Month: February 2024

Colin Jost and Michael Che took shots at the Suits spinoff and Donald Trump during the Saturday Night Live Weekend Update segment. This week, it was announced that the Suits spinoff had received a pilot order from NBC and would be set in Los Angeles. “It will focus on Meghan Markle’s character struggle to balance
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Maestro actress Carey Mulligan has broken one of Hollywood’s oldest taboos when it comes to Awards season: never say it matters. Mulligan, who is Oscar-nominated for the third time this year for her role of Leonard Bernstein’s wife Felicia Montealegre in the Netflix biopic Maestro, told The Times of London of her joy at being
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In the canon of high school-set slashers, Departing Seniors is a moderate achiever — the middle of the pack. Jose Nateras’ screenplay massages LGBTQ+ themes into an adorable-awkward-angsty teen romance threatened by deadly obstacles (outside cruel bigotry). It’s refreshingly genuine in terms of treating queer relationships with normalcy, but schoolyard slasher tension dulls without sharp
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Tim Sullivan’s The Teacher is the newest in his entertaining series of police procedurals whose titles come from the murder victim’s profession and we’ve previously reviewed The Monk. When thinking ahead to 2024, and the kinds of crime books that are likely on the horizon, ones with neurodivergent protagonists seemed quite likely. The success of
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Yolanda Saldivar, Selena Quintanilla‘s killer, is speaking from prison ahead of her eligibility for parole in 2025 in a new Oxygen True Crime docuseries. Nearly 30 years ago, Saldivar killed the Tejano star, and in the two-part limited docuseries Selena & Yolanda: The Secrets Between Them, Saldivar shares her interpretation of events and claims that
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Jason Kelce has Taylor Swift‘s back. The Philadelphia Eagles center is defending his brother Travis Kelce‘s girlfriend amid criticism over live TV coverage of the singer’s appearances at the Kansas City Chiefs star’s games. “The attention’s there because the audience wants to see it,” he told ABC affiliate WCPO 9 in an interview posted Feb. 2. “I mean,
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Behind You Is the Sea, Susan Muaddi Darraj’s debut novel, brings readers into the lives of three Palestinian families in and around Baltimore: the Salamehs, the Baladis and the Ammars. Generational disputes form the core of the novel’s action, which unfolds through weddings, graduations, unplanned pregnancies and funerals. Women’s issues are also at the fore,
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Nothing hits harder than the most iconic movie kisses and love scenes, areweright?! We’re talking about those – ahem – steamy moments that leave you feeling hella flustered. Whether it’s date night or a movie marathon made for one, the juicy bits are the ones that get us talking (and definitely still thinking) about long
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After a few weeks without any studio wide releases, Apple Original Films‘ $200M Argylle via Universal is hoping to entice moviegoers back, but it won’t be in a big way. Last night’s previews for the PG-13 Matthew Vaughn directed action movie made $1.7M, which is below the $2.4M previews clocked by Amazon MGM’s The Beekeeper
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EXCLUSIVE: A growing list of 200+ film professionals, largely from within the German industry, have signed an open letter protesting the Berlin Film Festival’s decision to invite members of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to this year’s opening ceremony. The open letter was launched Friday evening. Signatories (who can be viewed below) include
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Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender is on the horizon, touching down on February 21. But fans of a certain pint-sized earthbending badass will have to wait a little longer for their hero to make her live-action appearance. Recommended Videos I’m talking, of course, about Toph, daughter of the wealthy Beifong family and
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