The Downton Abbey movie surprised and delighted longtime fans when it hit theaters in September. The film gave us so many big screen gems—a ballroom scene, a royal plot line, tons of Violet Crawley zingers. It was so well received, in fact, that the creators have reportedly started discussing a potential follow-up film. Nothing is…
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Blake Lively is going into assassin mode with her new movie, The Rhythm Section. The trailer for the action blockbuster dropped on Thursday, September 19, and it involves lots of intense fight scenes and car crashes, and many wig changes. In the span of just a few seconds, we see Lively rock short black hair,…
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“We’ve seen so many scenes in strip clubs in other movies and TV shows, but so few from a dancer’s perspective,” Hustlers director, writer, and producer Lorene Scafaria tells me. The film, based on a New York magazine article by Jessica Pressler, stars Constance Wu and Jennifer Lopez as the ringleaders of a group of…
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If Hustlers arrived in theaters to lukewarm reviews, I’d probably still see it. After all, it’s based on a true story that’s inherently cinematic: A tale of New York City strippers who swindle Wall Street men out of their money after falling on hard times in the 2008 recession. On top of that, it features…
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Back in 2016, a massive scandal roiled Fox News, as sexual harassment allegations piled up against the late Roger Ailes, who was the former CEO and chairman. One of the women who came forward with accusations was among the network’s most recognizable names: Gretchen Carlson. Now, a new film, aptly tiled Bombshell, is dramatizing the…
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Last month, Lifetime announced it was making a movie about the college admissions scandal that captivated the Internet earlier this year. If you’re unfamiliar about this real-life case, it involved a group of wealthy parents, including actors Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, who took illegal measures to secure their children’s spots at competitive universities. Huffman…
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