Franco Zeffirelli, the Italian director best known for his bold cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare’s work, has died at the age of 96. The filmmaker died Saturday at his home in Rome, Italy, his son Luciano told the Associated Press. “He had suffered for a while, but he left in a …
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Samantha Bee examined the way YouTube‘s algorithm for recommending videos fuels potentially dangerous and illegal behavior from pedophilia to extremism. A recent New York Times investigation discovered that YouTube’s algorithm will guide viewers with pedophilic tastes towards videos featuring younger and younger women. While the easy fix would be to …
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The third and final season of Jessica Jones will premiere June 14th on Netflix. The streaming service announced the premiere date with a short teaser in which a menacing voice threatens Jones as the camera moves down the hallway towards her office: “Jessica Jones, you are a fraud. You’re a …
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Jaime Lannister may have bitten the dust on Game of Thrones, but Jimmy Kimmel is proposing a new spin-off series for the character. On Full House Lannister, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is back in his armor alongside real Full House stars Dave Coulier and Bob Saget. In the clip, Coster-Waldau, with Jaime’s …
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Samantha Bee delivered a scathing class in sex education on Full Frontal Wednesday as states like Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Ohio and more try to curtail or outright ban abortions. Bee noted that many of the predominately male state legislators behind these measures don’t seem to have any understanding of how …
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Samantha Bee delivered a scathing roast of Donald Trump at the second annual Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C. Friday. With the real White House Correspondents Dinner taking a comedy-free route after Michelle Wolf’s controversial speech in 2018, and with Trump still not attending the annual event, …
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The Empire cast wants costar Jussie Smollett to return for the Fox series’ sixth season and they’ve collectively penned a letter of support, Variety reports. Smollett’s role in future episodes has been unclear following Smollett’s high-profile criminal scandal that involved the actor allegedly staging a racist and homophobic attack on …
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Stephen Colbert dug into the Mueller report and the way Attorney General William Barr managed to spin many of the special counsel’s findings in President Donald Trump‘s favor on The Late Show Thursday. While the report laid out numerous instances where Trump seemed to obstruct justice, Barr said during a …
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Laura Linney heads back to San Francisco to find old family and new friends in the inspiring new trailer for Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City, set to premiere on Netflix June 7th. The new 10-episode mini-series is based on Maupin’s series of novels and serves as the “next chapter” …
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The armies of Westeros and Esteros prepare for one last fight in the chilling new trailer for the final season of Game of Thrones. Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) sets the tone for the trailer, which opens with footage of her running through a castle while she says in a voice …
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