A review of this week’s Better Call Saul, “Dedicado a Max,” coming up just as soon as I make my own cell phone charger… “It seems to me that you are at a crossroads.” —Gus Throughout the run of Better Call Saul, Kim Wexler and Mike Ehrmantraut have represented two …
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A review of “Debbie,” this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, coming up just as soon as I have 16 copies of Blind Melon’s first album… “The Jimmy Jab Games II” and “Debbie” aren’t exactly a two-parter, but this one picks up where last week’s installment left off: with the squad trying to …
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“I’m a boring 17-year-old white girl,” Syd tells us early in Netflix‘s new I Am Not Okay With This, before adding, “I’m not special, is what I’m trying to say.” But a few episodes later, she warns us, and herself: “If I rage, bad things happen.” Rage is a threat …
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Harriet star Cynthia Erivo performed “Stand Up” at the 92nd Academy Awards on Sunday. A 30-second teaser of the actress portraying Aretha Franklin in an upcoming series also aired at the awards ceremony. Erivo performed the track in a bedazzled gold cape, flanked by background gospel singers. The lead single …
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine returned for its seventh season with a two-part premiere. A review of “Manhunter” and “Captain Kim” coming up just as soon as I give you a foot five… Every previous season of Brooklyn Nine-Nine ended with the status of Jake and/or Holt within the squad very much up …
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Ahead of its Valentine’s Day premiere, Hulu has shared the latest trailer for High Fidelity, a remake of the 1995 novel and 2000 John Cusack-starring adaptation with Zoë Kravitz in the main role. The new preview is soundtracked by David Bowie’s classic “Modern Love.” Like its big screen predecessor, the …
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Quincy Jones, Will.i.am, John Legend and more celebrate the transcendent musical achievements of Sérgio Mendes in the trailer for the new documentary about the legendary Brazilian musician, In the Key of Joy. The clip opens with Mendes, in a voiceover, proclaiming his affection for a particular word in English, “Serendipity,” …
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Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus play a married couple with some serious issues in the first trailer for Downhill, which premiered on Jimmy Kimmel Live. The film, written and directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, is a remake of 2014’s Force Majeure, a Swedish comedy that was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film …
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Mica Levi has scored A24’s upcoming film, Zola, based on Aziah “Zola” Wells’ 2015 viral tweetstorm, Pitchfork reports. Zola’s story was detailed in Rolling Stone‘s “Zola Tells All: The Real Story Behind the Greatest Stripper Saga Ever Tweeted” by David Kushner. The film will premiere at Sundance Film Festival in …
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Adam Sandler is Hollywood’s biggest contradiction. Though his comedies range from pretty good (Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore) to god-awful (Grown Ups, Jack and Jill), they have amassed more than $3 billion at the box office. The SNL-alum-turned-production-tycoon got rich by repeating himself. See (or don’t) his Netflix hit Murder Mystery …
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