Matthew McConaughey, Jimmy Fallon and the Roots‘ Tariq Trotter squared off in a round of “True Confessions” on Tuesday’s Tonight Show, using detective-style interrogation to validate wild stories about mountain rams, ferry docking and Kanye West. Each player received two envelopes: one containing a real story, the other a lie. …
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Quentin Tarantino has spent his summer bringing his favorite stars aboard his next big project, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a 1960s crime drama set that reportedly will include the Manson Family murders. But perhaps the most intriguing role of all, Charles Manson, had remained unclaimed — until now. …
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Robin Leach, the entertainment reporter best known for showcasing celebrities’ extravagant wealth on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, died Thursday at age 76. The journalist, who was under hospice care at the time of his death, had been hospitalized since November 21st after a stroke, according to The Hollywood …
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Robby Müller, the cinematographer known for his collaborations with Wim Wenders and Jim Jarmusch as well as his work on Repo Man, Honeysuckle Rose and To Live and Die in L.A., has died at the age of 78. Dutch newspaper Het Parool (via The Guardian) reported that Müller, known as …
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For starters, the follow-up to 2016’s Sicario is not in the same essential-viewing category as the original – that’s what happens when you remove inspired director Denis Villeneuve from the equation. Ditto actress Emily Blunt who humanized the original’s covert drug action as a conflicted FBI field agent and is …
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Brockmire, the IFC comedy starring Hank Azaria as disgraced, debauched baseball announcer Jim Brockmire, wasn’t as much fun in its second season (which concluded last night) than in its first. This was by design, though. As part of a planned three-season arc that has since morphed into a four-season one, …
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For all Taraji P. Henson fans out there – and I’m a card-carrying, dues-paid-up member of the club – the bad news is that her latest feature, following on the heels of this year’s hitwoman horror show Proud Mary, sucks this glorious actress down into more cinematic quicksand. Tyler Perry‘s …
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Oh, April – not quite the end of late-winter prestige section, not quite the official kick-off month of summer moviegoing! Assuming such seasonal categories even mean anything any more – the month’s big-ticket events are no less than the Marvel Universe’s ultra-mega-super-crossover-apaloozaAvengers: Infinity Warand the Rock and a giant ape …
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“It was a dark and stormy night.” That’s the first sentence of Madeline L’Engle’s 1962 fantasy novel A Wrinkle in Time, a smoke-screen opening salvo that doesn’t begin to prep readers for what lies ahead in this beloved kids’ book: tesseracts and shape-shifting biddies, shadowy forces and M.I.A. fathers, interdimensional …
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Kobe Bryant‘s Oscar win Sunday night sparked plenty of indignation on social media given the current call-out culture and an awards season where sexual harassment and assault have been at the forefront of discussions about the industry. The NBA star, who took home an Oscar for an animated short he …
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