Related: 50 Greatest Horror Movies of the 21st Century The great Octavia Spencer, a three-time Oscar nominee and winner for The Help, recently decried the fact that starring roles in horror films have long been unfairly denied to women of color (Lupita Nyong’o in Us being an outstanding exception). So …
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A tense World War II drama plays out in Nazi-occupied France and in the belly of a cramped German submarine in the trailer for Hulu‘s adaptation of Das Boot. The show premiered on German TV last year and will arrive on Hulu June 17th. The eight-episode series is based on …
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Almost a month after HBO dropped a teaser for the second season of Big Little Lies, the network unveiled the first trailer for acclaimed series’ return. The trailer finds the Monterey Five – Madeline (Reese Witherspoon), Celeste (Nicole Kidman), Jane (Shailene Woodley), Renata (Laura Dern) and Bonnie (Zoë Kravitz) – …
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Samantha Bee dissected the chaos, infighting and money woes consuming the National Rifle Association on Full Frontal Wednesday. In recent weeks, a power struggle broke out between longtime NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre and recently ousted NRA president Oliver North (whose previous hits include the Iran-Contra affair). LaPierre has accused North …
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It may be damning with faint praise to say that Wine Country goes down easy. But it’s hardly a crime against cinema that this amiable ramble with six female friends on a weekend break in Napa Valley does not feel the need to color outside the box. Making her feature …
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Alexander Skarsgård made a splash two years ago for his harrowing performance as Perry Wright on the HBO limited seriesBig Little Lies. But before that role, he was already well-known in two fandoms: theTrue Blood hive, and Lady Gaga‘s Little Monsters. “I was in L.A. shooting one of my first …
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Four women channel personal hardships and national angst into progressive, grassroots Congressional campaigns in the upcoming documentary Knock Down the House, which premieres globally on Netflix and in select theaters on May 1st. The film’s new trailer previews the divergent yet harmonious paths of Democrats Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York), Amy …
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In baseball and comedy, the term “screwball” has roughly the same meaning — something that breaks in a wildly unexpected direction. Or a series of them, in the case of director Billy Corben’s new documentary Screwball, which shines a light on the comedy of errors that led to the 2013 …
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Nearly nine months after Disney fired James Gunn from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 after decade-old offensive tweets resurfaced, the director will return to the franchise. Deadline reports that, after a series of meetings with Walt Disney Pictures head Alan Horn, Disney and Marvel reinstated Gunn Friday; the studio …
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Over the course of the six-episode first season of Hulu’s Shrill (March 15th), Aidy Bryant’s Annie, an alt-weekly staffer in Portland, Oregon, is repeatedly interrogated and hassled about her weight, her dress size and her caloric intake. Strangers feel compelled to offer unsolicited diet and exercise advice, or even to …
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