Once upon a time, a Charlie Sheen meltdown could control a whole news cycle: He’d freak out, he’d do a tell-all interview even more chaotic than whatever freak-out he’d had, …
Movies
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TV The Journalist As Underdog There is a partially despairing, partially self-congratulatory vibe running through journalism-focused TV and movies this fall. Is the for-profit model inherently doomed? What service should …
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Babe, get up. A new Knives Out mystery is afoot! The next installment, Wake Up Dead Man, continues the tradition of naming the films after rock songs. Rian Johnson’s third …
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Guess that’s the power of the puka-shell necklace? Childhood besties Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are getting money together both on- and offscreen. Boston’s prodigal sons will cash in on …
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Buried in a Daily Mail article about the ever-shifting schedule of Netflix’s Pride and Prejudice is a bit of happy news disguised as corporate inconvenience: Saoirse Ronan and Jack Lowden …
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There’s an early scene in Poetic License, Maude Apatow’s directorial debut, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival over the weekend, in which an idiosyncratic college senior with family …
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It’s not the holiday season unless we have some kind of movie musical gracing our screens. Last year, we had Timothée Chalamet’s take on Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown; …
Playing the titular role, MSG CEO James Dolan opened The Wizard of Oz at Sphere Thursday night. Famously, the Wizard is a charlatan in every version of the text. In …
Ayo Edebiri had to take the proverbial mic and answer a question about Black Lives Matter directed to her white co-stars, Andrew Garfield and Julia Roberts, at a press junket …
Hail, Bathsheba, The Conjuring franchise had a killer opening weekend at the box office. Over the course of the post–Labor Day weekend of September 5, The Conjuring: Last Rights made …