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The new Fox sitcom Animal Control features Joel McHale playing a Joel McHale-type character. McHale's Frank is a disillusioned Senior Animal Control Officer who is paired with a fresh-eyed, optimistic newbie. The actor channels the same pent-up angst and emotional constipation into his character as he did to portray Jeff Winger in Community, and...
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I wrote about Copenhagen Cowboy in this space not too long ago, a series that dazzled me and sent me all the way down the Nicolas Winding Refn rabbit hole. During Copenhagen Cowboy: Nightfall, the making-of documentary that appears on Netflix, NWR talked about how his current series was a companion piece, of sorts, to his Pusher trilogy, all of...
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Everything Everywhere All at Once is a transcendent film that exceeds the hype. Directed and written by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, this resplendent breath of fresh cinematic air follows an aging Chinese immigrant (Michelle Yeoh) who gets swept up in an absurd adventure in which she alone can save the world by connecting with parallel...
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If you're a fan of Chevy Chase's classic 1985 comedy Fletch, you're going to love Greg Mottola's Confess, Fletch. In a bit of pitch-perfect casting, Jon Hamm portrays irreverent investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher and instantly imbues the iconic character with an easy-going charisma. The new film follows Fletch as he becomes the prime...
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Time for an honest question: Can Phoebe Robinson do no wrong? After 2 Dope Queens and Ibiza, Robinson is back with a new show on Freeform that understands just how hard it is being messy. True to Robinson's past work, she plays Phoebe, a podcast star known for her frank and funny conversations about everything from one-night stands to activism....
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Ba ba doo, ba ba dee dee dee. After a painfully long 16 month layoff, Southern Charm is FINALLY back on Bravo. All of your favorite Charmers of Charleston — Shep Rose, Craig Conover, Kathryn Dennis, Austen Kroll, Madison LeCroy, Patricia Altschul, Whitney Sudler-Smith, and Leva Bonaparte — return this season, as does an old fan favorite:...
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In retrospect, perhaps releasing an ultra-violent, ultra-raunchy, 8-episode television series based on a notorious box office bomb released over a decade ago — a movie which itself was based on a recurring SNL interstitial that first debuted some 15 years ago — during the height of the CHRISTMAS season wasn't the best strategy to gain a mass...
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