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Jul 05, 2022
CJ Hauser has one of those faces. She just looks like someone you could talk to—and strangers tend to do exactly that, stopping her on the street or unloading their life stories on her on airplanes. It only adds to the phenomenon when, the day we meet in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, Hauser brings along her…
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Jul 05, 2022
Taika Waititi's latest installment in the MCU may please kids, but despite its many gags and cameos, it's a snore for grown-ups
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Jul 03, 2022
"It's a tremendous debut," said Jim Orr, Universal's president of domestic distribution
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Jul 03, 2022
"It's a tremendous debut," said Jim Orr, Universal's president of domestic distribution
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Jul 01, 2022
This story contains spoilers for Stranger Things 4 With the release of its final two episodes on July 1, Stranger Things 4 has ended—and a couple of major characters meet their end by the finale, too. Netflix's flagship sci-fi show has never been afraid to kill off characters before (RIP Barb), and the final feature-length…
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Jul 01, 2022
This story contains spoilers for Stranger Things 4: Part Two The final two episodes of the fourth season of Netflix's Stranger Things have arrived. With runtimes of one hour and 25 minutes and two hours and 30 minutes, respectively, the episodes feel more like a pair of movies than the end of a TV season.…
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Jul 01, 2022
Though not the best in the franchise, the Steve Carell-starring villain origin story offers just enough rejuvenation to distract from a relentless news cycle
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Jun 30, 2022
Virgil Abloh knew how to get people talking. In 2012, when he launched his first fashion brand, Pyrex Vision, Abloh bought deadstock flannel shirts from Ralph Lauren for $40 a piece, screen printed them with the word "Pyrex" and the number 23 (an homage to Michael Jordan), priced them at $550—and sold out his stock…
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Jun 30, 2022
The highly anticipated second volume of the latest season of Stranger Things is one of several new programs coming to Netflix this month. Other new arrivals include Bill Burr's latest stand-up special Bill Burr: Live at Red Rocks, where the comedian sounds off on cancel culture and feminism and Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight,…
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Jun 30, 2022
It's not TV, it's HBO Max, which means instead of mindlessly flipping channels, TV lovers are now endlessly scrolling to find their next great series. For those who feel as if they spend more time looking for TV shows to watch rather than watching TV itself, this list should help make things a little easier.…
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Jun 30, 2022
Written by Lena Waithe, the '80s-set drama, which bears more than a passing resemblance to the real-life story of Whitney Houston, never quite gels
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Jun 30, 2022
From 'Ms. Marvel' to 'Irma Vep' to 'This Is Going to Hurt'
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Jun 30, 2022
V is for vaccine. Elmo got a COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, according to Sesame Workshop
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Jun 29, 2022
When the Grammy Award-winning rapper Young Thug, real name Jeffery Lamar Williams, was arrested May 9 on conspiracy and street gang activity charges, the indictment heavily cited his lyrics, music videos, and social media posts—and reignited a controversial debate on the use of rap lyrics as evidence in criminal cases. Williams, a veritable hip-hop superstar…
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Jun 29, 2022
R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison for using his superstardom to subject young fans — some children — to systematic sexual abuse.
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Jun 29, 2022
Exactly what constitutes a beach read has inspired much debate—but perhaps the answer is no more complicated than whether a book is easy to get lost in. Under that definition, the best new books coming in July are ideal for the beach (or the couch, the airplane, or the hammock). Isabel Kaplan's novel NSFW, for…
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Jun 28, 2022
There's a reason why the fake relationship has had such longevity in fiction. The trope, in which two people feign being a couple before falling in love for real, is a predictable journey. But just because a happy ending is guaranteed doesn't mean the story isn't worth telling—as the old adage goes, getting there is…
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Jun 27, 2022
With its first season, Hulu's hit series Only Murders in the Building satirized true-crime podcasts and their obsessive fans. In season 2, premiering June 28, the comedy starring Steve Martin, Selena Gomez, and Martin Short pokes fun at how hard it is to follow-up a successful first season. Especially when you become the lead suspect…
