After teasing the fifth and final season of Insecure earlier this month, HBO has shared the first full trailer for Issa Rae‘s comedy series before its return in October: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBb2Pbh20m4 – Issa Rae does some reflecting in the fifth and final season teaser for Insecure, airing on October 24th via …
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Lyra Belacqua may be just a kid, but she knows people. And polar bears. In this pivotal episode of His Dark Materials (titled “Armour” for reasons that soon become apparent), Lyra and her army of Gyptians arrive at the remote Northern village of Trollesund. It’s like a snowy version of …
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In the early morning hours of April 26th, 1986, just outside the Northern Ukraine city of Pripyat, something went wrong at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Thanks to a simulated power-failure exercise, human incompetence, design flaws and an inability to stop the domino effect as things began to spiral out …
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Ahead of the season premiere of Game of Thrones, HBO dropped the first trailer for the second season of another of the network’s most anticipated series, Big Little Lies. The minute-long clip picks up where the lives of the now-infamous “Monterey Five” – played by Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene …
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When Robin Williams died in 2014 at the age of 63, the news landed with a shock for several reasons. Though his final years found him treading water professionally, he was still Robin Williams – Oscar-winning actor, stand-up hall-of-famer, as big a star as ever lived. Few knew he’d been …
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It all started with a podcast. For both Phoebe Robinson and Jessica Williams, a chance work meeting led to the latter appearing on the former’s Web-chat extension of her blog Blaria (“black Daria“). Cut to three years later: The duo have their own hit podcast2 Dope Queens, appear in sold …
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Early in the new documentary Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge, a 22-year-old Jann Wenner is seen sitting at his desk in the cramped San Francisco loft where he started the magazine 50 years ago. The Berkeley dropout is surrounded by a bulging Rolodex, a rotary telephone and a photo …
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