In the second season of HBO’s The Deuce, the series about New York City’s burgeoning porn industry has jumped ahead to 1977, and many of the women are making moves toward a modicum of autonomy. Candy (Maggie Gyllenhaal) has gone from tricking to adult-film auteur; Abby (Margarita Levieva) is managing
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Barry Jenkins’s If Beale Street Could Talk received a rousing ovation when it premiered at Toronto Sunday night, but I’m curious to see how aspects of it will play outside of a festival atmosphere. What will theatergoers make of the film’s reverent, almost dreamlike air? Which loving close-up of KiKi
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Several of Louis C.K.’s projects fell apart last year following the New York Times report detailing multiple sexual-misconduct allegations against the comedian that he later admitted were true. One of those projects was the second special from his two-special deal at Netflix, which was canceled by the streaming network. But
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“When I was a kid, Burt Reynolds was my hero,” Adam Rifkin begins. Rifkin wrote and directed what would be Burt Reynolds’s last leading role, in The Last Movie Star, a 2017 film in which Reynolds played Vic Edwards, an actor whose career mirrored his own — albeit with a
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Sunday night at the world premiere of If Beale Street Could Talk at the Toronto International Film Festival, the writer and director Barry Jenkins ended the onstage Q&A portion — often a quick and slightly cursory proceeding — with a deeply felt personal story about why the film is so important.
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There are many theories as to why Donald Trump ran for president. Some say it was because Seth Meyers and President Obama made fun of him at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, others say it was to further his business, and this week, Michael Moore told The Hollywood Reporter
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In the midst of CBS reportedly preparing a significant settlement package for Les Moonves’s departure from the company, six more women have accused the company chairman of various instances of sexual harassment and assault over the past three decades. In a new report by The New Yorker, the women —
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You could argue that Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9 has too many irons in the fire, being variously an acid evocation of the rise of Donald Trump, a peroration against establishment Democrats (among them both Clintons and Barack Obama), an earnest exhortation to grass-roots activism, and an alarmist examination of the
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