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Jun 27, 2022
How do you turn a short story about a sadistic child murderer into a horrifying, but hopeful coming-of-age film? If you're director Scott Derrickson, you use your own traumatic childhood as inspiration. Derrickson's latest film, The Black Phone, based on Joe Hill's short story of the same name, is about a 13-year-old boy named Finney…
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Jun 27, 2022
Aside from the fact they're now trying to clear their own names—and Mabel's in particular—fans can expect more of the same charming, intergenerational citizen-detective stuff they fell hard for last summer
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Jun 27, 2022
LOS ANGELES — Taraji P. Henson, Janelle Monae and Jazmine Sullivan were some of the big stars using the BET Awards stage to strongly criticize the Supreme Court's recent decision to strip away women's constitutional protection for abortion. Henson took the stage as the show's host on Sunday with an uplifting message about "Black excellence"…
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Jun 24, 2022
With the autobiographical documentary BEBA, filmmaker Rebeca Huntt crafts a story that feels universal while remaining all hers. The movie, Huntt's debut feature, explores her identity through an intimate moving self-portrait. Huntt, whose mother is Venezuelan and father Dominican, walks viewers through a coming-of-age tale in BEBA. The film follows her life as an Afro-Latina…
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Jun 24, 2022
This isn't the sort of movie you should go out of your way to see. But it's a showcase for the minor modern miracle of Kevin Hart's timing
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Jun 24, 2022
Twelve years ago, the internet fell instantly in love with Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, the adorable stop motion mollusk voiced by Jenny Slate. The little shell with one googly eye and a pair of pink tennis shoes was the creation of Slate and her then romantic partner, director Dean Fleischer-Camp (The two got…
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Jun 24, 2022
Baz Luhrmann's new film 'Elvis' depicts many of the couple's ups and downs. Here's how much is accurate
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Jun 24, 2022
Saucy Santana is the moment. The 28-year-old rapper, who has made waves for his hit songs like "Walk", "Material Girl," and "Shisha," his flamboyant style, and his wildly-entertaining antics, is impossible to miss. Most superstars are. Over the past two years, Saucy Santana—born Rashad Spain—has established himself as someone to watch. Starting off as a…
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Jun 24, 2022
In this perfectly paced thriller, all it takes to blend in is a posh accent, keen social media stalking skills, and a lot of nerve
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Jun 24, 2022
A gentle pleasure isn't necessarily a flimsy one. The hero of the faux documentary Marcel the Shell With Shoes On is a diminutive mollusk shell with one eye, two legs and a deeply philosophical view of life that extends far beyond his own tiny universe. This movie, which is rated PG, is perfectly suitable for…
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Jun 24, 2022
Maybe it's the skeletons barbecuing on the cover of Say Cheese and Die! Or the beady-eyed face of Slappy on Night of the Living Dummy. Or it might be the green hand reaching from the darkness on Stay Out of the Basement. If you're an adult of a certain age, you probably remember the image…
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Jun 23, 2022
The question swirling around Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe, Mike Judge's movie-length resurrection of his mid-1990s MTV slacker sensation Beavis and Butt-Head, is "Can Beavis and Butt-Head still be funny today, now that we have ostensibly evolved to be a more sensitive culture?" The answer is that Beavis and Butt-Head—bored, unattractive teenage boys perpetually…
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Jun 22, 2022
Baz Luhrmann's new movie, with its frenetic, prismatic quality, may be the best way to deal with the messy whole of Elvis and the complexity of his legacy
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Jun 22, 2022
The band announced they would be focusing more on solo work
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Jun 22, 2022
The Los Angeles County jury delivered the verdict in favor of Judy Huth, who is now 64, and awarded her $500,000
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Jun 22, 2022
The comic talks about drawing from Jane Austen in "Fire Island" and his enduring creative partnership with SNL's Bowen Yang
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Jun 21, 2022
The Starz series Becoming Elizabeth centers on the teenage years of Queen Elizabeth I. To the surprise of show creator Anya Reiss, this era was one aspect of the English monarch's life and historic 45-year reign that hadn't yet been covered to excess by Hollywood. "Those are formative years of her life. Her understanding of…
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Jun 21, 2022
