After years of languishing in development hell, the adaptation of John Green’s debut novel Looking for Alaska has finished looking for its Alaska (and also its Miles). Green announced today that Kristine Froseth (Apostle) will play the mysterious Alaska, while Charlie Plummer (Lean on Pete, the kidnapped kid in All
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Perhaps the greatest gift of Maria by Callas that gives it an advantage over so many recent biographical music documentaries is how willing it is to let its subject just perform, uninterrupted. For artists whose time has passed, especially deceased artists, the object of the documentary naturally becomes to convey
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Before the Beastie Boys became one of rap’s most legendary groups, they were just three dudes at a Black Flag show that would unknowingly change their lives. At the time, in 1981, Black Flag were performing their first-ever East Coast show at the Peppermint Lounge in Times Square. In the
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The 1973 masterpiece The Wicker Man has endured a lot of indignities on its path to being a cult classic. A studio sliced 13 minutes of footage from the film’s final cut, and rolled the release out as the B picture, packaged with another horror film. There was a rushed
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Kim Cattrall isn’t your ordinary fairy-tale grandma, she’s a cool fairy-tale grandma, and this is a cool fairy tale. Cattrall is back on American TV in Tell Me a Story, a new CBS All Access show that updates fairy tales into the present day, making them dark and broody and
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Suspiria takes place in Berlin in 1977, and boy, does it ever. Luca Guadagnino’s new film is very self-consciously not just about witches and modern dance; it’s also tied to the events of the “German Autumn” of that year, when the ghosts of the nation’s past erupted in an unrelenting
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David Cross is not one to shy away from ugliness. Whether it’s hairplug-rejecting Tobias Fünke on Arrested Development or voicing Lakeith Stanfield’s white voice in Sorry to Bother You, Cross is not afraid of discomfort. So it makes sense that he’s a fan of the British bleak cringe comedy of
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Here is where we finally talk about Born Again. I’ve intentionally avoided talking about any comic-book source material thus far — I generally prefer to talk about the show for what it is, and not compare it against whatever it may be adapted from. But, more than any season before
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