Sigourney Weaver surprised the ambitious high school drama club behind the viral Alien: The Play when she showed up at North Bergen High School’s encore performance Friday, which marked the 40th anniversary of the legendary sci-fi thriller. The New Jersey high school became an internet sensation because of the elaborate …
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A new Disneynature documentary from directors Alastair Fothergill and Jeff Wilson — they also collaborated on the studio’s bless-the-beasts-and children docs Monkey Kingdom and Chimpanzee — Penguins puts the focus on Steve, an Adélie penguin coming of age during a freezing Antarctic spring. Yup, there is a cute overload; penguins …
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Jean Grey, played by Rolling Stone cover star Sophie Turner, relishes the destruction of her mutant powers in the final trailer for Dark Phoenix, the upcoming X-Men spinoff film. “Something’s happening to me,” she says in the trailer during a teary speech. “When I lose control, bad things happen. But …
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Stephen Colbert skewered President Donald Trump‘s latest sales pitch for his non-existent healthcare plan on The Late Show Tuesday. Trump has rediscovered his obsession with healthcare in recent weeks: His administration is backing a lawsuit that would make Obamacare unconstitutional, and on Monday he went on a late-night Twitter tear, …
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Most film festivals will dot their documentary lineups with the occasional music-focused title or two; SXSW has an entire sidebar devoted to them. It makes perfect sense that, having sprung from the Austin-based event’s origins as a showcase for bands and the chance for college-radio D.J.s and rock journalists to …
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The Roots‘ Black Thought summarized the crowded list of Democratic presidential candidates with a rap recap on Tuesday’s Tonight Show. “How many people are running? Man, you know there are plenty,” he flowed over his band’s simple, two-chord groove. “2020’s crazy packed — it’s a political frenzy.” Between punchlines, the …
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“What if I just showed you four episodes of This Is Us, without explanation?” Jordan Peele asked, and most of the crowd in Austin’s Paramount Theatre cracked up. As for the rest of the patrons, you could almost feel them shudder — this portion of the audience wasn’t just here …
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“Sometimes when you love someone, you will do crazy things,” the nefarious Villanelle (Jodie Comer) says in a voice-over in a new trailer for the second season of Killing Eve. The first season of the quirky contract-killer drama showed how she became fascinated with detective Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) to …
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Saturday Night Live alum Molly Shannon looks to rewrite the legacy of Emily Dickinson in the new trailer for the upcoming biopic, Wild Nights With Emily, out April 12th. Written and directed by Madeleine Olnek, the film seeks to recast Dickinson not as a delicate, virginal recluse, but a lively, …
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A cynical ad man and an old Spanish shoemaker take up Don Quixote’s age-old quest to restore the age of chivalry in the new trailer for Terry Gilliam’s long-awaited film, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. The clip teases Gilliam’s outrageously meta take on one of the most meta books …
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