Oscar Futures: Can Jennifer Lawrence Win Back the Oscars Crowd?
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Elina Uphoff
Oscar Futures Who’s up, who’s down, and who’s currently leading the race for a coveted Oscar nomination. Oscar Futures Who’s up, who’s down, and who’s currently leading the race for a coveted Oscar nomination. Can Jennifer Lawrence make it back into Oscar’s good graces? Every week between now and January 24, when the Academy Award nominations are announced, Vulture will consult its crystal ball to determine the changing fortunes of this year’s Oscars race.
[Read More]Outlander Recap: Desperate Times
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Elina Uphoff
Outlander Perpetual Adoration Season 5 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Outlander Perpetual Adoration Season 5 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Never count Outlander out. I was all ready to hop on here and write about how, sure, it was cool that Claire Fraser basically just invented penicillin in the 1700s backwoods of North Carolina, but that the rest of this episode was a bit of a drag — and then, AND THEN, Jamie Fraser goes and straight-up murders a dude.
[Read More]PachinkoRecap: Leap Into the Future
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
Pachinko Chapter Five Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Pachinko Chapter Five Season 1 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » In 1931, Sunja arrives at Osaka station, where she meets Yoseb, Isak’s brother. Together, Isak, Sunja, and Yoseb ride a streetcar as Yoseb and Isak talk about the biscuit factory where Yoseb works and the plans to build a subway in Osaka, a new development that Yoseb proclaims will change everything.
[Read More]Pandemics: An Essential Reading List
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Elina Uphoff
Just as the film Contagion has found a second life with news of the coronavirus outbreak, so too are novels about epidemics popping up on reading lists around the country. With stakes so high, it’s easy to see why novelists find outbreaks of disease so compelling. Here are 20 great fictional takes, ranging from the historical to the futuristic.
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (1722) $11 $11 From 1665 to 1666, bubonic plague returned to Britain and devastated the city of London — killing roughly one quarter of its population in the span of 18 months.
[Read More]Parenthood Cry-cap: One-Knight Stand
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Elina Uphoff
Parenthood Cold Feet Season 5 Episode 20 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Parenthood Cold Feet Season 5 Episode 20 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » This week’s Parenthood was about various individuals overcoming their fears, breaking their silences, and saying or doing what needed to be said and/or done.
[Read More]Paris Hiltons Arrest: A Sihn of the Times
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
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“My friend Joshua started this petition, please help and sihn it. i LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!” —Paris Hilton, on a petition asking Governor Schwarzenegger to pardon her from 45 days in jail [MySpace]
“Yo, I need a bigger table — I got six bitches with me.” —Clubber Kevin Federline, who later hijacked a microphone from Kid Rock to solicit applications for new baby mamas [NYP]
[Read More]Patrick Stewarts Looking Forward to Trying Mumblecore
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
Ever since Patrick Stewart’s first acting gig at the age of 12 — he played the role of “Hotcourt Minor” in a school play — the star has been honing his craft, from experiencing Method acting by watching On the Waterfront to learning how to loosen up in his role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Even now, Stewart is adapting to new techniques.
[Read More]Paul Blart: Mall Cop Sequel Is Finally Happening
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Janel Helmers
Classic Blart. Get excited, Blartians, a Paul Blart: Mall Cop sequel is closer than ever. The Hollywood Reporter writes that Parental Guidance director Andy Fickman is in talks to direct. The 2009 original made $183 million worldwide, which is still an unbelievable fact. Kevin James will once again don the iconic mustache and, as he did the original, co-write the script with magical cat voicer Nick Bakay. No word yet on plot, but we’d be happy with any of these options: Paul Blart: Mall Cop in Space, Paul Blart vs.
[Read More]People Like Us Trailer: Chris Pine Has a Secret Sister Named Elizabeth Banks
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Zora Stowers
What would you do if Jon Favreau took all your money, and then your dad died, and you inherited a Dopp kit full of cash but were instructed to share half of it with Effie Trinket, who turns out to be a sister you didn’t know about? Such are the questions Chris Pine faces in People Like Us, formerly known as Welcome to People (which makes way less sense when you understand the premise of the movie.
[Read More]Pete Campbell To Play Amanda Seyfrieds Dad
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Elina Uphoff
25 and Under: Vincent Kartheiser, best known for his role as Pete Campbell on Mad Men, has joined the cast of Andrew Niccol’s untitled Justin Timberlake–Amanda Seyfried thriller (previously known as I’m.mortal). Kartheiser will be playing the father of Seyfried’s character in the film, which also stars Cillian Murphy. Considering Kartheiser is only seven years older than Seyfried in real life, one might wonder what’s going on here. The explanation: The story is about a society where no one ages beyond the age of 25, except for those who have enough money to buy time.
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