What a categorically odd Emmy year this is. Because the world assumed Game of Thrones would handily sweep the big drama categories for its final season, many top contenders (including Handmaid’s Tale and Big Little Lies) delayed their second seasons until summer, pushing them into the next Emmy window. And …
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In the first shot of the final episode of Game of Thrones, a hero enters a wasteland. In the final shot, it happens again. But for all their similarities, the images that bookend the series finale for the greatest show on earth could not be more different. Written and directed …
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Broken Poet is a new film by Emilio J. Ruiz about a 1970s rock star presumed dead who reappears in Paris. The film tells the story of Jake Lion, a former acclaimed rock star who is presumed to be dead by suicide, until a former roadie rides the Paris Metro …
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Nola Darling is going to need a longer summer. In the new Season Two trailer for Spike Lee‘s Netflix show, She’s Gotta Have It, the Brooklyn protagonist (DeWanda Wise) declares a few not-so-modest goals to accomplish in three months: become a better painter, be a better romantic partner and “get …
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Two black men walk into a bar. “It was a dark and stormy night,” Open Mike Eagle says in an old-timey British accent, setting the stage. “A man with a double-breasted blazer and a smoking pipe walks in,” Baron Vaughn says, picking up his friend’s story. Then the punchline arrives. …
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Desus and Mero stopped by The Tonight Show Tuesday to talk about getting into Game of Thrones during the final season, the unique animals of the Bronx and playing 2020 presidential hopeful Cory Booker in basketball. Fallon opened by asking Desus about his first foray into Game of Thrones, which …
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Saturday Night Live star Leslie Jones has some strong opinions about Game of Thrones. In a recurring feature called “Game of Jones,” Seth Meyers invites Jones to watch and react to episodes of the HBO show, which the pair are continuing for the eighth and final season. In a new …
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Meet Ramy Hassan. He’s 27 years old and lives in Rutherford, New Jersey, with his parents and his younger sister; he was going to get a place of his own, but then the start-up he worked at went belly-up. Now he schleps for his uncle in New York’s diamond district …
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A troubled musician becomes obsessed with her rival in the chilling new trailer for The Perfection, set to premiere on Netflix May 24th. The film stars Allison Williams as Charlotte, a disturbed musical prodigy who tracks down the latest star to emerge from her old music school, Elizabeth, played by …
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This post contains spoilers for tonight’s episode of The Magicians, and for the third season to date. “When you file people away as sidekicks, you don’t realize their importance to the story. And this story belongs to a lot more people than you think,” Penny declares late in “The Side …
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