Never, ever underestimate Kate McKinnon. Flying on the fumes of her own damn-near-infallible notion of what’s funny, the Emmy winning SNL veteran is a joy to watch. Her new movie, The Spy Who Dumped Me, is not. Though McKinnon is one half of a saucy buddy act with costar Mila …
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Shakira and Maluma take to the beach in their new “Clandestino” video. It is the pair’s third collaboration together. The Colombian pop stars dance and strut through the waves. There are shots in between of them by a chain link fence where they dance. At one point, the pair runs …
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Conor McGregor has reached a plea agreement that includes all felony charges dropped for his involvement in an April bus attack incident in Brooklyn, N.Y. The former UFC Lightweight and Featherweight champion McGregor arrived at Kings County Supreme Criminal Courthouse this morning to accept the agreement. He appeared in front …
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The letters that spell out Castle Rock – Hulu’s attempt to do the same kind of anthology-miniseries tribute act for Stephen King that FX’s Fargo does for the Coen brothers – are made up of pages cut out of many iconic King novels. The cast for the first season (which …
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EDITORS’ PICK: Lori McKenna, The Tree One of modern country’s greatest songwriters, the author of Tim McGraw’s winning “Humble & Kind” echoes its themes here, musing on verities of family and community with matter-of-factly hard-earned, time-ripened wisdom. The craft is remarkable and deceptively understated, with fine-turned phrases glinting like dewdrops. …
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Michelle Obama assembles a group of well-known names from theater, sports, film and music in a new video encouraging voter registration. Filmed in support of the When We All Vote organization, the clip features celebrities like Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tom Hanks, Janelle Monae, and – from the country music world – …
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In the words of Blindspotting‘s co-star Rafael Casal, the film is “a comedy in a world that won’t let it be one.” Fair enough. Written by Casal (a wordsmith who cut his teeth on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam) and his real-life buddy Daveed Diggs, who won a Tony for playing …
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Alt-Jtapped Danny Brown and producers the Alchemist and Trooko to rework their song “Deadcrush” into a sleek jam. The track will appear on Alt-J’s upcoming remix album, Reduxer, out September 28th via Canvasback/Atlantic. Alchemist and Trooko embrace and expand the steady, spaced-out vibe of Alt-J’s original, deepening its drum groove …
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Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore don’t immediately make for the most obvious of pairings. Alvin is the mellow singer-songwriter and founding guitarist for the 80’s SoCal roots rockers the Blasters. Gilmore, over a decade his senior, is the hard-scrabble Texas songwriter best known as a member for the short-lived …
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Three years ago, actress-turned-writer Amber Tamblyn had the idea to write about a serial rapist. A “truly ugly, villainous, almost apparition-type creature” who commits unspeakable crimes, but is never punished. After all, she thought, predatory men, both in literature and in real life, never seem to pay for their bad …
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