“What’s a to-do list?” Francis Ford Coppola asks, and there’s a long, pregnant pause on the end of the phone line before he answers his own question. “It’s a list of things that you don’t really want to do, or even think about. Everyone you know makes these lists. But …
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Guilt, grief, violence, drugs and a Dutch masterpiece fuel a young man’s remarkable odyssey in the trailer for the upcoming film adaptation of Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Goldfinch. Directed by Brooklyn filmmaker John Crowley, The Goldfinch stars Ansel Elgort as Theo Decker, who, at 13 years old, watches …
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Ali Wong and Randall Park play friends with romantic baggage in the new trailer for Always Be My Maybe, a romantic comedy film that debuts May 31st on Netflix. Wong and Park portray childhood friends Sasha and Marcus, who reconnect in San Francisco after Sasha makes a name for herself …
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“A daywillcome when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenlyyour joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you’ll know the debt is paid.” When Tyrion Lannister said this to his sister Cersei years ago, he couldn’t have known how right he was. Game of Thrones‘ penultimate episode …
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Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss pleaded the Fifth when asked about upcoming final season developments during an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live Thursday. Host Jimmy Kimmel came in hot with the questions, asking whether the White Walkers would return, whether Bran knew about what happened to …
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Netflix released the first trailer for When They See Us, the new miniseries from Ava DuVernay that tells the story of the Central Park Five. Jharrel Jerome, Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Kevin Richardson portray the five black teenagers who, in 1989, were wrongly accused and subsequently convicted …
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A review of “Toilet,” this week’s Better Things, coming up just as soon as I flush a small dog or a kilo of cocaine… Shit happens to Sam Fox every week on Better Things, but never has the theme been as literal as it is in “Toilet.” Sam spends much …
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Natalie Portman plays an astronaut who struggles to readjust to life on Earth after her encounter with the vastness of space in the new trailer for Lucy In the Sky. The film is loosely based on the 2007 tabloid saga of Lisa Nowak, who famously drove from Houston to Orlando, …
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On Sunday’s Patriot Act, Hasan Minhaj explored the influence of streaming on hip-hop — from the rise of Soundcloud rap to emcees sparking political movements. Rap, Minjah explained, is the most-consumed genre in the U.S., accounting for eight of Nielsen Music’s top 10 albums of 2018. “It even reached the …
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A review of “He Said, She Said,” this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, coming up just as soon as I say aloud to other men that Kathryn Bigelow should direct the next Star Wars… “He Said, She Said,” the directorial debut of cast member Stephanie Beatriz, fits into a noble but imperfect …
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