Elton John grapples with identity and excess in the new trailer for the upcoming biopic, Rocketman, out May 31st. The film stars Taron Egerton as John, and the new clip teases an expansive overview of the musician’s remarkable life. It touches on his simple upbringing outside of London, his earliest …
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Julia Luis-Dreyfus’ Selina Meyer takes one last shot at the presidency in the new trailer for the final season of Veep. The clip finds Meyer and her team trying to court voters while simultaneously belittling them. “This entire country is getting more disgusting by the second,” Meyer complains, prompting her …
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It’s tempting to think we’ve seen it all when it comes to gangster movies — the Tommy-gunning tough guys, the cosa nostra capos and cutthroats, the tattooed yakuza hard men, the cartel-to-Chinese-triad thug lifers, the coked-out kingpins with their Everest-sized blow piles and ballistic “little friends.” Cristina Gallego and Ciro …
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As Virginia continues to reel from allegations that both Governor Ralph Northam and the state’s attorney general donned blackface in the Eighties, a Saturday Night Live sketch mocked the state’s clueless representatives. “Alright, so we’re all in agreement that the lieutenant governor should be encouraged to step down? Okay, so …
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Ray Burke (Andre Holland) talks a great game. If verbiage was a professional sport, the man would be rocking MVP rings, adorning Wheaties boxes, have his own sneaker line. Kids would be wearing his jersey. He’s first-round Hall-of-Famer material when it comes to pitching clients, charming “the naysayers and the …
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Stephen King has written a lot of frightening books throughout the course of his five-decade career, but none are quite as viscerally disturbing as Pet Sematary. The 1983 novel is about a doctor that moves to the country with his young family and discovers a pet cemetery in the woods …
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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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