Westworld has spent two seasons showing us robots trying to break free of their human masters. The big reveal of Season Three is that humanity is hardly any freer — an irony at the heart of this week’s episode (“Genre”). In order to send our world crashing down, Dolores’ secret …
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Stanley Kubrick narrates his life story and famed career in the Kubrick By Kubrick trailer, which premieres at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival. Directed by Grégory Monro, the film features exclusive footage and interviews with Kubrick that spans over 30 years. “A work of fiction, you have to have conflict,” …
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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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John Oliver dissected President Donald Trump’s disastrous response to the coronavirus pandemic as well as the growing unease and confusion around the United States on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, which was itself rattled by the pandemic. Oliver opened the show by stating that this wouldn’t be a normal episode. Not …
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Parasite! Parasiiiiiiite! All the good stuff on Oscar Night happened in the final half hour. Parasite became the first non-English-language movie ever to win Best Picture, while Bong Joon Ho was a walking, talking, hair-wagging embodiment of everything to love about the movies. First, Bong won Best Director and gave …
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The sprawling tale of Lila and Lenù continues through the fraught years of adolescence in the new trailer for Season Two of My Brilliant Friend, based on the second book in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, The Story of a New Name. The show will return March 16th on HBO. The …
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Zoë Kravitz already had a glowing 2019; among other things, the actress was recently nominated for the Screen Actors’ Guild award for Best Ensemble as part of the cast of Big Little Lies. But she still has quite a year ahead of her, taking on a lead role in the …
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Trevor Noah dug into President Donald Trump‘s plan to assassinate a top Iranian military commander and push the United States to the brink of war in the Middle East on The Daily Show Monday. Noah noted that on New Year’s Eve, Trump said his dream was for peace in the …
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Best Film – Drama 1917 The Irishman Joker Marriage Story The Two Popes Best Film – Musical or Comedy Once Upon a Time … In Hollywood Dolemite is My Name Jojo Rabbit Knives Out Rocketman Best TV Series – Drama Succession Big Little Lies The Crown Killing Eve The Morning …
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