The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood and #MeToo founder Tarana Burke have been added to this year’s VH1 Trailblazer Honors to celebrate International Women’s Day. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and filmmaker Ava DuVernay were previously announced as honorees at this year’s event taking place at Los Angeles’ Wilshire Ebell …
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Stephen Colbert mocked Donald Trump’s “mind-numbing” and rambling New York Times interview in a bonus Late Show mini-monologue. The host first focused on Trump’s long-winded response to whether he would run for president again in 2020, which included tangents on health care and John McCain. “Here’s the bottom line: I …
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Netflix has a trio of new features from big name talents, as well as a new puzzle-box series that’s blowing critics’ minds and a comic-adapted fan-favorite-in-the-making. Amazon’s working the true-crime beat with a Lorena Bobbitt docuseries and the fake-crime beat with a new Agatha Christie adaptation. And let’s throw in …
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Filmmaker, actor and Rolling Stone cover star Jordan Peele remembers being frightened by E.T. and The Twilight Zone, talks the nostalgic power of the Cranberries and explains how Chance the Rapper convinced him that Get Out was a hit in the latest installment of “The First Time.” Peele is set …
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Vanessa Hudgens and Kiersey Clemons stole the show during Fox‘sRent Live telecast when they performed the simmering “Take Me or Leave Me.” The pair portrayed girlfriends Maureen and Joanne respectively in the televised adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s seminal musical about a close-knit struggling artists living in New York City during …
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Just nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign-Language Film and for the extraordinary cinematography of Caleb Deschanel, Never Look Away concerns itself with love and war and the limitless reach of art. These are big themes and easy to bungle over the course of this three-hour-plus epic from German …
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The title and premise of The Other Two, Comedy Central‘s new sitcom about the directionless adult siblings of a viral teen pop star, suggests an acidic satire of celebrity where the kid is a vapid jerk and his older brother and sister are justifiably resentful of his instant worldwide fame. …
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You probably remember the cheese sandwich. Maybe you had no idea who the young, bro-tastic hustler Billy McFarland was, or hadn’t heard of the Fyre Music Festival before — or god forbid you’d somehow miraculously missed the already deserved roasting that this misbegotten, mismanaged event had inspired on social media. …
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The Masked Singer is truly avant-garde TV, forcing you to ask yourself tough questions. Like: How is this happening? Are we really witnessing a televised sing-off starring Z-list celebrities disguised as the Lion, the Alien, the Peacock and the Bee? Did I just eat an ayahuasca cronut or am I …
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Mahershala Ali is one of the biggest stars in Hollywood right now. After struggling in Hollywood for about two decades, the actor won an Oscar in 2017 for Best Supporting Actor for Moonlight, and recently starred in the critical hit Green Book and the new season of True Detective. He …
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