Amid all the other things she has to view — some 1,500 shows and counting to feed 130 million TV-hungry members — Cindy Holland still fields the occasional video from water-skiers, asking her to evaluate their form. Now Netflix’s Vice President of Original Content, Holland was once, incredibly, a high-level, …
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Anne Hathway helps Rebel Wilson master the art of the perfect con in the new trailer for The Hustle, set to arrive May 10th. In the film, Hathaway plays a high-class scammer who takes Wilson, a small-time crook, under her wing and teaches her how to properly fleece wealthy men. …
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Imagine a shrink being driven nuts by characters from 13 of the world’s most famous paintings, each of whom want to attack him. That’s the premise of this mesmerizing mindbender and the fiction feature debut of Slovenian-born artist Milorad Krstic, who’s starting his potently promising film career at the ripe …
Read More »'What Men Want' Review: Toothless Retread Flips the Genders but Not the Script
Taraji P. Henson powers through the comic clichés of What Men Want like a supernova engine that could. She’s a hot-wired riot, but her movie stalls almost as soon as it starts. It’s a gender flip on What Women Want, the nearly two-decades-old Nancy Meyers rom-com in which Mel Gibson …
Read More »Celine Dion Biopic 'The Power of Love' in the Works
A biopic on Celine Dion is in the works, Variety reports. The Valerie Lemercier-directed The Power of Love is slated for a 2020 release and will feature the singer’s music. Lemercier will also star as Dion in the French film. Dion and her record company authorized the project and gave …
Read More »'Kimmel' Predicts Trump's 'Alternative' State of the Union is Heading to Pay-Per-View
Jimmy Kimmel Live mocked the ongoing political tension between President Trump and Democratic leaders with a hilarious, fake promo for a “shutdown showdown steel slat brawl” between the president, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Kimmel opened the monologue piece from Wednesday’s episode with …
Read More »The Last Word: Conan O'Brien on Catholicism, 'The Simpsons' and Life As Late Night's Elder Statesman
A decade ago, Conan O’Brien’s future was uncertain. He’d lost the Tonight Show to its former host Jay Leno in an embarrassing coup, and announced he was moving his late-night show to TBS. Now, O’Brien is doing fine. His new podcast, Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, is currently the Number …
Read More »'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' Season 6 Review: Joyfully Revived and In Its Rightful Home
As Tom Sawyer learned when the people of St. Petersburg, Missouri gathered to erroneously mourn him, Huck Finn and Joe Harper, funerals are wasted on the dead. Better to say all those nice things to the ones you love while they’re still around to hear them. Last spring, Brooklyn Nine-Nine …
Read More »Best TV to See in January: New 'True Detective,' Live 'Rent,' 'Black Monday'
So what’s shakin’ on the old tube this month, you ask? NBC re-introduces a cult sitcom yanked back from the brink of cancellation; Showtime’s got a snazzy period piece set in the coke-fueled world of high finance; Comedy Central pulls back the curtain on a new project from a pair …
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