On August 21, 2015, three American buddies from Sacramento – Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler and Alek Skarlatos – were vacationing in Europe. The Air Force medic, Oregon National Guardsman and college student at Sacramento State, respectively, left Amsterdam together and boarded the high-speed 15:17 Thalys train to Paris. Ayoub El …
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Uma Thurman detailed a pair of assaults she experienced during meetings with Harvey Weinstein in a new interview. The actress also called out director Quentin Tarantino for his role in a car crash on the Kill Bill set that left Thurman seriously injured, an incident that created a longstanding rift …
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Samantha Bee delivered a scathing profile of President Donald Trump‘s senior policy advisor and “political small pox blanket” Stephen Miller on Full Frontal Wednesday. As Bee pointed out, the anti-immigration hardliner was at the center of the recent government shutdown, scuttling a bi-partisan deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood …
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Samantha Bee looked at the American healthcare system’s dismal record on maternal healthcare on Full Frontal on Wednesday.“While American newborns are safer than ever, the women who bring them into the world are in the most danger in the decades,” Bee said. The U.S. has the highest rate of maternal …
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The outrageously wealthy Getty family falls victim to chaos after the kidnapping of an heir in the enthralling new trailer for Trust. The series premieres on FX March 25th. Trust will chronicle the Getty family through the 20th century over the course of several seasons, though it kicks off in …
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Family Guy has been credited with calling out wrongdoers and anticipating scandals long before they erupt in the headlines, but show creator Seth MacFarlane clarified Thursday that this isn’t exactly the case. “I think the myth that Family Guy is this Kreskin-like prognosticator of this kind of stuff is a …
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On November 28th, 1953, a military scientist named Frank Olson died after falling out the window of his New York hotel room. Did he jump … or was he pushed? That question has consumed the life of his son, Eric. And it’s now the focus of Wormwood, the new four-hour-plus …
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A biologist portrayed by Natalie Portman finds herself entering an ominous world in the new trailer for Annihilation, one that makes her husband (played by Oscar Isaac) seriously ill and possibly makes people go crazy, or worse. Based on Jeff VanderMeer’s novel of the same name, the first book from …
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Streaming services like Netflix often tend to work on a model which favors hype following instead of leading – for every Marvel property or proven commodity like Black Mirrorthat’s preceded by a blitz of hype, there are dozens of series that get released with little fanfare, banking on big leaps …
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Kate Winslet is on fire in Woody Allen‘s Wonder Wheel, playing Ginny, an unhappily married waitress living near the boardwalk on Brooklyn’s Coney Island circa 1950. This broken dreamer is pushing 40 and reaching the limits of her patience with Humpty (a solidly affecting Jim Belushi), the carousel-operator she married …
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