Tiffany Haddish reflected on her remarkable breakout year, encouraged budding artists to speak their truth and described a deleted scene from Girls Trip during a riotous 17-minute speech at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards Wednesday. Haddish was accepting the organization’s supporting actress award for her turn in Girls …
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How do you follow up a record-breaking blockbuster about a killer shark? For starters, you get out of the ocean. And then maybe you look up. A longtime watcher of the skies, young Steven Spielberg had already been kicking around an idea involving alien visitation, spacecraft “sightings” and government cover-ups …
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Samantha Bee slammed the new Republican tax bill on Full Frontal on Thursday, accusing the GOP of taking money from future generations to pad the bank accounts of the uber-rich. Bee pointed out that 62% of the new bill’s benefits accrue to the richest 1% of Americans. She noted that …
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UPDATE: NBC has received at least two more complaints since news broke of Matt Lauer‘s alleged “inappropriate sexual behavior” on Wednesday, which led to him being fired from Today, The New York Timesreports. One complaint came from a former employee who alleged that in 2001 she was summoned to Lauer’s …
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On the surface. Wonder looks like the kind of family-pandering pap that makes me want to run the other way. Do you really want to spend two hours watching the plight of a young boy born with a congenital facial deformity that gets him ridiculed when he musters the courage …
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Amazon Studios confirmed that a Lord of the Rings TV series is in the works after the streaming service agreed to a multi-season commitment with the J.R.R. Tolkien estate and New Line Cinema,Deadlinereports. The series will reimagine Tolkien’s epic fantasy novel in a Middle Earth different than filmmaker Peter Jackson’s …
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Update: GLAAD chief executive Sarah Kate Ellis responded toKevin Spacey‘s apology regarding his alleged sexual misconduct, in which he also publicly came out. “Coming out storiesshould not be used to deflect from allegations of sexual assault,” Ellis said. “This is not a coming out story about Kevin Spacey, but a …
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Samantha Bee dug into Scott Pruitt’s already grimy record as head of the Environmental Protection Agency and called on viewers to challenge his efforts to repeal the Clean Power Act on Full Frontal Wednesday. The Obama-era regulation aims to cut pollution from existing power plants 32 percent by 2030. Despite …
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Delivering three consecutive episodes of Saturday Night Live is a tall order. Given how grueling each episode is to conceive and execute, it’s natural to assume the third episode might suffer from some signs of wear and tear. On the other hand, giving this new cast/crew that prolonged time together …
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Ray (Ben Mendelsohn) runs a British manufacturing plant; he’s also a pedophile who seduced a neighbor, named Una, when he was 40 and she was only 13. When the now-adult young woman (an emotionally raw Rooney Mara) pays the older man a surprise visit at his workplace, there are 15 …
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