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Walker will walk no further at the CW

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Shut the door, Walker. Have a seat. The CW wants “to thank the entire cast, crew, writers, directors, and producers of Walker for their hard work and dedication over four incredible seasons,” but your services and roundhouse kicks are no…

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Marvel wants to Hunger Games screenwriter to handle pesky X-Men

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Celebrating the fifth anniversary of X-Men: Dark Phoenix and Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox, Deadline reports the Mouse House is finally getting serious about a new X-Men movie. Marvel Studios is reportedly in final talks with…

Tuesday, May 21

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Wicked is defying fans not to buy its merch

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Wicked is, among other things, the story of how a corrupt and capitalist society refused to heed the warnings of a whistleblower when she tried to reveal the utter emptiness at its core. So why not sell a bunch of meaningless crap to…

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Ryan Reynolds hides an edgy disclaimer for his edgy movie in latest Deadpool & Wolverine trailer

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Deadpool & Wolverine is going to be really fucking R-rated, you guys.

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Michaela Coel is no longer working on an I May Destroy You spinoff

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In an update that is most likely for the best, the BBC announced this week (via Deadline) that Michaela Coel is no longer developing a new series with links to her semi-autobiographical hit, I May Destroy You. Back in 2021, Piers Wenger,…

32 best TV shows on Disney Plus right now

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Thanks to a growing roster of shows from Marvel (your WandaVisions) and the Star Wars camp (your Andors), along with a cache of beloved series, from Alias to Black-ish, there are plenty of gems on this streamer worth watching beyond…

And now, a four-hour exploration of the failed Star Wars hotel courtesy of Jenny Nicholson

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From the moment Disney announced its Star Wars hotel—sorry, its Galactic Starcruiser—it was the subject of ridicule and indignation. The price point was a particular area of consternation; the hotel only offered two-day, two-night stays,…

Oh, Canada review: Paul Schrader’s fragmented look backwards

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It is said that the grand metaphor to describe the United States is a melting pot, where cultures from all over the world that have gathered in a shared space form a gumbo where their flavors merge, the whole supplanting the constituent…

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David Cronenberg thinks we should both fear and welcome AI

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AI could truly never make The Fly or Videodrome, but David Cronenberg still envisions a world in which the technology blots out Hollywood entirely. “You can imagine a screenwriter sitting there, writing the movie, and if that person can…

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The Garfield Movie review: Identity-free adaptation is Garfield minus Garfield

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In this increasingly cynical age of recycled intellectual property, it’s probably not surprising that we would get a new cinematic adaptation of Garfield, especially given the original comic’s perpetual status as meme fodder for every…

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Abbott Elementary's "love triangle" isn't fooling anybody

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Last year, I wrote about how Abbott Elementary had TV’s greatest ongoing slow-burn romance, a wholesome and endearing one that filled a Leslie-and-Ben- and Jim-and-Pam-shaped void in our hearts. And apparently, seasons one and two of the…

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Be not afraid of The Daily Show playing the hits

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Jon Stewart returned to his desk tonight ready to talk about the fifth most important news story of the day: The so-called cancelation of Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker. Butker recently gave one of those classy commencement…

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Scarlett Johansson shuts down OpenAI's cursed Her remake

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Scarlett Johansson must be the only actor AI companies know. Months after taking legal action against another sketchy tech firm that used a deepfake of Johansson to sell worthless junk, the two-time Oscar nominee remains undefeated. Per…

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Alan Partridge is reborn, again, in new series And Did Those Feet…

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Not since an impromptu bullying trip to Qatar with disgraced English sports broadcaster Richard Keys and his “exceptionally Scottish” friend Andy has Alan Partridge’s fire burned so brightly. That was May 2017, when his masterful Scissored…

Monday, May 20

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The Margot Robbie Pirates Of The Caribbean dream is not completely dead

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Last year, Disney described Pirates Of The Caribbean as a “priority,” but the franchise has been in development hell basically since the last soft-reboot, Dead Men Tell No Tales, in 2017. In 2020, it was announced Margot Robbie was…

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Read This: There’s yet another exposé on Love Is Blind's toxic environment

