Family members of those killed in the July 20th, 2012, mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, in which a lone gunman fired on a movie theater audience during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises, have signed a letter to Warner Bros. voicing their concerns over the studio’s upcoming film, Joker, …
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Game of Thrones and Fleabag won big at the 2019 Emmy Awards, as the Television Academy bid farewell to several old favorites and looked to usher in a new generation of shows, performers and creators. The hit HBO fantasy won its fourth Outstanding Drama trophy for its final season, while …
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The title of Matt Tyrnauer’s stone-the-bastard documentary about the corrupt lawyer, attack dog and inhuman being who everyone loved to hate comes from Donald Trump. “Where’s My Roy Cohn?” the President reportedly shouted in frustration when his attorney general Jeff Sessions dared to recuse himself from the Russia investigation. Cohn …
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Will evil, murderous clown Pennywise ever find true love? That’s the question at the heart of James Corden‘s IT spoof “The BachelorIT,” in which the Late Late Show host plays the horrific villain as a contestant on The Bachelorette. In the clip, a group of handsome, normal men (all named …
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UPDATE: Leslie Jones will not return to Saturday Night Live after five seasons on the show. Jones joined the cast in 2014 and quickly became a fan favorite, especially for her appearances on Weekend Update. It’s unclear exactly why Jones decided to leave the cast ahead of its 45th season, …
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This post contains full spoilers for the series finale of FX’s Legion. As Professor X himself, Charles Xavier (Harry Lloyd), confronts the powerful telepath Amahl Farouk (Navid Negahban) on the astral plane late in the Legion series finale, Farouk scoffs at Xavier choosing a military knife as his weapon. The …
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In the era of #MeToo, in which women are finally being given a voice against sexual predators, a movie about a false rape accusation feels like a tough sell. Brian Banks is an earnestly told true story of criminal injustice focusing on Banks (a terrific Aldis Hodge in a bust-out …
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Had D.A. Pennebaker never done anything but hop a flight to London, 16mm camera in tow, and follow around a scrawny young singer who jousted with journalists, was worshipped as a frizzy-haired god and entertained himself with entourage-fueled shenanigans, he would still have secured himself a place in rock history …
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live Wednesday and talked about the surreal experience of watching Marianne Williamson drop a “yada yada yada” — the phrase famously used on Seinfeld — during a recent Democratic primary debate. Williamson slipped the “yada yada” in while responding to a question about gun …
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Martin Scorsese‘s highly anticipated new film, The Irishman, will have its world premiere at the 2019 New York Film Festival Friday, September 27th, festival organizers announced on Monday. “‘The Irishman’ is so many things: rich, funny, troubling, entertaining and, like all great movies, absolutely singular,” said NYFF festival director Kent …
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