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Barack Obama Pummels Unnamed Donald Trump Over “Why Things Are So Screwed Up” In ‘Graduate Together’ Commencement Speech
President Barack Obama never mentioned Donald Trump in his virtual Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020 commencement speech tonight, but it was clear to everyone in coronavirus lockdown and elsewhere that he was throwing shade and throwing down the gauntlet to his successor – for the second…
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The Show To Watch This Week: ‘Snowpiercer’, ‘The Great’, ‘Hightown’ & ‘DC’s Stargirl’ Reviewed
It's the weekend before the long Memorial Day holiday and while coronavirus restrictions are lifting all over California and the rest of the nation, there is some serious TV dropping. Which of course poses the question: What is the show you have to watch this week?
There are some very Russian royal moves occurring…
‘All Rise’ Season Finale Is Virtually Made, But Very Close To Home In Coronavirus-Stricken L.A.
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s virtually made All Rise season finale.
The most shocking thing about tonight's remotely produced All Rise is how quickly the artifice of the Season 1 finale of the Simone Missick-led legal drama becomes the backdrop to a very well-crafted tale of our coronavirus…
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‘Becoming’ Review: If Michelle Obama Isn’t Running For Something, Someone Needs To Tell This Netflix Film
If Michelle Obama wasn’t so adamant that she isn’t running for public office, the perfectly timed new Netflix documentary Becoming would sure seem like a campaign launch.
Dropping on May 6 on the streamer, the recently announced very authorized biopic of sorts could also be Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s worst nightmare…
Livesteam Theater Review: Richard Nelson’s ‘What Do We Need To Talk About?’ Stakes Claim As First Great Drama Of The Pandemic
What will theater look like after the pandemic? How will stage artists address the societal upheavals wreaked by COVID-19? Everyone’s asking, no one knows, but Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Nelson and New York’s Public Theater offered up a much-needed and beautifully executed bit of hope last night with the…
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‘Homeland’ Series Finale: Co-Creator Alex Gansa On The Final Twist, Potential Revival, Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin & The Story They Never Got To Tell
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s Homeland series finale.?
Hurling a Molotov cocktail in its fiery closing minutes, Homeland came to the end of its eight-season run Sunday night and Showtime's multiple Emmy-winning spy thriller certainly ended with an unexpected bang.
With the reappearance of…
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‘Beastie Boys Story’ Review: AppleTV+’s Spike Jonze-Directed Docu Captures Moments Of Magic, Memories & Heart
"We were as much Monty Python as we were Black Flag," proclaim the remaining members of one of the greatest hip hop bands ever in Beastie Boys Story, which debuts Friday on Apple TV+
Thoroughly entertaining and heartbreaking when it addresses the 2012 death from cancer of bandmate Adam Yauch, the live documentary of…
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NFL’s Remote Draft Passes Its Test, Smoothly Coordinating Various Locations, Including Living Rooms Of Top Picks And Goodell’s Traditional Booing
The most unusual draft in NFL history avoided technical glitches in its early stages, as the streaming and broadcast teams of ESPN and ABC-TV managed to seamlessly integrate the numerous remote locations. These ranged from the top picks’ living rooms, to Commissioner Roger Goodell’s basement, to collages of various…
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‘One World’ Concert Review: Rolling Stones & Beyoncé Hit High Notes At Multi-Network Show For COVID-19 Frontline Workers
With greetings in a multitude of languages, a suited and booted Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon kicked off the multi-network One World: Together at Home concert from their respective homes on different sides of the country. But, even with a joint "overwhelming gratitude" appearance by former First…
‘Tiger King’ Review: The Dangerous Game Netflix Is Playing With Joe Exotic’s Red State Carnage
SPOILER ALERT: If you are among the few who haven’t actually watched Netflix’s Tiger King docuseries, this review contains a lot of details about what goes down in the sad big cat saga.
With Netflix poised in the coming days to cash in and crank the base up a notch with more Tiger King, it's time to come out and say…
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“Stay At Home” Or “You Could Kill Someone,” Return of ‘Real Time With Bill Maher’ Told By LA Mayor
Two weeks after the host said Real Time with Bill Maher was going dark indefinitely due to the coronavirus crisis, the long running HBO talk show was back tonight with some big and small changes.
"Please sit, and welcome to Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom," a partially shaded Maher opened in his LA backyard to canned…
Coronavirus Relief Concert Review: Elton John Hosted Special Successfully Flies Big iHearted Flag In Lo-Fi Tones
John Lennon once warned us that we can so easily be "benefited to death" if we're not discerning.
However, just 18 days after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic, the first major star-studded benefit to help those hurt by the health crisis landed tonight with the lo-fi but big hearted Fox…
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