiar with the near-impossible task of writing a compelling lede — the first few lines of a story designed to hook the reader and draw them in. Yet in 2015, a former Hooters waitress from Detroit logged onto her Twitter account and did it in seconds. …
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Conan O’Brien closed out his late-night run with a sweet reflection on how he’s tried to build a career out of blending smart with stupid on the final episode of Conan Thursday, June 24th. “I have devoted all of my adult life to pursuing this strange, phantom intersection between smart …
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