New documentaries about D’Angelo, Woodstock, Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman and Blind Melon’s late lead singer Shannon Hoon are among the music films set to premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. The stacked lineup also includes films about Linda Ronstadt, Sublime and late INXS frontman Michael Hutchence. Jared Leto …
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(This post contains full season spoilers for True Detective Season Three. On Sunday night, Sean T. Collins recapped “Now Am Found,“ the season finale.) “You write the story, you get past the start, it’s important to know how you want it to end,” Amelia Hays declares midway through the concluding …
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Following Jussie Smollett’s arrest for allegedly staging a hate crime against himself, the producers of Empire announced Friday that the actor’s character has been removed from the series’ remaining episodes this season. “The events of the past few weeks have been incredibly emotional for all of us,” the producers, including …
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The first time Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio appeared on MTV’s The Challenge he suffered the worst humiliation of his life. It was October of 2006 and the brash 25-year-old was still riding high from his recent run on The Real World: Key West. Little was required of him on that show …
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The story of the Trump family, from the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush to the White House, will be the focus of an upcoming installment of A&E’s Biography. The three-night, six-part event begins February 25th. A&E said of the docuseries, “Biography: The Trump Dynasty traces three generations of the Trump family saga …
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A review of this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine,“Four Movements” — which said goodbye to Chelsea Peretti as a regular cast member — coming up just as soon as I say that the party is for malnourished malaria monkeys… In a show that’s been so consistent for so long, Gina‘s always been …
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We knew this was coming. Deep down, we knew. We had assumed that Roma andThe Favourite and A Star Is Born would rack up a lot of Oscars love, as was their destiny — 10 nominations each for the first two, eight nominations for the latter. We knew that there …
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Rachel Brosnahan hosted the first Saturday Night Live of 2019, but the show didn’t do much to highlight her comedic skills. Some hosts serve as the centerpiece of the proceedings. Others blend into the ensemble cast, making it seem as if they have always been there. But Brosnahan (through no …
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What a difference a couple decades makes. When M. Night Shyamalan dropped Unbreakable on an unsuspecting world back in 2000, the new Spielberg on the block was told that superhero movies were still a post-Burton/Batman novelty. As the man himself recently admitted, his what-if project about an everyman who discovers …
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A Fyre Festival consultant offers a look at how organizer (and convicted felon) Billy McFarland brushed aside all the signs that his luxury blowout was headed towards disaster in a new clip from Netflix’s upcoming documentary, Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened. In the clip, Marc Weinstein recalls warning …
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