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The Max original series The Sex Lives of College Girls is returning to the streaming service next month.

The third season will drop on Thursday, Nov. 21, with one new episode in the 10-episode set dropping each week at 9 p.m. Et through Jan. 23.

The coming-of-age series, following a group of students at New England’s prestigious Essex College, was created by Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble and originally starred Pauline Chalamet, Amrit Kaur, Alyah Chanelle Scott and Reneé Rapp as the core suitemates experiencing college life together.

But news broke over the summer of 2023 that Rapp, who has gone on to launch a hit music career, would be leaving the series during its third season. She will appear in a few episodes, as a recurring guest star, not a series regular, to set up her character Leighton Murray’s departure from Essex.

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Welcome to the Gayle show! On Monday, the “Abcdefu” singer announced her fall Scared and Trying Tour — her first time on the road on her own after opening for both Taylor Swift and Pink in the last few months.

In an Instagram post, Gayle said opening for both stars was some of “the most exciting and terrifying moments of my life” and that she’d be so scared to get on stage that she’d get nauseous before performing. “But no matter how I felt, I would try and do it anyway,...

This week’s slate of activities is a bit TV heavy, but why not? After all, you’ve probably been on more than a few pilot auditions or at least dreamed of one day starring in a sitcom. Let yourself be inspired by the story of a cast on a hit network comedy or hear the king of bringing weird cinema to the small screen tell his story. Or, you know, slink down in your seat while listening to real teenage diary entries. As you do. Take in a silent-film doubleheader.Silent films prove that you don’t need scores of dialogue to express emotion, plot, or develop a character. Probably the most well-known silent comedian, Buster Keaton, made over 20 films and created iconic moments in that period of cinema. See two of his classics, “College” and “Steamboat Bill Jr.” on October 12 during Csun’s Buster Keaton retrospective and see...

Any list of the greatest foreign directors currently working today has to include Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The directors first rose to prominence in the mid 1990s with efforts like “The Promise” and “Rosetta,” and they’ve continued to excel in the 21st century with titles such as “The Kid With A Bike” and “Two Days One Night,” which earned Marion Cotillard a Best Actress Oscar nomination.

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The directors will be back in U.S. theaters with the release of “The Unknown Girl” on September 8, which is a long time coming considering the film first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. While you continue to wait for their new movie, the brothers have provided their definitive list of 79 movies from the 20th century that you must see. La Cinetek published the list in full and is hosting many...

Last month the White House hosted the musical tribute “Bet Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration.” The event was televised on Tuesday, November 15 on Bet and served as a love letter to President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.

The celebration, which Dave Chappelle referenced in his “SNL” monologue and joked about Bradley Cooper being the only “white guy,” included performances from Jill Scott, Janelle Monaé, Common, Usher, Bell Biv DeVoe, The Roots, De La Soul, Yolanda Adams, Michelle Williams, Kierra Sheard, and “Hamilton” star Leslie Odom, Jr.

Obama began the night by saying some words on how special the event was, “It’s with a little bit of bitter-sweetness that this is our final musical evening as president and First Lady.”

He then explained the history of holding live performances at the White House and described how Chester A. Arthur opened the doors to the all-black Fisk Jubilee Singers,...

There is something inherently frustrating about the prospect of university life. As a college student, you can feel as if you’re stuck in limbo. You’re obviously no longer a child as sex, drugs and alcohol pervade your everyday world, yet you’re not really an adult — totally free of the burdens of the 9-to-5 rat race for at least a few more years. A feeling of unease can fall over you, as there’s always a kegger or a party to attend while lovers change partners more often than bed-sheets.

Everybody Wants Some!!, the long-awaited spiritual sequel to Richard Linklater‘s classic comedy Dazed & Confused is now out in theaters. In the film, a college freshman (Blake Jenner) arrives at school to find that his new baseball teammates are an out-of-control, alcohol-fueled army of irresponsible party-dudes.

To celebrate, we compiled ten of the finest college movies, all ranging wildly in style and tone.

The College of Performing Arts at The New School will present the first annual UnSilent Film Night, in which music ensembles from the College's performing arts schools-the Mannes School of Music, the School of Jazz, and the School of Drama-will perform live with screenings of landmark silent films. This inaugural program, hosted by Matthew Broderick, marks the debut of the Mannes Theatre Orchestra, which, under the baton of Charles Neidich, will perform a new score by Craig Marks to the Buster Keaton film Sherlock Jr. 1924. The screeningconcert will also feature the School of Jazz Improvisation Ensemble, led by Alexis Cuadrado, presenting the premiere of Cuadrado's original score to the 1917 Charlie Chaplin classic The Immigrant.

