With cynicism running like a toxic streak through mainstream media, a documentary on sweet, soothing TV host Fred Rogers may strike you as hopelessly naïve – or just the pep talk we need. We’re with the latter camp. Won’t You Be My Neighbor? traces how this ordained minister – one …
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Michelle Wolf teased her new Netflix show The Break with a hilarious trailer for a fake film, Featuring a Strong Female Lead: The Movie, which skewers Hollywood tropes and the streaming service’s algorithm-based recommendations. In the clip, Wolf plays Cassandra Flex, the stereotypical fast-talking, no-nonsense business woman who never balks …
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Former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama have signed a multi-year deal with Netflix to produce TV shows and films. The couple created their own Higher Ground Productions to produce content for the streaming service, The New York Times reports. Netflix announced the deal on Monday, detailing that …
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Lakeith Stanfield goes from his uncle’s garage to the gaudy and strange upper echelons of telemarketing in the new red-band trailer for Boots Riley‘s Sorry to Bother You. The film opens in select theaters July 6th, with a wider release scheduled for July 13th. Sorry to Bother You is set …
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Spike Lee highlights the fascinating true story of Ron Stallworth, an African-American detective who resolves to take down the Ku Klux Klan, in the magnetic first trailer for his upcoming film BlacKkKlansman. The clip opens with Stallworth (John David Washington) applying for – and receiving – a job at the …
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Gwen Stefani and a Stefani superfan faced off in an existentially mind-bending game of “Who Knows Gwen Stefani?” on Jimmy Kimmel Live Wednesday. Stefani’s opponent was a woman named Gaiane, who said she became a fan at 15 and has been to over 100 Stefani and No Doubt shows. Kimmel …
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President Trump‘s attacks on the press escalate with nerve-wracking speed in the trailer for The Fourth Estate, Liz Garbus’ upcoming documentary. Garbus follows reporters from The New York Times attempting to cover an administration that is openly hostile toward journalists. “We’ve been given unprecedented access to capture the challenges, triumphs …
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Seth Rogen recruited Sarah Silverman, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeff Goldblum, Post Malone, Kumail Nanjiani, Tiffany Haddish, John Mulaney and other comedy stars for his upcoming Netflix comedy special,Hilarity for Charity.Proceeds from the special benefit Alzheimer’s research. The show airs April 6th on Netflix. In the new trailer, Rogen is in …
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The idea that Los Angeles is a city of angels run by devils – that this is where people go to make their dreams come true and where dreams go to die – is, by this point, a completely overplayed cliché. (One based in truth, some might argue, but still.) …
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A lot of people try to slap labels on Jessica Jones. If you’ve watched the first season of Netflix‘s Marvel show, you know that’s a bad move if you want to keep your limbs intact. In the series’ sophomore season, which starts streaming today, our detective with the strength of …
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