Weekend Update covered Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Super Bowl, the upcoming Trump impeachment trial and the video of Morgan Wallen using a racial slur on the latest episode of Saturday Night Live. Last week’s SNL episode focused on Greene, mocking her in the cold open and Weekend Update. Since …
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Cicely Tyson, the trailblazing actress died whose career spanned more than six decades, died Thursday afternoon, her manager Larry Thompson confirmed. She was 96. From the start of her career, Tyson resolved to portray strong, positive, and realistic images of black women onscreen, and for many, she represented an enduring …
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Netflix has released the trailer for Ginny & Georgia, a new comedy-drama that, in the vein of Gilmore Girls, follows the misadventures of a thirty-something mother trying to raise her teenage daughter. The series premieres February 24th on the streaming platform. Ginny & Georgia stars Antonia Gentry as Ginny Miller, a biracial …
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A Lifetime biopic about Salt-N-Pepa? Pick up on this! If you happen to love both Lifetime movies and Eighties rap goddesses, Salt-N-Pepa has everything: Two around-the-way girls meet in school, bond over music, break into the NYC hip-hop game, and blow up into superstars, with hits like “Push It” and …
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The Midnight Sky After setting out in search of a planet that could sustain human life, the crew aboard the spaceship Aether knows that they have finally found some answers. The only problem is that they’ve somehow lost contact with those on the ground back home waiting for them. On …
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In The Forty-Year-Old Version, first-time filmmaker Radha Blank (who also wrote and stars in the movie) plays a fictionalized version of herself. A satire of “the theater world, middle age, New York, the racial and gendered expectations of commercial art,” as K. Austin Collins detailed in his review, the beautiful …
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A 35-year-old man was arrested in New York Saturday in connection to the unprovoked assault on actor Rick Moranis in October. Marquis Ventura was charged with second-degree assault stemming from the October 1st incident where Moranis was sucker-punched while walking near Central Park. Ventura — who the NYPD said is …
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To celebrate Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential race, James Corden and the staff of The Late Late Show staged an election-themed parody of the Happy Days opening on Monday night. While Corden, his writers, stage crew, and house bandleader Reggie Watts danced around the set in Uncle Sam attire, they …
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If you grew up in the Nineties, you were blessed with a steady supply of witch’s brew. Between movies like Hocus Pocus, Practical Magic, Eve’s Bayou, and The Witches — and in TV shows like Charmed, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Sabrina the Teenage Witch — outsider females with supernatural …
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Bol (Sope Dìrísù) and Rial (Wunmi Mosaku) are a young pair of asylum seekers fleeing the all-consuming violence of South Sudan by way of a dangerous and all-too-familiarly tragic voyage across the Mediterranean. We get glimpses of that violence at home, as well as the voyage toward ostensible security in …
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