Machine Gun Kelly, Phoebe Bridgers and Nathaniel Rateliff will perform on Saturday Night Live when the show returns later this month. Machine Gun Kelly will be the musical guest on the first episode back, January 30th, with host John Krasinski. Bridgers will perform on February 6th with host Dan Levy, …
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The title of Sam Pollard’s MLK/FBI should be taken literally. This is a two-pronged investigation into a conspicuously fraught and, for the FBI, embarrassing moment in the American political establishment’s too-recent past. The documentary is primarily a study of the public and private selves of the men it names up …
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The first thing to know about Locked Down, director Doug Liman’s semi-surprise rom-com heist movie hitting HBO Max today, is that it’s a period piece. No sooner has the Warners logo slid across your screen to the sound of metropolitan life — bustling streets, honking horns, chattering voices — then …
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FX has orderedPistol, a six-episode limited series on the legendary Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones. The show will be directed and executive produced by filmmaker Danny Boyle (Trainspotting,Slumdog Millionaire,Yesterday). Based on Jones’ 2018 memoirLonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol, the series will star Toby Wallace as Steve Jones, Anson …
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Ignore the cringeworthy title, which brings to mind several lives’ worth of Lifetime movies — Pieces of a Woman, a portrait of personal disintegration and the from-the-ashes process of piecing things back together, gives you three distinct reasons to pay attention to this late-breaking entry in the seasonal Pretty People …
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It’s Christmas! On Hulu, at least. The romantic holiday comedy Happiest Season — which premieres on the streamer this week — stars Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis as Abby and Harper, respectively, a loving queer couple who’ve reached the “meet the parents” checkpoint in their relationship. This is a slightly …
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When J.D. Vance’s memoir hit shelves in 2016, it became a surprise bestseller, a controversy magnet, and an impromptu state-of-the-nation address — the must-read if you wanted insight into why Donald Trump was able to harness rage and frustration of the white underclass into a single presidential win. A tale …
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Hugh Grant discusses The Undoing, auditioning for Four Weddings and a Funeral, and more on Rolling Stone‘sThe First Time. Grant kicked things off by explaining how he got involved with The Undoing, the six-part HBO series he stars in alongside Nicole Kidman. He was initially surprised that director Susanne Bier …
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Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update celebrated Donald Trump’s loss and teased the soon-to-be-former president about his impending irrelevance hours after Joe Biden was named president-elect. The segment opened with video footage of revelers in the streets of New York, Washington D.C. and other U.S. cities, as well as celebrations in …
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Dickens had the teeming streets of Victorian-era London, Balzac had Paris during the Bourbon Restoration period, and Steve James has 21st century Chicago. A key part of the team behind the groundbreaking Hoop Dreams, this veteran documentarian has dabbled over the years in everything from biopics (Prefontaine) to bigger-picture looks …
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