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Shane MacGowan Dies
Shane MacGowan, the singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of Celtic punk band the Pogues who found success with the 1987 song "Fairytale of New York," has died. He was 65.
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'Furiosa' Trailer: Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth Race Across the Wasteland in ‘Mad Max’ Prequel
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New York Film Critics Awards: 'Killers of the Flower Moon' Wins Best Film, Christopher Nolan Takes Director (Full List)
The New York Film Critics Circle has significantly boosted the Oscar prospects for Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” by anointing the Western epic best film and naming…
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Amazon Fires Producer Joel Silver From Films Starring Mark Wahlberg, Jake Gyllenhaal Over Verbal Abuse (EXCLUSIVE)
For the past few years, Joel Silver has kept a relatively low profile, his most recent credit on the little-seen “SuperFly” remake of 2018. Still, the hard-charging producer behind…
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Boy Power
The women of Boygenius — Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus — on the joys of nourishing a supergroup without the superegos.
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‘Napoleon’
Ridley Scott ricochets between the battlefield and the bedroom in this bloated take on the French despot.
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‘Wish’
Disney has become a company so focused on itself that it has now produced a kind of fairy-tale signifier of its own brand.
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‘Saltburn’
Big on style but thin on substance, Emerald Fennell's second feature gives Barry Keoghan an overdue starring turn.
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‘Trolls Band Together’
The third installment of DreamWorks's animated franchise reunites an NSYNC-like group (and NSYNC itself) for self-deprecating fun.
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‘The Buccaneers’
"The Buccaneers" Is a frenzied, feminist and bold reimagining of London's 19th-century marriage market.
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‘The Gilded Age’
Season 2 tries to have its cake and eat it, too.
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'Fellow Travelers'
Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey entwines an erotic love affair with a sharp historical epic.
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‘Neon’
Netflix's reggaeton series finds its rhythm amid a glossy Miami landscape.
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‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’
Taylor Swift's new vault tracks bridge the gap between 2014 and the "Midnights" era.
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‘For All the Dogs’
Drake's latest launches with an uncharacteristically weak batch of songs and buries its clearest highlights in the second half.
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‘Scarlet’
Doja Cat, always underestimated, has the last laugh on this fiery album.
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‘Guts’
Olivia Rodrigo sends teendom off with a bang in a sophomore album that is just as much brash fun as 'Sour.'
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‘Purlie Victorious’
This revival of the Ossie Davis satire is a delightful romp centering Black joy and the absurdity of racism.
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‘Rebecca’
The musical's English-language debut is a remarkable debacle.
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‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’
If pratfalls piling up is wrong, this Ahmanson production doesn't want to be right.
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‘Back to the Future’
The car is the star in this underwhelming screen-to-stage duplication.
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4 Tips for Iger as Disney Enters 'Building' Phase
If the CEO wants to rebuild the Mouse House for the future, there are unaddressed issues that require his attention
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‘The Color Purple’: Could Fantasia Barrino Be the Second ‘American Idol’ Star to Win an Oscar?
Barrino is no stranger to playing Celie — she reprises the role she inhabited on Broadway in a 2007 musical adaptation of Alice Walker's beloved 1982 book
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SZA, Variety’s Hitmaker of the Year, Unpacks ‘SOS,’ Her 9 Grammy Noms, and Says ‘F— You’ to Song Leakers
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SZA, Variety’s Hitmaker of the Year, Unpacks ‘SOS,’ Her 9 Grammy Noms, and Says ‘F— You’ to Song Leakers
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What Did We Learn? Hollywood Is Back in Biz, but Ripple Effects of Strike and Streaming Shakeout Are Just Starting
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Christopher Nolan on Turning ‘Oppenheimer’ Into a Near-$1 Billion Hit — And What’s Next
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