An early episode of Showtime’s new Nineties-set Boston drama City on a Hill opens with two characters discussing the classic children’s book Make Way for Ducklings (set in Boston Public Garden) and the city’s 1980s school-busing controversy. The only way the series — produced, of course, by Ben Affleck and …
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Earlier this month in Los Angeles, 2,000 National Geographic fans were treated to activations inspired by five Emmy-contending series and one stunning documentary (Free Solo) at the Greek Theatre as part of the network’s first Emmy Contenders Showcase, a one-of-a-kind outdoor experience and concert event. Serving as emcee for the …
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(This piece originally ran on January 28th, as part of our 2019 Sundance Film Festival coverage.) You can tell that The Last Black Man in San Francisco, the debut feature from director Joe Talbot, is something special within its first five minutes. It isn’t just the opening moments, in which …
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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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