Reese Witherspoon Is Bringing Writer Sara Saedi’s Iranian Immigrant Family to ABC

We’re not saying soon Reese Witherspoon will be producing every show with a female protagonist on television. We’re saying if all goes as planned Reese Witherspoon will be producing every show with a female protagonist on TV. To whit, the Big Little Lies star’s latest project, Americanized, is currently in

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Exactly How Many Times Does Bradley Cooper Say ‘Fuck’ in A Star Is Born?

The first thing I noticed about Bradley Cooper in A Star Is Born was how perfectly the stage lights complimented the caramel highlights in his greasy hair. The second thing I noticed about Bradley Cooper in A Star Is Born were the little flecks of grey in his beard, how

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First Man, Gravity, 2001: A Space Odyssey: When Auteurs Go to Space

There are three new space movies coming out over the next few months, from three of the best filmmakers working today. Damien Chazelle’s First Man opens this week. Claire Denis’s High Life (which just played the New York Film Festival) will likely open sometime in early 2019. And James Gray’s

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Apostle Is So Batshit It Makes The Wicker Man Look Like Goosebumps

So batshit it makes The Wicker Man look like Goosebumps 2, Gareth Evans’s Apostle is one of those films whose seeming missteps turn out to be cleverly placed artistic land mines. Its setting may be Edwardian, but its spirit is Medieval, rooted in redemptive bloodletting and creative, divinely ordained cruelty.

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The Haunting of Hill House Recap: The Fix-It Woman

Another confession: Your tenderhearted recapper has a low tolerance for horror. I spent a lot of the first episode grabbing my husband’s arm and then sheepishly letting go when the frights turned out to be anticlimactic. In the Haunting of Hill House opener, Mike Flanagan, the show’s director, teased us

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The Haunting of Hill House Director on the Biggest Changes From Shirley Jackson’s Novel

Spoilers below for Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House.Fans of The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson’s 1959 gothic horror novel, will immediately notice that Netflix’s new adaptation expands the scope of Jackson’s source material, including a new lead protagonist both inspired by and named after Jackson herself. These creative

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Bad Times at the El Royale Is Long, Labored, and Self-Conscious — But Not Boring

The El Royale is a roomy, tacky Lake Tahoe hotel — literally straddling California and Nevada, with a wing in each state — where you should be very afraid to stay, given the hidden cameras, secret corridors, two-way mirrors, and messy corpses. The corpses belong to the characters in Drew

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Ted Alexandro Wants His Viral Louis C.K. Stand-up Set to Speak for Itself

Ted Alexandro has been a stand-up comedian for over 25 years, but he also seems to answer to a higher calling. A New York City native, Alexandro has been active in social-justice movements like Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter. In 2004 he co-founded the New York Comedians Coalition,

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