Another The Good Place season has come to an end. A review of the finale, “Pandemonium,” coming up just as soon as I set up Drake and Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a secret couple … Even a show like The Good Place that takes such pleasure in surprising and confounding …
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Bohemian Rhapsodyhas become the highest-grossing biopic of all-time, thanks in large part to Queen‘s East Asian fans. According to sales figures from IMDB’s Box Office Mojo, the biopic has made more money in South Korea ($70 million) and in Japan ($64 million) than in the band’s home of Great Britain …
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Jennifer Aniston‘s character Rosie Dickson is reigning queen in her small Texas town as a former pageant winner who now runs the local pageant in the new trailer for Netflix’s forthcoming Dumplin’. However, when her self-proclaimed “fat” daughter Willowdean (Danielle Macdonald) enters the pageant, she starts a body positivity revolution …
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While adapting the nearly century-old tale, Bradley Cooper mulled a variety of ways to re-do a pivotal scene of the film’s dramatic climax. Warner Bros. Pictures Group chairman Toby Emmerich revealed some of them in theVarietycover story on Lady Gaga. [Warning: Spoilers ahead] Through all four major versions ofA Star …
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Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, who covered the Texas senatorial race for the Late Show, visited Stephen Colbert Friday to discuss why Ted Cruz defeated Beto O’Rourke. “It’s Texas. Let’s face it, Texas is a red state,” Triumph explained. “A pile of armadillo crap could win in Texas as long …
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Mahershala Ali plays a detective haunted by a decades-old mystery in the latest trailer for HBO‘s long-awaited third season of True Detective. Season 3 of Nic Pizzolatto’s grim crime anthology stars Oscar winner Ali as Wayne Hays, a state police detective from Northwest Arkansas tasked with investigating the disappearance of …
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Tom Hanks’ chosen line of work, of course, is acting. Here’s how he started: On a family car trip, young Tom heard a bird, and announced that fact by adopting a Shakespearean delivery and saying, “Hark, a mourning dove!” It got a laugh, as he hoped. So he spent the …
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On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver examined Facebook‘s failed efforts to control hate speech in Myanmar – from inept banning practices to subpar hiring. “Facebook has been expanding aggressively abroad,” Oliver said of the social media site, which he described as “the worst place to wish someone ‘happy birthday’ …
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W. Kamau Bell reflects on his travels through Kenya with Anthony Bourdain in the latest trailer for the final season of Parts Unknown. Ahead of the episode’s September 23rd premiere, Bell also discussed the show’s importance in providing a window to other cultures. “Tony has made some of the best …
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Of the approximately 953 shows Netflix has debuted in the last five years, BoJack Horseman is far and away the best. The animated story of a half-man, half-horse former sitcom star grappling with depression, alcoholism and his own shrinking fame has also been one of the best shows on all …
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