Summer’s here, and the time is right for … top-flight popcorn entertainment along with some of the year’s most unexpected indie counter-programming. Check out the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s itty-bittiest defender! Or bask in the glory that is Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, doing his best John McClane (sans one leg to …
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In an updated edition of his memoir Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain reflected on his intentions for writing the blunt and raucous restaurant industry memoir that turned him into a household name. His goal, he explained, was “to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who …
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UPDATE:Samantha Beeapologized to Ivanka Trump and her viewership after she called the president’s daughter a “feckless cunt” on Wednesday’sFull Frontal. “I would like to sincerely apologize to Ivanka Trump and to my viewers for using an expletive on my show to describe her last night. It was inappropriate and inexcusable. …
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Innocence is a slippery concept: We’re never conscious of possessing it, only of having lost it. That’s the conceit behind writer-director Jennifer Fox’s extraordinary cinematic memoir The Tale(which begins airing May 26th on HBO) – a raw, personal chronicle of the sexual abuse she sustained as a child in the …
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Think back to the 2003 “pizza bomber” incident, and the first thing that comes to mind is probably the footage of a man sitting handcuffed next to a car, slightly blurry from a camera’s long zoom. He had a device around his neck, and seemed to be getting increasingly agitated. …
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Outer space’s deadliest hunters return to wreak havoc on Earth in the action-packed first trailer for the upcoming reboot of The Predator. The movie is set to open September 14th. In the new film, the extraterrestrials are drawn back to Earth by a young boy, who, in the opening scenes …
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Céline Dion, the queen of blockbuster-movie ballads, unveiled her latest belter, “Ashes,” which is set to appear in – of all films – Deadpool 2. The song arrives with a music video packed with every melodramatic trapping imaginable. Dion performs the powerhouse cut on a stage in an empty theater, …
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Stephen Colbert celebrated the return of President Trump’s physician Harold Bornstein to the news cycle on Tuesday’s Late Show following the story about Trump’s bodyguards allegedly raiding Bornstein’s office for Trump’s medical files. On Tuesday, Bornstein revealed in a wacky interview that Trump’s longtime bodyguard “raided” his office in February …
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“Let’s go to the steps.” Filmmaker William Friedkin is leading a group of journalists around Georgetown, the Washington, D.C. neighborhood that served as the setting for his 1973 blockbuster The Exorcist on a fittingly overcast April day. After a quasi-lecture about his history with the film in Georgetown University’s Healy …
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Hank Azaria addressed the controversy surrounding The Simpsons‘ character Apu when the actor, who voices the Kwik-E-Mart owner, visited the Late Show. “It’s come to my attention more and more, especially over the last couple of years, that people in the south Asian community in this country have been fairly …
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