Before we begin this exercise in nostalgia gone awry, two things of note. I only watched The Star Wars Holiday Special for the first time, and am writing this review, as a stretch goal for The George Lucas Talk Show‘s fundraiser for Feeding America. And this review will contain spoilers …
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Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update returned from its monthlong hiatus to mock Donald Trump’s continued (and continually thwarted) legal attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. “[Friday] Trump’s lawyers opened another door on their advent calendar of losing as they had election lawsuits tossed in six different states, …
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The Keaton family and other favorites from beloved TV series Family Ties are gathering for a Stars in the House streaming episode, which will benefit the Actors Fund. The organization’s Covid-19 Emergency Financial Assistance program assists those in the entertainment community who have been impacted by coronavirus. The show airs …
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A review of this week’s Fargo, “Lay Away,” coming up just as soon as just as soon as Jonah says there’s a big fish out there somewhere… “There are people you can kill, and people you can’t.” —Ebal Violante This season of Fargo opened with five episodes in a row …
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The first movie to adapt Tom Clancy’s “Jack Ryan” novels, The Hunt for Red October (1990) cast Alec Baldwin in the role of the C.I.A. analyst who has to stop a rogue Soviet submarine commander from starting World War III. His costar? No less than the former James Bond himself, …
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Netflix has released the new trailer for Ron Howard’s adaptation of J.D. Vance’s memoir about growing up in Appalachia, Hillbilly Elegy. The film will premiere on the streaming service November 24th. The film stars Gabriel Basso as Vance and is set at the moment when the former Marine and current …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Fresh off the success of its Emmy award-winning Michael Jordan documentary, The Last Dance, ESPN launches a new series this weekend that tracks the rise and fall of …
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In these scary, uncertain times, we look for silver linings wherever they can be found — and the 2020 Emmy Awards telecast was almost entirely silver linings. The pandemic made a ceremony impossible, and unlike some other Covid-era awards shows like the BET Awards, there’s no real performance element that …
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“You know why America loves a crime story? Because America is a crime story,” mob boss Josto Fadda (Jason Schwartzman) argues in the fourth season of Fargo. We are a nation built on stolen land, with the labor of stolen people. And perhaps because of this, as Josto notes, we …
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“This morning, I saw his face above the fold. ‘Him.’ I can’t even stand to say his name. Because I’m a New Yorker, and we always hated him. And it wasn’t just the lying, the hair, and the ugly buildings. Oh my god, no. He has no style; he has …
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