Amazon Prime Video has shared a new trailer for One Night in Miami, Regina King’s upcoming film about a historic gathering between Cassius Clay (soon to take the name Muhammad Ali), Malcolm X, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke. The film will screen in select theaters on December 25th before arriving …
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Tom Ruegger wanted no part of a Tiny Toon Adventures spin-off. The animation vet had created the Tiny Toons — kids inspired by the original Looney Tunes characters, now learning comedy from Bugs Bunny and friends — but was already burnt out on them when he was asked if he …
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Early in Monday night’s season premiere of The Good Doctor, the action on the ABC medical drama pauses for an onscreen disclaimer that reads, “This episode of The Good Doctor is a made-up story about a real battle still being fought. Honor the heroes: doctors, nurses and other frontline workers, …
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Oliver Laxe’s brilliant Fire Will Come (currently streaming online in virtual cinemas) opens with an unease that lingers long after the images that inspired it — crowded, quiet, as natural as they are unearthly — have passed us by. A sublime harbinger of the subtle violences to come. Without preface …
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Dolly Parton is an angel attempting to save a town in Christmas on the Square, a new musical out on November 22nd via Netflix. The trailer features Regina Fuller (Christine Baranski), a Scrooge-type woman who tries to evict the residents of her hometown and sell the land to a mall …
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Rick Moranis was the victim of an assault that was caught on surveillance footage Thursday morning on a New York City street. The long-retired actor — who made a rare on-camera appearance for a Ryan Reynolds-starring commercial in September — was briefly hospitalized with head, back and hip pain before …
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A review of “I Am,” this week’s Lovecraft Country, coming up just as soon as I stop watching and start dancing… “I feel like they just found a smart way to lynch me without me noticing the noose.” —Hippolyta Misha Green’s ambitions with Lovecraft Country are so great that her …
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Ahead of the Father of the Bride mini-sequel on Friday, Steve Martin and Kimberly Williams-Paisley appeared on Today to discuss the Banks family reunion. Hosted by Jenna Bush Hager, Martin (who played George Banks) and Williams-Paisley (Annie Banks) reminisced about 1991’s Father of the Bride and the 1995 sequel, directed …
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The 72nd Emmy Awards, held in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, kicked off with what was undoubtedly a confusing image for everyone watching the show at home: host Jimmy Kimmel walking onstage at the Staples Center to… a full audience. “Welcome to the Pand-Emmys!” Kimmel said cheerfully. “Thank you …
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Sunday night’s Emmy telecast on ABC will be the most unusual one in the history of the TV Academy, with the Covid pandemic turning it into yet another remote event. The nominees will have cameras in their homes, rather than assembling in a theater to laugh at host Jimmy Kimmel’s …
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