The structure of Game of Thrones makes a best episodes list feel beside the point, even if there are a few clear standouts like “Blackwater.” It’s a show where the nostalgically inclined may be better served skimming highlights on YouTube than rewatching whole hours on HBOGO. These 10 sequences capture …
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Agnès Varda, “the mother of the French New Wave” who spent seven decades as a trailblazing filmmaker and documentarian, has died at the age of 90. “The director and artist Agnes Varda died at her home on the night of Thursday, March 29, of complications from cancer,” Varda’s family said …
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Whatever it takes to keep a techno hellraiser on its feet, The Hummingbird Project doesn’t have it. Just don’t blame the film’s two lead actors. Jesse Eisenberg surges with all the manic energy he showed in The Social Network, playing Vincent Zaleski, the hustler behind an idea to run fiber-optic …
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Welcome to the Trailers of the Week: Holy Crap They Finally Dropped the Official Game of Thrones Trailer! edition. Yes, HBO revealed the first clips of the show’s last season, and it’s a destruction-filled doozy. We also got looks at the long-suppressed Aretha Franklin concert movie finally hitting theaters, a …
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Julianne Moore lights up the screen in a remake of Chilean director Sebastián Lelio’s 2013 Gloria, in which Paulina García played a fiftyish divorcée trying to negotiate the Santiago singles scene. Hollywood retreads of foreign films are rarely a good idea (did you see Miss Bala?), but Gloria Bell is …
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With the returning flowers come returning series: Both Bill Hader‘s Barry and Starz’s everything-and-the-kitchen-sink fantasy American Gods return for their sophomore runs; Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti are consolidating even more power as Billions goes for Round Four; and Gina Rodriguez gets ready for her final season as the not-so-virginal-anymore …
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Stephen Colbert dissected and demolished President Trump’s State of the Union during The Late Show‘s post-address live episode. The host spent 16 minutes cracking punchlines about Trump’s economic boasts, illegal immigration rhetoric and thinly veined threats to Democrats about “ridiculous partisan investigations.” “This was not a particularly great speech,” Colbert …
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Christina Aguilera provided patrons at a donut shop with some unexpected entertainment on the first installment of “Undercover Sing” on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Thursday. The pop star set up in the kitchen and, using, a security monitor, began to pipe songs about the various customers into the store before emerging …
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A review of “The Tattler,” this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, coming up just as soon as I perform “Stop or My Mom Will Ska,” the one song by my ska band, Skalvester Skallone… “The Tattler” starts off in a familiar Andy Samberg key: Nineties clothes and music and a grown man …
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For his fast-paced biopic of infamous serial killer Ted Bundy, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, director Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost, Whitey) turns his magnifying glass to the real-life story of Elizabeth Kloepfer (Lily Collins), a woman who’s struggling with her suspicions about her boyfriend Ted (Zac Efron). Sure, she …
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