Good job, Mr. Milchik. You just made history. For his chilling performance as the hypnotic and unnervingly cheerful Seth Milchick in Apple TV+’s genre-defying drama “Severance,” Tramell Tillman won the Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series, becoming the first Black man ever to win in the category. It was the only acting field that had yet to …
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For now, there is no switch-up for Angel Reese in her early WNBA career. When asked Friday about the Sky’s relationship with the two-time All-Star as their season came to an end, Sky general manager Jeff Pagliocca said that “until I hear differently, that’s the direction we’re going to move, is that she’s on the roster.” Reese, who was the …
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Sydney Sweeney made headlines for undergoing a drastic physical transformation for her upcoming boxing biopic, but critics have finally arrived with a verdict on whether the film lives up to the hype. The film follows the real-life story of legendary boxer Christy Martin, whose tumultuous personal journey comes to a head at the height of her professional career. As of …
Read More »Baseball fans were aghast last weekend over a viral video showing a woman in a Philadelphia Phillies jersey demanding a home run ball a father had snagged for his son during the team’s game against the Miami Marlins in Florida. The dad, later identified as Drew Feltwell, looked stunned as the woman — who has been dubbed “Phillies Karen” — …
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“Couture” is a drama set during Paris Fashion Week, starring Angelina Jolie as a character who is fashion world-adjacent — a goth-glam director of hip indie horror films named Maxine Walker, who has come to Paris to shoot a lavish short (it features a forest fire and wolves and a model playing a fang-bearing vampire) that’s set to accompany one …
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Sydney Sweeney‘s new boxing drama Christy has largely proved a flop with critics following its premiere. Read More: Sydney Sweeney doesn’t get why you’re obsessed with her: “I’m just being me” The new biopic follows the story of boxer Christy Martin, focusing on her career as one of the top female boxers of the ’90s and ’00s before enduring and surviving …
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Maggie O’Farrell’s lauded 2020 novel Hamnet is a dense and lyrical imagining of the lives of William Shakespeare’s family, full of interior thought and lush descriptions of the physical world. It would seem, upon reading, near impossible to adapt into a film. Or, at least, a film worthy of O’Farrell’s so finely woven sensory spell. Film-maker Chloé Zhao has attempted …
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In the days immediately following the end of World War II in Europe, a U.S. Supreme Court justice grappled with the best way to ensure those surviving members of Hitler’s Nazi regime were held accountable for the atrocities committed under their watch. While Congress was pushing for an expedited execution rather than a trial, chief U.S. prosecutor Robert H. Jackson …
Read More »A father who was berated by a woman in a Philadelphia Phillies jersey into giving up a home run ball he had grabbed for his son is speaking out about the incident as online sleuths continue to search in vain for the identity of “Phillies Karen.” “I pretty much just wanted her to go away,” Drew Feltwell told NBC Philadelphia …
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In 2021, Brad Ingelsby’s limited HBO series Mare of Easttown cemented itself as much-watch TV: a relentlessly bleak crime drama whose high-profile cast made a meal of its meaty family dynamics. Now, Ingelsby is ready to do it all over again with his new series, Task. Beyond Ingelsby’s involvement, Task inevitably invites Mare of Easttown comparisons. Just like Mare of …
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