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Ozon's Cat-and-Mouse 'In the House'
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Surprises in 'Gatsby' (Review)
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Two Other Gatsbys, Two Better Nicks
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Mira Nair's 'Reluctant Fundamentalist'
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Watch Obama & Conan's Comedy at WHCD
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Affleck in Malick's 'To the Wonder'
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Ricky Gervais' Hilarious, Awful Music Video ...
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Danny Boyle's 'Trance'
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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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Brilliant Melissa McCarthy on SNL (Video ...
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'Room 237,' Kubrick & Malkovich
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Colbert Asks Franco: Are You A Fraud?
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Justin Timberlake's Latest SNL (Video)
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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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James Franco's Risk-Free 'Oz'
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'Downton Sixbey': Lady Hedith's Answer
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Smart Middle East Doc 'The Gatekeepers'
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'Downton Abbey' Season 3 Review
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Bad Title,Good 'Silver Linings Playbook'
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Foxx,Washington On 'Django' & Race (Vide ...
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Keira Knightley's Chilly 'Anna K.'
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'Skyfall': An Older, Better-Written Bond
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A Boy and His Tiger: 'Life of Pi'
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Brad Pitt, SNL on Chanel:Which Is Real?
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SNL's Lost Bond Girls
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Hugh Laurie,Catherine Keener on 'Oranges ...
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'The Master': Egotists and Cultists
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Jimmy Fallon Sings 'Romney & Bain'
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Fincher, Others in 'Side By Side' Extras
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Watch "Andrew Sarris: Critic in Focus"
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Amy Poehler on Sex, Music (Video)
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Fallon Does "Downton Sixbey, Part 2"
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Ewan McGregor On "Beginners"
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Keanu Reeves' New Doc (Trailer) -
Daniel Radcliffe As Casey Anthony's Dog
Monthly Archives
Caryn James
Watch Ben Affleck and Bill Hader's SNL Promo
- By Caryn James
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- May 15, 2013 1:10 PM
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- 1 Comment
Before Ben Affleck became Mr. Big-Time-Oscar-Winning-Director
... oh, never mind, that is so not his persona even now. Here he is in a promo
for the season finale of SNL, proving he still has his comic timing. And here's
Bill Hader (who will not be returning to the show next season) asking Affleck
if he made up that country Iran in Argo.
Melissa McCarthy Gives Physical Comedy a Good Name On SNL (Video)
- By Caryn James
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- April 7, 2013 11:12 AM
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Even if you're not a fan of physical comedy - and I'm usually
not - the brilliant Melissa McCarthy makes it hilarious and sophisticated. She
began her latest SNL hosting gig by entering on sky-high, red-sequined platform
heels, stumbling her way on stage in a routine that was also a goof on
the absurdity of actress' shoes today.
Justin Timberlake's All-Star, All-Good SNL (Video)
- By Caryn James
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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.
Watch Justin Timberlake's 'SNL' Promo
- By Caryn James
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- March 6, 2013 11:05 AM
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- 1 Comment
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.)
Justin Bieber Hosts SNL; Watch the Unaired Non-Bieber Sketch Instead
- By Caryn James
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- February 10, 2013 10:53 AM
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Last night’s 'SNL' host was Justin .. . oh, how I wish I could say Timberlake, but No. It was Bieber, set loose among squealing audience members and a flood of predictable Bieber jokes. He wasn’t much as a comic, but he did go along wih a lot of Bieber-Playing-A-Dumb-Guy sketches. None of them mentioned the unfortunate Instagram he had posted the day before of himself with SNL's all-powerful Lorne Michaels, which Bieber spelled Lauren. (Some generous people on Twitter blamed Autocorrect; maybe.)
SNL's Preview of The Next 18 Hobbit Movies (Video)
- By Caryn James
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- January 20, 2013 11:26 AM
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Some people (and I‘ll never be one of them) can’t get enough of Perter Jackson’s Hobbit movies. SNL offers a preview of how Jackson plans to take advantage of that – split the next Hobbit installments into 18 different films: in one, Frodo forgets something back at the shire and has to turn around, in another the whole crew (including Jennifer Lawrence as the Elf Queen) splits a complicated dinner bill. There's "Apple Maps: An Unexpected Detour," and the dwarves assembling an Ikea dresser.
Pants On Fire: SNL Cold Open Takes on Lance Armstrong, Manil Te'o, Jodie Foster (Video)
- By Caryn James
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- January 20, 2013 10:40 AM
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Jennifer Lawrence was a likable host on SNL, pretending to trash-talk her Oscar contenders, but the writers didn’t give her their sharpest material. There was a commercial for Silver Linings Playbook during the show, but no sketch about it – what a lost opportunity (although Jason Sudeikis did wear Bradley Cooper’s trash bag workout clothes in a promo). Instead, the cold open gave us SNL at its topical best, with Piers Morgan welcoming a pants-on-fire lineup of guests.
Touching Kids' Chorus, F-Bombing Sam Jackson, McCartney And A Llama: SNL's Great Christmas
- By Caryn James
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- December 16, 2012 8:36 AM
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Just as it did when the show returned after 9-11, Saturday Night Live found a way to eloquently acknowledge a tragedy and move on to comedy. In the eerie but appropriate cold open, the New York City Children’s Chorus sang “Silent Night,” with the line “sleep in heavenly peace” a piercing tribute to the children lost in the Newtown shooting. But after a brief black screen, followed by the kids saying, “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night,” the show’s Christmas episode turned out to be one of the best – if most retro -- of the season, with Martin Short as host and Paul McCartney as musical guest.
Anne Hathaway and SNL Do Homeland
- By Caryn James
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- November 11, 2012 11:17 AM
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Someone at SNL really likes Homeland (don’t we all?) Last week, in their hurricane press-conference sketch, Mayor Michael Bloomberg explained to Spanish-speaking New Yorkers that white people were cranky because they were missing Homeland. This week, Anne Hathaway was at the center of a sketch that perfectly captured the actors’ quirks, with Hathaway recreating Claire Danes’ constantly quivering chin and Taram Killam capturing Damian Lewis’ teeny tiny mouth. And when you think about it, as Saul (Bill Hader) says about Carrie, why wouldn’t you trust a CIA agent who swills wine while popping pills, and is sexually obsessed with her source?
Daniel Day-Who? Louis C.K. Does Lincoln
- By Caryn James
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- November 4, 2012 10:17 AM
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What if Louis C.K. had been cast in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln instead of Daniel Day-Lewis? Or, as SNL had it, what if the character of Lincoln merged with the character from his television series Louie -- stand-up comic, acerbic observer of life, and in this case emancipator of slaves and preserver of the union?
