Dry charm goes stale in ‘The Trip to Spain’
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Much like the classic time-traveling series, “The Trip” films have lessened in quality with each sequel.
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‘Band Aid’ joins music with couples therapy: An interview with Zoe Lister-Jones
First-time solo director Lister-Jones guides “Band Aid” with a realistic, handheld direction, and yet maintains a tinge of whimsy and immaturity.
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‘F is for Family’ returns for 2nd season of laughs, imperfect parents
When last we saw temperamental family man Frank Murphy (Bill Burr) on “F is for Family,” he had just been fired — on Christmas. Though we had to wait out a year-and-a-half time lag between seasons, season two picks up just three weeks later. Frank is depressed, Sue (Laura Dern)
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HBO’s dark comedy special ‘Career Suicide’ goes beyond laughs: An interview with Chris Gethard
Last year, Chris Gethard gathered his crew, fellow comedians Paul Scheer and Jason Mantzoukas and a live audience together in a studio to guess what was inside a dumpster. The absurd premise was nothing out of the norm for cult sensation “The Chris Gethard Show,” the comedian’s wild call-in variety
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Netflix’s ‘Chelsea’ delves into politics in second season: An interview with Chelsea Handler
On the second season of her Netflix talk show “Chelsea,” she’s using her voice to call out the daily controversy of the Trump administration.
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Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman are charming as ever in new-age heist film ‘Going in Style’
The film is not so much a glaring throwback to classic capers as it is a slight refitting of the genre, a refitting for stars that can make it work.
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TBD Comedy takes its improv antics to Chicago
Smack dab in the middle of midterms season, campus juniors Hannah Garriott and Kavi Mehta just spent a whirlwind February weekend in Chicago. Along with their four fellow improvisers in campus improv group TBD Comedy, they pulled off a second-place win in the West Super division at the 2017 College
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Pete Holmes illuminates comic authenticity in HBO’s ‘Crashing’
There’s no such thing as a gloomy or raging Pete Holmes set — he’s been blessed with a face fit for wonky facial expressions, a Batman parody and an occasionally too-loud laugh that would be downright piercing if it weren’t so hilariously genuine. Holmes’ most recent stand-up special, “Faces and
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Michael Keaton serves up savory performance in McDonald’s origin story ‘The Founder’
When we first heard that The Weinstein Company was making a movie about the origin of McDonald’s, it didn’t sound very appealing. The mind immediately jumps to uncomfortable images of greasy Big Macs and no-breakfast-after-10:30 flashbacks. But within the first 30 seconds of “The Founder,” we find that it’s not
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‘20th Century Women’ paints intimate, personal portrait of women: An interview with writer-director Mike Mills
If writer-director Mike Mills’ last feature film, 2010’s “Beginners,” is a portrait of his father — who at 75 years old came out of the closet — then his newest film “20th Century Women” is a tribute to his mother, who admired President Jimmy Carter and wore clanking bracelets around the
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