If the leading roles Kristen Bell played on television —hard-boiled private eye Veronica Mars, management consultant Jeannie van der Hooven on House of Lies, and most recently Arizona dirtbag Eleanor Shellstrop on The Good Place — have something in common, it’s that they are all very good talkers. Eleanor may …
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Maybe, when you were growing up, you had an imaginary friend. Someone who only you could see, who counseled you and kept you company. It might have been a 10-foot rabbit, or a brown, furry mastodon-like creature, or a boy named Tony who talked to you through your finger. Or …
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Will Smith and Martin Lawrence star in the new trailer for Bad Boys for Life, the third installment in the Bad Boys series. The action film, the long-awaited sequel to 2003’s Bad Boys II, arrives in theaters January 17th. As laid out in the trailer, the Bad Boys Mike Lowrey (Smith) …
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The disastrous Fyre Festival inspires a fictional new spin in the trailer for The I-Land, a new series coming to Netflix on September 12th. Created by Neil LaBute (Billions,In the Company of Men, 2006’s The Wicker Man) and starring Kate Bosworth, Alex Pettyfer and Natalie Martinez, the show follows 10 …
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Protestors in Hong Kong are calling for a boycott of Disney‘s live-action remake of Mulan after its China-born star Crystal Liu Yifei shared social media posts supporting the police crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, CNN reports. Using China’s Twitter-like service Weibo, Liu reportedly wrote a message that translates …
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Shot in high definition at 96 frames per second — though most theaters will only be able to show it at 48 fps — this eyepopper from Russian director-writer-cinematographer-editor Victor Kossakovsky (¡Vivan Las Antípodas!) is like nothing you’ve ever seen. His free-form documentary on water opens by scaring us to …
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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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On Wednesday’s Full Frontal, Samantha Bee shifted her focus away from President Trump — instead examining the numerous ways Mitch McConnell has become “the dry rot of Democracy.” “If our institutions seem like they’re on the verge of crumbling,” she said, “Mitch is the guy who gnawed away at the …
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The Frozen 2 teaser released in February showed Elsa (Idina Menzel) exerting her icy powers and ascending the waves of the ocean, only to get completely catapulted and fall into the watery depths. You can breathe a sigh of relief, though — in the official trailer released this morning, the …
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Early on in Martin Scorsese‘s new documentary The Rolling Thunder Revue, Bob Dylan tries to explain the idea behind legendary 1975/76 tour and quickly grows flustered. “I’m trying to get to the core of what this Rolling Thunder thing is all about,” he says, “and I don’t have a clue …
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