The best moment of the Oscar ceremony: At the end of the night, as Guillermo del Toro gives his Best Picture acceptance speech for The Shape of Water, Greta Gerwig clutches a hand to her heart and says the lip-readable words, to nobody in particular, “I love him.” It was …
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Jennifer Lawrence has joined Meryl Streep in objecting to Harvey Weinstein‘s legal team’s use of the actresses’ former comments in a motion filed to dismiss a sexual misconduct class action lawsuit. The class action lawsuit was filed last December on behalf of six women against Weinstein, his brother Bob, The …
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To call Annihilation writer-director Alex Garland the thinking geek’s new sci-fi guru is probably to jinx his box-office chances. Look where thoughtfulness got Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049. But Garland is the real-deal for generating rattling tension and mind-blowing mojo. Annihilation, an eco-thriller based on the first book in the …
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In the aftermath of another school shooting, John Oliver applauded the courageous students of Parkland, Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School for stepping into the forefront of the gun control debate. “These [school shooting] events are so familiar, you now automatically know how each side will play out: ‘Thoughts and …
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UPDATE: Jeffrey Tambor has responded to being fired from Amazon’s Transparent. Calling the sexual harassment allegations against him “false accusations,” the actor also questioned the handling of the investigation that followed. “I am profoundly disappointed in Amazon’s handling of these false accusations against me,” he said, via Variety. “I am …
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Marvel‘s new superhero spinoff series is Venom.Tom Hardyplays a reporter named Eddie Brock as well as Venom, an “alien symbiote” stuck in a human body. The first trailer offers little information and only vague hints about the hero’s origin story. Hardy spends most of the clip lying on his back …
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Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt for what he called “the most thrilling mission yet” on his Instagram. The new trailer for Mission: Impossible – Fallout showcases the kind of adrenaline-fueled action for which the blockbuster franchise is known. The sixth installment of the series is the follow-up to 2015’s …
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Taylor Kitsch nearly reached a breaking point while prepping for his lead role in new TV miniseries Waco, about the events that led to a now-infamous standoff between cult leader David Koresh and the FBI back in 1993. “I almost pulled out a month and a half [before the filming …
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Weekend Update hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost recalled some of their favorite rejected Saturday Night Live sketches on Tuesday’s Late Night With Seth Meyers. One politically slanted idea involved host (and then presidential candidate) Donald Trump hawking a really terrible product: “I pitched him an idea that he weirdly …
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Ellen Pompeo is officially the highest-paid woman on television, reeling in $20 million a year, but the actress reveals in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter that getting to this point was hard-fought. “I’m 48 now, so I’ve finally gotten to the place where I’m OK asking for what …
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