Hours after President-elect Joe Biden was finally recognized as the winner of the 2020 presidential election, his Saturday Night Live counterpart Jim Carrey took the stage to deliver a victory speech. “We did it! Can you believe it? I honestly can’t. It’s been so long since something good happened,” Carrey’s …
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Netflix has premiered the first teaser trailer forBridgerton, the first series that the streaming platform has produced in partnership with Shonda Rhimes‘ production company Shondaland (Grey’s Anatomy,Scandal). The eight-episode series premieres December 25th. Inspired by Julia Quinn’s bestselling novels, Bridgerton takes place in Regency London high society and follows Daphne …
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Netflix has released the trailer for George Clooney’s new post-apocalyptic adventure film, The Midnight Sky, which is set to arrive in select theaters this December before hitting the streaming service December 23rd. Clooney directed and stars in the film as Augustine, a scientist in the Arctic who, in the aftermath …
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When my children were younger, they loved a series of books by Laura Numeroff and illustrator Felicia Bond with titles like If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Each book follows an animal along a series of random adventures where one thing leads to another (the cookie makes the mouse …
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It begins in Monte Carlo. A lady’s maid has a chance encounter with the storied Maxim de Winter: rich, handsome, a recent widower. He sends her a note: “Come for a drive.” So begins a succession of daily rendezvous and, increasingly, beachside scenes befitting the French riviera’s enthralling, cliffside shores …
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Saturday Night Live “rebroadcasted” Tuesday’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden for the first cold open of Season 46, with Alec Baldwin reprising the role of the president and Jim Carrey making his much-anticipated debut as the former vice president. Although Trump’s post-debate coronavirus diagnosis threatened to shake …
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One of the more gruesome familicides in recent history will be the focus of the upcoming Netflix documentary American Murder: The Family Next Door, a in-depth and terrifying look at the killing of the Watts family. The first trailer for the documentary presents the Watts’ — Chris and Shanann and …
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Actor Travis Fimmel discusses the monotony of milking cows, mortifying auditions and more in the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s “The First Time” video interview series. The Vikings star grew up on a cattle farm in Australia, started helping out as soon as he was old enough, but quickly grew …
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Trevor Noah examined the police shooting of Jacob Blake — as well as the non-violent arrest of a gunman accused of shooting protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin — on Wednesday’s The Daily Show. “Why do some people get shot seven times in the back, while other people are treated like human …
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If you want to be bored breathless by how Serbian inventor Nicola Tesla (1856-1943) figured into the feud between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse over direct and alternating currents, try 2019’s The Current War. It’s biopic trolling at its dullest. Or you may want to consider Tesla, which is both …
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