A review of “The Unknown,” this week’s Better Things, coming up just as soon as I show you a copy of the Fiddler on the Roof cast album… For Season Three, Better Things dropped its original opening credits sequence scored to John Lennon’s “Mother,” opting for a shorter one where …
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Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth suit up and do battle with shape-shifting aliens that have managed to infiltrate the MIB organization in the new trailer for Men in Black: International, out June 14th. The new clip introduces Thompson’s character, Agent M, a new recruit who spent 20 years trying to …
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The question mark may throw you at first: Wait, so are you asking us if we pledge fealty to the Prince of Darkness, or …. But as filmmaker Penny Lane’s documentary on the Satanic Temple makes clear early on, the innate sense of inquiry in the title is indeed there …
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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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The story of the Skywalker family ends December 20th, and in front of a cheering, lightsaber-waving crowd at Chicago’s Star Wars Celebration convention Friday morning, director J.J. Abrams and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy finally announced the title of the final film in the saga: Star Wars: Episode IX – The …
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Nope, it’s not a Chinese-language remake of Eugene O’Neill’s daunting masterpiece about the disintegration of a family over a 24-hours period. In his second feature after 2015’s rhapsodically received Kaili Blues, writer-director Bi Gan, 28, takes you on a rapturous ride through the night that will knock you for a …
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is doing his best to keep his mouth shut about the upcoming ending of Game of Thrones. The actor appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to discuss his arc as Jamie Lannister on the HBO series and allowed Kimmel quiz him on a few fan theories. “I’m a terrible …
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Filmmaker Cameron Crowe and the cast of Say Anything… will reunite for a special 30th anniversary screening and discussion at the Tribeca Film Festival. The festival also announced it would host the premieres of a new documentary about Phish frontman Trey Anastasio, Between Me and My Mind, as well as …
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What if The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air were shot in 2019 and was a serious indie movie instead of a goofy early 1990s sitcom? That’s the brilliant question director that cinematography Morgan Cooper poses in his hilarious fake trailer Bel-Air, which hit the internet earlier this week and has already …
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On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver demonstrated the skin-crawling annoyance of robocalls by targeting the exact agency that could stop them, the Federal Communications Commission, with a hilarious robocall of his own. But before that satisfying grand finale, the comedian explained the “clearly infuriating” phenomenon in the show’s main …
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