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Love Is Blind continues to be a fairly popular Netflix reality series as well as a fairly controversial breeding ground for some of reality television’s nascent organizing efforts. Previous contestants have accused Netflix and the show’s…

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Steve Carell is doing another half-hour sitcom, and no, it's not the Office spinoff

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In a statement about the “immediate career highlight” of getting to work on a single-camera comedy with Steve Carell, series creators Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses summed up how a lot of us are probably feeling upon hearing the news:…

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The other self-funded American epic with a years-long production debuted at Cannes yesterday

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Kevin Costner is big on believing, whether that’s in aliens or in himself. “I’m so grateful that I’ve never seen a UFO,” the actor-director said in a recent GQ cover story. “I’m a pretty sane person, although some people would think maybe…

Investor in Donald Trump movie reportedly thought it would be flattering, and now he’s pissed

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It’s a pretty big stretch to think that classically liberal Hollywood would ever make a movie that was a flattering portrayal of Donald Trump. Maybe because it’s an indie film, billionaire investor Dan Snyder (owner of the Washington…

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34 best shows streaming right now on Peacock

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We know, we know—it’s tough to subscribe to yet another streaming platform. But even so, NBC Universal’s service is worth the sacrifice. Peacock is home to network standouts like The Office, 30 Rock, and other irreverent comedies. To help…

John Krasinski’s IF leads an uninspiring weekend box office

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John Krasinski’s IF is somehow both a winner and a loser at the weekend box office. Sure, it was the #1 movie in theaters this past weekend, but it also came up a few million short of projections. The film was expected to make $40 million…

Cassie's lawyers reject Diddy's apology

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Lawyers for Cassie Ventura—the recording artist and ex-partner of Sean “Diddy” Combs—have responded to an apology video posted by the rapper on Instagram on Sunday. Combs uploaded the mea culpa in response to a disturbing hotel security…

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Francis Ford Coppola’s late era trilogy reveals an artist reclaiming his passion

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Youth Without Youth, Tetro, Twixt—years could pass without us hearing the titles of these Francis Ford Coppola movies. These digitally-shot, classically-infused “late era” films excited, baffled, and irritated 21st century audiences in…

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30 years ago, The Critic enrolled six year olds everywhere in film school

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Three decades ago—on January 26, 1994, to be precise—two glorious words graced the ears of 26 million ABC viewers for the first time: “It stinks.” Cartoon film critic Jay Sherman (voiced by Jon Lovitz) had a massive audience but would be…

Skip Back To Black and watch Amy instead

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Amy Winehouse fans weren’t exactly delighted by the news that there would be a biopic of her life. Following the singer’s tragic death in 2011 at the age of 27, her devotees have grown used to witnessing all manner of tacky and…

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The Sympathizer recap: The cracks begin to show

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Well, that was fast. Even for a show so eager to reconfigure and relocate itself episode by episode, it still feels like next week’s finale, and the Captain’s return to Vietnam, has suddenly snuck up on us a little, with so many dangling…

Interview With The Vampire recap: “Those Frenchies love being vampires”

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Any reservations I may have had following Anne Rice’s Interview With The Vampire’s second-season premiere have dissipated with what is arguably the way you kick off a change of time and scenery following a season-break time jump. Long gone…

Sunday, May 19

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What's on TV this week—Abbott Elementary bows out, Evil returns

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Welcome to What’s On, our weekly picks of must-watch shows. Here’s what you need to watch from Sunday, May 19 to Thursday, May 23. All times are Eastern.

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Saturday Night Live season 49 finale: Jake Gyllenhaal hosts a wobbly sendoff

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We did it, folks. Another season of Saturday Night Live has officially come to an end, with some real highs (Ryan Gosling! Kristen Wiig! Adam Driver!) and some woeful lows (two words: Shane Gillis).

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God, just imagine Hank Hill saying "My son is a fusion chef in Dallas"

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There’s maybe no project looming on the pop culture horizon at the moment that we need to be good quite like the King Of The Hill revival that’s currently in the works at Hulu. Mike Judge and Greg Daniels’ long-running, low-key examination…