Hours after Oprah Winfrey supported Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams at a campaign event, Stephen Colbert analyzed the mega-celebrity’s political impact during Thursday’s Late Show. Winfrey claimed during her impassioned speech that she isn’t testing the waters for a presidential run, telling the crowd, “I want to make it very …
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Don’t miss the blaze that Carey Mulligan ignites in Wildlife. The British actress gives her considerable all to the role of Jeanette Brinson, a young housewife in Montana, circa 1960, who starts to unravel when her husband Jerry (Jake Gyllenhaal) heads to the mountains 40 miles away to fight wildfires …
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Scott Wilson, the veteran actor who starred as Hershel Greene over three seasons of The Walking Dead, has died at the age of 76 following a battle with cancer. The Walking Dead‘s Twitter announced Wilson’s death Saturday, just hours after the AMC zombie series’ New York Comic Con panel revealed …
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Kenan Thompson stopped by Late Night With Seth Meyers to detail his perspective on Kanye West‘s controversial, unaired speech after the cameras stopped rolling on this weekend’s Saturday Night Live season premiere. This is Thompson’s 16th season of the show, making him the series’ longest-running cast-member of all time. Thompson …
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A review of this week’s The Deuce, “What Big Ideas,” coming up just as soon as I have borscht on my tsitsis… “Shit, that’s the man I know.” -Darlene By now, we should be used to the idea of a Simon/Pelecanos show threading the needle between grim subject matter and …
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A review of tonight’s Better Call Saul coming up just as soon as I’ve got crawdads in my pants… “Let’s do it again.” -Kim Prequels are not generally designed to feature big mysteries. With this one, we know exactly what Jimmy McGill will become, and how the stories of Mike …
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If you want to scare the kiddies but still keep them giggling, Jack Black is your man. This peerless comic actor can do more with an arched eyebrow than a crazy-car stuffed with clowns, and it’s that old Black magic that ignites The House With a Clock in Its Walls, …
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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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In the world of sad clowns, there are the ones who hide how much they’re crying on the inside, because they want to give the people what they want. And then there are the ones who let their inner darkness out as early and often as possible. Jim Carrey belongs …
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