My Amazon Echo sits on my bookcase dusty and unused, an unplugged piece of tubular plastic furniture that stands as a monument to my personal invocation of a technological Pascal’s Wager: I don’t know for sure if the thing is listening to me, but my perceived upside of privacy still
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Netflix is ramping up both its true crime and its Duplass brothers content. Today, the streaming giant announced additional episodes of its series The Staircase, as well as the arrival of Evil Genius: The True Story of America’s Most Diabolical Bank Heist, a new docuseries from producers Jay and Mark Duplass.
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Cary Fukunaga, Emma Stone, and Jonah Hill have been working on a Netflix series that looks trippier than your freshman year of college. Per Netflix, “Maniac is the story of two strangers who find themselves caught up in a mind-bending pharmaceutical trial gone awry.” The ten-episode show is based on
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Fresh from singing her love psalms in Jesus Christ Superstar Live, Sara Bareilles will be hosting this year’s Tony Awards alongside your favorite baritone, Josh Groban. Bareilles herself was nominated for a Tony Award in 2016 for Best Original Score for Waitress and Groban was nominated last year for Best
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When you first hear about MoviePass’s business model — charging subscribers $10 a month to see a movie every day, with tickets the company buys full-price from theater chains — your initial impression is likely to be something along the line of, How in the world is that sustainable? And
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Lola Kirke is not here for your sexist movie criticism. When her latest film Gemini — a thriller co-starring Zoë Kravitz — was reviewed by The New Yorker, critic Anthony Lane had some commentary about Kirke’s character’s appearance: “She wears big jeans and a baggy gray top, while sporting the
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The good news about the 17th annual Tribeca Film Festival is that it continues last year’s trend of being less inclusive. Three cheers for elitism! Give thanks for fewer turkeys! This year’s slate of features — reduced by 20 percent from two years ago — could be the most consistently
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I mean it with deep affection when I say that Scandal is a lunatic television series that spits in the face of narrative logic and good taste. The fact that Shonda Rhimes’s TGIT middle-child is ending feels impossible, in that Scandal has never appeared to approach any kind of limit;
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