A review of “Journey Into Mystery,” the penultimate Loki Season One episode on Disney+, coming up just as soon as I paper cut a giant cloud to death… Journey Into Mystery was the title of the first Marvel comic to feature either Thor or Loki. It began as an anthology …
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If you’re excited to see F9, the latest edition of the Fast & Furious movie franchise, but can’t remember what happened before, James Corden has you covered. The Late Late Show host filmed a recap of the entire series that helps connect the dots between the feuds, car chases and …
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François Ozon’s Summer of ‘85 — which adapts the YA novel Dance on My Grave, by Aidan Chambers — is moving but contained affair, aflush with overwhelming feeling but also distant from that feeling, probing but not always revealing, sensuous and charismatic but not always easy to like. It’s a …
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Paciencia y fe. Patience and faith. It’s what Abuela Claudia — in so many ways the emotional center of In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s sun-splashed ode to the immigrant dream — preaches again and again, wearing it on her face, in her bones, even when she’s not saying it aloud. …
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Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and BTS had their appearances in Friends: The Reunion edited out of the HBO Max special upon its release in China this week. In the special, Bieber shows up as “Spudnik” during a Friends-inspired fashion show, Lady Gaga performs “Smelly Cat” with Lisa Kudrow and BTS …
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HBO Max has released the official trailer for its long-awaited Friends reunion, which will air May 27th. The clip offers an extensive look at what the reunion will entail, starting with a bit of Friends trivia, with David Schwimmer asking the assembled cast who remembers the length of Rachel’s break-up …
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Again and again throughout Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad, the Oscar-winning Moonlight director will pause the story to present a tableau of his huge cast of black characters. These shots are stunning in their composition, as if Jenkins and cinematographer James Laxton are …
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In the opening scene of Netflix’s new superhero drama Jupiter’s Legacy, three kids run around a backyard playing superhero — a familiar moment given a twist when we see that one of them has actual superpowers. Then the subject of their role-play, the iconic Utopian (Josh Duhamel), who happens to …
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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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It seems there are customs that even a pandemic can’t disrupt. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s extraordinary dedication to producing a mixed-bag set of Oscar nominees year in, year out — don’t they get tired? — is one such ritual. Sure, the actual ceremony is delayed, and …
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