Terry Jones, one of the core members of Monty Python and director of three of the comedy troupe’s films, died Tuesday after a battle with a rare form of dementia, FTD, the BBC reports. He was 77. Jones’ agent confirmed his death, while his family also issued a statement. “We …
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UPDATE (8/6):Magnolia Pictures announced Thursday that it has acquired the North American rights to Zappa and will premiere the film in theaters and on-demand November 27. *** A little more than four years after filmmaker Alex Winter started making a documentary about rock iconoclast and classical composer Frank Zappa‘s life, …
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Parasite, Joker and 1917 will vie for multiple Oscars, including Best Picture, at the 92nd Academy Awards, set to take place February 9th. Along with those three films, the Best Picture category featured Ford v Ferrari, The Irishman, Jojo Rabbit, Little Women, Marriage Story and Once Upon a Time… in …
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FX’s anthology series Fargo is set in Kansas City, Missouri in 1950 for its fourth season, where two criminal syndicates come to a head. The city’s Italian mafia battle with an African-American crime family led by Chris Rock‘s Loy Cannon for power and control of the illicit economy. “Italians, they’re …
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Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones pilot a massive balloon in the trailer for the new movie The Aeronauts, coming to theaters December 6th. The film, set in 1862 and inspired by true events, stars Jones as daredevil balloon pilot Amelia Wren, who teams up with meteorologist James Glaisher (Redmayne) to achieve …
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Meryl Streep plays a widow who helps expose worldwide fraud in the dizzying first trailer for The Laundromat, director Steven Soderbergh‘s upcoming Netflix film about the Panama Papers scandal. The clip opens with a pair of shady law firm partners, Jürgen Mossack (Gary Oldman) and Ramón Mora (Antonio Banderas), breaking …
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Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie star as the women of Fox News in the trailer for Bombshell, Jay Roach’s new drama about the network and the scandal surrounding its founder, Roger Ailes. The film hits theaters in December. The trailer is a simple one, demonstrating the gendered hierarchy …
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“Behold the power of the darkening,” bellows one of the evil, vulture-like Skeksis creatures in the new trailer for Netflix‘s upcoming Dark Crystal prequel series. As his voice fills the dungeon like cavern, a machine seems to start and spinning, coaxing lasers from a crystal. The Dark Crystal: Age of …
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Stephen Colbert needled President Donald Trump after he refused to say whether or not he would stop the crowd at his next rally from chanting “Send her back” on The Late Show Thursday. Thursday night, Trump gave a speech in Cincinnati, Ohio — “For once chili on spaghetti was not …
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Samantha Bee tore into the Mueller hearings onFull Frontal Wednesday night, telling the audience that she watched the event with “mixed emotions”: Anticipation that it would push the Democrats to finally pursue impeachment of President Donald Trump, caution not to get her hopes up and, primarily, boredom. “Mueller’s testimony was …
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