Do you know that romantic-comedy cliché in which the mousy young woman whips off her glasses — and suddenly the brainiac “ugly duckling” blossoms into a beautiful swan that turns heads and gets the guy? That’s not what happens to the title character of Horse Girl, though for the first …
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Towards the end of the new season of Netflix‘s The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Sabrina Spellman, the teenage witch of Archie Comics fame, finds herself hypnotized by a vampire. “You’re going to let me drink your blood and feast on your flesh, aren’t you?” he whispers. He bites into her …
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Most people would be thrilled if Hedwig and the Angry Inch co-writer and star John Cameron Mitchell performed an intimate Bowie cover just inches from their faces. But on Hulu’s Shrill, Mitchell is an alt newsweekly boss trying to recapture his “cool factor,” not a musical theater god, so the …
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Joker, The Irishman and Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood lead the nominations for the 2020 EE British Academy Film Awards, announced today by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. The awards, which will be held February 2nd at Royal Albert Hall in London one week ahead of …
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Samantha Barbash — the real-life inspiration for Jennifer Lopez’s character in Hustlers —is suing the makers of the film for defamation. The defendants include STX Films, Lopez’s Nuyorican Productions, Gloria Sanchez Productions and Pole Sisters LLC. Hustlers tells the story of a struggling dancer, Destiny (Constance Wu), who befriends a …
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Tom Cruise guides a behind-the-scenes look at how the fighter jet theatrics came together for his new film, Top Gun: Maverick, out June 26th, 2020. The film finds Cruise reprising his role as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, the ace pilot from 1986’s Top Gun, although a lot has changed in both …
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“I want you to hit me, as hard as you can…” We are about to break a cardinal rule (two rules, if we’re being technical). We are going to talk about Fight Club. Yes, we know the handsome guy in the funky-ass thrift store outfits, with the spiky hair and …
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An impeccably dressed man drags on a cigarette at LAX, the smoke matching the color of his close-cropped hair. The Who’s “The Seeker” plays on the soundtrack as he gets into a cab. At his motel, he notices the return address on the back of an envelope. Suddenly, he’s standing …
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Purple Rain, The Last Waltz, Platoon, She’s Gotta Have It and Clerks were among the 25 films added to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, the organization announced Wednesday. 2019’s list of motion pictures — selected for their “cultural, historic and aesthetic importance to the nation’s film heritage” — …
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A new Ghostbusters film has arrived, and this time it’s following in the footsteps of Stranger Things and It. In the new trailer for Ghostbusters: Afterlife, in theaters July 10th, Carrie Coon stars as a single mother who moves to a small town with her two children (Finn Wolfhard and Mckenna Grace), only …
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