You’d call this heist film un-fucking-believable, except that American Animals really is rooted in fact – that is, whenever the British documentarian Bart Layton, in a mightily impressive narrative feature debut, doesn’t mess around too much. “This is not based on a true story,” reads a title card at the …
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UPDATE:Roseanne Barr continued to fight against racism accusations after sending a racist tweet against former Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett. “I’m not a racist, I never was & I never will be,” the comedian tweeted Wednesday. “One stupid joke in a lifetime of fighting 4 civil rights 4 all minorities, …
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On Wednesday, Michael Jackson‘s estate issued a statement condemning ABC’s special The Last Days of Michael Jackson. “We believe the special to be another crass and unauthorized attempt to exploit the life, music and image of Michael Jackson without respect for Michael’s legacy, intellectual property rights or his children,” the …
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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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Howard Stern reflected on his now-infamous radio interviews with President Trump. He said the future president’s unfiltered responses made him the ideal guest in a preview of an upcoming episode of David Letterman‘s My Next Guest Needs No Introduction. “To me, a guest who comes on and says anything that …
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Roman Polanski threatened the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with legal action after the organization stripped him of his membership last week, Deadline reports. The Oscar-winning filmmaker was expelled alongside Bill Cosby “in accordance with the organization’s Standards of Conduct.” Cosby was recently found guilty of sexual assault, …
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This month, Netflix hauls out some comedy-special big guns: the return of Carol Burnett to TV; a new special by recent SNL host/current it-funnyman John Mulaney; and a variety-hour-style showcase for the double act of Steve Martin and Martin Short (who, in the spirit of celebrity couples a la Brangelina, …
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Before there was “American Woman,” there was “Canadian Dentist.” Jimmy Fallon and Kevin Bacon dug up a rare “early version” of the Guess Who’s 1969 hard rock hit on their “First Drafts of Rock” bit from Thursday’s Tonight Show. Fallon fronted the performance, decked out in a slick white suit …
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Members of the massive Avengers: Infinity War cast assembled on The Tonight Show Wednesday to create a potential new theme song for the franchise, parodying the classicBrady Bunch intro. The bit found Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Chris Evans (Captain America), Chris Pratt …
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After nearly two decades of financial troubles, casting issues and myriad other delays for Terry Gilliam‘s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, the film’s first trailerhas arrived. Gilliam’s infamously “cursed” take on Miguel de Cervantes’ epic novel, Don Quixote, stars Adam Driver as a marketing executive, Toby, who meets a …
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