Todd Haynes remembers walking into a record store in L.A. — it would have been some time around 1974, when he was about 13 years old — and seeing the cover for David Bowie’s “Diamond Dogs.” The image of the future Thin White Duke staring out at him “completely scared …
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Monica Lewinsky appeared on The Daily Show Wednesday to discuss her new documentary 15 Minutes of Shame as well as the benefits of and problems with “cancel culture” with host Trevor Noah. Lewinsky first talked about how her role in the infamous Bill Clinton scandal — which made her “patient …
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A review of this week’s Ted Lasso, “Midnight Train to Royston,” coming up just as soon as you make my eyebrows less crazy… Midway through “Midnight Train to Royston,” Rebecca enters Ted’s office to tell him about her affair with Sam. After Ted makes the obligatory Cheers joke(*), he advises …
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It’s a week before the long-delayed, much-anticipated opening of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures — the film industry’s lavish salute to its history and artistry, located in the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood in Los Angeles — and workers and officials are buzzing around the 300,000-square-foot campus, putting together the last-minute touches …
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On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver broke down the attacks on voters’ rights through new, restrictive laws passed in over a dozen states. “I know that those pushing these bills claim that critics of them are completely distorting what is inside them and that any objections can simply be …
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Halloween scares come early in Netflix’s new vampire thriller Night Teeth, premiering on October 20th. Directed by Adam Randall, the film stars Jorge Lendeborg Jr. as a working college student tasked with chauffeuring two mysterious young women (Debby Ryan and Lucy Fry) around Los Angeles for a night on the …
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Creepy chaos comes to the Northern California suburbs in the new trailer for Season Three of You, set to premiere October 15th on Netflix. The new season finds new parents Joe (Penn Badgley) and Love (Victoria Pedretti) trying to escape their bloody past in Los Angeles by moving to a …
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The first trailer for The Many Saints of Newark gave viewers a look into the character of the young Tony Soprano (played by Michael Gandolfini, the son of late Sopranos star James Gandolfini). The new trailer focuses on his uncle, Dickie Moltisanti (Alessandro Nivola), who wants to do a “good …
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Ed Asner, the prolific character actor and seven-time Emmy winner best known for playing Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, died Sunday at his home in Tarzana, California, The New York Times reports. He was 91. Asner’s death was confirmed by his family on Twitter, though no cause …
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Warner Bros. has released a trailer for Clint Eastwood‘s latest film, Cry Macho. The film, directed by and starring Eastwood, is in theaters and streaming on HBO Max on September 17th. https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-lists/clint-eastwood-25-essential-movies-197838/ The movie’s synopsis notes, “The film stars Eastwood as Mike Milo, a one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse …
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