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Mindy Kaling And Emma Thompson Shatter The ‘Late Night’ Glass Ceiling
There’s a funny thing about late night TV, says Mindy Kaling. Watching these shows, “there’s such a joie de vivre“—but it’s at odds with the “ruthlessness and mercilessness” that goes into making the...
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‘Toy Story 4’: Woody And The Gang Deal With… A Fork’s Existential Crisis?
The Toy Story movies are about the secret lives of dolls and action figures that find their deepest fulfillment in a child’s embrace. But they’re really about what it means to be human: the joys of...
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Documentary ‘5B’ Introduces The Heroes Of SF General’s First Dedicated AIDs Ward
Today, antiretroviral medicines allow people with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, to live long, productive lives. But at the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s, the disease was considered a...
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Sean Connery’s Infamous ‘Goldfinger’ Onesie is Available to Buy Now
He saunters up behind a sunbathing woman, exuding coolness and charm. He wears a baby-blue terry-cloth swimsuit, cut-off mid-thigh, adorned with a golden belt buckle. He goes to introduce himself, but...
View ArticleHow Religious Sect Movies Like ‘Midsommar’ Get So Far Under Our Skin
A horror sub-category all of their own, religious sect movies use our most primeval instincts against us, playing on subconscious human fears about the mystical and what lurks beyond the veil. And the...
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Disney Claps Back at Halle Bailey Haters Upset Over ‘Little Mermaid’ Casting
When Disney announced that Halle Bailey, a teen actress and one-half of the singing group Chloe x Halle, had landed the role of Ariel in the forthcoming live-action remake of The Little Mermaid, some...
View ArticleBefore ‘Hustlers’: How Pole Dancing Broke Into the Mainstream
In Crazy Stupid Love, Ryan Gosling, playing a know-it-all lothario, shares an opinion. “We won the sex war,” he says, “after women started doing pole dancing for exercise.” Finding pop-culture examples...
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‘The Lion King’ Had The Perfect Villain Song. This Time, ‘Be Prepared’ For Less
I have seen the new The Lion King. Pop Culture Happy Hour is devoting a whole show to it this week, so I won’t get into a full review here, but just know that, when it comes to one specific aspect of...
View ArticleWatch Taylor Swift and Jennifer Hudson Being Annoyingly Earnest About ‘Cats’
What do you think of when you think of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Cats? Large wigs and fur coats of questionable origin? The overwrought balladry of “Memory“? Jazz hands with claws? For fans of...
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New ‘Lion King’ Remake is More Creative Dead End Than Circle of Life
The best scene in Disney’s incredibly photo-realistic remake of The Lion King features a computer-generated beetle rolling a ball of computer-generated dung across a computer-generated African...
View ArticleThe Timeless Feminism of Sarah Connor in ‘Terminator 2’
When Terminator 2: Judgment Day was first released in 1991, I went to see it four times: two days in a row the weekend it came out, and two weekends in a row after that. The reason I kept coming back?...
View ArticleWatch: Cynthia Erivo as a Badass Harriet Tubman in New Biopic Trailer
Now that director Kasi Lemmons has finally turned Harriet Tubman’s life into a movie, it’s astounding to think that nobody has put this particular biography on the big screen before. And, boy, do we...
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Tarantino’s Turned-On, Tuned-In Tinseltown: ‘Once Upon A Time In … Hollywood’
Once Upon a Time in … Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino’s florid, sun-bleached, la-la land fantasia, would be a groovy trip of a movie in any era. But only now, with virtually the entire industry consumed...
View Article7 Things You Didn’t Know About ‘Mean Girls’
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in 2014. “You can’t sit with us.” “On Wednesdays, we wear pink.” “It’s October 3rd.” Almost two decades after the release of Mean Girls, we’re still...
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