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“This Shakespeare club has too much drama.” Jackson McHenry: We’re here because we’ve had to organize an emergency discussion. There was simply no other way around it. When we saw the first few episodes of Dickinson, we were intrigued by the show’s wobbly but clever tone and the way it blends the past with the present. But now that we’ve watched the show’s whole first season, we have to admit that we feel like we’re being trolled. [Read More]

Ever since it debuted earlier this decade, readers of cartoonist Charles Forsman’s violent coming-of-age graphic novel, The End of the Fucking World, have been haunted both by its brutality and its poignancy. The scenes are as swift as they are dense with meaning and viscera, and they’re not soon forgotten. So anyone who has devoured the book will be struck by two aspects of its filmed Netflix adaptation, written by Charlie Covell and directed by Jonathan Entwistle and Lucy Tcherniak. [Read More]

Streamliner At your service. Streamliner At your service. Sound of Freedom, the divisive box-office hit, is heading to Prime Video. The messiest, most controversial box-office hit of the year appears to have struck streaming gold, after all. Sound of Freedom, the child-trafficking action movie starring Jim Caviezel that earned $242 million at the box office this summer, is going to Amazon’s Prime Video. Hopefully Prime Video’s subscribers enjoy it once it hits the service on December 26, because the privilege was certainly a costly one: Vulture previously reported the film was in a bidding war, and that the winning streamer would have to pay a licensing fee of at least “eight figures, which is rare. [Read More]

Anna Camp. Warning: The following interview with Anna Camp includes major spoilers about True Blood up through the most recent episode, “Karma,” which aired July 27. Sarah Newlin, on the run from the Yakuza and vampires alike, may have found a salvation: her own blood. If she can cure her own vampire sister of Hep-V, then who else might want a little taste? (And more questions: Will only a little taste suffice? [Read More]

With 2010 over and done with, Anthony Jeselnik has a lot to be cocky about. He finished up a stint as a writer for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, returned to perform on the show as its very first stand-up, and then released his debut comedy album in September. On Shakespeare, which is as arrogantly absurd as its title suggests, Jeselnik relentlessly dishes out meticulously constructed one-liners so darkly intelligent and subversively funny that Punchline Magazine voted it the best comedy album of the year and most everyone else agreed. [Read More]

Puberty, periods, and preteen angst: not exactly Hollywood’s favorite subjects, yet all three are out in full force in Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, the new movie based on Judy Blume’s classic novel. Relative newcomer Abby Ryder Fortson stars as the titular sixth-grader, a thoughtful, good-natured 11-year-old trying to figure out who she is during a tumultuous time in her life. Margaret may not be your typical onscreen heroine; she couldn’t be easier to root for. [Read More]

Ashanti and Irv Gotti. Ashanti is setting the record straight about her alleged relationship with Irv Gotti. “Let’s clear this up,” Ashanti told Angie Martinez on the IRL podcast on October 26. “We dealt with each other, but was Irv my boyfriend? Was I his girlfriend? Never. Irv had several girlfriends, so I’m a little confused by the label and the description.” It was the producer and founder of Murder Inc Records himself who first claimed they’d dated. [Read More]

“I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution,” mutters Matthew McConaughey’s Rust Cohle in his version of ride-along small talk with partner Marty Hart (Woody Harrelson). While True Detective is heralded for its slow-burn mystery shrouded in atmosphere as thick as the bayou, half the fun of an episode is waiting to see which metaphysical concept Rust will tackle in monotone soliloquy. Life, death, religion, love, the fourth dimension, man’s physical self as a conduit for violent action — Rust has a line for every topic and, thankfully, is always willing to share. [Read More]

It’s the episode of Bluey Disney+ didn’t want you to see! The mpreg one! The Bluey YouTube channel has quietly released “Dad Baby,” the only episode of the beloved kids’ show’s run not available on Disney+. In it, Bluey has Bandit pretend to be pregnant with Bingo — complete with a water birth in the kiddie pool outside. Bluey creator Joe Brumm told The Hollywood Reporter that he knew “Dad Baby” wouldn’t fly in America, but he didn’t care. [Read More]

Atlanta Andrew Wyeth. Alfred’s World. Season 4 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Atlanta Andrew Wyeth. Alfred’s World. Season 4 Episode 9 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The description for this week’s episode reads, “They always making Paper Boi go through something.” And it’s so true. [Read More]