Portraying someone as iconic as Elton John on the big screen is a very difficult task, which is why everyone from Tom Hardy to Justin Timberlake was initially considered for the role in the upcoming biopic Rocketman until producers settled on Taron Egerton. “It was a brilliant idea to have …
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Booksmart, the teen comedy directed by Olivia Wilde and starring Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein, got its final restricted trailer leading up to its release this Friday, May 24th. The clip gives a wider glimpse to the film’s debaucherous party sequences, and shows a new scene where Feldstein’s character gets …
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They say it’s all in the timing, especially when it comes to funny business. But in The Hustle everyone’s inner comedic clock is calamitously off. The setups are flat, the jokes don’t land and the actors don’t — or won’t — connect. How does this happen in a movie that …
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Last Sunday’s Game of Thrones left viewers with a lot to take in. Can Cersei be defeated? Will Lord Varys turn on his queen? And … is Daenerys really drinking from a Starbucks to-go cup? After fans speculated about the blurry object, HBO confirmed that a craft services Starbucks cup …
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The return of Veronica Mars is a legendary one for online fandom: after the CW television series was cancelled in 2007 after three seasons, a 2013 Kickstarter campaign for a feature film raised more than enough funds in less than eleven hours. Now, Kristen Bell‘s beloved PI character makes a return …
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Five years after Amazon’s award-winning series Transparent became one of the most visible dramatizations of trans life, the series will kill off its central character, Maura Pfefferman, in its feature-length musical series finale. The decision comes after the show fired actor Jeffrey Tambor, who played Maura, following allegations of sexual …
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Brian Wilson, Tom Petty, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Graham Nash and other rock architects reflect on the creative explosion of mid-Sixties Los Angeles in a new trailer for upcoming documentary Echo in the Canyon. Andrew Slater — a former music journalist, record producer and label executive — helmed the film, …
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A new trailer for the final season ofGame of Thrones captures the destruction of Winterfell ahead of the show’s premiere, April 14th on HBO. The short clip, titled “Aftermath,” tracks through a decimated and deserted Kingdom of the North while chilling audio from a recent battle filters in and out. …
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Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton and Chloë Sevigny unite to defend their quirky small town from zombies in the first trailer for The Dead Don’t Die, the upcoming horror-comedy from filmmaker Jim Jarmusch. The clip opens with the zombies unleashing their wrath on a small diner, and the local …
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Midway through the fifth and final season premiere of the CW’s warmhearted telenovela Jane the Virgin, the eponymous heroine (Gina Rodriguez) spends a seven-minute-plus scene gradually freaking out over the apparent resurrection of her late husband, Michael (Brett Dier), and what it may mean for her and her family. “We’re …
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