Arnold Schwarzenegger extols the beauty of the briny deep in the new trailer for the upcoming documentary, Wonders of the Sea, which arrives digitally and on video-on-demand June 4th. Wonders of the Sea was directed by Jean-Jacques Mantello and Jean-Michel Cousteau, son of legendary French oceanographer and filmmaker Jacques Cousteau. …
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Unlike scripted shows, which often build to a finale, Saturday Night Live starts just as fresh with its last episode as its first. So the fact that the season went out with something of a whimper is a function of the show’s creative DNA rather than a failure to sum …
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Netflix has dropped the first trailer for the fifth season of anthology series Black Mirror, which will premiere June 5th, alongside the ominous caption “You should’ve seen it coming.” The trailer teases the season’s “three new stories,” cutting together a collection of shots from the episodes that continue the show’s …
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We have broken Bill Nye the Science Guy. The science educator/TV presenter dropped by Last Week Tonight to underscore the grim reality of global warming during a segment on the Green New Deal, the economic stimulus plan proposed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Edward J. Markey. “By the end …
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“Discussing a malfunctioning marriage is depressing and time-consuming,” Rosamund Pike’s Louise tells her husband, Tom (Chris O’Dowd), late in Sundance’s excellent and experimental new series State of the Union. The show, reuniting the High Fidelity team of writer Nick Hornby and director Stephen Frears, aims to prove her wrong on …
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It was a fairly light week for trailers (maybe Avengers: Endgame is scaring the competition so badly that other studios are afraid to even put out their previews of coming attractions?) but we’ve still got a few, from the much anticipated Deadwood movie to a gritty cop thriller starring Black …
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MGM released a new trailer for The Hustle, a comedy starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson as scam artists teaming up to take revenge on the men who’ve wronged them. The film is a gender-bent remake of 1988’sDirty Rotten Scoundrels with Steve Martin and Michael Caine, itself a remake of …
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Stephen Colbert offered a special preview of the redacted Mueller report, in audiobook form, on The Late Show Wednesday. The cold open featured a fake accomplished actor delivering a dramatic reading of some of the most anticipated moments from the report, such as the firing of former FBI director James …
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First things first: Yes, the first official trailer for Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker has finally dropped. As did peeks at the Poheler/Fey/Rudolph comedy Wine Country (!), Beyonce’s Coachella documentary (!!) and the second season of Fleabag (!!!). All this, plus an extended Lion King clip, a …
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Ah, the early 20th century — when being a “famed seeker of mythical creatures” was still a feasible career option! This is how Sir Lionel Frost (voiced by Hugh Jackman) plans to distinguish himself among London’s professional explorers, by procuring evidence that prehistoric beasties still walk, crawl, swim and slither …
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