Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Marvel, A24/Everett Collection Spoilers for The Materialists ahead. Actors get typecast all the time. Nicholas Hoult will be a sexually frustrated freak boy. Angela Bassett will play a head of state. This summer, Pedro Pascal has carved out an oddly specific niche for himself. The type isn’t “dashing leading man,” though …
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Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images, Everett Collection How did you first see The Wizard of Oz? A well-worn VHS tape, a DVD? Maybe you initially saw Victor Fleming’s 1939 film at a local movie theater doing a repertory showing early in the morning. For most people alive now, the movie theater was probably not …
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Photo: Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty Images The White House is attempting to ruin the song of the summer, the “Jet2 Holiday” commercial — and by extension, “Hold My Hand” by Jess Glynne. And Jess Glynne is not having it. The White House’s official Twitter account released a version of the “Jet2 Holiday” meme, only this …
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Photo: Erika Doss/Prime Well, at least we’re finally back at Cousins. Because this is where Belly’s and Jeremiah’s efforts to sell their families on their quickie marriage have landed them, and don’t all roads lead to Cousins eventually? Belly has retreated to the beach house to escape Laurel’s judgment, and Conrad is there because …
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Photo: Neon In Together, Alison Brie plays a teacher named Millie who moves out of New York with her would-be-musician partner, Tim (Dave Franco), only for ominous things to start unfolding in the countryside where the two of them hope to start the next stage of their lives. We’re still one away from an …
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Photo: Paras Griffin/Getty Images Former NFL player and current Club Shay Shay podcaster Shannon Sharpe will not return to ESPN. The decision comes less than two weeks after he settled a lawsuit in which he was accused of sexual assault on July 18. Sharpe, a former regular on First Take, had been on a …
Photo: Vulture; Photos: Marvel/Walt Disney Studios/Everett Collection The Avengers assembling isn’t as exciting as it used to be. For the last 17 years, one of Marvel Studios’ selling points has been its interconnected narratives and major crossovers. But after 14 shows, 37 movies, and the introduction of a “multiverse” — an endless array of …
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Photo: Loannis Alexopoulos/Anadolu via Getty Images The late Ozzy Osbourne, who died at 76 on July 22, was honored with a public funeral procession in his hometown of Birmingham on Wednesday. Family members Sharon Osbourne, Kelly Osbourne, and Jack Osbourne were among the thousands of people who stopped by the Black Sabbath Bridge to …
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Photo: Paramount It’s one of the sweetest (and now, sadly, rarest) sounds in the world: a movie theater full of people laughing. And I mean really laughing. Not just the occasional chuckles of humor-laced action flicks, or the gentle giggles of rom-coms (which are, to be fair, their own endangered species), or even the …
Photo: Steve Granitz/FilmMagic Bradley Cooper has made a movie about pop stardom and a movie about classical music. Which art form is he turning toward next? Stand-up comedy. Is This Thing On?, his next movie, will close the New York Film Festival, NYFF confirmed on July 30. The film follows two exes, played by …
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