Eighteen years ago, in a bar outside Kingston, New York, Mark Hogancamp — an illustrator who liked wearing women’s high-heels — was nearly beaten to death by five thugs. Waking up after nine days in a coma, the bruised, broken and brain-damaged ex-soldier had no recall of having served in …
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“Something unexpected has come up,” says Bernadette Fox, portrayed by Cate Blanchett, in the new trailer for Where’d You Go, Bernadette. “There’s much more explanation coming, but I have this one shot.” It seems an odd thing for Bernadette to confess as she seems to have it all, living in …
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“Sex is complicated,” Leila, the hero of Hulu’s The Bisexual, tells her best friend Deniz in the show’s premiere episode. “Like, you strategize how you’re gonna get it, and then you anticipate it, and then once it’s finally happening don’t you wish you could just flash-forward because all the pressure’s …
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Arriving just in time to win a place among the year’s worst films, Robin Hood — bursting with an entitled sense of its own non-existent coolness — falls flat on its fat one. It’s the umpteenth version of the heroic outlaw story, once more taking on the merry man that …
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Kate McKinnon skewered Laura Ingraham for the second time this month in aSaturday Night Live cold open that challenged Fox News’ voter fraud claims, a conspiracy theory also pushed by Donald Trump. In the sketch, McKinnon’s host began by commentating on this week’s current events like “celebrities in California are …
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This year has blessed us with a beautiful film about a longtime childless couple who suddenly find themselves grappling with the prospect of parenthood. That movie, of course, is Private Life, a comedy-drama featuring deft, touching performances from Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn, which came out on Netflix last month. …
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The Coen Brothers preview their idiosyncratic Western vision with a new trailer for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the duo’s upcoming Netflix anthology film. “Well, folks, things have a way of escalating our here in the west,” says Tim Blake Nelson’s titular, quick-witted gunslinger, introducing a stylish montage from the …
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Marie Colvin lived and died in war zones. One of the most renowned combat correspondents of the past 50 years, distinguished by her empathetic prose and her omnipresent eyepatch, this Queens-born, Oyster Bay-bred journalist for the Sunday Times felt at home in hot spots around the world. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, …
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Samantha Bee examined the Trump Administration’s latest attack on trans rights while highlighting the “rainbow wave” building ahead of the 2018 midterms on Full Frontal Wednesday. Earlier this week, The New York Times reported that the Department of Health and Human Services was working to create a legal definition of …
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The Hate U Give screenwriter Audrey Wells died following a long battle with cancer Thursday, a day before the film opened in theaters. Wells was 58. Wells previously penned the scripts for films like The Truth About Cats and Dogs, George of the Jungle, A Dog’s Purpose and Under the …
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