Soleil Moon Frye became the ultimate Eighties child star on Punky Brewster, at the age of seven. She played America’s favorite wise-cracking moppet, wearing mismatched high-tops and extolling the virtues of Punky Power. The show was eventually cancelled in 1988 — and that’s when Frye started toting a video camera …
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At the end of a recent appearance of The Late Show, host Stephen Colbert asked his guest, Run the Jewels rapper Killer Mike, what white people could do to be better allies in what has become a serious moment of reckoning in our country. The artist’s answer: go watch the …
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With his bottle-blond mullet, tacky shirts, and this-close-to-offensive catchy songs (like “Pretty Woman Lover”), zookeeper-country singer Joe Exotic looks and sounds like he emerged from country’s less-polished past. And for that, as quarantined viewers who are as captive as Exotic’s own lions and tigers, we’re oh-so grateful. The narcissistic star …
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Ellen Page has made a star turn as a documentarian in recent years, co-hosting the Viceland queer travelogue showGaycation with Ian Daniel and narrating environmental films likeVanishing of the Bees. Now, Page and Daniel have directed their own film,There’s Something in the Water, which premiered its first trailer on Wednesday …
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With the spotlight on the Stonewall uprising’s 50th anniversary this month, several treasured landmark LGBTQ documentaries have been restored and are being re-released for a limited time in theaters, including Jennie Livingston’s Paris Is Burning and the era-defining Before Stonewall. But among the gifts to be cherished from this renewed …
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In 2017, director Chris Smith was wrapping up Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond, his documentary on Jim Carrey’s transformation into Andy Kaufman forMan on the Moon, when he added a simple line to “a bunch of half-baked ideas” he had written down: Fyre Festival. Organizers of the inaugural luxurious …
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So what do we have this week? Two looks at unusual superheroes. Two distinctly NSFW teasers for some upcoming indies. Cate Blanchett goes missing. A stoner TV anthology returns. Thor: Ragnarok‘s Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth reunite and switch franchises from Marvel to MiB. Your best-of trailer round-up of the …
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Talk to Scotty Bowers, and he’ll tell you that he banged and/or blew every major star of Hollywood‘s Golden Age. (The 95-year-old is likely to use a more salty, colorful phrase that rhymes.) Bette Davis? Yup, he slept with her. Walter Pidgeon? That character actor used the old “come take …
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March is a good month for documentary fans: No less than four intriguing new nonfiction projects go online, spanning such eclectic subjects as an Oregon commune, the cuteness of penguins, the vibrant world of hip-ho, and the ongoing public crisis in Flint. Plus Netflix is raising the curtain on the …
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Francis Whately’s documentary The Last Five Years, which debuts January 8th on HBO, takes a close look at David Bowie‘s final recorded documents, The Next Day and Blackstar. Instead of the usual procession of famous talking heads that appear in most music docs, the portrait quizzes his close collaborators on …
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