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How the most 'incompetent talk show host of all time' keeps getting guests
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “The Eric Andre Show” is ostensibly not a series that lends itself to longevity. Its titular star, who plays a version of himself and satirizes talk shows by putting unsuspecting celebrity guests through hellish interviews, has become considerably more famous since the...
Jay Roach goes into the desert with Patricia Arquette for quirky, noirish Apple series
Filmmaker Jay Roach usually has a moment of panic and doubt before production starts on a project. It’s something Sydney Pollack, who was a mentor of his, once assured him was normal. He’d also read something similar about Mike Nichols in Mark Harris’s biography. Good company...
Young Kabuki actor's debut breaks Japanese theater traditions
TOKYO (AP) — Ten-year-old Maholo Terajima Ghnassia loves watching anime and playing baseball. He likes making beats and whisper ASMR. And he's breaking conventions in Japan’s 420-year-old Kabuki theater tradition. In Kabuki, all the roles are played by men, including beautiful...
Movie review: ‘Past Lives’ is a gorgeous meditation on love, chance — and the choices we make
Two minutes away, the Uber app promises at one point in “Past Lives.” And if you’re like me, you may find yourself — perhaps for the first time in your Uber-riding life — hoping that promise is a bald-faced lie. Because you'll want more minutes, many more, for the couple...
Editorial Roundup: Georgia
Brunswick News. May 31, 2023. Editorial: Solutions to gun violence aren’t a mystery Anyone who remembers the old western movies will recall how villains on horseback would ride into small towns in the frontier and randomly shoot up the place. Innocent bystanders...
Movie Review: The giddy splendor of 'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse'
Let's get this upfront: "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” was the best comic-book film of the last decade. With an animation blizzard blown straight in from the pages of comics, “Into the Spider-Verse” took a supercollider to all the conventions of the superhero movie....
Christopher Nolan breaks down the best ways to watch a movie, ahead of his ‘Oppenheimer’ release
It’s no secret that Christopher Nolan made “ Oppenheimer ” to be seen on the big screen. But not all big screens are created equal. That’s part of the reason why Universal Pictures has made “Oppenheimer” tickets available early for over a thousand “premium large...
Movie Review: Sydney Sweeney is brilliant in ‘Reality,’ based on true story of NSA whistleblower
“Reality,” a new movie starring Sydney Sweeney, is largely set in one empty room. There is nothing on the walls. There are no chairs or rugs, just a stark and ugly room in a nondescript rental property in a downtrodden neighborhood. Its script is as minimalistic — lifted directly from the...
Veteran character actor John Beasley, who appeared in the TV drama 'Everwood,' dies at 79
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — John Beasley, the veteran character actor who played a kindly school bus driver on the TV drama “Everwood” and appeared in dozens of films dating back to the 1980s, has died. He was 79. Beasley died Tuesday after a “brief and unexpected illness” at a...
T.J. Newman returns with a novel that's on par with summer movie blockbusters
Time is a precious commodity and some readers need to be hooked from page one. T.J. Newman 's 2021 debut novel “Falling” (Avid Reader/Simon & Schuster) begins with a sentence that blasts out of a cannon: “When the shoe dropped in her lap the foot was still in it.” The...
