Michael Shannon and Hilary Swank’s What They Had: An Alzheimer’s Story That’s Both Heartbreaking and … Funny

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Introducing her exquisite debut feature, What They Had, at Sundance, the writer-director Elizabeth Chomko addressed the movie’s initiating event — a woman with Alzheimer’s reaching the last-but-one stage, number six — only obliquely. Chomko painted a larger picture.“Memory,” she said, “is a gift we’re given. I don’t want to take
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How The Detour Destroyed Six Snowmobiles While Shooting One Episode

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At Vulture Festival Los Angeles in November, co-creator and star of TBS’s The Detour Jason Jones chatted with our Hollywood editor Stacey Wilson Hunt about the show’s season-three premiere — which airs tonight, January 23 — and how its ambitious opening sequence resulted in six snowmobiles dying in the line of duty.
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Logan’s Oscar Nomination Is a Significant Breakthrough

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Great screenplays are often defined by how much they can do with short, unflashy beats of dialogue. But that fact is typically lost on most superhero screenwriters, who tend to steer their scripts toward meandering monologues about heroism, implausible one-liners, and bombastic arguments about how to avert impending apocalypses. Not
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Let’s Talk About That Scene With the Newborn in Mom and Dad

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The following post contains spoilers for the movie Mom and Dad.A movie title like Mom and Dad doesn’t give the viewer much to go on. Is this movie a twee comedy premiering at the Sundance Film Festival this week and starring popular comedians giving surprisingly earnest performances? Is it a
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Donald Glover, Continuing to Outwork Us All, Will Release New Childish Gambino Music This Year

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Proving once again that not all 24-hour days are created equal, Variety reports that Donald Glover has added yet another item to his yearly to-do list. He’s signed a new record deal with RCA and plans to release new music under his Childish Gambino moniker at some point this year.
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Steven Soderbergh’s Mosaic Is an Intriguing Puzzle, But Your Patience With It May Vary

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In Mosaic, the Steven Soderbergh–directed limited series about the events leading up to and following the murder of a children’s author, practically every character possesses pieces of a puzzle they aren’t quite sure how to put together. The guiding two-part question of this intriguing, sometimes frustrating mystery is, what did
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Netflix Will Release a Series of 15-Minute Stand-up Specials in 2018

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A few months ago, New York and L.A.’s comedy communities were abuzz. It seemed like every stand-up was putting themselves on tape. Sure, every once in a while you might see a couple of folks taping for late-night submissions, and there is always that week when a handful of comics
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Alexander Skarsgård Might Somehow Be Involved in Big Little Lies Season 2

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Big Little Lies ended with the death of Celeste’s abusive husband, Perry, but what, HBO has said, if it didn’t end and maybe Perry stuck around? According to TVLine, Alexander Skarsgard, who played Perry, will return to the newly announced second season in some capacity. The obvious role for the
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