Tyler Perry accepted the BET Awards‘ Ultimate Icon Award Sunday with an impassioned speech that closed with the potent declaration: “Own your stuff, own your business, own your way.” Perry opened by talking about his difficult childhood. He spoke about finding ways to cheer up his mother after she’d been …
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“You let us in and now you are going to have to let us stay,” so says an evil creature from the Upside Down, warning of the impending doom to once again befall the town of Hawkins in the final new trailer for Stranger Things 3. The series returns to …
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“If someone’s wearing a mask, he’s gonna tell you the truth,” Bob Dylan says midway through Martin Scorsese’s new Netflix movie Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story. “If he’s not wearing a mask, it’s highly unlikely.” As he says these words, Bob Dylan is most definitely not wearing a …
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Ali Wong had been a working comedian for years before the 2016 release of her first special, Baby Cobra, which she performed while seven months pregnant with her first child, catapulted her to stardom. Her 2018 follow-up, Hard-Knock Wife (filmed while she was pregnant with her second), was an equally …
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Zach Galifianakis will turn his interview series Between Two Ferns into a movie premiering September 20th on Netflix. The Between Two Ferns movie will feature a fittingly meta and ridiculous plot. The idea is that Will Ferrell discovered Galifianakis’ public access TV show, Between Two Ferns, uploaded it to Funny …
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This week: TV fantasy epics (like, a new one)! Rom-coms! Teen angst! Pagan horror! Sequels! Threequels! A new season of Black Mirror!!! Check ’em out, your big-name trailers of the week. Always Be My Maybe She (Ali Wong) is a celebrity chef. He (Randall Park) is a musician who works …
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In what world would stunning Charlize Theron and schlubby Seth Rogen hook up? The loaded-with-laughs Long Shot offers a comically absurd and sweetly touching answer to that rude question. Theron plays Charlotte Field, the Secretary of State who has her eye on the White House. The “dumb fuck” President of …
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The Red Line, a new drama premiering April 28th on CBS, explores the aftermath of a white cop shooting an unarmed black man in Chicago. Named for the North-South line of the Chicago “L” (or elevated train system), a route that connects two wildly different parts of the city, the …
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When Game of Thrones airs its final episode on May 19th, George R.R. Martin will be watching. He’ll take in the televised conclusion of the story he began, and then get right back to writing his own version, with two books left to go. For our recent cover story on …
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In the new movie Her Smell, which comes out in select cities today, Cara Delevingne plays the drummer in the up-and-coming Nineties alt-rock group the Akergirls, which also features characters played by Dylan Gelula (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) and Ashley Benson (Pretty Little Liars). While they were filming the movie, they …
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