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The Presidential election is still almost two months away, but there’s already a personnel shift in the Oval Office. In an interview with the New York Times, Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels says that the show is retiring Fred Armisen’s imitation of President Obama and giving the job to Jay Pharoah, who demonstrated that he …
“I guarantee if you saw some of the rushes you would think I was the worst thing in the world”
Admirers of L. Ron Hubbard can relax; fans of writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson may be disappointed in his meandering new drama
First-time feature film director Nicholas Jarecki stacks this financial thriller with twists, turns and strong performances
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In a saner world, the trailer for Innocence of Muslims would get no response other than as an example of terrible filmmaking. The 14-minute video, purporting to be excerpted from a larger movie propagandizing present-day Muslims …
Despite a game impersonation of Roosevelt by Bill Murray, this intimate bio-pic chokes on its own tattle and smarminess
The Oscar-winning digital production company behind the Tupac hologram is in bad shape financially
The legendary artist burns bright on his 35th studio album
Sitcom star Josh Radnor—Ted from ‘How I Met Your Mother’—makes a film about a mid-30s admissions officer who falls for a free spirited college student (Elizabeth Olsen)
The fanboy vs. fangirl struggle may already be over. Just don’t call it a chick flick — it’s a blockbuster
The season’s first musical has its moments, but can’t overcome the clichés
“Everything in life that you don’t understand opens up to you as you live.”
Tuned InTelevision
Nobody goes in intending to make a bad TV show. Not even Jimmy Fallon, a funny man, and the other producers of NBC’s Guys With Kids, which, let us get it out of the way, is a bad, bad TV show.
