“You like Mark Twain?” asks a character midway through Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz’s road movie. The person saying this is a man who is, coincidentally, named Tyler, a swamp rat played by Shia LaBeouf so beautifully backwoods-scuzzy that you can practically smell the country funk coming off of him. …
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Netflix released the teaser trailer for the third season of teen drama 13 Reasons Why. The new season – the series’ second-to-last, as Netflix revealed the show will conclude following Season 4 – will premiere August 23rd. At the end of season two, Clay Jensen (Dylan Minnette) and his friends …
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The story surrounding the recent arrest of financier Jeffrey Epstein for the sex trafficking of underage girls, allegedly for some of the most powerful men on the planet, is enough to make anyone sick to their stomach. As Samantha Bee put it on her showFull Frontal Wednesday night, talking about …
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The youth advocacy group WE has released the new star-studded trailer for their fifth-annual WE Day Special, to air August 9th at 8:00 p.m. EST on ABC. The special will be hosted by Neil Patrick Harris and feature appearances by Selena Gomez, Joe Jonas, Mahershala Ali, Chance the Rapper, Natalie …
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Hulu previewed its revamped version of rom-com Four Weddings and a Funeral with a breezy, snarky first trailer. Mindy Kaling and writer Matt Warburton (Community, The Mindy Project) co-wrote the pilot for the upcoming miniseries based on the 1994 film of the same name starring Hugh Grant. The clip follows Maya …
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Chucky lives! At least until the numbing script of this Child’s Play reboot puts the screws to him. Remember the 1988 original that spawned six sequels of killer doll mayhem? Despite the uneven quality of the series, creator Don Mancini livened things up with tacky fun and scares to make …
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A review of “Tell-Tale Hearts,” this week’s Big Little Lies, coming up just as soon as I invent the nutritional french fry… The Season Two premiere, “What Have They Done?,” was an at times ungainly creature. It had to expend a lot of effort reopening a story that had been …
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George Clooney took a stand against “rampant dumbfuckery” — including climate deniers, the antivaxx movement and President Trump’s windmill-cancer warnings — in a hilarious Jimmy Kimmel Live bit from Tuesday’s episode. The actor-director outlined his vision to stop such “highly contagious” “dumb shit” via a fake organization called United to …
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