If you’ve been to the movies any time over the last century, you’re familiar with men like Eric Marsh. They’re hard-ass guys, often stoic but capable of being sensitive and, in rare cases, prone to sentimentality. Their flaws and temper-flares are balanced out by their virtues: staunch professionalism, a salt-of-the-earth …
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Before you start yawning and think you’d rather die than sit through a dutiful, drowsy, ever-so-virtuous biopic about Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American to hold a seat on the Supreme Court, get a grip. Marshall, directed with spiky humor and propulsive drive by Reginald Hudlin, is nothing like that. Drawn …
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If we had to look for a theme for this month’s TV offerings, we might go with: Chaos Reigns.Crazy Ex-Girlfriend promisesto devote its third season to a revenge plot; the one-man disruptive force known as Larry David resuscitates his antisocial HBO masterpieceCurb Your Enthusiasm;Fox‘s new superhero showThe Gifted features mutants …
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“This is TV’s highest honor – us celebrating us,” Stephen Colbert announced at the start of the 2017 Emmy Awards. “Tonight, we binge ourselves.” It was a joke about smug self-congratulation probably intended to sound more ironic than it did. The Emmy ceremony, as always, was a night of the …
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Jennifer Lawrence wasn’t having it when a rude fan tried to get a selfie with her while she was hanging with friends in Budapest, and the mother! star decided to take care of the problem herself. “I was drunk and this guy asked me [for] a selfie and I was …
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South Park returned for its 21st season Wednesday, and with it came the requisite analysis and discussions about whether or not it hit the mark in lampooning today’s sociopolitical climate. Wednesday night, however, many viewers also experienced a different kind of chaos when the show’s storyline about personal assistants like …
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Over 30 years after Daniel LaRusso crane-kicked his way into pop culture immortality in The Karate Kid, two of the film’s original stars will reunite for a new series titled Cobra Kai. Ralph Macchio, who played LaRusso in the franchise, and William Zabka, who played his leg-sweeping nemesis Johnny Lawrence, …
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British screenwriter Jack Thorne has been tapped to finish the screenplay for Star Wars: Episode IX, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Thorne will take over for director Colin Trevorrow and his writing partner Derek Connolly. According to sources, a new set of eyes was needed to finish the final installment …
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UPDATE: Apple Music has shared anotherCarpool Karaoketeaser ahead of the show’s August 8th premiere. The new clip features James Corden and a slew of celebrities dancing to James Brown’s “Get Up Offa That Thing.” The trailer is available to watch below. With Apple Music’s Carpool Karaoke finally set to premiere …
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