There are certain life lessons no one bothers to tell you. That credit scores are a scam. That you’re supposed to replace your pillows (and your car’s brake pads). That friendships, no matter how meaningful and valued, can fray under the pressures of adulthood. That last sobering truth is what drives most of the drama […]
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I wonder how Yellowstone viewers would react if they stumbled upon Outer Range, hoping to get a Taylor Sheridan Fix before seeing Josh Brolin yelling at a hole in the ground that’s tied to time travel. That would be an interesting case study, although the two shows do have, on the surface, a few things […]
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Chris Pine is winning. He says as much when talking about the fact that his labor of love – Poolman – is getting a theatrical release with a premiere at the historic Vista Theater in LA and playing at the Angelika in New York. The film is a winding neo-noir about a daffy disheveled pool […]
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John Mulaney is a tremendous comedian with a lot of nice suits and cool celebrity friends, so people have often said that he should host a late-night talk show. Now he has, with a limited-run series that will only last six episodes, proving all those amateur career counselors right while, at the same time, breaking […]
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Ryan Gosling‘s career evolution is one of interesting twists, unique turns, and a certain magnetism that has always granted him passageway, whether he was playing a strung-out teacher, a social outcast with a sex doll girlfriend, an astronaut, spiraling soon-to-be divorcee, stunt driver with a violent streak, or music man. It’s a climb from child […]
Read More Ryan Gosling‘s career evolution is one of interesting twists, unique turns, and a certain magnetism that has always granted him passageway, whether he was playing a strung-out teacher, a social outcast with a sex doll girlfriend, an astronaut, spiraling soon-to-be divorcee, stunt driver with a violent streak, or music man. It’s a climb from child […]
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Steven Knight likes to write himself into trouble. The man behind some of the streaming era’s biggest prestige hits – Peaky Blinders, See, Taboo, All The Light We Cannot See – never really knows how the stories he creates will end. He likes to build a maze out of hour-long episodes, then see if he […]
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Three isn’t always a crowd. In fact, in the case of Luca Guadagnino Challengers, it’s the foundational formula for one of the horniest sports movies ever committed to the screen. When clips of the Justin Kuritzkes-penned drama began to trickle online last year, a consensus was drawn. Soaked in sweat and throbbing synth beats, sporting […]
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