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Video of the Day: ‘The Princess Bride’ Cast Reunion
Earlier today, we subjected you to an awful video of Lou Reed and Metallica talking about their terrible collaboration. We would like to make amends by showing you a wonderful video — it’s a clip of...
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9 Things We Learned at Last Night’s ‘Princess Bride’ Reunion
Tuesday night, the New York Film Festival celebrated the 25th anniversary of The Princess Bride (and the release of a new Blu-ray tied to said anniversary) with a special screening of the film,...
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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. In case you missed it, a new — and much more exciting — trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln debuted after last night’s presidential debate. Watch it here. 2. Netflix has announced that all 13...
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Watch the Trailer for David Fincher’s Netflix Series ‘House of Cards’
From Veep to Scandal to Political Animals, Washington insider politics are all over primetime TV in 2012. On February 1st, David Fincher is bringing this world and its intrigue to an even smaller...
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The Strange, Frustrating Reason Why Matthew Weiner’s Feature Film Debut, ‘You...
This Friday, the feature film debut of Mad Man mastermind Matthew Weiner will open in select cities, but it’s not exactly the same film that premiered at last year’s Toronto Film Festival. It’s not...
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In Defense of ‘Forrest Gump’
Sometimes timing is simply beyond a filmmaker’s control, and Forrest Gump’s low standing among a certain (very vocal) portion of movie fans might have more to do with its timing than anything. To be...
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Overanalyzing Cary Elwes’ New ‘Princess Bride’ Book for Traces of Shade
The Dread Pirate Roberts, aka Westley the farm boy, aka dreamboat Cary Elwes, the very first crush of probably a whole generation of girls (myself included), has a new book out called As You Wish:...
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Watch: ‘House of Cards’ Season 3 Trailer
“You want to know what takes real courage? Holding it all together when the stakes are this high,” Kevin Spacey’s President (yup) Frank Underwood says, introducing the third season of House of Cards...
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Robin Wrights and Golden Globe Wrongs: Links You Need to See
Unless you’ve spent the day blissfully ignorant of the dissonant post-awards-show chorus of snark, you know that yesterday, the Golden Globes happened. Amidst everyone commenting on which celebrities...
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New ‘House of Cards’ Teaser Features More Dramatic Smiles and Fitness Routines
House of Cards fanatics are counting down the days until February 27th (that’s four days!), when Season 3 of the hit Netflix-only political drama is made available; a new teaser has been released to...
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Frank Underwood Finally Gets What He Wants in ‘House of Cards’ Season 3 — and...
House of Cards‘ Frank Underwood gets his fair share of Macbeth comparisons, but the show is something of a tragic figure in its own right. It simply doesn’t know what it wants to be: is it a slick,...
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In Defense of ‘House of Cards’ Season 3’s Divisive Finale
After I watched the first four episodes of House of Cards‘ third season, I noted that the Frank Underwood who had wormed his way into the Oval Office was a Frank Underwood who had lost his fundamental...
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‘House of Cards’ Season 4 Is Happening — in 2016
Rejoice, Underwoodlings: season four of Netflix’s House of Cards has been confirmed in a tweet by the company’s official Twitter account: I will leave a legacy. #Underwood2016...
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The 5 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Beyond the Lights,’ ‘The...
We’ve seen some grim weeks for new releases in the half-year or so that this column has run, but never one quite like this — I mean, seriously, try to find a movie you’ve even heard of in this sad...
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Watch the Trailer for David Fincher’s Netflix Series ‘House of Cards’
From Veep to Scandal to Political Animals, Washington insider politics are all over primetime TV in 2012. On February 1st, David Fincher is bringing this world and its intrigue to an even smaller...
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In Season 4, ‘House of Cards’ Leans Into Being the Soap Opera It Always Has Been
As Frank Underwood has told us over and over again, House of Cards is a show about power. And power abhors a vacuum. Last season, House of Cards had to learn this the hard way. After two seasons of...
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Robin Wright, Actor You’d Most Want to See in a ‘Blade Runner’ Sequel, Joins...
A Blade Runner sequel might have at one point sounded like a terrible idea — but as people you’d really want to see in or behind a Blade Runner sequel keep adding up, it’s getting mighty hard to be a...
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Uh Oh: Jared Leto Boards the ‘Blade Runner’ Sequel
Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner sequel has a new addition to its cast, and the news is more fraught than it may have been a few months months ago, before said addition became the poster child for why...
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‘Blade Runner’ Sequel Gets a Release Date and a Seemingly Straightforward Title
Sicario/Arrival director Denis Villeneuve’s much anticipated (and for some, skeptically anticipated) sequel to Blade Runner has just, after much talk, gotten a release date and title. It’ll be coming...
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The Trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Is Here, and...
If the idea of a Blade Runner sequel by not-Ridley Scott rightfully deserved skepticism, the announcement that it’d be directed by Arrival‘s Denis Villeneuve probably at least tempered the skepticism...
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