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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Mindy Kaling plays a young writer tasked with resuscitating the career of a floundering TV host, played by Emma Thompson, in the new trailer for Late Night, out June 7th via Amazon. Late Night is centered around Thompson’s character, Katherine Newbury, a late-night talk show pioneer who’s nevertheless battling both …
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Lady Gaga gushed on Wednesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live that her “whole artistic journey flashed before [her] eyes” after she and Bradley Cooper won the Academy Award for Best Original Song (“Shallow”) at the 2019 ceremony. “I instantly saw myself sitting on my stoop of my studio apartment in New York …
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Stanley Donen, director of acclaimed movie musicals like Singin’ In The Rain and On the Town, has died at the age of 94. One of Donen’s sons confirmed the director’s death to Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips. “Confirmed by one of his sons this morning: Director Stanley Donen has …
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Two-time Academy Awards host Jimmy Kimmel and his Lie Witness News team asked people what they thought about this year’s Oscars, even though the ceremony itself won’t happen until February 24th. “Between all the changes in the telecast and the lack of a host this year, there’s been a lot …
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Call it Taken on Ice, call it Mr. Plow: The Movie, call it “Neeson and Chill.” But whatever you dub Cold Pursuit, starring Liam Neeson as a father out for revenge — don’t confuse it with grim business as usual. After starring in three films in which his character’s “very …
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Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump attempted to end the ongoing government shutdown with a game of Deal or No Deal in the cold open of Saturday Night Live‘s 2019 premiere. “Earlier today you went on TV and you told the America people that you want to make a deal,” Kenan Thompson’s …
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Natahsa Lyonne keeps dying then subsequently reliving her birthday in the trailer for Netflix‘sRussian Doll. Lyonne co-created the show with Amy Poehler and Leslye Headland (Bachelorette,Sleeping With Other People). The trailer opens with Lyonne’s Nadia celebrating her birthday with a raucous party in New York City. It all comes to …
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