Disney released the first official trailer for Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time on Sunday night—that last one was just a teaser—and this time around they’re focusing on the thing we want most from trailers: exposition, and lots of it! The first minute or so of the teaser is built around an explanation of fifth-dimensional travel involving an ant and a piece of yarn.
Episodes
Date
Duration
Appreciation and obituary of Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Thursday 25 January 2018
00:07:10
The late night shows are all about Donald Trump, so maybe watch The Steve Allen Show instead?
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Wednesday 24 January 2018
00:04:28
Sundance’s The Tale is the perfect movie for our #MeToo moment.
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Tuesday 23 January 2018
00:06:37
The Patriots are going to keep doing this forever, aren’t they?
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Monday 22 January 2018
00:04:21
Eliza Dushku’s agent and on-set legal guardian both back her account of sexual assault.
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Thursday 18 January 2018
00:03:39
Mark Wahlberg donates his All the Money in the World reshoot money to Time’s Up.
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Wednesday 17 January 2018
00:03:24
Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff, reviewed.
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Friday 12 January 2018
00:16:12
Ed Sheeran Needs Legos to Help Him Write, and Other Fun Facts From the Making of “Shape of You”
“None of us thought that much into it,” Ed Sheeran says, right before breaking down in great detailed bit by detailed bit just how much...
Thursday 28 December 2017
00:03:02
Nick Cannon Casts Chris Brown in a Movie Meant to “Empower Women.” Seriously.
In 2009, Chris Brown viciously assaulted then-girlfriend Rihanna. His sentencing as ordered by a judge included five years probation, as...
Monday 25 December 2017
00:03:10
Love Actually’s Workplace Harassment Feels Especially Egregious at the End of 2017
It’s that time of year again: Love Actually season is upon us. The modern holiday classic is full of egregious flaws, from the...
Friday 22 December 2017
00:08:43
The Greatest Showman Isn’t Exactly the Greatest Show on Earth
When the entire cast belts out “THIS IS THE GREATEST SHOW” a minute into your movie, the film itself had better live up to it. The...
Thursday 21 December 2017
00:06:19
Dave Grohl, Who Used to Be in Nirvana, Plays Crowd-Pleasing Christmas Ditties With the Foo Fighters on Saturday Night Live
Dave Grohl, who many lifetimes ago was in a band called Nirvana, stopped by Saturday Night Live with his new band the Foo Fighters, and he...
Wednesday 20 December 2017
00:06:25
James Franco Gets in Touch With his Inner Dan Aykroyd in This Bloody Saturday Night LiveSketch
There’s no shame in revisiting a classic, and on this week’s Saturday Night Live, host James Franco riffed on one of the show’s most...
Monday 18 December 2017
00:02:06
The 2018 SAG Awards Will Be Presented by an All-Female Line-Up, Because Women Are Awesome
The Hollywood Reporter revealed on Wednesday that the 2018 Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony will be presented by women, women, and more...
Friday 15 December 2017
00:02:21
New York City’s Late-Night Hosts Were Not Impressed by the Subway Bomber
On Monday, a 27-year-old man tried to blow up a pipe bomb at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, but really he only succeeded in...
Thursday 14 December 2017
00:02:31
Comedian Hannibal Buress Arrested in Miami, Charged With Disorderly Intoxication
Hannibal Buress, the comedian whose 2014 stand-up routine about Bill Cosby was, in many ways, the opening bell for the current wave of...
Wednesday 13 December 2017
00:01:51
Tracee Ellis Ross Reads a Children’sBook About Our Current Cultural Monster: Sexual Harassers
Jimmy Kimmel is taking the week off to spend time with his family after his son’s surgery, but Jimmy Kimmel Live! has continued to air new...
Monday 11 December 2017
00:02:08
French Rock Star and Actor Johnny Hallyday Dies at 74
Johnny Hallyday, the singer whose French-language covers of American songs helped bring rock ’n’ roll to France, has died of cancer at...
Thursday 07 December 2017
00:02:06
New Details About Matt Lauer’s Alleged Misconduct at NBC Are Extremely Gross
NBC fired Today host Matt Lauer on Wednesday morning following a complaint by a colleague describing “inappropriate sexual behavior,”...
Wednesday 06 December 2017
00:02:50
Jenny Slate Is Writing a Feminist Essay Collection, Is Back With Chris Evans, Is Everything That Is Right and Good in the World
What would we do without Slate? No, I don’t mean Slate Magazine. I mean Jenny Slate, actress, comedian, and—today at least—queen of...
Tuesday 05 December 2017
00:02:07
Lorde’s Grammy-Nominated Melodrama Takes Its Rightful Place in the Louvre
One might call Melodrama—Lorde’s critically acclaimed, Grammy-nominated sophomore album—high art. The album is not just an aural...
Monday 04 December 2017
00:01:41
Need Some News That Won’t Make You Puke? Here’s the Trailer to a New Aardman Film!
After a miserable day like Wednesday, we could all use a news story—just one!—that isn’t part of the torrent of garbage that’s been...
Friday 01 December 2017
00:01:51
It Looks Like Project Veritas Tried to Sting Full Frontal With Samantha Bee
There hasn’t been a better feel good story in a long time than Project Veritas’ hilariously inept attempt to trick the Washington Post...
Thursday 30 November 2017
00:01:55
Pixar’s Coco, Reviewed by Someone Who Watched Day of the Dead by Mistake
Pixar has always been known for making children’s movies adults can love too, occasionally to the point of giving their youngest viewers...
Wednesday 29 November 2017
00:06:54
Thanksgiving Stress? Maybe This 12-Hour Recording of Turkeys Gobbling Can Help!
Thanksgiving! Is there any other word that so perfectly embodies the spirit of Thanksgiving? If there is, we should change the holiday’s...
The Official Trailer for A Wrinkle in Time Has Arrived
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Disney released the first official trailer for Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time on Sunday night—that last one was just a teaser—and this time around they’re focusing on the thing we want most from trailers: exposition, and lots of it! The first minute or so of the teaser is built around an explanation of fifth-dimensional travel involving an ant and a piece of yarn.