Kevin Smith‘s comedy series, Hollyweed, may or may not see a full season, depending on how fans value it. As Variety reports, the filmmaker-actor has teamed with Rivit TV to release the show’s pilot and its fate is up to how those who watch it vote. Rivit TV will stream …
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In a detailed piece on the upcoming Mexican election,John Olivertalked about the real prospect of the country electing its own version of President Trump. It’s a contradictory image, the comedian said on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight.He dubbed Mexico “Number Seven on the list of things Donald Trump is frightened of, …
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“Man, I am so sick of this shit,” the bulletproof title character of Luke Cage (Mike Colter) vents about his nemesis, politician-cum-crimelord Mariah Dillard (Alfre Woodard). “It’s always rinse and repeat with her.” By that point in Luke Cage‘s second season (it debuts on June 22nd), viewers will likely feel …
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Jason Bateman apologized for his comments in a New York Times interview in which he and several other men in the Arrested Development cast seemed to downplay an incident in which the show’s Jeffrey Tambor verbally harassed co-star Jessica Walter. “Based on listening to the NYT interview and hearing people’s …
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When Asia Argento released Scarlet Divaback in 2000, she didn’t think anyone would recognize the rotund Hollywood producer who tries to rape the main character, Anna Battista, as a character based on a real-life movie mogul. But it didn’t take long for others to figure it out. “I was asked …
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Is it possible to have too much of a good Marvel thing? Avengers: Infinity War tests that theory to the max. Don’t get me wrong: This movie is an epic event, built to celebrate the end of a decade in which the Marvel Cinematic Universe produced 19 films. One problem …
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As the entire late-night comedy landscape drilled Fox News host Sean Hannity for his connection to President Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen, Samantha Bee took her satire even further – mimicking the commentator’s conspiracy theories by launching her own wacky Full Frontal investigation, “Is Sean Hannity a Serial Killer?” Bee provided …
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With Tax Day just ahead on April 17th, John Oliver focused the main segment of Sunday’s Last Week Tonight on that dreaded non-holiday – which he dubbed “the government’s GoFundMe page.” Many Americans feel perplexed and infuriated by the our tax system – including rapper Cardi B, who recently posted …
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Hearing the news of the death of master filmmaker Milos Forman, images flooded in. Not of his movies; at least not right away. I remembered Milos, at his Connecticut farmhouse eight years ago poking at me with his cigar. Any threat in the motion dissipated instantly by the warm, mischievous …
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There are several Donald Sutherlands you’re likely to meet if you start spelunking through the nearly six decades of this Canadian actor’s screen career. There’s the sparkle-eyed Sixties hippie in he-man war films, the type of wonderfully anachronistic presence that enlivens movies like The Dirty Dozen (“Madison City, Missouri, sir!” …
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