Photo: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images Liam Payne had gone to Argentina to see fellow One Direction bandmate Niall Horan on tour. “It’s been a while since me and Niall have spoken,” Payne said in a Snapchat two weeks ago. “We’ve got a lot to talk about. And I would like to square up a couple …
Photo: HBO New York Comic Con’s getting spicy. For the first day of NYCC on Thursday, October 17, Warner Bros. rocked Dune-heads in attendance with a new, more in-depth look at Dune: Prophecy. In addition to a brand-new trailer, the afternoon panel also provided the show’s official premiere date on Max and HBO: November 17, …
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Photo: Universal Pictures/DreamWorks This article will be updated throughout the month as more movies are available to rent on demand. Since the days of the COVID lockdown, studios have increasingly embraced the idea that people are more comfortable watching their biggest movies at home. Blame it on the pandemic, the high cost of movie …
Photo: Nicolas Dassas/Netflix In a lot of ways, The Platform 2 is a prime example of diminishing franchise returns. Like its 2019 predecessor, this dystopian Spanish thriller is set in the Pit, a futuristic, towerlike hellhole penitentiary where the food arrives on a single dinner table that descends from the top floor each day …
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Photo: Jack Tinney/Getty Images Mitzi Gaynor, the triple-threat performer best known for starring in the film version of South Pacific, died at 93 on October 17. She married her manager, Jack Bean, in 1954 and remained with him until his death in 2006. They had no children. “For eight decades she entertained audiences in …
Photo: Hilary Bronwyn Gayle/Netflix Romance deals in fantasy. We may never get the meet-cute of our wildest dreams, but the fictional people we see in romantic television shows and movies get the satisfaction of awkward fumbling, blushing discomfort, and modest, unexpected flattery. While these fantasies differ in size and scope — what if a …
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Photo: The Chosunilbo JNS/Imazins via Getty Image As of October 16, SM Entertainment has terminated its contract with ex-NCT member Taeil, noting that his sex-crime case is now with prosecution. On August 28, SM made an abrupt announcement about Moon Tae-il, the 30-year-old K-pop singer who debuted under the stage name Taeil in 2016 …
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Photo: Seacia Pavao/Focus Features This article will be updated as movies move on and off streaming services. An asterisk indicates a new addition to the list. Don’t we all deserve to watch something that’s actually great? Too often, the competing streaming algorithms at Netflix, Max, and Amazon Prime Video push a smattering of undifferentiated …
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Photo: Paramount Pictures/Everett Collection Smile 2 has one genuinely good idea, which is that the everyday life of a messed-up pop megastar is indistinguishable from the shrieking terrors of a supernatural horror movie. Whenever director Parker Finn runs with that thought, the film has a nice, disorienting punch. The victims of horror movies usually …
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Gilles Mingasson/Disney The eliminations on this week’s Golden Bachelorette are emotional, as eliminations almost always are on reality TV, but almost none of that emotion is directed at the show’s ostensible prize, marriage to Bachelorette Joan. When it comes time for the three rejected contestants to actually leave Bachelor Mansion, they’re much more upset …
