One possessed dress. Two customers. A half dozen witches and an unlimited amount of fetishistic perversity — welcome to the world of Peter Strickland. A British filmmaker with a keen grasp of the weird and what appears to be a mission to excavate the darker, danker corners of Eurosploitation cinema, …
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Racial justice and the outrage at its absence courses through the visual and emotional powerhouse that is Queen and Slim. There’s also the exhilaration that comes from watching talents new to movies seize their moment with a passion that pins you to your seat. Director Melina Matsoukas — and artist …
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In its first season, the title of FX’s Mr. Inbetween suggested several things. The first was the niche its main character, Ray Shoesmith (played by the show’s creator, Scott Ryan), has carved out for himself providing violent, often lethal, solutions to other people’s problems. The second was the show’s careful …
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Woody Allen and Amazon have settled the wrongful termination lawsuit that the director filed earlier this year against the digital titan. According to The Hollywood Reporter, “the two sides filed paperwork with a New York federal court that stipulated to dismissal of the case with prejudice.” However, the terms of …
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“It was a fitting end. A doomed love story. A perfect tragedy.” This is a character in Season Two of The End of the F***ing World describing the dark comedy’s first season. Across eight compact episodes, that season followed mismatched would-be lovers James (Alex Lawther) and Alyssa (Jessica Barden) — …
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A very good dog who was involved in the raid that led to the death of ISIS leader Abu Baker al-Baghdadi is set to visit the White House, and Trevor Noah has some thoughts on why President Trump is so excited. “I’m not surprised that Trump invited the dog, because …
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Edward Norton is fidgeting with the Western-style pearl snaps on his white collared shirt. You wouldn’t call it a tic — though nervous tics are one of many deeply researched subjects he’s able to wax about at a moment’s notice. It’s more like a subconscious tell that he’s about to …
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Cardi B will appear in the upcoming 9th installment of the Fast & Furious franchise. Star Vin Diesel shared the news in an Instagram video shot on the movie’s set, in which he and Cardi discuss their excitement over the long, challenging production. In the video, Cardi is in costume, …
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A review of this week’s The Good Place, “Chillaxing,” coming up just as soon as I get Timothée Chalamet to go out into the sun… One of the challenges of writing a show where the story explicitly keeps repeating itself is to find new ways to tell it each time. …
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This month, Netflix hauls out the big guns: a claustrophobic nightmare from a legendary horror scribe, a quasi-revival of an era-defining TV hit, a teen drama set after the apocalypse (or is it an apocalypse drama with teens?) and a double shot of Paul Rudd. Also on deck: an eerie …
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