Month: November 2024

As streaming outlets pinch pennies and cable networks search for the next prestige hit, broadcast TV seems to be having a moment, especially with their new offerings. At CBS, Matlock got an early renewal, and Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage landed a full-season order. Over at ABC, meanwhile, High Potential marked the network’s best debut
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The independent film fall festival love affair with moviegoers continues with A Real Pain posting the year’s third best per screen average. Anora continues its standout run as does Conclave. The Ralph Fiennes-starring Vatican thriller is no. 4 at the box office in week 2. A24’s We Live In Time is no. 6. Searchlight Pictures’
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The best luxury goods worth investing in are durable, timeless, and high-quality. They never go out of style so you can use them again and again. Rather than buy jewelry that’s going to tarnish or go out of style, opt for something classic like the tennis necklace we found from the brand Eklexic. You can
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Robert Zemeckis has always been about a great technological or storytelling conceit in his movies whether it’s the live-action animated hybrid of the 3x Oscar winning Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, the insertion of Tom Hanks in famed historical footage in Oscar Best Picture Forrest Gump or the motion capture of The Polar Express. However, his
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Taiwanese-Burmese filmmaker Midi Z caused a stir and gained good notices with his 2019 film Nina Wu, which dealt with the exploitation of women in entertainment, and was released in the midst of the global #MeToo movement, a long overdue public reckoning for powerful men who had committed acts of sexual violence and misconduct. Selected
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Streep, incidentally, was on the December 2010 cover of Vogue, so whatever feelings her performance engendered were not hard. “It was entertainment,” Wintour said of the film, telling 60 Minutes in 2009, “It was not a true rendition of what happens within this magazine.” But considering how much Streep put into conjuring this larger-than-life character, you can imagine how hard the Anna Wintour
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News LCD Soundsystem Tease Album, Officially Release New Song “X-Ray Eyes”: Listen The band’s fifth studio album is in the works but not yet finished By Matthew Strauss November 1, 2024 LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, September 2024 (Christopher Polk/Penske Media via Getty Images) Save this storySave Save this storySave LCD Soundsystem have officially released “X-Ray
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Margot Robbie is officially a mother! We’ve just learned that the 34-year-old Barbie star and her 34-year-old husband and producing partner Tom Ackerley welcomed a healthy baby boy back in October. The massive milestone allegedly happened two weeks ago when she gave birth near their home in Venice Beach, California, and Ackerley is already on
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News Bon Iver Launches Website Hosting Covers of His Songs “Who else could embody the role of Bon Iver?” the Counterpart website asks. “Why do we feel the need to see the people behind the songs we love?” By Jazz Monroe November 1, 2024 Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, photo by Erinn Springer Save this storySave
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At almost 50 years old, Saturday Night Live continues to be a cherished staple of the small screen. The sketch comedy series has, from the start, been a proving ground for some of the best comedians in the business. The pioneering program remains one of the most anticipated appointment series on television, too, because of
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With abortion on the ballot in several states in Tuesday’s election, writer and director Nazrin Choudhury’s Oscar-nominated short film Red, White and Blue about a single mother searching for access to an abortion feels as timely as ever. The British-born multi-hyphenate doesn’t always see it that way. “The upcoming election, in which abortion is such
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