Let’s ride! The Toronto International Film Festival lineup has arrived, setting off an (unofficial) start to awards season. The 2018 slate features buzzy titles from lots of recent faves: Barry Jenkins’s James Baldwin adaptation If Beale Street Could Talk will be premiering at the fest, along with the Timothée Chalamet
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Nico Walker wrote Cherry, his first novel, on a typewriter in a federal prison in Kentucky where he’s serving 11 years for bank robbery. It’s the tormented confession of a doomed romantic. After returning to Cleveland from a tour as an army medic in Iraq, Walker developed a heroin addiction
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After his 2014 masterpiece Miiister Tuuurner, low-fi leftist legend Mike Leigh is back with what looks like another masterful re-creation of early 19th-century Britain. His new subject is the 1819 Peterloo Massacre in Manchester, in which local authorities called for a cavalry charge to disperse radical reformers protesting undemocratic representation
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After getting James Gunn fired by Disney over old offensive tweets, far-right internet figure and Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich and his supporters shifted their focus to comedians over the weekend. Cernovich and his fans resurfaced older tweets containing offensive jokes about taboo topics like child rape and molestation from
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Jonah Hill — the earnest king of Instagram and older brother of light of our lives Beanie Feldstein — wrote a movie about youth, skateboarding, and older brothers, and that movie is called Mid90s. Stevie (Sunny Suljic, The Killing of a Sacred Deer) is a 13-year-old living in 1990s Los
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For the first time, a graphic novel is competing against the other works in contention for the Man Booker, the prestigious U.K. literary award. According to the judges, Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina, which illustrates the disappearance of a young girl and the news coverage that follows, “does just what good fiction
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Georgia state representative Jason Spencer’s appearance on Sunday’s episode of Who Is America? was so bad that his fellow Georgia Republicans are calling on him to resign. Georgia governor Nathan Deal called Spencer’s behavior “appalling and offensive” and speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives David Ralston said “Georgia is
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The 2017 Just for Laughs festival is currently underway in Montreal, and today they revealed their annual list of up-and-coming comedians to highlight for their “New Faces” showcase. Like past years, the list includes categories for stand-up (New Faces of Comedy), sketch (New Faces: Characters), comedians without managers (New Faces:
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