On The Daily Show Wednesday, Trevor Noah mulled over some possible job prospects for Prince Harry after he and his wife, Meghan Markle, announced that they were effectively splitting from the royal family. Yesterday, Harry and Markle made the largely unprecedented move to “step back” from the royals and “carve …
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Ricky Gervais opened the 77th annual Golden Globe Awards by, as usual, lashing out at the industry everyone’s there to celebrate — cracking jokes about the death of traditional cinema, the Martin Scorsese/Marvel controversy and the terrible reviews for the new film adaptation of Cats. He opened on a darkly …
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Some of us have spent nearly as much time in Springfield as we have in our own actual hometowns. So much has changed in the decades since The Simpsons debuted on Fox in 1989 (and streaming now on Disney+), but some things never grow old. Which led to an even …
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While the first season of The Boys premiered in July, Amazon has already shared a teaser for the show’s forthcoming second season. In the new trailer, the anti-heroes and sociopathic superheroes are back and covered in blood. The brief video doesn’t feature any dialogue between the characters, but a lot …
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Imagine Invasion of the Body Snatchers for the age of antidepressants — that’s Little Joe, the seventh feature (and first in English) from Austrian provocateur Jessica Hausner (Lourdes, Amour Fou). Hausner doesn’t so much do another Body Snatchers remake (there’s already been three) as spin its thesis for her own …
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Rey, Finn, Poe, Chewbacca, C-3PO and BB-8 find themselves on the run from a squad of stormtroopers with some new tricks in a new clip from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, out December 20th. Although just 30 seconds long, the clip teases part of a thrilling chase, with Rey …
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There may not be a more potent cinegeek buzz than discovering a new filmmaker with a fully formed voice and vision right out of the gate. France’s Mati Diop has ties to African-cinema royalty — her uncle is Djibril Diop Mambéty, the man who gave the world the 1973 landmark …
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Kate (Emilia Clarke) is in a rut. Long ago, as a girl growing up in Yugoslavia circa 1999, she was a songbird who could turn George Michael’s “Heal the Pain” into a transcendental choral experience. Decades later, she’s a young woman who drinks away her pain in London’s pubs and …
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Olivia Newton-John‘s iconic Grease leather jacket and black pants sold at auction Saturday for $405,000, more than double its pre-auction estimate. The combined outfit, which the actress-singer wore during the film’s closing performance of “You’re the One That I Want,” was the top-selling item in a Julien’s Live auctiondedicated to …
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James Corden invited Arnold Schwarzenegger to play a round of “Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts” on The Late Late Show, which involves eating disgusting substances if you refuse to answer a question. In the clip, Corden asks the actor how he’s feeling about the possibility of eating things …
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