Billy Eichner and Emma Stone bombard New Yorkers with questions about social media and film in the new installment of Billy on the Street. Eichner opens the episode with a rhetorical red herring. “So many questions on our mind: Will our country always be this divided? Are our civil rights …
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The Coen Brothers return to the Western genre in the new trailer for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Netflix‘s upcoming anthology film from the acclaimed directors. “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a six-part Western anthology film, a series of tales about the American frontier told through the unique and …
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BoJack Horseman continues his quest for self-actualization through a haze of booze and “Hollywoo” madness in the new trailer for Season Five of Netflix’s BoJack Horseman. The animated series returns September 14th. In the new season, BoJack finds himself starring in a new TV drama called Philbert (“It’s confusing, which …
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Netflix has released the first trailer for Orson Welles’ lost film The Other Side of the Wind, which the streaming service acquired after the late director’s collaborators assembled the film over 40 years after the footage was shot. The Other Side of the Wind – filmed between 1970 and 1977 …
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Comedian Chris Gethard announced the end of his long-running cult variety show, The Chris Gethard Show. In a note on Facebook, Gethard said that he and the show’s network, truTV, came to a “mutual decision” to end the program. The Chris Gethard Show was the lowest rated program on truTV …
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After the recent arrest and indictment of Maria Butina, the 29-year-old Russian activist who allegedly infiltrated the GOP and NRA via her gun rights group The Right to Bear Arms, many news outlets compared the story to a “spy triller” or episode of FX’s The Americans. Samantha Bee concurred on …
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In the first episode of Sacha Baron Cohen‘s new Showtime seriesWho Is America?, heroped several U.S. politicians into endorsing a program focused on arming children –in some cases, pre-schoolers –with guns and other weapons. And as Politico reports, the show utilized false identities, mock websites and lavish flattery to earn …
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The first new trailer for the forthcomingOrange Is the New Blackseason finds the main cast back behind bars – but not behind the same bars.After the prison riot that capped the fifth season, the women of Litchfield Penitentiary are thrown into a new prison. But the drama between prisoners rages …
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It’s a good month for TV documentary lovers: Curious viewers can learn a bit about the rich history of Detroit, the life and times of clown prince Robin Williams and/or the manifold wonders of the mighty shark on the small screen. Sadly, not all at once. Plus HBO mounts their …
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A tale of revenge over 30 years in the making is the centerpiece of Creed II. The sequel to the 2015 Rocky spinoff stars Michael B. Jordan as boxer Adonis Creed and Sylvester Stallone as former heavyweight champ and Creed’s trainer, Rocky Balboa. The trailer, soundtracked by Kendrick Lamar’s “DNA,” …
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