The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences confirmed that the 2019 Oscars will not have an official host, ABC News reports. The confirmation comes nearly two months after Kevin Hart accepted, and then stepped down, as host of the Oscars after years-old homophobic tweets of his resurfaced online. Hart …
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Rami Malekopened up about the sexual assault claims surrounding Bryan Singer, who directed him in the Oscar-nominated filmBohemian Rhapsody. In a conversation at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival where he was honored for his portrayal of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, Malek was askedbyThe Hollywood Reporter about the recent allegationsagainst …
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There’s little better than seeing a first-time host slay one’s first time hosting Saturday Night Live. As befitting someone that seamlessly played multiple characters in both Split and Glass, James McAvoy inhabited every distinct character in tonight’s episode so seamlessly that I’m already looking forward to the next time he …
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In the second episode of Showtime‘s new Eighties Wall Street dramedy Black Monday, the main characters are shadowed by a screenwriter who’s working on what will become Oliver Stone’s Wall Street. At one point, Regina Hall’s Dawn is in the midst of lecturing a colleague when she’s startled to notice …
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Earlier this week, Nike unveiled their first self-tying shoe, a slip-on with laces that can be tightened or loosened with an app. As Jimmy Kimmel cracked on Jimmy Kimmel Live Wednesday, “This is the reality Back to the Future predicted, right down to Biff being the most powerful man in …
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Bob Einstein, the gravelly-voiced actor best known for playing Curb Your Enthusiasm‘s Marty Funkhouser and the spirited stuntman Super Dave Osborne, died Wednesday at the age of 76. New York Daily News reports that he had been battling cancer. Although best known as an actor, Einstein, the older brother of …
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Call it a surprise twist, if you must: Early in this Monday morning in November, M. Night Shyamalan turned on his shower, and no water came out. The writer-director has come to believe that the universe is fundamentally benevolent, and as it happens, the universe — not to mention the …
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A retired Wisconsin sheriff’s detective, Andrew Colborn, is suing Netflix for defamation, alleging that the hit docu-series Making a Murderer falsely claims he planted evidence to frame Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey for murder, Variety reports. The suit, filed in Manitowoc County Circuit Court in Wisconsin, alleges that the series …
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Every Friday, we’re recommending an older movie available to stream or download and worth seeing again through the lens of our current moment. We’re calling the series “Revisiting Hours” — consider this Rolling Stone’s unofficial film club. For this week’s Thanksgiving-weekend edition: David Fear on Curtis Hanson’s lit-com Wonder Boys. …
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The fact that Liev Schreiber hosted a stronger episode of Saturday Night Live than Steve Carell tells you all you need to know about the unpredictability baked into the show’s DNA. That fact says absolutely nothing about the two men involved but rather the unpredictable nature of a show that …
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