The New OneBuries Mike Birbiglia, and It Will Bury You, Too

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Mike Birbigliasnew specialThe New Oneis the kind of thing that makes you want to speak in superlatives. Birbiglia begins with a couch. He weaves in his medical history. And yet, Imnot sure its stand-up comedy. The New Oneis a comedy special, for sure. Its a stand-alone hour, not meant to tell a continuing story beyond this one performance....

November 26, 2019 · 2 min · 238 words · Michael Griffith

After a Late Entrance to the Oscar Race, Can1917Go Over the Top?

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. On a purely technical level, there are few contenders in this years field that can match1917. (With the caveat, of course, that I havent yet seenCats.) And he controlled the camera from a van that was often hundreds of yards away from the actual filming! Gold Derby currently has his chances of taking home his second trophy at 20 percent....

November 25, 2019 · 1 min · 187 words · Mary Lynch

Congratulations, Midtown! Netflix Is Saving the Paris Theater

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The Paris opened in 1948, and specialized in showing foreign and independent movies. The final frontier: a movie theater! Related Tags:

November 25, 2019 · 1 min · 36 words · Kathleen Cook

His Dark MaterialsRecap: Blood Debt

His Dark Materials Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Whew, Lee Scoresby. This weeks episode delivers a real one-two punch asHis Dark Materialscontinues careeningthrough the events ofThe Golden Compass. And Hester?Harmonizing. All respect to theHamiltonvirtuoso, but: thanks, I hate it. The antisocial pickpocket thing is actually one element of New Lee Idonthate whats more American than a scammer? Its in the oratory!...

November 25, 2019 · 1 min · 168 words · Jason Young

Jason Segel Returns WithDispatches From ElsewhereTeaser, Elsewhere Being AMC

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. A sprinkle ofWestworld, a pinch ofHomecoming,a heaping dollop ofThe OA. (Though, there could still be a horrific murder. You never know with TV these days.) Okay, so probably no horrible murder. Either way,Dispatches From Elsewherearrives sometime next year, so we can all find out then.

November 25, 2019 · 1 min · 60 words · Eileen Erickson

Kelly Clarkson Fully Weeps During These Garth Brooks Covers

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. If you would have told me as a kid that that moment would have happened, she said afterward. Im sorry, whoo! I just cant believe my life sometimes. You deserve it all, Kelly! Related Tags:

November 25, 2019 · 1 min · 50 words · Caleb Hansen

Lin-Manuel Miranda’sHis Dark MaterialsMustache Was His Idea

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Lin-Manuel Miranda knows he looks rather dashing onHis Dark Materials. Its trying for the Clark Gable and failing. The rest of his character-building came from a variety of places. I thought about my grandfather a lot, actually, Miranda explained. My grandfather was a big Westerns guy and he always had a dime-store Western in his pocket....

November 25, 2019 · 1 min · 182 words · Terry Chambers

On John Simon

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. John was, in his prime, probably the most notorious critic alive. If theTimess Frank Rich was the Butcher of Broadway, John Simon was its Hannibal Lecter. Any of a thousand quotes from his reviews will give you the general flavor. The responses to his reviews were almost as legendary as the articles themselves. Peter Bogdanovich, in the script forWhats Up, Doc?...

November 25, 2019 · 2 min · 332 words · Robert Greer

Rick and MortyRecap: The Perfect Heist

Rick and Morty Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Who doesnt love a good heist story? Thats not a rhetorical question the answer is Rick Sanchez. by pushing a heist story to the levels of chaos that this show can achieve nimbly. (Boy, does thats what Iwantedyou to think! gets said a lot in this episode.) The only perfect heist was one which was never written, the Heistotron says as it dies....

November 25, 2019 · 1 min · 125 words · William Caldwell

Sad Breasts and Giant Hogs: AParty DownReunion

We are definitely having fun. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. A decade ago,Party Downpremiered quietly on a Starz online grid that was just getting into original programming. A year later, it went off the air, also quietly. Download the episode fromApple Podcasts,Spotify,Stitcher,Overcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Are we having fun yet!?!? If not, were about to. Ryan Hansen:[makes air horn sound]...

November 25, 2019 · 22 min · 4589 words · Eric Diaz

ServantIs Extremely Silly, and Extremely Watchable

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Servantwants to unsettle you and pulls out all the stops necessary to keep viewers off-balance. Frequent screechy violins on the soundtracks? Slow pans that pause to reveal a truly unexpected, shocking image? Yep, its got some of those. Servantis essentially aBlack Mirrorinstallment stretched into ten half-hour parts. It isAmerican Horror Story, minus that franchises capacity to wink at itself and its own reliance on tropes....

November 25, 2019 · 2 min · 337 words · Mark Yang

Shania Twain Closing Out the AMAs Does Impress Us Much, Actually

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. How do you end a show filled withtiny purses,jaw-dropping moments, andgirl power? With Shania Twain surrounded by a harem of bare-chested, pink-lipstick-donning, hunky cowboys, thats how! I Feel Like A Woman. Everything was cheetah print. It was signature Shaniaright down to the invocation of top hats. At many points, it felt more like aStefon fever dreamthan an awards-show performance....

November 25, 2019 · 1 min · 81 words · Wayne Bell

T.I. Says He Was ‘Joking’ About His Daughter’s Hymen

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. A few weeks ago, we were treated to the revelation that T.I. What the hells going on?, Pinkett Smith asked about what T.I. now seems to call Hymen-gate. I think a lot of people kind of like took it extremely literal, he adds. But what are we supposed to do when youre coming from a place of truth?...

November 25, 2019 · 1 min · 145 words · Maria Jones