Seth Meyers welcomed viewers to an episode of Late Night from his hallway to discuss how President Trump is handling the current global pandemic. In a new edition of the late-night show’s “A Closer Look” segment, Meyers addressed how the world is reacting to COVID-19. “It may be weird that …
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From the quarantined comfort of his couch, Trevor Noah delved into the latest developments surrounding the coronavirus pandemic in the first installment of The Daily Social Distancing Show. At the top of the episode, Noah explained that, going forward, he and the rest of the Daily Show team were determined …
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Holster your six-shooters and hitch your horses: After a two-year hiatus, Westworld is back — only it’s barely recognizable as Westworld anymore. Taking last season’s scattered segments set outside the Delos corporation’s theme-park system and stretching them out to (almost) an entire episode, the sci-fi brain-teaser’s season premiere (“Parce Domine”) …
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Capping off a surreal day of plunging markets and mass cancellations in the wake of the coronavirus, former South Bend, Indiana, mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg made his debut as the host of Jimmy Kimmel Live in front of a practically empty studio audience. Buttigieg was announced as …
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Stephen Colbert summed it up nicely when he said he had “sad news for fans of competence” as he and other late-night hosts reacted to Elizabeth Warren‘s decision to suspend her presidential campaign Thursday. In his monologue on The Late Show, Colbert said that Warren dropping out was “further proof …
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Bob Iger is stepping down from his post as Disney‘s chief executive officer effectively immediately, Disney announced on Tuesday. Iger will be replaced by Bob Chapek, who previously served as chairman of Disney’s Parks, Experiences and Products division.Iger will become executive chairman of the company, a role he will hold …
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Hollywood knockoffs of foreign-language films almost never work. Remember the recent Miss Bala (based on Mexico’s 2012 Oscars submission of the same name) and The Upside (the Kevin Hart/Bryan Cranston version of the 2011 French hit The Intouchables)? Downhill, an Americanized remake of 2014’s brilliant Force Majeure, turns Swedish director …
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Hallelujah! Birds of Prey is not as gargantuanly godawful as 2016’s Suicide Squad, which was a real DCEU barrel-scraper. But it’s not fantabulous, either, to namecheck its subtitle: The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn. (Guess Birds of Prey and a Just-OK Romp with One Hardworking Movie Star wouldn’t cut …
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Kirk Douglas always comes out fighting. I use the present tense, because it’s damn near impossible to think of this paragon of golden-age Hollywood stardom any other way. Yes, his son Michael Douglas formally announced yesterday that his father had died at the Methuselah-level age of 103, but it’s still …
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The Richardson family’s life goes up in flames in the new trailer for Little Fires Everywhere, an upcoming miniseries based on Celeste Ng’s 2017 novel by the same name. The series premieres March 18th on Hulu. Reese Witherspoon portrays Elena Richardson, the matriarch of a wealthy family who rents out a …
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