This January, a mini-deluge of U.K. productions will make their way to the fair shores of the States, including a legal thriller, an espionage thriller and a slightly-less-thrilling coming-of-age drama. Elsewhere, Netflix revives an animated favorite; gives Atlanta’s hardest MC his own platform; and gets the lowdown on the most …
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Hakuna matata! This week, we finally got our first looks at the much-anticipated Lego Movie sequel and Disney‘s live-action remake of The Lion King; an action-filled final trailer for Aquaman; Taraji P. Henson’s gender-flipped take on an old Mel Gibson comedy, What Men Want; a very cryptic clip for the …
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Ah yes, a superhero story you can sink your teeth into. When Venom claws its way into theaters this weekend, it’ll mark the biggest moment yet for one of the most infamous villains that Marvel‘s Spider-Man has ever faced. Tom Hardy is Eddie Brock, a down-on-his-luck journalist who fuses with …
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This week, we got our first glimpse of a new Marvel female superhero (well, actually, we saw her logo at the end of Avengers: Infinity War, so it’s not … sorry, we’ll show ourselves out), a long-awaited female take of a classic Time Lord and some extended peeks at everyone’s …
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The Emmys are different from other showbiz awards, because the same series and the same performances can win year after year. Sure, it may feel like Meryl Streep is always nominated for an Oscar, but it’s never for the same movie twice. In the 2010s, meanwhile, only two shows have …
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So, how was your summer? See any good movies? Everyone has their own take about whether 2018 delivered a great or miserable summer movie season. What we can all agree on, however, is that it was a long one. For the most part the industry considers the kickoff of blockbuster …
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They broke up in 1982, after a decade of existence and a staggering eight-year run of hits, and have not recorded new material in over 35 years – but if you’ve been to the movies in the last quarter of a century, ABBA has never really gone away. The Swedish …
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One of the year’s weirdest surprises: seeing a 50-year-old kiddie TV classic blow up into a national obsession. But something about Mr. Rogers speaks right to the heart of our moment. And thanks to Morgan Neville’s excellent documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, people are spending the summer with a …
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The Elvis Presley stories repeated most often these days are rarely flattering. Some emphasize his lethal appetite for fatty foods and prescription painkillers; others dwell on bizarre anecdotes like his meeting with Richard Nixon, where he warned the president that the Beatles had an “anti-American spirit.” The overall picture in …
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When Daisy Ridley sat down at a crowded Montreal wine bar in late October to do her interview for Rolling Stone’s Last Jedi cover story, she had been in Canada for three long months, on a “chaotic” shoot for the Doug Liman sci-fi movie Chaos Walking. She hadn’t seen the …
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