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Union: Prop Gun Contained ‘Live Single Round’
According to an email sent by IATSE Local 44, the prop gun that killed "Rust" cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during an on-set accident contained a "live single round."
Film
Alec Baldwin on Halyna Hutchins Death: ‘There Are No Words to Convey My Shock and Sadness’
Alec Baldwin has released a statement on Twitter regarding the shooting incident on the set of “Rust,” in which he discharged a prop firearm, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and…
TV
Peter Scolari, ‘Newhart’ and ‘Bosom Buddies’ Actor, Dies at 66
Peter Scolari, who rose to stardom on the brilliant-but-canceled “Bosom Buddies” alongside Tom Hanks, died Friday morning at age 66 of cancer, after a two-year illness. His death was confirmed…
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‘Insecure’ Final Season Review
A show designed to comment on the precarious moments of one's 20s is struggling to find ways to keep up while depicting a period that's more secure.
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‘Queens’
Brandy and Eve star in "Queens," ABC's smart, new rap girl group drama.
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‘You’ Season 3
Netflix's "You" seeks vindication for Penn Badgley's Joe in a creatively depleted third season co-starring Victoria Pedretti.
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‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’
Amazon's confusing "I Know What You Did Last Summer" reboot does little to justify being a series rather than a standalone film.
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‘Squid Game’
Netflix's smash Korean drama wants to have it both ways, criticizing violence while embracing it for maximum entertainment.
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‘Dune’
Denis Villeneuve's adaptation has a majestic vastness, but it's an act of world-building that runs out of storytelling steam.
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Critics Pick
‘The French Dispatch’
From Paris with love, the cult auteur dedicates this supercharged anthology film to the 20th-century reporters who've inspired him.
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‘The Harder They Fall’
Jeymes Samuel assembles a terrific cast to play some of the most notorious outlaws ever to ride the West in this stylish revenge saga.
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‘Halloween Kills’
After his clever 2018 reboot, David Gordon Green fumbles the ball in a follow-up that falls back into the forgettability of sequel formula.
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Coldplay’s ‘Music of the Spheres’
Coldplay comes close to jumping the shark with the celestial concept-album aspects of "Music of the Spheres," yet the pure pop songs work.
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James Blake’s ‘Friends That Break Your Heart’
Sonic adventurer and piano balladeer James Blake is more conventional and disruptive on "Friends That Break Your Heart," his strongest album yet.
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Brandi Carlile’s ‘In These Silent Days’
Brandi Carlile reestablishes that she's as good a singer as we've got in any genre in her '70s-inspired album "In These Silent Days."
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Metallica’s ‘The Metallica Blacklist’
"The Metallica Blacklist" features 53 covers from artists as diverse as Miley Cyrus, Phoebe Bridgers, Jason Isbell, Dave Gahan and J Balvin.
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‘The Lehman Trilogy’
The brothers in this epic come to epitomize the rise and fall of American capitalism -- indeed, of America itself.
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‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’
Yaël Farber's "The Tragedy of Macbeth," with Saoirse Ronan and James McArdle, is over-directed and under-dramatized.
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‘Lackawana Blues’
Ruben Santiago-Hudson, the longtime August Wilson collaborator, brings his own play to Broadway 20 years after its Off Broadway debut.
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‘A Crossing’
Stories of the journey are told entirely in movement and song, both original and traditional, by a 12-member cast of Latinx singer-dancers.
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Big Tech's Ad Advantage Takes Spotlight in Q3
Earnings for the media titans are coming. Will they prove to investors they raked in the quarterly advertising numbers?
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‘Belfast’ Campaigns Caitriona Balfe and Jamie Dornan as Supporting, Jude Hill Goes for Lead at Oscars (EXCLUSIVE)
The "Belfast" awards team will submit Caitriona Balfe, Jamie Dornan, Ciarán Hinds and Judi Dench in supporting actor and actress for Oscars.