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Taylor Swift Outlines ‘The Only Real Risk’ To Pop Music

Taylor Swift wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal about the future of pop music.

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Taylor Swift Outlines ‘The Only Real Risk’ To Pop Music

Wrathschild’s ‘Angeles’ Video: L.A. Is One Unforgiving Mistress

Wrathschild (aka Simon Curtis and Ro “Wolfy” Danishei) are back with their new video for “Angeles,” a psychedelic ode to the city they couldn’t stop loving if they tried.

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Wrathschild’s ‘Angeles’ Video: L.A. Is One Unforgiving Mistress

Bad Movies We Love: Muppets From Space

Call me a glum frog with a hand flapping up my ass, but I didn’t love The Muppets . Jim Henson’s franchise is about goofy, heartfelt antics, and his whimsy warps into a barrage of Glee tunes, self-conscious dorkiness and perky, perky people under the pen of Jason Segel. It’s a no for me. Luckily, the ’90s already gave us a solid, if stupendously, un -self-consciously dorky Muppets update in the form of Muppets From Space . It’s not exactly a part of the classic Kermit cannon, but that’s because it’s a tangential Henson operation. Think of it as Muppets Origins: Gonzo . Now you’re in.

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REVIEW: Michelle Williams Achieves Near-Perfection in Less-Than-Perfect My Week with Marilyn

There are some movies that have little or nothing to recommend them, except as a frame for a performance. My Week with Marilyn is that kind of movie. Based on writer and documentary filmmaker Colin Clark’s memoir of the time he spent with Marilyn Monroe while working as an assistant to Laurence Olivier on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl , My Week with Marilyn manages to be both slender and overworked, a picture that states over and over again, in the baldest terms, how emotionally fragile Monroe was. We know, we know already. My Week with Marilyn has a TV-biopic sheen, and you could dismiss it easily — except for the fact that Michelle Williams, as Marilyn, both anchors the movie and upends it. Miss it and you’ll miss one of the finest performances of this year.

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REVIEW: Michelle Williams Achieves Near-Perfection in Less-Than-Perfect My Week with Marilyn

Kenneth Branagh on My Week With Marilyn, His Brush With Olivier, and the Curse of the Difficult Actor

As arguably the film world’s closest contemporary equivalent to Sir Laurence Olivier, the classically trained, commercially adventurous actor/filmmaker Kenneth Branagh makes an ideal candidate to play the great man in this week’s My Week With Marilyn .

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Kenneth Branagh on My Week With Marilyn, His Brush With Olivier, and the Curse of the Difficult Actor