A satire so clearly inspired by real people—Jeff Bezos and his ex-wife, the prolific philanthropist MacKenzie Scott—should have something substantive to say about a world where they play outsize roles
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Jun 20, 2022
The streamer's latest foray into reality TV is, depending on your age, location, and political sympathies, either pandering to you or trolling you
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Jun 18, 2022
Whitburn published hundreds of books, including many in entries of series like "Top Pop Singles," "Top 40 Hits," "Top 40 Albums" and "Top 40 Country Hits"
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Jun 17, 2022
Older women's bodies, not to mention their sexuality, are something no one wants to think or talk about, least of all older women themselves. What everyone tells you when you're young eventually becomes true: at a certain age—maybe 50, maybe 60—you become invisible to most other people on the street, especially men. But at that…
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Jun 17, 2022
Beyoncé has announced her newest album will arrive this summer. Titled Renaissance: Act 1, the work marks the singer's seventh solo studio album and will be released on July 29. The announcement comes after Beyoncé was featured on the July 2022 cover of British Vogue. In an accompanying piece, editor-in-chief Edward Enninful, who got a…
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Jun 17, 2022
Gay sex has either been heavily eroticized in TV and film or removed entirely. Showing it realistically is radical and important
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Jun 17, 2022
Penélope Cruz is a marvelous dramatic actor, but we don't get enough chances to bask in the glow of her lustrous comic timing. She never clamps down on a line; her rhythms have the whirring lightness of a hummingbird wing. That's what makes the sharp, witty Spanish-Argentine film Official Competition, directed by Mariano Cohn and…
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Jun 17, 2022
For more than a century, the Boy Scouts were a bastion of archetypal American iconography and values. "It's apple pie, it's baseball, it's mom, it's Fourth of July, it's the American flag, it's Norman Rockwell, it's everything" says journalist and former scout Nigel Jaquiss in the new Hulu documentary Leave No Trace. Then in February…
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Jun 17, 2022
Our ideas about marriage and marital roles have changed radically in the past 50 years, especially now that women are major players in the work force. What's changed less is the notion of the wedding: sure, there are always those couples who prefer to celebrate their union with less-conventional events like beach barbecues, and those…
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Jun 16, 2022
In an era of increasingly frequent—if often imperfect—queer representation in media, it might be difficult for the young target audience of Peacock's new reboot of the classic Queer as Folk to imagine that a show following a group of gay men in Pittsburgh living relatively average lives could have created a new paradigm for how…
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Jun 15, 2022
On May 5, when the teaser trailer for The Summer I Turned Pretty dropped, author and creator Jenny Han satisfied two longstanding requests from her fans: to adapt her beloved young-readers' trilogy for the screen, and to make sure Taylor Swift's music is in the soundtrack. Swift debuted a snippet of "This Love (Taylor's Version)"…
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Jun 15, 2022
The 10-episode competition offers a big prize and far less dire consequences for contestants
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Jun 14, 2022
BTS said they are taking time to focus on solo projects, but the company behind the group said they are not taking a hiatus.
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Jun 14, 2022
Amber Heard said she will defend her testimony until her "dying day" in an interview with the TODAY show's Savannah Guthrie, following a Virginia jury's ruling two weeks ago in the high-profile defamation trial between Heard and her ex-husband Johnny Depp. ??"To my dying day [I] will stand by every word of my testimony," Heard…
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Jun 14, 2022
What makes this adaptation of Thomas Perry's 2017 best seller more than just another boomer action-adventure epic is its interrogation of a selfish, destructive, and self-righteous protagonist's claim to heroism
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Jun 14, 2022
Alexander showed up uninvited at the pop star's wedding to longtime boyfriend Sam Asghari and was arrested
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Jun 13, 2022
There are a million origin stories in the naked city, and in the toybox too. Now, whether we care or not, we get the backstory of Buzz Lightyear, the disarmingly full of himself he-man space explorer of Pixar's Toy Story movies, one of the favorite toys of a kid named Andy. Lightyear, directed by Angus…
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Jun 13, 2022
The prolific character actor who starred in Paul Thomas Anderson's first movies and who memorably hunted down an overdue library book in "Seinfeld" has died at 90.
