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Surprises in 'Gatsby' (Review)
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Marsh & Riseborough on Shadow Dancer
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Two Other Gatsbys, Two Better Nicks
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Ricky Gervais' Hilarious, Awful Music Video ...
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Ozon's Cat-and-Mouse 'In the House'
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Ryan Gosling in "Place Beyond the Pines"
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Brandon Cronenberg's 'Antiviral'
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Black Comedy 'It's a Disaster'
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Colbert Asks Franco: Are You A Fraud?
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Watch Ricky Gervais in 'The Office Revisited' ...
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'Downton Abbey' Kills Off You-Know-Who
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'Downton' Does 'Breaking Bad' (Video)
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'Downton Sixbey': Lady Hedith's Answer
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Smart Middle East Doc 'The Gatekeepers'
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Bad Title,Good 'Silver Linings Playbook'
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Foxx,Washington On 'Django' & Race (Vide ...
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'Hobbit' Review (Not a Fan)
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Hugh Laurie,Catherine Keener on 'Oranges ...
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Fincher, Others in 'Side By Side' Extras
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Ewan McGregor On "Beginners"
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Jimmy Fallon Does Downton Abbey -
Edgy Obama At WH Correspondents Dinner -
Keanu Reeves' New Doc (Trailer) -
Daniel Radcliffe As Casey Anthony's Dog
Monthly Archives
Caryn James
Edgy Obama Opens For Kimmel at White House Correspondents Dinner (Video)
- By Caryn James
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- April 28, 2012 11:41 PM
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We always knew it would be impossible to top last year’s hilarious and secretly dramatic White House Correspondents Dinner, when President Obama slammed Donald Trump – and secretly knew the attack on Osama Bin Laden was underway. But this year's version had its own even edgier tone.
Jon Hamm, Paul McCartney Guest On Hilarious, Live 30 Rock (UPDATED WITH VIDEO)
- By Caryn James
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- April 26, 2012 10:47 PM
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When recorded series go live, it’s usually hard to overcome the stuntiness of it all. (Alec Baldwin promised in a promo that the live 30 Rock would be “liver” than ever, so we all get to make up new words). But 30 Rock found a brilliant, hilarious meta-solution by making its live show about live TV.
Obama With Fallon: The Prez Slow Jams The News
- By Caryn James
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- April 25, 2012 2:06 AM
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President Obama had a clear political agenda in visiting Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, on the road at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: reaching out to young voters and more specifically lobbying against a Congressional threat to increase interest on student loans. But how cool is it that he slow-jammed the news, a Late Night feature that seems surreal enough when Brian Williams does it?
Hugh Dancy and Maggie Gyllenhaal In the Witty "Hysteria"
- By Caryn James
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- April 24, 2012 12:34 PM
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Hysteria, one of the highlights of the Tribeca Film Festival, is now opening in theaters. If you misssed my Tribeca review of this sharp witty film, here it is:
Tribeca Highlight: Emily Blunt In Lynn Shelton's Your Sister's Sister
- By Caryn James
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- April 21, 2012 3:32 PM
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It’s a small relationship film with a big bold impact: witty, nuanced, beautifully acted, Your Sister’s Sister is one of the best movies so far at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Where Even The Spoons Are Political: "Veep" and "Scandal" Do D.C. For TV
- By Caryn James
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- April 17, 2012 11:51 AM
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“We live in a culture now where it’s almost like we are used to being lied to,” Julia Louis-Dreyfuss said in a recent New York Times Magazine piece about her HBO series Veep – to which any thinking person can only respond, “ALMOST?” (Or hope that she delivered that line with more irony than the profile made it sound.)
Steven Spielberg's Latest: Laser Cats 7 (SNL Video)
- By Caryn James
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- April 15, 2012 10:34 AM
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Steven Spielberg played himself in an SNL Digital Short last night, as the ostensible director of the latest installment of Laser Cats -- the low-tech, sci-fi series with Andy Samberg and Bill Hader, a perfect franchise for a guy obsessed with space aliens. Although the Spielberg alter ego called attention to what he crowingly called his “Hitchcockian cameo” in the film, the real homages were to E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Jurassic Park.
The Secrets of Monsieur Lazhar
- By Caryn James
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- April 13, 2012 9:02 AM
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Monsieur Lazhar may have lost the Best Foreign Language Oscar to A Separation – I can’t argue with that; A Separation is extraordinary – but if any film could have given it a real challenge, it might have been this unexpectedly powerful, subtle little film from Canada: exquisitely made, enormously moving and politically-charged. Don’t be put off by its hokey-sounding subject: a substitute teacher takes over a class. This gem from director Philippe Falardeau is far from the inspirational snooze that description suggests.
Jimmy Fallon And Friends Go to Downton Abbey (Video)
- By Caryn James
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- April 13, 2012 9:00 AM
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Just when you’ve gotten through Downton Abbey withdrawal, here’s another parody to remind you of what’s missing from television: Jimmy Fallon and friends from Studio 6B give us Downton Sixbey. In the spirit of Jersey Floor, it sounds like a recurring Late Night series, which would be great (it will give Fallon a chance to work on a consistent British accent). But this version is already fun for it guest appearances.
Jon Stewart on Easter Vs. Passover (Video)
- By Caryn James
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- April 10, 2012 11:03 AM
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It’s not called the Judeo-Christian tradition for nothing, but in the spring holiday face-off the two sides of that equation are not equally fun. Jon Stewart calls on his own team, the Jewish side, to step it up, as he said, because when it comes to magic, Invisible Elijah is no match for a rabbit who brings chocolate eggs. His rejoinder to the Easter Bunny? Passover Pete, a lion who comes bearing pizza.
