Black Panther star Letitia Wright faced off with one of the world’s undisputed freestyle masters, the Roots‘ Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter, in a goofy rap battle on Wednesday’s Tonight Show. But a late contender, host Jimmy Fallon, may have emerged victorious. The “Freestyle Generator” selected three words for the rappers …
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Jim Henson’s cult classic Labyrinth, which famously starred David Bowie as the Goblin King, will return to movie theaters April 29th, May 1st and May 2nd. The screenings are part of a collaboration between the Jim Henson Company, Sony Pictures and Fathom Events. Tickets are on sale now via the …
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Broad City will end after its fifth season, expected to air in early 2019, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show’s creators and stars, Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson, have also signed a first-look deal with Comedy Central’s parent company, Viacom, and are already working onfuture projects for the companies. …
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Overexaggeration is what makes professional wrestling the big-stage, fist-fight fantasy that it is, but for Andre the Giant – one of the niche business’ greatest legends – the allure was in reality. Jason Hehir’s HBO documentary Andre the Giant, which premiered on HBO on Tuesday night, explores the real-life mystique, …
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It’s a movie about a boy, a horse and the setbacks that befall them – so you can be forgiven for walking into Lean On Pete and immediately thinking you’ve just landed right smack dab in the middle of Tearjerker Central. Don’t worry: British writer-director Andrew Haigh (Weekend, 45 Years) …
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It’s a sex farce about three high school girls who make a pact to lose their virginity on prom night – until their parents decide to cock-block them, that is. On paper, Blockers sounds bloody awful, like the spawn of Mean Girls and Superbad that nobody wanted. “Well, bite me!” …
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An A League of Their Own series is in the works at Amazon, with Broad City‘s Abbi Jacobson on board to co-write the television reboot. The comedy series will be a complete overhaul of the beloved 1992 baseball movie, meaning that the film’s central characters – played by Tom Hanks, …
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The setting is Paris in 1964. Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (Geoffrey Rush) has invited his friend, the American art writer James Lord (Armie Hammer), to pose for a portrait. Intrigued and flattered – Giacometti’s elongated sculptures and paintings had made him world famous – the subject agrees to sit for …
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Drew Barrymore‘s Sheila Hammond character hasn’t quelled her thirst for human flesh in Season Two of Netflix’s horror-comedy series Santa Clarita Diet. In fact, she and her husband Joel (Timothy Olyphant) are working on designing a kill room and he’s helping her clean their bloodied-up kitchen in the new trailer. …
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Let’s be honest: By all accounts, The Good Place shouldn’t work. It’s a primetime network comedy – NBC, former home of Outsourced and Sean Saves the World – that breaks every primetime network comedy commandment, having spent its sophomore season blowing up its own premise every Thursday night. Other than …
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