The Oscar-winning director of 12 Years a Slave has pushed back the boundaries of film because of the fearlessness that comes with a background in art

When the director Steve McQueen was an art student learning basic film-making skills at Goldsmiths College, London, he joked he was already aiming for the time when his name would eclipse that of his glamorous namesake, star of The Great Escape and Bullitt. "One day," he told his tutor, Professor Will Brooker, "when people talk about Steve McQueen, I am going to be the first person they think of."

Now, with an Oscar for his film 12 Years a Slave, the transition from Turner prizewinning artist to celebrated director has been made in style. It is a path to cinematography also taken by the British artist Sam Taylor-Wood, nominated for a Turner prize in 1998 and now editing her high-profile film of the erotic bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey.

This is kind of a sad piece to write. For the last two years, I've been following Kino as they released their collection of Buster Keaton classics on Blu-ray, and College marks the end of these wonderful discs. In December 2012, Kino released their Ultimate Buster Keaton Collection on Blu-ray, which compiled all of their Blu-ray releases and added College as an exclusive, but thankfully those of us who'd been collecting all along finally get the chance to complete our own sets with this new ultimate edition of College. Not that this is the end of my Keaton collection by a long shot, but it will probably be a while before any of his other films make it to Blu-ray, so it's still a bit bittersweet.College...

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Moviefone's New Release Pick of the Week "Wreck-It Ralph" What It's About? Ralph, the bad-guy from a "Donkey Kong"-esque arcade game, grows tired of his villainous routine and escapes through the world of video games to prove that he can be a hero. See It Because: With cameos ranging from "Pac-Man" to "Street Fighter," this inventive comedy may do for video games what "Toy Story" did for toys. It was also nice to see one of our most gifted character actors, John C. Reilly, anchoring a film on his own. New on DVD & Blu-ray "The Bay" What It's About? Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson dips his toes into the "found footage" horror market with the genuinely terrifying tale of a coastal town that is slaughtered by ecological nightmares from the water. This mash-up of "Jaws" and "Contagion" features some of the most ingenious use of the "fake documentary" techniques and...

It’s that time of year again when we scramble around looking for the perfect present for the people we love and like. While we’re big fans of movie-watching around the holidays we don’t recommend seeing one in a theater on Christmas day. Your patronage is requiring some poor shlub to have to work, and that’s not cool. But movies to own are never a bad gift idea, and with that simple mantra we present our second annual Blu-ray & DVD Holiday Gift Guide featuring items that were released in 2012! Click on the image to check current prices and buy a copy! Box-Sets Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection – 15 of the suspense master’s finest film including Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, The Birds and more and loaded with special features! Bond 50 – Fifty years of James Bond including all 22 films from Dr. No to Quantum of Solace! Buster Keaton...

Each new Buster Keaton Blu-ray from Kino Classics brings mixed feelings. While I'm certainly thankful for the wonderful presentations and fascinating extras, there is always a little bit of sadness mixed in as I realize that Kino is reaching the end of their Keaton catalog. Buster's The Navigator marks the penultimate feature from The Great Stone Face in Kino's catalog, and now that only College remains, I'm already starting to miss the collection. Thankfully, we'll be left with some fantastic films, great extras, and the potential for a wonderful personal Keaton archive, and The Navigator certainly earns its place in that number.For The Navigator, Buster Keaton revisits one of his most beloved character types, the spoiled little rich boy. The clueless children of privilege that...

Imagine if Woody Allen, Whit Stillman, Kevin Smith and the Sundance Institute had a love child. This ungainly creature, speaking in witty, heightened, unnaturalistic sentences, and ambling, sometimes shambling between comedy, tragedy and pretension, might very well go on to make films that greatly resemble those of Hal Hartley.

