Tiffany Haddish and Ali Wong voice a pair of thirty-something bird women grappling with the all the anxieties, failures and jaguar attacks life has to offer in the trailer for the new animated series, Tuca and Bertie, premiering May 3rd on Netflix. Haddish and Wong voice Tuca and Bertie, respectively, …
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American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy teased a slasher movie vibe for the FX show’s upcoming ninth season. In a brief promo clip posted on Instagram, the writer-director revealed that the next installment will be titled 1984 — a fitting name based on the clip’s retro vibe. The video shows …
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On Sunday night, the closing credits of the 659th episode of The Simpsons were suddenly interrupted. The standard black screen disappeared and was replaced by five adult men tearing through a brutal heavy metal track, guzzling white wine and smashing glasses and instruments while dressed as Ned Flanders. Devout Simpsons …
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It was the best of shows, it was the worst of shows. There aren’t many episodes of Saturday Night Live that have only incredibly great or incredibly bad sketches, but Sandra Oh’s first time hosting yielded essentially only those two results. The first twenty minutes or so were so dire …
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This piece originally ran as part of SXSW 2019 coverage. Maybe you remember what happened to Matthew McConaughey back in 1999. The actor had graduated to Hollywood A-list status by this point; he’d also developed a deserved reputation for enjoying a good time off the set. So the cops get …
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If you’re unnerved by movies that exploit real-life tragedy for dramatic momentum (22 July, Patriots Day), Hotel Mumbai is not going to alleviate your concerns as terrorists armed with semi-automatics shoot down hotel guests in India like ducks in a barrel. That said, Aussie director Anthony Maras, in his feature …
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It’s a cliché in crime stories both true and fictional that neighbors and loved ones are blindsided to learn what the people close to them were truly capable of doing. But in the case of Dee Dee Blanchard and her daughter Gypsy Rose — the central figures of the first …
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Michael Jackson‘s 1991 episode of The Simpsons will be removed from being aired across platforms, The Wall Street Journalreports. “It feels clearly the only choice to make,” the animated show’s longtime producer, James L. Brooks, told WSJ. In the episode Stark Raving Dad, which aired during The Simpsons’ third season, …
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J.R.R. Tolkien finds inspiration for his famous novels in friendship, love and war in the new trailer for the upcoming biopic, Tolkien, set to open May 10th. The clip opens with the young author (played by Nicholas Hoult) discussing how he invented a whole new language with the woman who …
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We’re still in shock over the stunning news that Luke Perry died earlier this morning at the age of 52, following a massive stroke. Perry died at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Burbank, California surrounded by his large family and other close friends. He was rushed to the hospital last Wednesday …
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