Natalie Portman has been a vocal proponent of the “Time’s Up” initiative, and in a new interview with Porter magazine, she explained that she’s been diving more and more into her own past experiences as a result of it. “I went from thinking, ‘I don’t have a story’ to ‘Oh, …
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Its Oscar nomination this week as Best Foreign-Language Film isn’t the only thing that makes The Insult a must-see – Lebanese filmmaker Ziad Doueiri’s legal thriller fairly crackles with timely provocations. And don’t be put off if the film’s structure initially seems schematic to a fault. This is a director …
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The debut trailer for Netflix anthology crime-drama series Seven Seconds explores the intersection of grief, deceit and social injustice. When a white police officer critically injures a black teenager with his car and attempts to cover up the crime, a New Jersey town careens into turbulent racial tension. The clip …
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Ann Curry discussed the firing of her former Today co-host Matt Lauerand correcting power imbalances in the workplace with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show on Monday. Curry’s professional relationship with Lauer at Today was strained and Colbert pointed out that he was widely seen as the man behind her …
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Bill Murray made a guest appearance on Saturday Night Live to portray Steve Bannon and Fred Armisen returned to play author Michael Wolff in the cold open sketch about the Trump White House book Fire and Fury. Taking place on the set of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Armisen’s Wolff told Kate …
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Carrie Brownstein is heading into the eighth and final season of Portlandia, but she already has another show in the works. The Sleater-Kinney cofounder is adapting her 2015 memoir, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, into a pilot for Hulu, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The half-hour show, Search and …
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No matter how senseless the plots of his movies, Jaume Collet-Serra can direct the hell out of them – andThe Commuter is no exception. The Spanish filmmaker, who wickedly used Blake Lively as shark bait in The Shallows, keeps the tension on such a high burner that you won’t realize …
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TheGolden Globe Awardswill likely kick off the awards season with some controversy given the call for change within Hollywood’s power structures. ComedianSeth Meyerswill host the event. He recentlytold Peoplethat his monologue won’t shy away from hot topics. “As far as talking about anything in the news right now, it seems …
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Director Ridley Scott is a real magician. He sure as hell pulls a rabbit out of a hat in All the Money in the World, a fact-based kidnap thriller that seemed on the road to becoming the first cinema casualty of the sexual misconduct era. There was Scott, ready to …
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Randy Newman discussed his natural mode of shuffling, getting dressed by Lorne Michaels and rejected by Frank Sinatra on The Tonight Show Monday. Host Jimmy Fallon joined Newman at the piano for a quick interview, allowing the musician to provide some musical accompaniment as he discussed the shuffling rhythms that …
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