Taylor Swift is free. Free to say whatever the hell she wants, even if it pisses off some of the record-buying public, her parents, and the president. (Especially the president.) Free to stand up for causes she believes in, like gay rights. Free to not let the ravenous, snickering, snarky …
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sesame Street, Jimmy Fallon and The Roots‘ Tariq Trotter joined a few famous muppets to perform a celebratory rap. In the clip, Fallon and Trotter board a bus with Elmo, Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Grover, the Count, Bert and Ernie and a few …
Read More »Greta Thunberg Documentary Coming to Hulu in 2020
A documentary on young climate activist Greta Thunberg will be arriving on Hulu next year. The film, working titleGreta, will follow Thunberg’s life during the international school climate strike that she helped organize and promote in August 2018. “The team behind Greta has been following the young activist from her …
Read More »Watch Kristen Bell and Jimmy Fallon Sing the 'History of Disney Songs'
Kristen Bell and Jimmy Fallon performed a medley of 17 Disney classics in a segment for The Tonight Show. To reimagine the history of Disney songs, the pair took on everything from “Under the Sea” to “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” to “You’ve Got a Friend in Me,” as …
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Andy and Taylor Newton were understandably nervous to score Doctor Sleep, a film that merges the genius of writer Stephen King and The Shining director Stanley Kubrick. They found solace, however, in an unexpected member of the cast: Bonkers the cat. “We were pretty serious for most of the 18 …
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Shia LaBeouf — in a live-wire performance that jumps off the screen — plays a version of his own loose-cannon father in Honey Boy, leaving Noah Jupe and Lucas Hedges to portray two stages of the artist as a young man, at 12 and 22 respectively. The names have been …
Read More »Anthony Bourdain Documentary In the Works From CNN, HBO Max
The late celebrity chef and travelogue host Anthony Bourdain will be the focus of a documentary from CNN Films, HBO Max and Focus Features. Directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville—who took home an Academy Award for 20 Feet from Stardom andmade last year’s hit documentaryWon’t You Be My Neighbor?—the upcoming …
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When a stranger at a party asks the title character of HBO’s new comedic miniseries Mrs. Fletcher what she does, she replies, “I watch a lot of porn.” She’s not joking. Eve Fletcher (a wolfishly perfect Kathryn Hahn) has a day job working at a senior center, but the moment …
Read More »The First Time: Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington
On Cinema co-hosts Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington squabble over Medicaid fraud and the semantics of murder in the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s “The First Time.” The clip find the two comedians in character and opens with Heidecker trying to remember the first time he met a rat when …
Read More »How Trump Made Howard Stern 'Sort of a Journalist'
Howard Stern is one of our greatest living interviewers, offering the profession a rare blend of candor and irreverence. But he apparently never considered himself a real “journalist” — or, at least, not until Donald Trump‘s presidential run led to people digging up the GOP leader’s often salacious and disturbing …
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