Whimsical goofs, pleas for humanity, and calls for Hollywood to tell more diverse stories were on full display at the 92nd Academy Awards on Sunday night, when Parasite, 1917, and Joker each won multiple Oscars. Bong Joon Ho‘s unpredictable satirical thriller Parasite, about a poor family that ingratiates itself into …
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Late-night hosts from Stephen Colbert to Samantha Bee reacted to the frustrating inevitability of President Donald Trump‘s impeachment acquittal on their respective shows Wednesday. While yesterday’s party-line vote was largely expected for weeks, the occasion still marked an ominous approval of Trump’s executive power and yet another instance in which …
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Leonardo DiCaprio‘s environmental organization, Earth Alliance, will donate $3 million to wildfire relief efforts in Australia, according to The Associated Press. Earth Alliance launched the Australia Wildfire Fund to handle the donation, while also soliciting help from others. Per the fund’s website, 100 percent of donations will go directly to …
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Black Widow may have met her end in Avengers: Endgame, but Scarlett Johansson is back as the Russian superhero in Black Widow. Marvel has released the first teaser trailer for the character’s highly anticipated solo outing and it looks to be an action-packed spy thriller. In the trailer, Johansson’s Natasha …
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Honey Boy “I want you to write an account of your memories,” says a counselor to twenty-two-year-old Otis (Lucas Hedges) at the beginning of the trailer. Here, Otis is tasked with the very thing Shia LaBeouf did to create the film’s screenplay. While the film is fictionalized, the story is …
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Stephen Colbert opened The Late Show Wednesday with a goofy mash-up of A$AP Rocky‘s “Praise the Lord” and Gordon Sondland’s impeachment testimony after the EU ambassador mentioned the rapper in Congress. One of the major focuses of Sondland’s public hearing yesterday was a July phone call between him and President …
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The Breaking Bad prequel series Better Call Saul will return for its fifth season with a special two-night premiere, February 23rd and 24th. The first episode will air Sunday the 23rd at 10 p.m. ET on AMC, while the second episode will debut Monday the 24th at 9 p.m. ET. …
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Lady Gaga has teamed up with director Ridley Scott for her next movie, her first big screen role since A Star Is Born. The upcoming film will chronicle the murder of Guccio Gucci’s grandson Maurizio Gucci, who also spearheaded the Italian fashion house, and focus on the Gucci family dynasty. …
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Pharrell Williams, Paul McCartney, Smokey Robinson and more discuss one of music’s most important landmarks in the new trailer for The Apollo, the HBO-bound documentary about the legendary Harlem theater. “When [the Beatles] first came to New York, the Apollo was the first place we wanted to go,” McCartney says …
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Howard Stern talked therapy, relationships, old age and his recent book in a wide-ranging interview Friday on Real Time With Bill Maher. “This is so rushed. I should really have the whole hour to myself,” the shock jock quipped midway through the 20-minute interview, which at that point had already …
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