Samantha Bee dove into the anti-abortion debate and the carnival of absurdities in the race to overturn Roe v. Wade in aFull Frontal segment on Wednesday. The Christian anti-abortion dramaUnplanned was released this month, and while Bee wastes no time in dunking on its hilarious portrayal of Planned Parenthood as …
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What if your favorite pet died and you buried it in a place where it could come back to life? It’d maybe be a little different — and definitely a lot scarier — but hey, it’s still your beloved pooch, kitty or tweety bird, right? Bonus question: What if the …
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Remember Heavy Metal, the 1981 animated movie based on the French magazine Métal Hurlant? That feature-length hodgepodge of stories about stoner aliens, voluptuous androids, horny space travelers, dragon-riding heroines in dominatrix gear and other interstellar-overdriven pulp touches? “A step beyond science fiction” was the tagline; a 13-year-old boy peering at …
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“Dear Orson Welles…” — that’s the first thing you hear in Mark Cousins’ essay-cum-tribute to the man who gave us Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, Touch of Evil, some of the most baroque screen adaptations of the Bard ever made and the template for the modern maligned-maestro filmmaker. There have …
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Saturday Night Live skewered the Momo Challenge in a sketch that employed the terrifying bird woman at the center of the viral hoax as the mascot for a fast-food chicken restaurant. In the minute-long commercial for Bok Bok’s, the announcer tells the viewer, “We’d like to take a second to …
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A Star is Born will return to theaters for one week with 12 minutes of new footage, including extended musical performances, Variety reports. The film will be rereleased in more than 1,150 theaters across North America starting Friday, March 1st. Warner Bros. teased the rerelease with one of the additional …
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Best Picture Green Book Black Panther BlacKkKlansman Bohemian Rhapsody The Favourite Roma A Star Is Born Vice Best Actor Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody Christian Bale – Vice Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born Willem Dafoe – At Eternity’s Gate Viggo Mortensen – Green Book Best Actress Olivia Colman …
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The Umbrella Academy reads like a catharsis. Almost 12 years ago, Gerard Way released the Dark Horse comic at the peak of My Chemical Romance’s powers. Through six issues, Way channeled the growing dysfunction and discord of his real-life band into the fictional story of seven adopted children with superpowers …
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It’s probably not a good sign when the highlight of an episode of Saturday Night Live is learning John Mulaney will be hosting the next one in March. Host Don Cheadle hoisted this show on his back and made most of it passable through sheer force of will, but it …
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With just weeks to go before the 2019 Academy Awards, 20th Century Fox’s Bohemian Rhapsody continues to pick up steam, both at the box office — where it has raked in nearly $850 million worldwide — and as a frontrunner in the “Best Actor” race, where star Rami Malek has …
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