Ahead of returning to host Saturday Night Live next week (joining the Five-Timers Club) Jonah Hill stopped by Late Night last night. He briefly chatted with Seth Meyers about the origins of his very funny 6-year-old recurring SNL character Adam Grossman. The character was all thanks to a story Bill
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Great filmmakers come from everywhere. Austin Tolin is proof.With a Vimeo page that’s a delightful mixture of under-viewed alt gems, docu-shorts, and a surprisingly well-shot wedding video from what I’d assume was the front end of Tolin’s career, his work dispels any notion that the craft evaporates in the space
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In a long, mildly unhinged 1999 essay on Barbara Kingsolver’s career-cementing novel, The Poisonwood Bible, critic Lee Siegel canonized the author as “the most successful practitioner of a style in contemporary fiction that might be called Nice Writing.” It wasn’t a compliment. He found her work so reverential of liberal
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An action-packed episode of BBC and Netflix’s Bodyguard really complicates the relationship between David Budd and Julia Montague, both of whom have such a strong need for human contact that they turn to each physically, while also holding back crucial information. We are supposed to be as dismayed as David
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Plot Points in Our Sexual Development and India Pale Ale are teaching plays. They’d like us to leave the theater broader-minded than when we entered it, our ears and hearts more open to stories and storytellers that we perhaps haven’t fully or frequently listened to. In Plot Points, Miranda Rose
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Fifth Harmony have had no harmony for some months now, and in the time since their “hiatus” (read: breakup), Normani has emerged as the new front-runner to have a solo breakout like Camila Cabello first did a year earlier when she left the group. But not so fast: Lauren Jauregui
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Following last month’s Billy on the Street with Emma Stone, Billy Eichner is back today with a brand-new installment of the series featuring comedian, actor, and expert late-night guest Tiffany Haddish. With Halloween right around the corner, Eichner and Haddish have teamed up to star as two of the three
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Shirkers is, in many respects, a singular movie. Directed by novelist and filmmaker Sandi Tan, it debuted at Sundance earlier this year and it’s technically her feature debut. But it’s also about the feature debut that wasn’t: the film Tan made with her friends in her native Singapore one summer
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