What we have here isn’t much of a movie. In fact, it would be generous to dismiss it as threadbare. But The Last Movie Star stars Burt Reynolds in the title role. It’s perfect casting. Reynolds rode the box-office pinnacle in the 1970s and 1980s in vehicles as diverse as …
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“There was no rappers,” 19-year-old Lil Skies says about growing up Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, a small town tucked away near the state’s southern border with Maryland. “People listen to rap some, but it’s a lot of country and shit. They’re more in tune now.” Lil Skies has amassed an impressive following …
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The gamer kid in Steven Spielberg lets his VR freak flag fly in Ready Player One, a mindbending joyride that jacks you into a fantasia bursting with CGI wonders, dazzling cyperscapes mixed with live action, hidden Easter eggs and infinite pop-culture shoutouts to the 1980s. (Better brush up on everything …
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CupcakKe defends equality in her new “Crayons” video. The Chicago rapper and a group of strangers rally to defend a gay couple who are harassed on the sidewalk. Their union turns into a street party, with the emcee proudly flying a rainbow flag. Elsewhere in the clip, CupcakKe raps in …
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During the last few years, we’ve been deluged with great new guitar bands, many showing an obsessive love for indie rock’s early-Nineties golden age – whether it’s Parquet Courts taking vintage Pavement in directions that never really even occurred to Pavement; Lvl Up mashing up Built to Spill and Neutral …
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Fifteen years ago this week, George W. Bush invaded Iraq. It was an awesome drama, made more thrilling by the seemingly obvious craziness of it all. People were looking at each other out of the corners of their eyes, shrugging, and asking: Can we really do this without a reason? …
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The Voicecontestantsperformed covers of songs by Taylor Swift, Kings of Leon and Harry Stylesin a fierce round of sing-offs. Brynn Cartelli and Dylan Hartigan, who were members of Kelly Clarkson‘s team, performed a brazen cover of Taylor Swift‘s “… Ready For It?” The house band turned the original track’s industrial …
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Migos and Drake deliver a Soul Train-inspired performance in the new video for “Walk It Talk It,” which reimagines the iconic Seventies dance program as a TV show called Culture Ride. Migos don afros, chunky sunglasses and flashy suits from the era as they run through the Culture II track. …
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On Tuesday, the nation’s capital was bitterly cold as gun-control activists painstakingly laid out 7,000 pairs of sneakers in front of an empty House chamber – each representing one of the children who has been gunned down since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012. Then, on Wednesday, as …
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Stephen Colbert revived his Hunger Games-inspired political commentator for the first time since the 2016 presidential election to send off Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday’s Late Show. “For those of us in the media, the constant turnover has been amazing to watch: The drama, the fireworks, the winners, …
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