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Finally, Naomi Watts is great again! I know that might sound weird: When did two-time Oscar-nominee Naomi Watts stop being great? Well, it’s not so much that Watts ever stopped being a great actor; it’s that her gifts have rarely been satisfyingly recognized in recent years, appearing consistently in tremendously underwhelming projects. But in Feud: Capote vs. the Swans, Watts is given a chance to reassert herself as a generational talent... Читать дальше...

OWN

We all know by now that “reality TV” is a misnomer. Very little of what we see in our favorite modern reality shows is truly “real,” and what is genuine has been carefully selected by editors and filtered through several producers. So, when Lindsay Lohan agreed to star in her eponymous docuseries in 2014, there was an inherent question over how much of what would air would be the then-embattled star’s real life and what would be manufactured by producers at the OWN network to drive ratings—and therefore line Oprah Winfrey’s pockets. Читать дальше...

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As the years pass and the line between professional filmmakers and indie creators continues to blur, documentaries have become all the more fascinating. Here is a genre of film where preconceived notions must be shunned entirely. No two documentaries are entirely the same, and no level of prior success or industry establishment can predict which docs will or will not be good. This is functional filmmaking that only needs to answer two questions... Читать дальше...

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Even the Marcia fucking Brady of the Upper East Side gets gray hair.

CBS

To celebrate Joe Biden’s State of the Union address and be the first to dish out the post-SOTU snark, Stephen Colbert stayed up past his bedtime on Thursday to host a live edition of The Late Show. And boy, was he rewarded.

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Fox News

President Joe Biden just can’t seem to win with Sean Hannity.

The Fox News host and Trump confidante, who for years has been criticizing Biden’s acuity with some derivative of the smear “Sleepy Joe,” went after the president Thursday for something quite different: sounding “like a hyper-caffeinated, angry old man” during his State of the Union address.

“Frankly, so at odds with the everyday Joe it’s even frightening to me,” Hannity framed it, ensuring he can still use his well-worn line of attack as long as he sees fit. Читать дальше...

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As President Joe Biden mingled on the House floor following his State of the Union address Thursday night, Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) delivered the official Republican response, a stern but bizarrely delivered rebuttal that focused heavily on immigration and the economy.

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The state of Joe Biden’s re-election is not strong. Maybe a fiery speech making the case for another four years would help?

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(Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Traitors Season 2 finale and reunion.)

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Akira Toriyama, the Japanese manga artist who created the Dragon Ball franchise, died last Friday of an acute subdural hematoma, according to his production studio. He was 68.

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Wearing a bright red MAGA hat on the floor of the U.S. House before President Joe Biden’s State of the Union, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), as expected, made a scene—and she broke the rules in the process.

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A Harlem man who became an outspoken advocate for criminal justice reform and rehabilitation after being freed from prison last year was charged with murder on Thursday, according to New York police.

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Three months after former Rep. George Santos’ colleagues expelled him for a staggering array of alleged crimes and ethical violations, he has apparently decided that man cannot live by Cameo alone—and he wants his job back.

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(Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Traitors Season 2, Episode 11.)

Bravo

Facing legal action from current and former Real Housewives cast members, who have recently accused him of sexual harassment and doing cocaine with Bravo stars, Andy Cohen has enlisted the aid of top crisis communications expert Matthew Hiltzik, The Daily Beast can confirm.

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Onto the trash pile of middling killer-children’s-toy horrorshows one must now toss Imaginary, a lifeless hodgepodge of the hoariest cliches the genre has to offer. Lifting liberally from countless scary movies (with Henry Selick’s Coraline near the top of that list), this throwaway features creepy basements, harrowing nightmares, unsettling old ladies, fuzzy memories, bratty teens, helpful therapists, mentally unstable adults who can sense the supernatural, eerily bouncing balls... Читать дальше...

Reuters

Steve Lawrence, the charismatic singer who collected Grammys and Emmys alongside his wife Eydie Gormé, with whom he made up an indelible fixture of the Las Vegas nightclub scene, died at his home on Thursday. He was 88.

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Revisionist feminist fairy tales are nothing new, and Damsel finds scant ways to distinguish itself from the happily-ever-after pack. A tween fantasy that trades in familiar reversals, sloppy storytelling, and lots of girlboss posturing from headliner Millie Bobby Brown, director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s Netflix adventure, premiering Mar. 8, has its heart in the right place but little else, starting out competently and then slowly falling apart with each clumsy step along its Game of Thrones-lite path. Читать дальше...

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A tire was captured plummeting from a United Airlines flight from San Francisco on Thursday—an incident that appears to have significantly damaged cars in an airport employee parking lot, but miraculously injured nobody.

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A federal judge on Thursday denied Donald Trump’s last-minute plea for extra time to front a massive sum of money to appeal his rape defamation trial, forcing the tycoon to suddenly come up with $91 million.

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An active duty U.S. Army sergeant was indicted Thursday on allegations he sold sensitive military documents regarding the U.S. defense of Taiwan to someone in Hong Kong, the Department of Justice announced.

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Amanda Knox is ready to tell her story on screen, with the help of “friend and mentor” Monica Lewinsky.

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