A review of “She Knows,” this week’s Big Little Lies, coming up just as soon as I tell you to stop talking… The centerpiece event of “She Knows” is the disco-themed birthday bash that Renata and Gordon throw for Amabella. The party occurs only hours after their appearance in bankruptcy …
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He’s the laughing stock of the DC Comics Extended Universe — and Aquaman’s solo movie almost gets by on razzle dazzle, since that’s all it has up its waterlogged sleeve. Not that this underwater superhero knows much from sleeves: A shirtless but never humorless Jason Momoa plays Arthur Curry, a.k.a. …
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Earth, 1977: England’s dreaming, London’s burning, and punk is raging as the U.K.’s youth culture du jour. Enn (Alex Sharp) spends his days writing and drawing his zine – titled Virys, because punk! – and giving polite society the two-fingered salute. At night, he and his knuckleheaded buddies hit up …
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This time last year, we kicked off our annual Golden Globes predictions with a warning: The Golden Globes are impossibly hard to predict. And we didn’t even know the half of it:From labeling Get Out a comedy to snubbing Twin Peaks almost entirely, this year’s suite of nominees is wild …
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