The choreographed chaos of Jez Butterworth’s jaw-dropping play The Ferryman certainly earns the critical attention that’s been heaped on it. With 21 people in the cast — and a live goose and rabbit — the play about an extended family in 1980s Northern Ireland leaves audiences reeling after a suspenseful …
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In the midst of the government shutdown over funding of President Donald Trump‘s border wall, the president tweeted a bizarre justification for wanting to build a barrier between Mexico and the United States, saying that former President Barack Obama has a “ten foot Wall” surrounding his home in Washington, D.C. …
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Members of the Indonesian pop band Seventeen are dead and missing after a tsunami hit the stage while they performed at the Tanjung Lesung Beach Resort in west Java Saturday. The devastating waves struck the region without warning following the eruption of the Anak Krakatoa volcano between the islands of …
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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke will step down from his position at the end of this year, according to a Saturday morning tweet from President Donald Trump. Although Trump offered no explanation for Zinke’s departure, the interior secretary’s tenure has been plagued by ethics investigations. Trump said that a replacement will …
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Men at Work just announced their first tour in nearly 20 years, but anyone calling it a “reunion” is really stretching the definition of that word.The only member of any previous lineup returning is frontman Colin Hay, who will be joined by members of his solo band. “The set list …
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Love — intimate, familial and fraternal — infuses director Barry Jenkins‘ ravishing adaptation of the 1974 James Baldwin novel about a battered romance that refuses to be a tragedy. Following up his Best Picture Oscar win for Moonlight, the writer-director opens his third film with Tish Rivers (KiKi Layne), 19, …
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This week, three major 2019 releases gave us a taste of what’s to come: We finally got a look at the last Avengers movie (or at least the last one with the original line-up); another MCU property dropped a longer, juicier trailer; and HBO’s monster-hit showed us a chilly version …
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“Have you been here before?” David Byrne asks, his eyes widening as he sits in a conference room inside the Criterion Collection’s New York office. It’s like Willy Wonka’s factory for film buffs. Behind him are posters for classic films like Milos Forman’s Black Peter and Federico Fellini’s Juliet of …
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Elvis Costello talked about his cancer scare and his new album Look Now during an interview Saturday with CBS This Morning. The appearance also featured a “Saturday Sessions” where Costello and his Impostors played three cuts off their latest LP. In July, Costello canceled a string of tour dates after …
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Sandra Bullock faces down – with her eyes closed – a post-apocalyptic world and a looming terror in the first trailer for Bird Box, Netflix‘s sci-fi thriller that comes to the streaming service in December. The trailer opens with Bullock alone, bound and blindfolded in the woods before providing the …
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