Tommy Wiseau, the idiosyncratic director and star of modern cult classicThe Room, isn’t going to play the Joker in Todd Phillips’ upcoming Batman movie. But that didn’t stop him from auditioning for the lead role in a hilarious, yet slightly disturbing, Nerdist video. The actor-filmmaker channels Heath Ledger‘s lunatic character, …
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Adam Levine, Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Nick Jonas and other musicians poked fun at themselves in the latest installment of Jimmy Kimmel Live‘s “Mean Tweets.” Many Twitter users cracked jokes about the celebrities’ looks. “Nick Jonas was cute back when he was in the Jonas Brothers, and now he …
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In the first episode of Altered Carbon, Netflix‘s bid for a big, dystopic sci-fi-blockbuster series, Takeshi Kovacs, played by Swedish-American actor Joel Kinnaman, drops to the floor, his naked body oozing out of body bag full of gelatinous preservatives that have kept this new corpus intact. With a fit of …
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It was late 2015, and director Ryan Coogler was feeling the call of Africa. Coogler, then 29, was just finishing up his second film, the soon-to-be-a-hit Rocky rebootCreed. He was starting to think about what came next. “I was grappling with something I’ve kind of been scraping at my whole …
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When is a bad marriage something more than a bad marriage? The answer: When Andrey Zvyagintsev (The Return, Elena) writes and directs a movie about it and turns the result into a mesmerizing meditation on the state of Russia today. Loveless is not an overtly political film, but it resonates …
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Reg E. Cathey, the Emmy-winning actor who played pivotal roles in acclaimed series like House of Cards,The WireandOz, has died at the age of 59. TMZ reports that Cathey died in New York following a bout with lung cancer. Executive producers who worked with Cathey, including The Wire‘s David Simon …
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It looked like any old Super Bowl movie trailer, just another 30-second spot dropping during one of the single most watched sports events of the year. The logo for J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot production company pops up, old footage of Matt Reeves’ 2008 hit Cloverfield begins playing and then we …
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Taraji P. Henson is such a firecracker she almost makes you believe Proud Mary might have been a decent crime flick – if she fired the asses of the clueless dudes who wrote and directed it and took on those jobs herself. Surely, the Oscar-nominated actress (The Curious Case of …
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The rise of Osama bin Ladenand dissent between the FBI and CIA are the focuses of Hulu’s new series, The Looming Tower. The 10-episode show, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Lawrence Wright, chronicles events leading up to theSeptember 11thterrorist attacks. Itpremieres on Hulu February 28th. The trailer reveals …
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Thematically, much of Sunday night’s Golden Globes was devoted to calling out sexual misconduct in Hollywood, but Dylan Farrow, who has spoken for years about her alleged abuse at the hands of her father, Woody Allen, didn’t think it was quite enough. “Advocating for ‘every victim’ in the abstract is …
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