If you’re looking for a dumb, disposable action movie in which Chris Hemsworth relentlessly shoots generic bad guys with only a few quick breaks to tend to his wounds and feel sorry for himself, Extraction is the movie for you. Actually, this R-rated Netflix bullet ballet is built for the …
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John Oliver examined the mounting coronavirus catastrophe and President Donald Trump‘s handling of it on a new quarantine edition of Last Week Tonight Sunday. In just a few weeks, the United States has become the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, and as Oliver noted, we still don’t know just how …
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Stuart Gordon — the horror-film director who helmed the cult classic Re-Animator and co-created the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids franchise — has died at the age of 72. Gordon’s wife Carolyn Purdy-Gordon confirmed her husband’s death to Variety. No cause of death was revealed. Over a film career that …
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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost put a coronavirus spin on a scene from their zombie classic Shaun of the Dead in a public service announcement that recommends people “stay home, have a cup of tea, and wait for this to all blow over.” The quasi-reprisal of “The Plan” finds Pegg …
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“God, what the hell is going on down there?” Jim Brockmire asks his producer, upon being told about the latest national tragedies they’ll have to acknowledge while broadcasting that day’s baseball game. “The apocalypse,” she replies bluntly. “Well,” Jim considers, “I guess everything else moves so much faster these days. …
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A review of this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, “Ding Dong,” coming up just as soon as I’m a Korean toilet ghost… It’s strange to think that, prior to “Ding Dong,” Kyra Sedgwick only played Madeline Wuntch about a dozen times over the run of this series. That’s how strong an impression …
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On the latest episode of Full Frontal, Samantha Bee urged people not be racist when discussing the current COVID-19 pandemic. Taking aim primarily at the news media, Bee discussed how the virus has been signified as “Chinese” and why it’s essential that we rephrase how it’s talked about. During the …
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The five members of the sketch comedy show The Kids in the Hall will reunite onscreen for the first time in a decade in an upcoming Amazon Prime Video series. Thirty-two years after the series first premiered on Canada’s CBC, Dave Foley, Mark McKinney, Scott Thompson, Kevin McDonald and Bruce …
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Trevor Noah offered some on-the-spot analysis of Super Tuesday results on a live installment of The Daily Show, as the field narrowed to a race between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders — and billionaire Michael Bloomberg failed reap any real results from his millions. Noah was able to offer a …
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“And now that I have your attention, I’ll begin.” This is what Richard E. Grant says, staring out at you from your TV screen, in a medium shot, against an orange background, after a good 10 seconds or so of complete silence. Why the noted, Oscar-nominated British actor is addressing …
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