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Jun 13, 2022
When I think of my childhood, I think of all the trappings of the late 1980s and early '90s—beatable video games, quick-melting Popsicles, dares and double-dares and double-dog-dares. But what was just as present as all these were the color-splashed covers of comic books, the thin periodicals trapped between plastic and cardboard, lined up in…
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Jun 13, 2022
In her first interview following the verdict of the high-profile defamation trial between Amber Heard and her ex-husband Johnny Depp, Heard called out the social-media frenzy that surrounded the case and said she understood why the jury sided with Depp. "I don't blame them," Heard said in a preview for the interview with the TODAY…
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Jun 13, 2022
After a rough two years of COVID-related closures, Broadway had a lot to celebrate and it did in style
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Jun 11, 2022
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Justin Bieber says a rare disorder that paralyzed half of the superstar performer's face is the reason behind his tour postponement. The multi-Grammy winner is suffering from Ramsay Hunt syndrome, he said in video he posted Friday on Instagram. The syndrome causes facial paralysis and affects nerves in the face through…
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Jun 10, 2022
If you were to distill BTS's nine-year career into a single sentence, it might read something like the first lyric of their anthology album Proof. "I'm a born singer… I swear," sings Jungkook on "Born Singer," a track released a month after the group's 2013 debut. "There's a mirage right here, always far from me." For nearly a…
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Jun 10, 2022
The more things change, the more they stay the same in the Jurassic Park franchise. The latest installment in the prehistoric blockbuster series, Jurassic World: Dominion, in theaters June 10, says goodbye to the Jurassic era by paying tribute to Steven Spielberg's 1993 classic in a myriad of ways. That includes the return of some…
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Jun 10, 2022
Kamala Khan wants nothing more than to go to Avenger Con. In the premiere episode of Ms. Marvel, which landed on Disney this week, the 16-year-old Captain Marvel fan wants to cosplay as her favorite avenger at the big conference. But her parents' conditions are strict. After initially denying her permission to go, they warm…
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Jun 10, 2022
Dark Winds, the latest crime drama from AMC, opens with a heist scene worthy of a summer blockbuster. The year is 1971. Two uniformed guards emerge from Gallup Savings & Loans, in the small city of Gallup, New Mexico, lugging padlocked bags stuffed with cash, which they load into an armored van before driving off.…
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Jun 10, 2022
Earlier in the afternoon, Britney Spears' ex-husband Jason Alexander crashed the wedding venue before authorities were called. He was later arrested
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Jun 09, 2022
Many NBA players have made the move from the basketball court to the big screen—and in honor of Adam Sandler's new Netflix basketball drama Hustle, we've compiled a list of some of the best basketball players turned actors. This isn't about who is the G.O.A.T.—though, the leading contenders for that title did make this unranked…
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Jun 09, 2022
Kimmel pressed Biden on why he hasn't done more to curb access to semi-automatic weapons.
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Jun 09, 2022
The cast of Adam Sandler's latest Netflix film, Hustle, streaming now, is a real who's who of NBA stars. In the drama, big-time basketball fan Sandler plays Stanley Sugerman, a down on his luck Philadelphia 76ers talent scout, who finds himself fighting to save his career with help from an exciting foreign-born draft prospect. The…
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Jun 09, 2022
The Gala brought together notable names, including Zendaya, Andrew Garfield, and Simu Liu
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Jun 08, 2022
"I just hope that my legacy is that I've given and that I've loved and that I've worked hard," she said.
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Jun 08, 2022
"There might be an epidemic of meaninglessness," he posited at the TIME100 Gala
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Jun 08, 2022
"No one has been the same since 2020," he said.
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Jun 08, 2022
Ahead of the show, nine-time-Grammy-winning musician Mary J. Blige arrived for her performance looking fabulous in a flowing turquoise heart dress.
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Jun 08, 2022
"I play a teacher on TV, but every day I wonder if I'd be strong enough to be one in real life," Brunson said
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Jun 08, 2022
"I don't really know what got me here besides three chords and the truth, because that's what I live by," she told the crowd
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Jun 08, 2022
"I don't really know what got me here besides three chords and the truth, because that's what I live by," she told the crowd
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Jun 08, 2022
"I want every single person who identifies as LGBTQ to know that you are loved, you are seen, you are valued, and you do belong."
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Jun 08, 2022
The point of entertainment is not to wear you down, but you'd never know it from watching Jurassic World Dominion, directed by Colin Trevorrow. This is the sixth Jurassic Park movie overall and the third to hit, with its mighty, gnarled toes, since the franchise was rebooted with the 2015 Jurassic World. That film, also…
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Jun 08, 2022
There's a certain type of movie you could swear you've seen a million times before, one that hits so many familiar beats you can pretty much predict the next one, and the one after that. The basketball drama Hustle, starring Adam Sandler as a longtime scout who stakes his future on a promising young player…
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Jun 08, 2022
It's been nearly 30 years since Laura Dern starred in Jurassic Park, but to many fans, she'll always be paleobotanist Dr. Ellie Satler. It's why she felt a little nervous to step back into the role for Jurassic World: Dominion, in theaters June 10. She knew how much this character meant to fans of the…
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Jun 08, 2022
Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, Disney : these are the streaming services that everyone knows. They're like the modern-day equivalent of basic cable channels—they reach the biggest audience and have the most-watched shows. But just like basic cable channels don't always have the best shows, the best streaming content isn't necessarily on these platforms. There are…
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Jun 08, 2022
The timeliness of the film is crushing but crucial. With many states poised to outlaw abortion as soon as this summer, every American needs to understand what drove the Janes to take action.
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Jun 07, 2022
McConaughey's eyes welled up as he described receiving text messages from Uvalde the day of the shooting.
