The true crime classic The Staircase, Netflix’s docuseries about novelist Michael Peterson and the suspicious death of his wife Kathleen, is set to become an HBO Max limited series, with Colin Firth cast as Peterson. The streaming service and Annapurna Television announced the upcoming series Wednesday, with The Devil All …
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Jessica Walter worked. She worked in the literal sense, in that she was rarely without an acting job from the time her career began in the early Sixties, with a role as Julie Murano on the CBS daytime soap Love of Life, all the way through this past February, when …
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The possessive in the title of Zack Snyder’s Justice League says it all. This rerelease of 2017’s disappointing Justice League is not merely a “Snyder cut,” as it’s been called by rabid fans and suspicious nonbelievers, who doubted we’d ever see such a thing. The difference between the nearly four-hour …
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In the late 1980s, screenwriter Barry Blaustein was at a Los Angeles Clippers game watching Michael Cage – a six foot nine rebounding machine known almost as much for his vibrant Jheri curl as his domineering talent – when an idea hit him. He and his writing partner, David Sheffield, …
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Seven years ago, Rolling Stone interviewed Real World co-creator Jonathan Murray about the newest season of the groundbreaking MTV reality show. At the end, we ran an idea past him: “[Thinking] back to that original cast in New York, it would be nice to see something with them again. Maybe …
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A review of this week’s WandaVision, “Previously On,” coming up just as soon as I make breakfast for dinner… Collaborative fiction can be a complicated thing, where any one writer’s take on a character or story can last only as long as it takes for another writer to undo it. …
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Within the last three weeks, TV’s documentary explosion has given us two damning close-ups on decades-old celebrity scandals. In one, an insatiable media-industrial complex takes a vulnerable young woman into its maw, judging her sexuality and questioning, then actively undermining, her sanity. In the other, it happens again. The main …
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Production on the VH1 reality series T.I. and Tiny: Friends and Family Hustle has been paused after the show’s stars, rapper T.I. (real name Clifford Harris) and his wife, Tameka “Tiny” Harris, were accused of sexual abuse. Production on the fourth season of T.I. and Tiny had started in December. …
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Benedict Cumberbatch plays a British businessman who’s enlisted as an undercover spy during the Cold War in the new trailer for The Courier, which is set to open March 19th. The film is based on the life of Greville Wynne, whom Cumberbatch plays, a British businessman who’s recruited by MI-6, …
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Donald Trump was impeached for the second time in his presidency on Wednesday, a landmark moment in U.S. history that created many a zinger on late-night television. “I feel like I just took down my decorations from the last impeachment,” Stephen Colbert said, followed shortly after by: “It makes sense …
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