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Friday, June 24, 2022 at 1:43PM 
Raise your hand if you'd like to go live on Mars. Surely some hands went up, enjoying the fantasy. Now, planning for it as if was actually going to happen is something else entirely. Space Oddity tells the deeply entertaining story of one man who is certain that it's going to happen, that he'll soon be living on another planet...
Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 1:06PM • Advocate MJ Rodriguez gets the "Person on the Year" profile
• Deadline Carrie Coon, Alessandro Nivola, Chris Cooper, and Keira Knightley to star in a new movie about the Boston Strangler case in the 1960s. Amazing cast
• GQ Tom Holland covers the "men of the year" issue. Lil Nas X (music) and an athlete we dont know (we know nothing of sports, sorry!) get the other covers.
More after the jump including Alexandra Shipp, Adele, Will Smith and King Richard, Mean Girls men, Sex and the City's sequel and Shang-Chi...
Friday, November 12, 2021 at 12:50AM by Nathaniel R
Tiny gasps and squeals gave way to shrieking and thunderous applause at the world premiere of Lin-Manuel Miranda's directorial debut tick, tick... Boom last night at the AFI Festival. And that was just from one of the numbers. We shan't spoil the surprises but let's just say that if you're a musical theater nut, you won't have a single greater high at the movies this year than during its "Sunday" setpiece. That song by Rent's gone-too-soon composer, Jonathan Larson, is a personalized silly riff on Stephen Sondheim's transcendent song of the same name from Sunday in the Park with George.
For those who are unfamiliar with "tick, tick... BOOM!" in its original form, it was a rock monologue that Jonathan Larson wrote and performed a few times in the early 90s...
