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This weekend’s episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians featured a first for the show: a sit-down interview with Kanye West himself. While Kim Kardashian’s husband has, of course, appeared on the series prior to Sunday’s season 16 premiere, he’s never indulged in that reality show staple, the testimonial. According to Ye, you can go ahead and thank The Incredibles for his change...

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A new Marvel movie is almost here, which means it’s time to break out the new LEGO sets. LEGO has announced five new sets for Avengers: Endgame. While some may want to over-analyze these sets for clues about the plot of the upcoming film, keep in mind that these sets aren’t necessarily drawn from the story, but rather are just ways of mixing...

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In real life, Jussie Smollett just had all sixteen felony charges against him dropped following allegations he staged an assault against himself in Chicago this January. On Saturday Night Live, however, Jussie Smollett is pretty sure you won’t believe what just happened to him on the way over. Host Sandra Oh and Kenan Thompson play Smollett’s manager and Lee Daniels, respectively, to Chris...

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If you think it’s been a rough year and change for real America — over whose citizens our Selina Meyer would love to preside, for reasons she can definitely explain — consider, for a moment, what a harrowing stretch it’s been for fictional America. Over on House of Cards, the ghost of Kevin Spacey’s career haunted the final season as it sputtered to...

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Spoilers for Season 2 Episode 1 of Barry follow below. If you’re a frequent reader of Collider, you may recall that last year, Bill Hader was kind enough to speak to us at length about the final four episodes of his HBO series Barry each week as they aired. And despite the fact that Barry is now an Emmy-winning hit series, and Hader is...

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Sometimes it feels like The Walking Dead’s characters and audience could use a reprieve after a particularly brutal, draining episode. This is one of those times. Kudos to TWD for not only delivering what we needed, but also for doing so in a way that’s unlike anything we’ve seen on this show — specifically, with a wicked blizzard. While the Whisperers are mostly...

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Grab a bucket of fried chicken, unwrap a Reggie bar, and let’s dig in to this feast of an episode. Up until now, Chuck and Axe’s alliance was dubious at best, amorphous at worst. Their interactions were minimal enough that I didn’t see the need to delve into them just yet. But this is Billions, after all, so I suspected there was a...

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The fourth episode of the lackluster second season of American Gods does actually achieve a bit of thematic coherence, but you have to dig for it and end up hoping it amounts to more in terms of storytelling. Worst of all, it sidelines Laura Moon and Mads Sweeney for an entire episode, and they’re arguably the two performers keeping this show afloat, by...

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In response to news of his death on Sunday, Nipsey Hussle’s fans, friends and peers took to social media to remember the rapper, who was reportedly shot and killed outside his clothing store in Los Angeles at the age of 33. NBC News was the first to confirm his death following reports of a shooting that wounded the rapper and two others. Following...

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When the novelist Susan Choi arrives at the launch party for the new Center for Fiction in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, a woman bearing a clipboard is waiting to take her name. Choi pulls off her soft gray beanie as the woman scans the list with a furrowed brow and then scurries over to another staffer. “Hmmm,” says the gatekeeper. “Are you sure you’re...

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Following reports of a shooting late Sunday afternoon, Grammy-nominated rapper Nipsey Hussle has reportedly been pronounced dead at age 33. NBC announced his death following news of the attack, first reported by TMZ. According to TMZ, Hussle, born Ermias Davidson Asghedom, and two others were shot outside Hussle’s clothing shop The Marathon Store in L.A.’s Hyde Park neighborhood. A beloved figure in rap,...

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Following reports of a shooting late Sunday afternoon, Grammy-nominated rapper Nipsey Hussle has reportedly been pronounced dead. NBC announced his death following news of the attack, first reported by TMZ. According to TMZ, Hussle, born Ermias Davidson Asghedom, and two others were shot outside Hussle’s clothing shop The Marathon Store in L.A.’s Hyde Park neighborhood. A beloved figure in rap, Hussle’s album Victory...

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Barely three months after completing its extended run at New York Theatre Workshop and the Greenwich House Theater, Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me has made the jump to Broadway. At this point, it isn’t hard to find out what I think about the play—or, for that matter, what Tony Kushner thinks of it—and so I thought, in the show’s own...

