The Jonas Brothers are gearing up to tear into each other in the newly announced Netflix special Jonas Brothers Family Roast. Hosted by Kenan Thompson, the comedy special opens up the floor for Joe, Nick, and Kevin to bash and flame each other in a way only siblings can. Premiering …
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Ewan McGregor portrays the renowned fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick, better known simply as Halston, in the trailer for a new Netflix limited series of the same name.Halston premieres Friday, May 14th on the streaming platform. The series is based on the real-life success story of Halston’s rise in the …
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From a cultural standpoint, RZA‘s timing over the past year could not have been worse. On March 14th, 2020, the rapper/music producer/film director was all set to premiereCut Throat City,his third feature, at South by Southwest. Instead, lockdowns began and the film was pushed back multiple times, only to see …
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It’s hard to watch Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom — George C. Wolfe’s screen adaption of the seminal August Wilson play of the same name, from 1982 — without remembering that it’s Chadwick Boseman’s last movie. (The movie, which opens in limited theatrical release this week, will have a streaming release, …
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Laverne Cox appears in the new trailer for Disclosure, a Netflix documentary on transgender representation in film and television, out June 19th in celebration of LGBTQ Pride month. Directed by Sam Feder and executive produced by Cox, the trailer opens with the actress observing Hollywood’s influence on trans culture and …
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Now that it’s one of the most beloved comedies on streaming, across multiple generations, it can be hard to remember that The Officewas not well-received when it debuted on NBC in the spring of 2005. It’s not just that the mockumentary format was relatively new to American TV, but that …
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Chris Hemsworth tries to rescue a young child in the middle of an outrageously violent drug war in the new trailer for Extraction, set to premiere on Netflix April 24th. Directed by Sam Hargrave, Extraction stars Hemsworth as Tyler Rake, a black market mercenary who is thrust into the middle …
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Produced by Michelle and Barack Obama and directed by Nicole Newnham with Jim LeBrecht, this indispensable documentary defines what it means to call a movie “inspiring.” Their raucous fist-bump of a film is a 1950s origin story about Camp Jened, affectionately nicknamed “Crip Camp,” a New York summer getaway for …
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Kate Nash is recalling a nightmare she had recently. In the dream, the musician and star of the Netflix series GLOW remembers being on a raft in a dark tunnel, surrounded by man-eating killer whales. “I escaped the tunnel, and I was running around in this carpark, with all these …
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Netflix has released the trailer forDolly Parton’s Heartstrings, an upcoming eight-part series that will pair songs by the country music star with episodic stories. The limited anthology series — produced by Magnolia Hill Productions and Sandollar Productions in association with Warner Bros. — premieres November 22nd exclusively on the streaming …
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