The great Bryan Cranston is both an enormous help to the new Showtime miniseries Your Honor, and, through no fault of his own, a pretty big hindrance. Cranston’s talent and fundamental gravitas are essential to generating any emotional investment in this convoluted tale of a New Orleans judge repeatedly breaking …
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HBO Max has announced thatHeaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults, a four-part documentary series, will premiere Thursday, December 3rd on the streaming platform. The docuseries will provide a thorough examination of the infamous UFO cult, which began in 1975 after the disappearance of 20 people from a small town in …
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One Night in Miami Based on true events, Regina King‘s directorial debut tells the story of Cassius Clay (soon to take the name Muhammad Ali), Malcolm X, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke’s legendary meet up in Miami following Clay’s heavyweight championship victory. Clay isn’t the only man at a pivotal …
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Quentin Tarantino has signed a two-book deal with Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. The film director will write a novelization of his own movie, 2019’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, which is scheduled for release in summer 2021, followed by a nonfiction book about the art of cinema. …
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This review originally ran as part of our 2019 Toronto International Film Festival coverage. It starts with a ringing. Ruben, one half of the noise-rock duo and Decibel cover-story couple Blackgammon (think Lightning Bolt if fronted by a throat-shredded Diamanda Galas), is putting out merchandise, limbering up for a modest …
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Netflix has officially announced that Bad Bunny will have a guest role on the upcoming third season of Narcos: Mexico. Per a release, Bad Bunny will play Arturo “Kitty” Paez, a member of the so-called Narco Juniors gang run by Ramon Arellano Felix (Manuel Masalva). The gang is filled with …
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When Andy Garcia first got the script for The Untouchables, Brian de Palma’s 1987 thriller about Eliot Ness’ takedown of mob boss Al Capone, he was approached to play Capone hitman Frank Nitti. But he lobbied instead for the role of George Stone, the rookie Chicago cop who joins Ness’ …
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If you come to Sarah Cooper’s new Netflix special looking for an extended version of her viral Trump-impersonation TikToks, you’re in for a surprise. Oh, you’ll get some Trump, for sure. But you’ll also get cupcake-making Karens, flaming snowmen, a QAnon shopping network, a sneak peek inside the notorious Access …
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John Mulaney will host and the Strokes will serve as musical guests on Saturday Night Live’s Halloween episode next week. Both Mulaney and the Strokes will be making their fourth appearance on the long-running series; Mulaney, a former SNL writer, last hosted on February 29th, 2020 — the second-to-last pre-Covid …
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Showtime has released the first teaser for its upcoming docuseries on Tekashi 6ix9ine, Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine, set to premiere in early 2021. Rolling Stone produced the film alongside Imagine Documentaries and Lightbox. The short clip is packed with archival footage of 6ix9ine that’s paired with big text …
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