Jimmy Kimmel attempted to dissect statements made over the weekend by President Trump’s lawyer and former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, on Monday. Giuliani has been making contradictory remarks since he told Sean Hannity last week that Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen the $130,000 paid to silence Stormy Daniels shortly …
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The cast of Avengers: Infinity War confronted a villain more diabolical than Thanos on Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday: Internet trolls. On the latest installment of Kimmel‘s “Mean Tweets,” the all-star ensemble did their best to laugh past a slew of insults. Anthony Mackie stared down a comparison between himselfand a …
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Tina Fey sat down with David Letterman in an upcoming episode of Netflix’s My Next Guest Needs No Introduction and gave the host a crash course in a comedy fundamental: improvisation. “Whatever I say, you add to it and add new information,” Fey explained. In the clip, an audience member …
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In September 2016, William Zabka – best known for portraying quintessential 1980s teen movie villain Johnny Lawrence in the original TheKarate Kid– was summoned to his favorite Mexican restaurant in L.A. The reason: A mysterious meeting with three young comedy writers who had found big success in recent years with …
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Jean-Luc Godard is one of the founders of the French New Wave – and, at 87, he’s still kicking at the limits lesser intellects erect around cinema. (His new film, a video essay called Le Livre d’Image, will compete at Cannes in May). Now Michel Hazanavicius, director of 2011’s Oscar-winningsalute …
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If there’s one thing you know about Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson just from looking at him, it’s this: The man is large. Six-foot-four and 260 pounds, with charm and enthusiasm to match – it’s no wonder there’s more of him than could fit into our recent cover story. Johnson stretches …
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Joaquin Phoenix is simply stupendous in You Were Never Really Here. His performance is damn near flammable—dangerous if you get too close. What a team he makes with Scottish writer-director Lynne Ramsay, whose output is small but inarguably stunning (Ratcatcher, Movern Caller, We Need to Talk About Kevin). Working from …
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A teen punk fan unwittingly falls in love with an alien in the new trailer for How to Talk to Girls at Parties. The movie was co-written and directed by Hedwig and the Angry Inch director John Cameron Mitchell, based on an original story by science fiction author, Neil Gaiman. …
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Expect to wag your metaphorical tail in delight over Wes Anderson‘s new animated joyride into a canine universe with political undercurrents sure to strike a human chord. It’s art cinema instilled with a child’s sense of wonder – which is also true of of the quirky auteur’s live-action films, from …
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After one of the slowest, saddest chapters in the history of The Walking Dead, this week’s episode – “The Lost and the Plunderers” – attempts something of a back-to-basics reset by going granular. We set aside the sprawling, escalating Savior War for an hour to focus on one character at …
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