Brennan Murphy is a digital producer and comedian living in Brooklyn. He is currently working on the digital team for Showtime’s Our Cartoon President and creates funny viral videos on the side, which you can check out on YouTube or @brenonade.This week, Murphy spoke with me about watching the news, editing
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The most impressive aspect of Alita: Battle Angel is its cliffhanger ending. The entire film teases a shadowy Big Bad, who is only seen in silhouette and then in the film’s final moments, played by a Surprise Big Name Actor, is alive and well and waiting to be conquered by
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For two seasons, we’ve heard Gloria Estefan’s deep, raspy tone on One Day at a Time’s salsa theme song, a blessing of the highest Cuban-American order for Norman Lear’s reboot of his ’70s hit show. But on this summer day in Los Angeles, it’s not Estefan belting “This is it!”
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Can a movie be both enjoyable and excruciating? Depends if you’re a glutton for punishment, which I’m usually not. But seeing what Mads Mikkelsen goes through in Joe Penna’s Arctic made me feel less prone to complain about the polar vortex. Mikkelsen plays a man named Overgård whose plane has
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Good morning and welcome back to the fuckpile! In this series that has fast become my most favorite lit-crit play-putty, “fuckpile” is a word with both textual and subtextual meaning. Having miraculously made it to sunup without croaking again/yet, Nadia wakes up on her friends’ blue-velvet chesterfield to once more
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Jussie Smollett has given his first public statement since being hospitalized after a racist and homophobic attack in Chicago late Monday night. “Let me start by saying that I’m OK,” the Empire actor said in a statement to Essence. “My body is strong but my soul is stronger. More importantly
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Nick Kroll’s animated Netflix series Big Mouth might be on hiatus, but thankfully there’s a very special episode in store for you while you’re waiting for the third season to roll around. The streaming platform just announced that it will debut a Valentine’s Day (or, Valentime’s Day?)-themed episode next Friday,
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Cecily Strong is, in the words of Busy Philipps, a “senior cast member” on Saturday Night Live. Not in the sense that she’s old, just that she’s been there longer than, say, Chris Redd. On Busy Tonight, Strong gave out senior superlatives, those awards in the yearbook, for her fellow
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