“What’s your biggest emotional wound?” That question, posed to our anti-heroine Ingrid Thorburn roughly 30 minutes into Ingrid Goes West, should carry the weight of the world. It’s the type of question that demands self-interrogation — one that requires an emotional honesty and a cognitive courage to confront. Instead the characters treat it like a […]
Continue Reading“What’s your biggest emotional wound?” That question, posed to our anti-heroine Ingrid Thorburn roughly 30 minutes into Ingrid Goes West, should carry the weight of the world. It’s the type of question that demands self-interrogation — one that requires an emotional honesty and a cognitive courage to confront. Instead the characters treat it like a […]
Continue ReadingLate Night writer Amber Ruffin is usually quick to offer hilarious takedowns of all the terrible news happening this year, but there comes a time when even the strongest defenders of justice and sanity need a break for self-care, and that time came for Ruffin during last night’s show. Instead of directly responding to the […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a great clip from last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, where Kimmel covers Trump’s bizarre decision yesterday not only to backtrack on his comments condemning the white supremacists in Charlottesville over the weekend but actually double down on defending them. This leads to a rapid-fire recap of the countless ways Trump has screwed up since […]
Continue ReadingOh, hello. Toni and Gil and Candace and George. #portlandia #season8 A post shared by Carrie Brownstein (@carrie_rachel) on Aug 15, 2017 at 7:52am PDT Portlandia is currently filming its eighth and final season for IFC, and despite last year’s falling-out between Portland’s real feminist bookstore and the one depicted on the show, Carrie Brownstein […]
Continue ReadingLast year it was announced that Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller were teaming up to star in Noah Baumbach’s next movie, and today Netflix released a teaser trailer. Titled The Meyerowitz Stories, the film follows “the intergenerational tale of adult siblings contending with the influence of their aging father,” and Candice Bergen, Emma Thompson, Elizabeth […]
Continue ReadingJerry Seinfeld hates talk shows, so he instead set out to do the anti-talk show and Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee — a series that lets Seinfeld take his friends on drives in slick cars to get some joe and grub — was born. For viewers, the lack of fanfare and production makes us voyeurs […]
Continue ReadingNorm Macdonald dropped the latest episode of Norm Macdonald Live today, and his chat with Sarah Silverman is so comprehensive that it’s split into two clips that both clock in at just under an hour. Check out part 1 above, where Silverman and Macdonald talk about her earliest comedy influences, the “funny vs. offensive” argument, […]
Continue ReadingAhead of Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman’s movie Lemon premiering in theaters, iTunes, On Demand, and Amazon Video this week, here’s a sneak peek from the film, in which Mullally plays a very strange British photographer who offers Gelman’s character some helpful advice. Lemon debuted at Sundance earlier this year and marks Bravo’s feature directorial debut. Here’s the logline: Lemon: […]
Continue ReadingFresh Off the Boat star Randall Park is teaming up with Ali Wong for a movie in the works at Netflix. According to Deadline, the streaming network will release a comedy Park and Wong wrote together with Michael Golamco, which will center them as “two childhood friends who find themselves in vastly different socioeconomic situations when […]
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