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Awards season arrives with Sunday's Golden Globes
"Barbie," "Oppenheimer" and "Killers of the Flower Moon." "Succession," "The Last of Us," "Ted Lasso" and "The Bear."
Those are just a few of biggest movies and TV shows that will highlight the the 81st Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, which will broadcast live on CBS and Paramount+ for subscribers with the Showtime add-on beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern.
Streamed & Screened podcast co-hosts Bruce Miller and Terry Lipshetz preview the show and predict winners in the biggest categories.
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Getting it right: 'Maestro's' Carey Mulligan says it begins with the voice
Getting the voice right.
That was the starting point for Carey Mulligan when she ventured into “Maestro,” the story of composer Leonard Bernstein and his wife Felicia Montealegre.
“If you can really feel it’s something you don’t even need to think about, then you’ve given yourself a really good place to start,” the British actress explains. “By the time we got to set, that was not something we needed to worry about…and that was such a relief.”
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A natural connection: David Rysdahl draws on past for roles in 'Fargo,' 'Oppenheimer'
When David Rysdahl was asked if he could do a “Fargo” accent for the latest season of the FX series, he didn’t hesitate.
The longtime New Ulm, Minnesota, resident grew up in the land of “uff da” and could turn it on in a minute.
“When I first got the audition, I told my dad, ‘I’m finally accepting the fact that I am you,’” Rysdahl says. “There’s a beautiful irony to it.”
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REVIEW: 'Anyone But You' can't quite equal its stars' abs
There must have been an abs coordinator on the set of “Anyone But You.”
Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney spend so much time in skimpy swimwear (or nothing at all), you can’t help wonder if they went weeks without eating just to look this good.
Supposedly a return to the R-rated rom-com, “Anyone But You” is really just a Hallmark Channel movie with skin and profanity. It’s built around unheard truths and has a passing connection to Shakespeare (thus all the quotes plastered around various scenes).
In truth, it’s hardly that ambitious.
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DVD REVIEW: 'The Holdovers' deserves repeat viewings, awards
“The Holdovers” holds up on repeat visits.
I’ve seen it three times over the holidays and it still offers more to savor. Available this week on DVD, it could be the one film with staying power.
Directed by Alexander Payne, “The Holdovers” is a touching look at unlikely friendships and how circumstances often bring the most disparate people together.
In this case, that’s a gruff instructor at a New England prep school, a smart-mouthed student and the school’s head cook.
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