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There must be something about the bright lights in the Jimmy Kimmel Live! studio that brings people to tears, because after a week of guest-hosting the show, Jelly Roll, like the titular host has been known to do, cried onstage about politics. The country-music superstar explained in his August 27 monologue that he’s upset about a lot of things influencing the American political conversation right now: polarization being stoked by elected representatives, the American Dream not being available to all, the fact that the “voiceless” don’t have, um, voices. But mostly what he is upset about is the fact that he, Jelly Roll, has unwittingly found himself at the center of it again. It’s a recurring theme for the artist who, despite previous vocal apoliticism, has sparked speculative backlash about his political allegiances in the past, most notably after he shook hands with Donald Trump at a UFC match in November 2024.
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How remarkable, that this adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s seminal novel exists. Over two seasons, the series captured the book’s extreme specificity as a fictionalization of Colombia’s history, and spun out García Márquez’s themes of misguided ambition, craven capitalism, and individualistic myopia into a universal story that hit incredibly hard in our current era. The adaptation tweaked the text to more clearly underline a left-leaning alliance with the everyday worker, and concluded with a heart-breaking series finale about the Buendia family and the town of Macondo that visualizes how what we forget is more dangerous to us than what we remember.
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... and Idiots, in theaters now.
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Macon Blair’s vigilante-sympathizing I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore and his version of The Toxic Avenger both felt shaped by the first Trump era, the widespread erosion of public decency, and the tyranny of corporations. The movies were angry and wacky, and Blair’s Idiots digs in its heels by experimenting with what a “good guy” looks like in an increasingly ugly world. O’Shea Jackson Jr. and Dave Franco star as mismatched coworkers driving an asshole influencer (a sneering Mason Thames) to rehab. The film gets a little lost in third-act detours, but the three have intriguingly nasty chemistry.
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And he thinks he has a “decent case” to sue A24. |
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Adult Swim stalwart Casper Kelly riffs on Barney in his new horror movie that just isn’t as good as his short Too Many Cooks. |
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