Amazon Prime Video announced on Monday that they will be the exclusive global streaming service for a new CBS Star Trek series on Jean-Luc Picard, the iconic character first portrayed by Patrick Stewart for seven seasons in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Stewart will reprise his role in the still-untitled …
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Rarely are transformational works well-regarded in their time. Vincent Canby of The New York Times compared The Godfather Part II’s dialogue to “cartoon captions,” and wrote that the movie was “stitched together from leftover parts” — like Frankenstein’s monster. The Fast and the Furious was called “Rebel Without a Cause …
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It is a time of turmoil for “a great walled city” (any resemblance to China is completely not coincidental) in some undefined long-ago era. Three clans fight for control of the territory; two team up to defeat the third. Then a warrior for one of these last dynasties standing, the …
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Guava Island, the new movie starring Donald Glover and Rihanna, is now available for streaming — free for the next 18 hours — on Amazon after debuting at Coachella. The 54-minute film is a “tropical thriller,” according to Vanity Fair, influenced by both City of God and Purple Rain. The …
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We swear it by the old gods and the new: The last time we stepped foot in Westeros back in August of 2017, Game of Thrones had just finished its most ambitious and high-fantasy-epic season to date. (Three words: zombie ice dragon.) We know it’s a matter of logistics and …
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(This column containsspoilersfor theYou’re the Worstseries finale, and the final season as a whole.) “Every day, we choose.” -Jimmy This bounceback final season of You’re the Worst began with one of the series’ most effective off-format episodes, “The Intransigence of Love.” A parody of romantic-comedy tropes (particularly those popular in …
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As the vampire stud of the Twilight franchise, Robert Pattinson hit multiplex paydirt. Since then, he’s been raising his personal bar in the indie sphere (Good Time, Damsel). The star does himself proud in this elusive but bracing brainteaser from Claire Denis, the great French filmmaker (Beau Travail, Trouble Every …
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The Angry Birds form an unlikely union with rival pigs to defend their homes in the new trailer for The Angry Birds Movie 2. Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Bill Hader and Peter Dinklage reprise their roles from Sony’s original computer-animated film, and Leslie Jones voices new villain Zeta. …
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A review of “The Therapist,” this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, coming up just as soon as Judas is the Hamburglar… Applying math to art is always a foolhardy endeavor. But I can’t help looking at this season of Nine-Nine — one of the series’ best creative stretches ever, at an improbably …
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John Oliver dedicated Sunday’s Last Week Tonight to “one of America’s favorite pastimes,” public shaming. He detailed the devastating effects and the ethical grey areas of targeting a public versus a private citizen. On hand to discuss her own “shitstorm” experience was Monica Lewinsky, who became a punching bag for …
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