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Watch Ricky Gervais' Hilariously Awful Music Video, 'Equality Street'

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  • March 15, 2013 6:31 PM
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Shot in gloriously pretentious black and white, 'Equality Street' is the official music video from David Brent -- Ricky Gervais' crazily  un-self-aware character from The Office -- and Dom Johnson, the rapper Brent manages. It's cringe-worthy good, as the rapper and the white guy in a bad suit dance down a multiethnic street and Brent sings: "Let me take you down Equality Street / You ever know the people you'll meet."
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Ricky Gervais Returns as David Brent in 'The Office Revisited' (Video)

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  • March 15, 2013 6:01 PM
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It has been a decade since Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's original version of The Office ended its brief but brilliant run. Now Gervais has brought David Brent back in The Office Revisited, a 10 minute video done for Red Nose Day, an All-Star BBC program that is part of the UK's Comic Relief fundraiser.
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Timeliest DVD: Nanni Moretti's 'We Have A Pope'

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  • March 13, 2013 1:08 PM
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Why is this pope hiding in the bushes? The first comic conceit in Nanni Moretti's delightful and touching 2011 film We Have A Pope (Habemus Papam) is that no one wants to be pope, especially the guy who is elected, Cardinal Melville -- played by the extraordinary Michel Piccoli.  There is no timelier film to catch right now on DVD or streaming (on Netflix, iTunes and Amazon). 
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More: Habemus Papam (We Have A Pope), We Have a Pope, Michel Piccoli, Nanni Moretti, Jean-Luc Godard, Luis Bunuel, Manoel de Oliveira

Justin Timberlake's All-Star, All-Good SNL (Video)

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  • March 10, 2013 12:13 PM
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Justin Timberlake was totally aware of the high expectations for his hosting gig on SNL  - "Thank you, Internet," he said during the monologue - but there was no need to worry. He was so on, he even gave just the right sly, I-know-it's-hokey reading to the line "Five Timers Club" when announcing his membership as a five-time host.
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More: Television, Justin Timberlake, SNL, Saturday Night Live, Andy Samberg, Alec Baldwin, Jimmy Fallon, Elton John, Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Paul Simon, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon

Stephen Colbert Asks James Franco, 'Are You a Fraud?'

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  • March 6, 2013 11:06 AM
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James Franco has taken on one of his most mainstream roles in the new Disney film, 'Oz the Great and Powerful'; nothing is more mainstream than Disney. (You can read my review here.) But his entire career still has the shape of wide-ranging performance art  -- and with a lot more focus, Stephen Colbert's on-screen right-wing persona has so overshadowed the "real" Colbert that the character can be considered one of the most successful, long-running pieces of performance art of all time.  So consider the many layers of reality and artifice when Colbert asks Franco, the professor-filmmaker-writer-actor-whatever: "Are you a fraud?"
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Watch Justin Timberlake's 'SNL' Promo

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  • March 6, 2013 11:05 AM
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I don't believe in jinxes, so I'll flat-out say that nothing is a safer bet for fantastic television than Justin Timberlake hosting 'Saturday Night Live'. He's back this week, and even his promos are better than SNL's usually are (better than some of the sketches lately.)
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Risk-Taking James Franco In Risk-Free 'Oz the Great and Powerful'

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  • March 6, 2013 10:00 AM
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Flying moneys, good. Flying baboons, bad. That's one difference between the classic, 1939 'Wizard of Oz' and 'Oz the Great and Powerful,' Disney's pricey new extravaganza with James Franco as the pre-wizard carnival con man. More important: don’t go on comparing them. The new 'Oz' is loaded with references, some direct and some tongue-in cheek, but mostly it is a sweeping, kinetic adventure all its own.
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FREE 'Ginger & Rosa' Screening and Conversation With Director Sally Potter

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  • March 4, 2013 9:46 AM
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I'm so happy to invite all of you to this: a free preview screening at 92nd St. Y of Ginger & Rosa, one of my favorite films this year, followed by a conversation with the amazing director Sally Potter.  (March 12th at 8:15 at 92Y.)
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'Zero Dark Thirty' Parodies: With Lena Dunham and As A Rom-Com

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  • February 28, 2013 12:10 PM
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Who knows if these parodies might have helped Zero Dark Thirty in the Oscar race? (Could they have hurt more than the controversy about torture?) Laughing about the subject probably wasn’t in anybody's awards strategy, but these two very funny videos reveal how firmly the film has pervaded the cultural conversation.
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More: Television, Zero Dark Thirty, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Lena Dunham, Jessica Chastain, Girls, Zero Dark Thirty Parody

Review: Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Stoppard and HBO's Dreamy 'Parade's End'

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  • February 26, 2013 9:07 AM
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In Part 3 of HBO’s lyrical, nuanced, romantic and tough-minded World War I era series, Parade’s End, the aloof Sylvia Tietjens says of her aristocratic husband, “Christopher is the last decent man in England. How dare they put their knives into him – he’s mine.” By then we know that she is not simply complaining that Christopher’s colleagues in the British government have turned on him; she is saying the he is hers to manipulate and torture in an endless dance of love and hate. This is the most fun we’ve had with Edwardians since Downton Abbey.
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More: Television, Parade's End, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall, Tom Stoppard, Stephen Graham, Anne-Marie Duff, Janet McTeer, Susanna White, HBO

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