Tonight’s episode of Vanderpump Rules, the fourteenth of its revivifying tenth season, was supposed to be the season finale. Season Ten was supposed to end with Ariana and Katie celebrating the menu of their feminist WeHo sandwich shop Something About Her, followed by Lisa Vanderpump blowing out the candles of …
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While watching the stolen sex tape featuring Baywatch star Pamela Anderson and Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, Uncle Miltie (Nick Offerman) says, “This is so private. It’s like we’re seeing something we’re not supposed to be seeing.” A beat later, he admits, “Which is kind of what makes it so …
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Homicide victims in the new Netflix series Murderville are in less than dependable hands as Will Arnett’s Senior Detective Terry Seattle recruits scriptless celebrity guests to help solve the murder mystery of the day. Premiering with six full episodes on Feb. 3, the first season of Murderville features Annie Murphy, …
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Having shelled out over a quarter of a billion dollars to acquire the rights to create a Lord of the Rings series set in J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional universe — and another reported $100 to $150 million on production for the first season — Amazon is going all out for the …
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Kids, this is the story of How I Met Your Mother. No, wait, that’s not right. Kids, this is the story of how How I Met Your Mother was one of the smartest sitcoms of the mid-2000s, then lost its way creatively, then killed off the Mother herself in order …
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Another year, another lineup of movies we desperately hope will be coming to a theater near us some time in the foreseeable future. 2022 may have already started to do the push-and-punt game with release dates (check you out in the spring, Morbius! See you in 2023, John Wick 4!) …
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In the final hours of another cruel year, storytellers around the world are mourning the loss of Betty White, a comedic treasure, an iconic ray of sass and class, and the last living Golden Girl. She died on Friday weeks before her hundredth birthday. Here are just a few of …
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A review of this week’s Hawkeye, “Ronin,” coming up just as soon as I only own one fork… Midway through “Ronin,” Kate finds herself across her kitchen table from Yelena Belova, terrified and confused to be sharing mac and cheese with a trained Black Widow assassin who tried to kill …
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In his 15 years as MacGruber, a hapless special ops agent who only occasionally saves the day, Will Forte has attempted to violently dispatch his enemies with rubber bands, Q-tips and a stalk of celery wedged up his keister. So it’s a bit alarming to see the 51-year-old actor and …
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Neo and Trinity are back for one more fight over the fate of reality itself in the second trailer for The Matrix Resurrections, the long-awaited fourth installment in The Matrix series. The new film finds Keanu Reeves’ Neo back in his manicured life as Thomas Anderson in the simulated world …
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