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The new and unsettling Lifetime docuseries <em>Where Is Wendy Williams?</em> documents the former daytime talk show host as she struggled with alcohol addiction, serious health ailments, and financial issues. Days before the documentary aired, we learned that Williams had been diagnosed with aphasia and frontotemporal dementia. The four-episode series raises many ethical questions related to celebrity, privacy, and perceived exploitation.
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The new and unsettling Lifetime docuseries <em>Where Is Wendy Williams?</em> documents the former daytime talk show host as she struggled with alcohol addiction, serious health ailments, and financial issues. Days before the documentary aired, we learned that Williams had been diagnosed with aphasia and frontotemporal dementia. The four-episode series raises many ethical questions related to celebrity, privacy, and perceived exploitation.
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This year’s crop of Oscar nominees for the best international feature adopt vastly different approaches to tell their disparate stories. There’s a couple that tackle the specter of fascism, one about the plight of migrants and one about an infamous real-life plane crash and its aftermath. Also there’s one about a guy who cleans toilets.
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This year’s crop of Oscar nominees for the best international feature adopt vastly different approaches to tell their disparate stories. There’s a couple that tackle the specter of fascism, one about the plight of migrants and one about an infamous real-life plane crash and its aftermath. Also there’s one about a guy who cleans toilets.
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From a perceived <em>Barbie</em> snub to the notching of a few significant historical firsts, this awards season has magnified the flaws in how art is celebrated and valued.
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Randolph has been on a hot streak this awards season, garnering accolades from BAFTA, the Screen Actors Guild, the National Board of Review, and many critics’ circles.
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The bingeable comedy series <em>Girls5eva </em>is a silly parody of the music industry. It’s about four down-on-their-luck members of a 90s girl group who reunite to stage a comeback, and find that a lot has changed. The show features a stacked cast, including Sara Bareilles, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Busy Philipps, and Paula Pell. <em>Girls5Eva</em> recently moved to Netflix and just returned for a new season, so today, we revisit our conversation about the series.
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The movie <em>Love Lies Bleeding</em> is a fun and weird erotic thriller. It’s set in the late 1980s and stars Kristen Stewart as a brooding gym manager who falls in love with a hitchhiking bodybuilder, played by Katy O’Brian. Directed by Rose Glass (<em>Saint Maud</em>), the film’s got a killer electronic soundtrack, and cinematic references of everything from John Waters to <em>Showgirls</em>.
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The movie <em>Love Lies Bleeding</em> is a fun and weird erotic thriller. It’s set in the late 1980s and stars Kristen Stewart as a brooding gym manager who falls in love with a hitchhiking bodybuilder, played by Katy O’Brian. Directed by Rose Glass (<em>Saint Maud</em>), the film’s got a killer electronic soundtrack, and cinematic references of everything from John Waters to <em>Showgirls</em>.
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In the new movie<em> Immaculate, </em>Sydney Sweeney plays Cecelia, an American woman who joins a convent in Italy. But after she arrives, she encounters strange occurrences and mysteriously winds up pregnant. Almost everyone in the convent touts it as a miracle, but Cecelia isn’t so sure. Horror, of course, ensues. <em>Immaculate</em> was directed by Michael Mohan – who previously collaborated with Sweeney on the Hitchcock-esque thriller<em> The Voyeurs</em>.
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Throw on those boots with the spurs, grab your cowboy hat, and saddle up that horse, because Beyoncé’s highly anticipated album, <em>Cowboy Carter </em>is here. <em>Cowboy Carter</em> is a country-fied album, full of legendary guests like Dolly Parton and Linda Martell, and duets with stars like Post Malone and Miley Cyrus — all tied together with the unbridled swagger of Queen Bey. But is Beyoncé knocking down the doors of the country establishment, or looking for validation?<br/><br/><a href=”…
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