The O.G. of TV true crime has returned. Before there was Making a Murderer, Tiger King, The Jinx, and Serial, the nation’s fix for real-life murder tales came in weekly doses courtesy of Unsolved Mysteries, which ran interrupted from 1987 to 2002. Since the series left airwaves, the genre has …
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Shangela is calling in from her grandmother’s house in Paris, Texas, and singing the praises of strong women. “I’ve got a deeper love,” she belts, in full Aretha mode before breaking into a self-deprecating laugh. “Honey, I’ve been quarantining here for three months, and it’s the longest I’ve been home …
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Monday that the 93rd Oscars ceremony will be held on Sunday, April 25th, 2021 — a later date in the year than usual, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The show, which was originally scheduled to air February 28th on ABC, …
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Steve Carell is tasked with militarizing space in the new Netflix original series Space Force, and as you can imagine, hijinks ensue. In the latest trailer for the show, which premieres May 29th on the streaming platform, Carell is a four-star general given the assignment to lead the newly launched …
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Pete Davidson flounders and flails and tries to grow up in the new trailer for The King of Staten Island, which is set to hit on-demand services June 12th. The new film, directed by Judd Apatow, is loosely based on Davidson’s own life: It finds him playing an unambitious 20-something …
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They were going to make history on that day in September, 1991. The eight members of Biosphere 2, a closed-system laboratory filled with both living environments (rain forests, desert landscapes, deep-sea coral gardens) and living quarters, were entering the elaborate research facility in Oracle, Arizona. Amidst a lot of media …
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Brave New World “You are an essential part of a perfect social body,” says an overhead voice. “Everybody in their place. Everybody happy now.” This perfect society is New London, where life is free of pain and there is no such thing as monogamy, privacy, money, or family. But just …
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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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Farewell, Terry Jones — in Monty Python’s box of chocolates, he was always the crunchy frog. This man was a comic genius, the soul of Python — their most unselfish performer, their most wide-ranging mind, and their most stubborn arguer, which is why he ended up directing their movies. (Who …
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