The Nevers should be a triumphant TV homecoming for Joss Whedon. It’s the first series in more than a decade solely created by the man responsible for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly. (He co-created Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. back in 2013 with brother Jed Whedon and sister-in-law Maurissa Tancharoen, …
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L ike one of those bullets in Tenet, John David Washington is traveling backward through time. Standing on the 50-yard line of his old high school football field in Van Nuys, California, where he hasn’t set foot in 18 years, he starts replaying the game-day ritual. Washington’s alma mater, Campbell …
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Kid Cudi and St. Vincent have been tapped to perform on Saturday Night Live in April. St. Vincent will perform on April 3rd, with Daniel Kaluuya set to host, while Kid Cudi will be the musical guest on April 10th with Carey Mulligan hosting. Saturday Night Live is set to …
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The first Marvel TV show on Disney+ was bound to be big, but Wandavision‘s combination of emotional depth, loving sitcom homages, campy comedy, and movie-level action made the show a genuine phenomenon.Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Wandavision — which debuts Friday, March 12th, on Disney+ — takes a behind-the-scenes …
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The Father, adapted from director Florian Zeller’s award-winning 2012 play, gives Anthony Hopkins a role designed to nearly break your heart: a role full of anger and displacement and uncertainty but, also, flashes of humor, a sprightly fullness of life. Reminders of who this man once was. This is a …
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In Season One, Episode Three, a young Emily Dickinson and her siblings decide to throw a house party after their parents go to Boston for the night, in the hope of having a carefree, wild night. Fueled by opium, Emily and her friends eventually start dancing aggressively to Carnage and …
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A review of this week’s WandaVision, “All-New Halloween Spooktacular!,” coming up just as soon as I smell crime… With “All-New Halloween Spooktacular!,” WandaVision basically skips over the Nineties(*) and heads straight to this century for an episode in the mode of Malcolm in the Middle. The show has cheated decades …
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ALLEN v. FARROW HBO is releasing an investigative documentary film on the accusation of sexual abuse against Woody Allen involving Dylan, his then seven-year-old daughter with Mia Farrow. Using home videos, court documents, police evidence, and never-before-released audio tapes, the film goes deeper than the headlines ever have, to examine …
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HBO has released a new trailer for its upcoming drama series, The Nevers, which will premiere with its first six episodes in April. The show is set in London toward the end of the Victorian Era and centers around the arrival of the “Touched”: A group composed mostly of women, …
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Netflix has released the trailer for its new reality series about the super-wealthy, Bling Empire. The series is centered around a group of Asian and Asian American friends/frenemies living in Los Angeles. As the show’s synopsis reads, “While their days and nights are filled with fabulous parties and expensive shopping …
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