Farce is a beast to get right in movies. The fact that Game Night hits the mark more often than it hits a wall is cause for cheering. Hell, if you have Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams to play the game-loving marrieds heading a cast of merry pranksters, you’re already …
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Father John Misty runs afoul of hotel policies in his new song “Mr. Tillman.” The singer released the track on Tuesday along with a brief, lighthearted music video. Father John Misty narrates the verses of his latest song from the perspective of a flustered hotel employee trying to keep the …
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Releasing a new album for his birthday is becoming an annual tradition for Willie Nelson, who announced Friday morning that his next LP, Last Man Standing, will arrive April 27th, just days before he turns 85. Nelson’s 2017 solo album God’s Problem Child dropped one day before his 84th birthday …
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Nearly 40 years into their career, Metallica will receive the Polar Music Prize – an equivalent award to the Nobel Prize – this coming spring. The award recognizes international excellence in music. The group will receive an award of one million Swedish kronor, roughly equivalent to $126,000. The band will …
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It’s not every day that the marketing machinations of a multibillion-dollar Walt Disney subsidiary align with the utopian imagination of the black artistic and intellectual vanguard. But we live in strange times. Thus Black Panther, the latest entry in the Marvel superhero movie universe, which arrives amid Star Wars-level hype. …
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Days before the rumored sale of the Weinstein Company, the New York Attorney General filed a civil rights lawsuit against the production company and its co-founders Harvey and Bob Weinstein. In the lawsuit, filed Sunday at the New York County Supreme Court, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman accused the company, and …
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A version of this story was originally published by Gristand appears here as part of an ongoing collaboration. A trope of sci-fi movies these days, from Snowpiercer to Geostorm, is that our failure to tackle climate change will eventually force us to deploy an arsenal of unproven technologies to save …
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Half a century afterOzzy Osbournelaunched his career with Black Sabbath and four decades since he went out on his own, the Prince of Bloody Darkness will embark on his final world tour. “Will it really have been 40 years that I’ve been solo?” Osbourneponders aloud. “Yeah, I guess that’s right. …
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It’s been 14 years since A Perfect Circle last put out a new album, and frontman Maynard James Keenan is acutely aware of this fact. So much so that he found himself asking a litany of philosophical questions when making the group’s upcoming full-length, Eat the Elephant. “Do you reinvent …
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Justin Timberlake, Man of the Woods“Justin Timberlake continues to stay dedicated to Timbaland/Neptunes futuresex beats and his familiar lovesound come-ons that have made him the biggest male pop star of his generation,” Christopher R. Weingarten writes about the Super Bowl halftime show headliner’s fifth album. “But, as its title implies, …
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