Stormy Daniels took her description of President Trump’s penis to an awkward, hilarious new level on Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, selecting which variety of mushroom she says most closely resembles the president’s junk. In a now-infamous passage from the adult entertainer’s newly released memoir, Full Disclosure, Daniels writes in granular …
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The Spider-verse is expanding in Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s animated take on the comic book superhero. In the new trailer for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse they bring several iterations of Spider-Man (or woman or animal, as the case may be) from different universes and place them into a single …
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Stephen Colbert extended his normal Late Show monologue on Thursday to analyze the heated Senate hearing with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The grueling and emotional event, which Colbert playfully called “the most divisive day in America since Laurel and Yanny,” allowed both speakers to …
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When was the last time you watched Being There? Sure, everyone namedropped the Peter Sellers movie, about an idiot savant who watches TV and becomes a major political player, when a certain someone got elected President. And yes, Criterion put out a lovely DVD of it last year. But when …
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Live from New York it’s… well, it’s Thursday night, and Kenan Thompson is back at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. In late August, he’s 57 floors above Studio 8H, sipping a Ketel and soda in the glittery bar at the top of the building, with jewel-box views of the city he’s called …
Read More »'White Boy Rick' Review: True Story of 1980s Informant Talks Loud, Says Little
By 14, Rick Wershe Jr. (Richie Merritt) could tell a real Russian Kalashnikov assault rifle from an AK-47 knock-off, courtesy of his firearms-hustling dad, Richie Sr. (Matthew McConaughey). At that age, he also hung with the African-American gangs who ran the drug trade in Detroit in 1984, earning a reputation …
Read More »Toronto Film Festival 2018: 'Halloween' Is the Scariest Valentine You'll Ever See
Do not underestimate the power of the mask. You will see it on fans, decked out in their best Michael Myers cosplay for the Toronto Film Festival‘s midnight premiere of Halloween — just two yahoos in dark blue coveralls rocking that bleached-out, rubber Shatner mug — and you will mildly …
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Even Burt Reynolds in his black Trans Am, all gonna meet down at the Cadillac Ranch. No movie star has ever not given a fuck more deeply, more passionately, than the late, great Burt Reynolds. He could give off that IDGAF shrug with every muscle in his body, including the …
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The late night circuit was, predictably, all about Omarosa Manigault Newman. After the former Trump staffer released secretly-taped conversations between her and Trump as well as Chief of Staff John Kelly firing her, the tapes – and the media circus around them – served as comedic fodder forThe Late Show …
Read More »The First Time: Seth Rogen
InRolling Stone‘s “The First Time” series,Seth Rogenrecalls his first encounter with Kanye West in 2006.“My house is right around the corner from a personal trainer who trains famous people, basically,” Rogen says. “One morning I was leaving my house, and Kanye West jogged by me and said, ‘You’re a funny …
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