Her name is Iya (Viktoria Miroshnichenko), but most folks call her “Beanpole.” It’s not hard to see why — tall, willowy, and blessed with hair the color of fine straw, this lanky Russian does indeed resemble a long, sprouting plant. But it’s a term people use affectionately when they talk …
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Well, hopefully the Super Bowl will be more entertaining than this week’s Saturday Night Live. It’s easy to put the blame on first-time host J.J. Watt, as the show’s history with sports-related hosts is spotty at best. But Watt did enough in the sketches that worked to suggest that the …
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There are as many sad parts of Apple TV+’s new immigration anthology series Little America as there are sweet ones. The eight stories contained in the first season feature children being separated from parents, dreams going astray, and scene after scene conveying the profound loneliness of being a stranger in …
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The trick to creating successful screen farce is to make sure audiences don’t see you sweat. So it’s not a good sign that the actors are spritzing up a storm in Like a Boss. But what actors! The comic tornado known as Tiffany Haddish seizes the role of Mia Carter, …
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Anna Karina, the model-turned-actress who became a French New Wave icon thanks to her collaborations with the director Jean-Luc Godard, has died at the age of 79. France’s cultural minister Franck Riester announced Karina’s death on Twitter, with the actress’ agent later confirming that Karina died Saturday in Paris following …
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Larry David continues to spark the ire of everyone in the new trailer for Season 10 of Curb Your Enthusiasm. The clip finds David picking unnecessary fights with mailmen over their shorts, discussing membership requirements for the “Big Johnson Community” with Jeff Garlin and J.B. Smoove and asking Laverne Cox …
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Ask Michael Douglas — a man who’s played cops, college professors, drug czars, tech entrepreneurs, ex-pat adventurers, superhero scientists, an American President, and Liberace — if he has a favorite role, and you can see the gears whirling behind the 75-year-old’s eyes. “Well, the pricks are the best roles,” he …
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There was a man with a noose around his neck. It wasn’t clear who he was, or who the men were that had been chasing him before they strung him up, or why they were after him. Jonathan Glazer was not privy to the details. In fact, the British filmmaker …
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A coming-of-age tale, a compelling directorial debut, and a slight corrective regarding both teen movies and the American Muslim experience, writer-director Minhal Baig’s Hala opens with the sound of du’a voiced over a shot of an empty room. Then it introduces its title character (played by Blockers’ standout Geraldine Viswanathan) …
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The Simpsons have a new home this week now that Disney+ has finally come online. The streaming platform has nearly all 668 episodes of the Fox show, though the Michael Jackson episode (“Stark Raving Dad”) from Season Three is absent, and fans are complaining that some sight gags on the …
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