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Julia Roberts in a Drama of Sexual Accusation

Julia Roberts in a Drama of Sexual Accusation

Luca Guadagnino’s “After the Hunt,” a drama of sexual accusation and academic scheming set within the rarified cloisters of Yale University, is a movie that has some very good acting, an impressively dark and foreboding visual palette, and a psychologically tense atmosphere of mystery and suspense. It’s a movie that taps into current questions of social justice and sexual morality, …

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The behind-the-scenes drama before Cowboys traded Micah Parsons

The behind-the-scenes drama before Cowboys traded Micah Parsons

There were seemingly two sides to the Micah Parsons blockbuster that went down Thursday. The star pass rusher’s trade from the Cowboys to the Packers ended months of public bickering over his contract, which reached its zenith during a contentious training camp in Dallas. But there was more than meets the eye going on, according to one NFL insider. “Parsons …

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Mark Ruffalo Stars in Relentlessly Glum HBO Crime Drama

Mark Ruffalo Stars in Relentlessly Glum HBO Crime Drama

Questions of forgiveness hang over much of Task, the new HBO crime drama from Mare of Easttown creator Brad Ingelsby: its possibility, its purpose, its outermost limits. It’s no wonder, considering how many of its characters endure or perpetuate the sort of suffering that can make mercy seem impossibly out of reach. Spouses, in this gritty Philadelphia suburb, are mostly …

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Scott Wolf’s wife Kelley arrested for electronic harassment amid divorce drama

Scott Wolf’s wife Kelley arrested for electronic harassment amid divorce drama

Real World alum and life coach Kelley Wolf has been arrested in Utah after making several confrontational and insulting social media posts about family members and friends, including her estranged husband, the actor Scott Wolf, with whom she’s embroiled in a contentious divorce. Kelley, 48, was arrested Tuesday at her home in Summit County on suspicion of electronic communication harassment …

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George Clooney in a Fun but Soft Hollywood Drama

George Clooney in a Fun but Soft Hollywood Drama

In “Jay Kelly,” George Clooney plays a movie star very much like George Clooney. By that, I don’t simply mean that the outlines of Clooney’s career and that of the character sync up just so (though they do). As the movie is conceived, Jay Kelly, a popular and prestigious Hollywood actor for more than three decades, with an array of …

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Aryna Sabalenka spoke to Jelena Ostapenko after US Open drama

Aryna Sabalenka spoke to Jelena Ostapenko after US Open drama

When Aryna Sabalenka spoke with Jelena Ostapenko after her second-round loss to Taylor Townsend at the U.S. Open on Wednesday, she wasn’t aware of the heated post-match spat between the competitors. Sabalenka, the world No. 1, came away from their conversation seemingly concerned that the Latvian star is dealing with something in her personal life that is affecting her ability …

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George Clooney Stars in a Soft & Sad Netflix Drama

George Clooney Stars in a Soft & Sad Netflix Drama

A major star for the majority of his adult life, Jay Kelly has so thoroughly subsumed himself into his classic screen persona — smirking, debonair, heroic — that he no longer seems to know who he is off set. More troublingly, the world-famous actor has come to like it that way. As Sylvia Plath once wrote: “It’s a hell of …

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Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix Back Gaza Drama ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’

Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix Back Gaza Drama ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’

Hollywood heavyweights, including Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, and Rooney Mara, have come on board Kaouther Ben Hania’s Gaza-set drama The Voice of Hind Rajab, as executive producers, boosting the film’s profile ahead of its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival. Also joining the film as executive producers are Dede Garner and Jeremy Kleiner of Pitt’s production outfit …

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Liverpool And Newcastle Turned Transfer Drama Into A Brutal And Beautiful Game

Liverpool And Newcastle Turned Transfer Drama Into A Brutal And Beautiful Game

With the Alexander Isak transfer storm still raging, Monday’s Premier League match between host Newcastle United and defending champion Liverpool was always going to be full of intensity and drama. Despite Liverpool’s main crime being that the club is interested in a very good player, the Reds came into St. James’ Park as the invading force, and the Magpie fans …

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Terry McLaurin gets massive Commanders extension to end holdout drama

Terry McLaurin gets massive Commanders extension to end holdout drama

Scary Terry may now go by Scrooge McLaurin. Terry McLaurin, who was holding out all offseason for a new contract, finally agreed to a massive deal to stay in Washington with the Commanders. The three-year contract extension for the 29-year-old star receiver is worth $96 million over three years. Terry McLaurin is surely celebrating a massive contract extension. Getty Images …

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