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Jun 07, 2022
"People are far more interested in hearing a show called The Sex Lives of College Girls than the Title IX fight of four girls in college, even though that's really worthy," she said Tuesday at the TIME100 Summit
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Jun 07, 2022
The latest television show set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe marks the screen debut of a new hero: Kamala Khan, a.k.a. Ms. Marvel. The six-episode series, set to premiere June 8 on Disney , tells the story of 16-year-old superhero and Captain Marvel superfan Kamala. But it's also about her Muslim Pakistani American immigrant family in…
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Jun 07, 2022
"In terms of telling a story, it's the best we have," he said
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Jun 07, 2022
We all know that the capricious television landscape is littered with forgotten series and woebegotten endeavors—shows that were one and done yet left behind indelible marks on culture. Like comets that streaked across our screens, they burned bright and then disappeared nary a trace. These beloved series were yanked from our airwaves for a variety…
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Jun 07, 2022
Jon Batiste isn't just a Grammy, Oscar, and Golden-Globe-winning musician. He's also been a voice for social change—not to mention the bandleader and musical director on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. At the 20222 TIME100 Summit on Tuesday in New York City's Jazz at Lincoln Center, Batiste opened the morning with a powerful rendition…
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Jun 07, 2022
Jon Batiste isn't just a Grammy, Oscar, and Golden-Globe-winning musician. He's also been a voice for social change—not to mention the bandleader and musical director on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. At the 20222 TIME100 Summit on Tuesday in New York City's Jazz at Lincoln Center, Batiste opened the morning with a powerful rendition…
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Jun 07, 2022
After two long years, the state of K-pop is finally starting to resemble what it looked like before the pandemic. In-person shows in South Korea are beginning to return—and once again allow cheering—and fans abroad are flooding to arenas to watch their favorite artists perform. BTS took over Las Vegas in April while playing four…
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Jun 06, 2022
If you'd made one of the most poetic and modern-feeling films of the 1990s—a romance about the way art can steal from you as much as it bestows, as well as a reflection on the changing landscape of filmmaking itself—whatever would possess you to revisit it as a TV series in 2022? If you've seen…
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Jun 06, 2022
A jury may have come back with a victory for Johnny Depp in his defamation suit against ex-wife Amber Heard, but the legal drama is far from over. Heard's lawyers have said that she will appeal the decision, a process that will likely take years. TIME spoke to experts about what happens next in the…
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Jun 06, 2022
When you've spent the majority of your adult life single, sometimes the last thing you want to do is read yet another book with a traditional happy ending—or write one, for that matter. But that doesn't mean it can't still be a romance novel. Linda Holmes' endearing new book Flying Solo, to be published June…
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Jun 06, 2022
Alec John Such, the bassist and a founding member of the iconic rock band Bon Jovi, has died. He was 70
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Jun 03, 2022
Pop music in 2022 is a place of possibility, even if someone's perfect pop song might be harder to find in the chaos of streaming services than it was in the aisles of record stores. But great songs are out there—whether they're brightly hued power-pop pebbles, wrenching R&B ballads, or roller-rink-ready disco-funk cuts. Put these…
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Jun 03, 2022
If you're reading this, chances are you've had better days. Breakups are almost always full of complicated emotions, and taking extra care of yourself is more than warranted. If you need some company, there are plenty of TV characters that are up for the job. Here are eight of the best shows to watch after…
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Jun 03, 2022
From Harry Styles' 'Harry's House' to Rosalía's 'MOTOMAMI'
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Jun 03, 2022
Instead of celebrating idealized superhuman doctors, this adaptation of Adam Kay's 2017 memoir observes how broken systems force real doctors to attempt superhuman feats.
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Jun 03, 2022
The most tender of Steven Spielberg's movies, ET shows a purity of emotion and intent that's distinctive even among all the films he's made
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Jun 03, 2022
The show hits Netflix after a 10-year hiatus
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Jun 02, 2022
Victim advocates hoped that, five years after #MeToo went viral, our culture would have developed a nuanced understanding of harassment and assault. Domestic abuse, in particular, is messy and complicated. The victim often stays with the perpetrator fearing economic, social, or physical repercussions. Sometimes the victim fights back. And victims can be flawed: They don't…
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Jun 02, 2022
In a time that continues to be marked by uncertainty and devastation, books can provide solace and, perhaps, some answers to the biggest questions that arise when living through crises. The best books of the year so far pick apart what it means to grieve, how to love after loss, and what it takes to…
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Jun 02, 2022
NEW YORK — A New York appellate court has upheld Harvey Weinstein's rape conviction, rejecting the disgraced movie mogul's claims that the judge at the landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced him by allowing women to testify about allegations that weren't part of the criminal case. The ruling Thursday by a five-judge panel in the state's intermediate…
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