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Noah Centineo moves away from rom-coms with 'The Recruit'
Dec 27, 2022 6:00 AM - Netflix's "The Recruit" is an atypical CIA drama. Yes, Noah Centineo's Owen is a CIA employee who finds himself in the field à la Jack Ryan, but instead of immediately knowing what to do and how to defend himself, this CIA employee is an attorney who is immediately in over his head.
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New to streaming this week: 'White Noise,' 21 Savage and Kennedy Honors
Dec 27, 2022 6:00 AM - Noah Baumbach's energetic adaptation of "White Noise" starring Adam Driver starts streaming Friday, Dec. 30, on Netflix.
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Noah Baumbach finds a cinematic playground in 'White Noise'
Dec 26, 2022 6:00 AM - When the world shut down early in the pandemic, Noah Baumbach picked up Don DeLillo's 1985 classic "White Noise." In it he found a voice that was both inspiring and familiar and the themes a little uncanny in the context of the pandemic. So he decided to try his hand at an adaptation.
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Jessica Henwick talks making it, diversity, 'Glass Onion' and Nicolas Cage
Dec 25, 2022 7:20 AM - Before leaving L.A. for her native England, actress Jessica Henwick did work as a crew member on sets -- an experience she drew from for her role in Rian Johnson's "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery," streaming now on Netflix.
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Mike Rowe gets filthy on 'Dirty Jobs' to reconnect Americans
Dec 25, 2022 7:30 AM - It may come as no surprise to fans of Mike Rowe that when he recently visited the Florida Panhandle, he didn't lay out on the beach or take a cruise. He donned a 100-pound diving helmet, waded into a smelly, muddy creek and joined a work crew putting concrete jackets around wooden bridge pylons for "Dirty Jobs," which airs every Sunday on Discovery.
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Q&A: Naomi Ackie, Kasi Lemmons tell Whitney Houston's story
Dec 24, 2022 7:20 AM - Naomi Ackie, who plays Whitney Houston in the new biopic "I Wanna Dance With Somebody," is the first to admit that she is not a doppelganger for the pop star. In fact, she'll go so far as to say she doesn't look like her at all.
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Janelle Monae is the not-so-secret weapon of 'Glass Onion'
Dec 24, 2022 7:30 AM - In Rian Johnson's whodunit sequel "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery," now streaming on Netflix, Janelle Monae may have found a film to suit her proclivity for shape shifting. In Johnson's puzzle box of a movie, Monáe's character is the most mysterious and enigmatic of a colorful ensemble.
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Whodunit 'The Pale Blue Eye' chills and satisfies
Dec 23, 2022 6:00 AM - Grab a jacket or a blanket before you watch Netflix's engrossing "The Pale Blue Eye." Set during an unrelenting winter in upstate New York in 1830, this frosty movie with snowy vistas, flickering candles and howling winds will get your teeth chattering. The only thing to get the blood moving here is a spot of murder.
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Damien Chazelle directs a frustrating, glorious, messy epic in 'Babylon'
Dec 26, 2022 1:10 PM - Early in the exhaustingly ambitious epic "Babylon" -- Damien Chazelle's furious, curious satirical assault/love letter combo to Hollywood -- an elephant takes a huge dump on a main character's head, indicating that we could be in for a bumpy ride. This sleazy and pleasy debaucherous tale of Hollywood's sound-era infancy constantly operates at two frames short of the dreaded NC-17 rating.
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Clumsy Whitney Houston biopic mars its star's skill
Dec 22, 2022 9:36 AM - Whitney Houston's voice was one of a kind and the creative team behind a new big-budget biopic of the singer had no choice but to agree. Naomi Ackie, who plays Houston in "I Wanna Dance With Somebody," turns in a fierce performance but is asked to lip-sync throughout to Houston's biggest hits. The effect is, at best, an expensive karaoke session.
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