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You’d better get right with your God, dear reader, because this is on all of us, or at least, all of us who took part in 2016’s seemingly never-ending Harambe meme. In news more cursed than a literal accused doll, tech billionaire Elon Musk inexplicably released “RIP Harambe,” a rap song dedicated to and about Harambe, the late, great ape-turned-internet punchline, on Saturday....

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Be aware there are spoilers for The OA Season 2. Anyone who watched the wild, unpredictable first season of Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij's hyper-bingeable Netflix series The OA knew to expect surprises in the second season. Boy did it deliver with robots, tree internet, and a telekinetic octopus, just to name a few. But the most welcome surprise of the new season is the addition...

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AMC has released the first trailer for Fear the Walking Dead season 5, which shuffles its way on to AMC on June 2. It's a lengthy trailer with some legitimate reveals, but boiled down the gist seems to be that doing genuinely kind and good things in the zombie apocalypse will most likely get you killed. Sound advice! But no, the trailer also...

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Despite severing ties with Coachella earlier this year due a lack of dome to perform in (???), Kanye West, just like our lord and savior Jesus Christ, works in mysterious ways. The festival confirmed on social media that Ye has indeed been lured back to perform next month in the scorching Indio wastelands, but with two caveats: He’s being billed as “Kanye West’s...

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As Vulture extensively reported last week, the Writers Guild of America was engaged in a big dispute with the Association of Talent Agents, a.k.a. the people hired to find the writers work and negotiate their pay. The crux of the fight boils down to money, due to, among other things, the ATA being allowed to freely collect “packaging” fees from production studios and...

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In Season 2 of the Starz series American Gods, the battle between the Old Gods, or the traditional gods of mythological roots from around the world, and the New Gods, who reflect society’s modern devotions (i.e. money, technology, media, celebrity and drugs), is really heating up, and Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle) is on his own path to figuring out exactly what he believes....

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hero forever rob delaney (@robdelaney) March 31, 2019 Following the band’s induction segment, Smith admitted backstage he’s still a bit skeptical about the Rock Hall’s ethos — but not so much that snubbing it was on his agenda. “I’m not quite sure about the whole thing. It’s probably a cultural thing. And I just don’t know,” he explained. “On the red carpet, they...

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The two-part, true-life mini-series Mrs. Wilson (airing on Masterpiece on PBS) tells the story of Alison McKelvie (Ruth Wilson) who fell in love with Major Alexander Wilson (Iain Glen) after meeting him while working a secretarial job with the Secret Intelligence Service. During the years of their marriage, Alison believed that her husband was a popular author of spy novels who was also doing real intelligence work...

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They did it. The madmen really did it. MGM went and made the Child's Play reboot something I might support by adding Mark Hamill as the new voice of Chucky, the homicidal doll. The man himself made the announcement over social media. "I can't wait to bring such an iconic character to life, and present him in a way you've never seen him...

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If you watch a lot of Netflix films, you may have noticed the original movies they’ve been producing have been getting a lot better. This trend continues with director J.C. Chandor’s Triple Frontier. Loaded with some fantastic actors – Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund, and Pedro Pascal – the action-thriller, written by Chandor and Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker, Zero...

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Tom Cruise is a high-ranking member of the Church of Scientology, and now, his daughter Isabella Cruise has appeared in a major recruitment email for the organization, the Daily Beast reports. Isabella, Cruise’s adopted daughter with his ex-wife Nicole Kidman, recently appeared in a promotional email for Scientology London, as she resides in the U.K. city. The email includes an image of Isabella, as well as a lengthy story...

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With a court appearance looming due to her alleged involvement in the college admissions bribery scandal, it’s the same as it ever was for Lori Loughlin. Captured on video by those TMZ hounds for the first time since her indictment, Loughlin was spotted leaving a yoga class in Brentwood, Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon, where she very nicely told the cameras she was...

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For an elephant that can fly, Dumbo sure is having a hard time getting off the ground. Tim Burton's live-action reboot—or "reimagining" if you're nasty—officially nabbed $45 million in its debut weekend, flying below the $50 million mark that early predictions pointed to. This isn't anywhere close to a home run, especially for a Disney project. Dumbo now sits toward the bottom of...

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“What?” I said when I saw actor and former half of Hiddleswift, Tom Hiddleston, say “Good morning,” to the camera (me?) and then slide a heart-shaped egg onto a breakfast salad. “What?” I said again when he presented the camera (me) the salad and said, “I finished early so I thought I’d pop back and make you breakfast.” (It is never explained what he...

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