Seven months into 2018 and there’s been enough stand-up specials streaming across nonlinear platforms to hold us over until next year. But it’s hard to be jaded about the quantity when the quality has been this good. From the structurally traditional to the thematically experimental, down to the half-hour and
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M.I.A.’s documentary about her life and career has been mired in development hell since 2013, after its director Steve Loveridge leaked the trailer. The leak led to a rift between M.I.A. and Loveridge, with M.I.A later claiming it could take “another ten years” to put the doc out. At long
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Jason Clarke has rushed in to play Helen Mirren’s beau in her Catherine the Great mini-series. According to Deadline, Clarke will play Grigory Potemkin, “a Russian military commander who became Catherine’s lover, favored statesman and life-long friend” in the show, which was announced in January. HBO and Britain’s Sky are
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Bo Burnham’s new coming-of-age comedy Eighth Grade records the ultimate act of bravery: leaving middle school for high school. During her last week of eighth grade, Kayla Day (Elsie Fisher) tries to befriend the Instagram-obsessed popular girls, gets tongue-tied talking to the class hot guy, and spends a day shadowing
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In his first interview since dropping a collaborative album with Kanye West, Kid Cudi has opened up to Billboard about what his last few years have looked like. Though he retreated from the public eye to focus on his mental health — he entered rehab in 2016 for depression —
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You won’t have to shell out as much to see Bruce Springsteen’s Broadway show in the future and the experience will be just the same, minus the thrilling energy of being in the room with Bruce, plus the fact that you don’t have to go anywhere near Times Square. Netflix
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Overlord has all the visual markers of an intense war drama — a morally ambiguous soldier, a doomed battle, a small platoon of troops lost in an unfamiliar jungle — until things start to get pretty creepy. In the action-horror film directed by Julius Avery and produced by J.J. Abrams, U.S. paratroopers
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Vice wrote an article last year called “Inside the Phenomenon of Grown Adults Playing Teenagers on TV.” The piece reveals the actual ages of actors like Blake Lively (who played a high-school junior on Gossip Girl when she was 20) and Cory Monteith (who played a high-school sophomore on Glee
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