Hartley is the man behind such beloved (at least by some) ‘90s indie films as “The Unbelievable Truth” and “Trust.” But to put him into proper context, we find ourselves casting around for parallels: he simply never made enough of a dent in mainstream sensibilities to be able to describe his work to a neophyte without reference to other, more overtly successful filmmakers. Or musicians, perhaps – if we play the equivalents game with the alt-rock explosion of the ‘90s, we get Quentin Tarantino as Nirvana, Jim Jarmusch as Sonic Youth and Kevin Smith as, maybe, Smashing Pumpkins (revered early on, but...

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Like most people born in the 1970s, I was a huge fan of the Goodies as a kid. My personal favorite was Graeme Garden who I regarded as “the sensible Goodie.” As I grew up, I began to realize that The Goodies was just one highlight in a distinguished career during which the Scotsman established himself as one of Britain’s top comedy performers. While he is a well known entertainer, many people do not realize that Graeme Garden is also a qualified physician. Recently, I had the opportunity to interview Graeme and I began by asking him how he made the transition from medical school graduate to TV funny man.

“I appeared in a couple of plays at school,...

You know, sometimes an actor makes his debut in any film industry, be it Bolly or Holly, and he does not make much of an impression. It is only years later, when he gets that one special role, that you see him for the fine actor that he is. You then look back at his first movies and say, oh that was him? Not with Ranbir Kapoor. From his first moment on screen in Saawariya (2007), you knew he had that indefinable “it” and was someone we would be seeing in great roles for years to come. From Raj in Bachna Ae Haseeno, to the outstanding Wake Up Sid, from the comic Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani to the full on dramatic epic of Raajneeti, Ranbir has shown how talented an actor he is. He definitely inherited the amazing acting genes from his famous family and continues to hone his skill...

Another day, another several celebrities with new ad campaigns.  Here's Angelina Jolie for Louis Vitton (reportedly she's not wearing any makeup here and wearing her own clothes) and Tobey Maguire for Prada.

How many of them do you think make more money posing for ads than actually acting? Even the ones who command huge actorly paychecks.

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Self Styled Siren a fun post on romantic choices, "sleeve tuggers" and The Phantom of the Opera (1943)

Alt Screen celebrates Buster Keaton in College.

Men's Journal spends manly time with Kyle Chandler.

Cinema Blend a retro poster for Captain America: The First Avenger

Super Mercado a fan poster for "The Case" that movie within the movie Super 8

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The Daily Beast thorough critical rundown of new TV season. Pan Am with Christina Ricci sounds great and they say it's sexy, too.

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I'm very excited about tonight's screening of Steamboat Bill at Emory University's White Hall.  The screening is part of the Department of Film Studies and Emory Cinematheque of Emory College's International Film Series.  Tonight's film will be shown on 35mm and there will be live accompaniment by Donald Sosin.  I was able to see Buster Keaton's The General at The Fox Theatre a couple of months ago and was blown away.  If you can make it, you should definitely partake in this film series.  And, it's free!

Chaplin may have enjoyed being regarded as the premier film artiste and the silent era's great artist for much of the 20th century, but everyone knows by now that he was a winkingly clever, crass, desperate populist compared to Buster Keaton. Though only moderately successful in his heyday, and ruined with the coming of sound, Keaton has emerged unchallenged as the greatest American filmmaker that the silent era ever produced.

These are old films, but they're Vermeers compared to comedies made half a century or more since, even "Steamboat Bill Jr." (1928), roundly dubbed an okay Keaton, not a peak work, but now restored and released in a lavish set from Kino that begs for reconsideration.

Today, this quaint, precise, epic entertainment, crafted in the strange transitional phase between the silent era and the struggling years of the first talkies, seems like a necessity, a gust of relaxed maturity and reason...

The William Castle Film Collection (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, $80.95) includes eight pictures produced and directed by master showman Castle. In Part One of this lengthy DVD review, I dissected four of them—13 Ghosts, Homicidal and the two best, The Tingler and Mr. Sardonicus. Believe you me, it was a ghastly business! As Sardonicus would say, “I have known a ghoul—a disgusting creature that opens graves and feeds on corpses.” Like a DVD reviewer. See here.

In this epic conclusion, I am fitted out with a Strait-jacket (about time!) and also chronicle Zotz!, 13 Frightened Girls and The Old Dark House, the three Castle entries new to DVD (which lack the short, individual “making of” documentaries accompanying the other five). Only two of these eight flicks were shot in color (Girls, House); theatrical trailers are included with all of the movies. And that’s all you need to know as we continue—in amazing Screamarama,...