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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There’s a lot of box-office heat on horror these days — Jordan Peele’s Us has already grossed $236 million worldwide. Still, that’s no excuse for a lazy cash-in like The Curse of La Llorona, which plays too timid for terror and is too lazily constructed to haunt anyone’s dreams. This …
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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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You may or may not have caught Joe Wright’s 2011 thriller Hanna. If not, we’ll give you a quick recap. Saoirse Ronan is a feral young woman living in the Bavarian forest with a former secret-ops agent played by Eric Bana. When she was a baby, he saved her from …
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So who likes “first looks” at things? This week brought them to the internet in bulk. In a nutshell: Quentin Tarantino unveiled a (somewhat controversial) peek at Once Upon a Time In Hollywood; HBO proved that yes, the Deadwood movie we’ve dreamed about for years will indeed be seen by …
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Idris Elba‘s new Netflix comedy Turn Up Charlie seems less a TV show than a checklist of things Elba wanted to do on camera. In the series (it debuts March 15th; I watched six of the eight episodes), which Elba co-created with Gary Reich, he plays Charlie, a Nineties one-hit …
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A review of this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, “The Golden Child,” coming up just as soon as I give myself a Dickensian backstory… During that dark and strange two-day period last spring after Fox had canceled Nine-Nine, but before NBC rescued it, the show’s celebrity fans came out in force, none …
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