The Daily Show With Trevor Noah will launch a five-episode podcast miniseries parodying the current podcast boom on January 13th. The Daily Show Podcast Universe will feature Noah and other Daily Show correspondents, plus an array of special guests. The episodes include “Slowbama,” ostensibly a Slow Burn parody (described as …
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“Who directed Rififi? It was Jules Dassin, right? That was the first-place winner. Such a great movie.” For the past half hour or so, Bong Joon Ho has been turning to his translator for help with his responses; when it comes to talking about his own work, the South Korean …
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What a kick to watch whip-smart director Rian Johnson shake the cobwebs off the whodunit genre and make it snap to stylish, wickedly entertaining life for a new generation. That’s what happens in Knives Out, a mystery that takes the piss out of Agatha Christie clichés. Johnson has experience with …
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Saturday Night Live corralled the actors and former cast members who have played Democratic presidential candidates this season, as well as some returning faces, for the show’s spoof on the latest 2020 Democratic debates. Returning to the debate stage: Maya Rudolph’s Kamala Harris, Woody Harrelson’s Joe Biden, Larry David’s Bernie …
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It always began and ended with the shoes. Specifically, the 1,220 pairs of pumps that were found in the closet of Imelda Marcos, when she and her husband Ferdinand Marcos were forced to flee the country in 1986. It made the Philippines’ former First Lady the punchline of late-night talk …
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RLJ Entertainment has released the first trailer for Color Out of Space, a new alien invasion movie starring Nicolas Cage. The initial clip suggests a tense, pensive take on a sci-fi thriller, with lots of dream-like visuals and suspenseful scenes. The film was directed by Richard Stanley and written by …
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Question: What does your daemon look like? Is it a ferret, a fox, a monkey, a regal snow leopard? In the world of His Dark Materials, the joint BBC-HBO adaptation of Phillip Pullman’s hugely acclaimed young-adult fantasy series, everybody’s got a literal spirit animal — magical creatures called “daemons” that …
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Netflix has dropped a trailer for upcoming fantasy series The Witcher, which stars Henry Cavill in the lead role as mythical being who seeks monsters. In the trailer for the adaptation of the fantasy book series-turned-popular video game, Cavill’s character Geralt of Rivia battles a variety of beings, from terrifying …
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Al Pacino delivers a chilling line in the new teaser for Hunters, the Amazon series created by David Weil and executive produced by Jordan Peele: “This is not murder. This is mitzvah.” The teaser isn’t long, but it gives us a grisly picture of what to expect from the show. Hunters …
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As a show about pornography, at various points in its three-season run HBO’s The Deuce naturally dramatized incidents where men on film sets coerced actresses into doing things on camera that made the women uncomfortable. The series also employed — as its leading man (playing two different roles), a producer, …
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