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Articles and interviews from Playboy magazine, plus Playboy.com online exclusives. Because we all read Playboy for the articles. A SpokenEdition transforms written content into human-read audio you can listen to anywhere. It's perfect for times when you can't read - while driving, at the gym, doing chores, etc. Find more at www.spokenedition.com
Episodes
April 10, 2018 • 3 mins
Arriving in theaters on a crest of post-SXSW Film Festival love, A Quiet Place is a tense, jangly new monster movie directed by John Krasinski that has plenty going for it–just not quite as much as some hyperventilating festival types might lead one to expect.
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April 9, 2018 • 3 mins
Arriving in theaters on a crest of post-SXSW Film Festival love, A Quiet Place is a tense, jangly new monster movie directed by John Krasinski that has plenty going for it–just not quite as much as some hyperventilating festival types might lead one to expect.
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April 4, 2018 • 7 mins
“It’s so sexy, the work you do,” diplomat Claude Lambert (Guy Burnet) leers at bad-guy, black-clad super-spy Howard Silk (J.K. Simmons) in episode 3 of the sci-fi spy series Counterpart. Lambert’s comment is half lascivious, half ironic, but it’s also true. Lambert envies and desires Howard Silk because everyone envies and desires spies.
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April 3, 2018 • 10 mins
The fall of the Soviet Union in the early ‘90s had unexpected consequences. One of them was a surplus of ex-military supplies, weapons and vehicles suddenly flushing the black market. In other words, there was a potential gold mine to be had in Russia, if you were brave enough to go there and get it. This idea occurred to two Miami wannabe criminal masterminds. One was Tarzan (real name: Ludwig Fainberg), a flamboyant, husky Russia...
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March 28, 2018 • 3 mins
Director Guillermo del Toro was way off his mark with Pacific Rim, a moderate hit in the U.S. but a monster hit throughout Asia. So, like it or not, we’re now stuck with Pacific Rim Uprising, an earthlings-vs.-monster/robots sequel produced by del Toro but directed by Steven S. DeKnight (Netflix’s Daredevil).
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March 27, 2018 • 4 mins
If the carefully made, earnest, well-acted and politically charged drama The Post exemplified the grown-up Steven Spielberg, then his new science-fiction action flick, Ready Player One, released just months after, is the jazzy, flashy, tripped-out, super-caffeinated kid version of the director many of us grew up loving, and many subsequent directors grew of aping.
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March 26, 2018 • 7 mins
RuPaul’s Drag Race, a televised competition that started in 2009, gained a devoted cult following and is having its season 10 premiere tonight, is arguably the best reality show that straight men aren’t watching yet. For those unfamiliar, the show follows (usually) 11 nationally renowned drag queens in pursuit of the title of next drag superstar, crowned by none other than drag royalty and routine pun-abuser RuPaul.
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March 22, 2018 • 9 mins
A $17 million opening weekend is chump change in the Marvelverse, but it’s big bucks for an unheralded movie with a budget under half that amount. Even Variety seemed caught off guard when I Can Only Imagine was outdone in this weekend’s ticket sales only by Black Panther and Tomb Raider, with a per-screen average much higher than either Wakanda’s ongoing bid to monopolize America’s moviegoing attention forever or Lara Croft’s retu...
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March 20, 2018 • 6 mins
In season 2 of Jessica Jones, the main “villain” is Jessica’s mom, Alisa (Janet McTeer), who is somewhat stronger than the superpowered Jessica, and has anger-management issues. In other words, the central conflict of the 13-episode Netflix series would evaporate if Jessica (Krysten Ritter) just pulled out her cell phone and called crosstown to Luke Cage for some invulnerable superpowered backup. (This story contains spoilers for s...
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March 19, 2018 • 3 mins
Alfred Hitchcock once mused, “If the dead were to come back, what on earth would we do with them?” We could always call them Tomb Raider. Seventeen years ago, Angelina Jolie starred as sharp, sexy, pistol-packing tomb raider (and boobalicious gamer sex icon) Lara Croft in a movie version of the video game franchise. That PG-13 epic–aside from its famous, utterly gratuitous Jolie shower scene—wasn’t up to much. But these days, every...
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March 14, 2018 • 6 mins
A whole generation of Americans has been born and grown to adulthood since O.J. Simpson’s arrest on a murder rap in 1994. But even so, when President Trump’s former flunky Sam Nunberg had his famous cable-news meltdown last week, D.C.’s media wags could call Nunberg’s whack-a-mole act “the Bronco chase” and be sure most people would get the joke.
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March 12, 2018 • 7 mins
Barring an envelope snafu so unholy it makes last year’s Moonlight/La La Land mix-up look rehearsed, we already know which highly praised and very popular big-screen lollapalooza of 2017 won’t win the Best Picture Oscar. The director who helmed it won’t take home a statuette on Sunday night, either. That’s because neither the movie nor its director are even in contention.
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March 9, 2018 • 6 mins
No one ever said it was going to be easy making a movie out of Madeleine L’Engle’s beloved, idea-crammed and visionary 1962 Newbery Medal-winning novel, A Wrinkle in Time. Adapting such rich material—equal parts science-fiction, fantasy, fairy tale, political/religious tract, parable of good vs. evil, and coming-of-age story—clearly proved to be, in the language of L’Engle’s novel, dark and stormy.
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March 8, 2018 • 7 mins
Patrick Heusinger is a 37-year-old actor who spent a decade in New York and the last decade in Hollywood, not becoming a household name. He has an IMDb page full of one-episode guest spots on 30 Rock and Bones. He was on four episodes of Gossip Girl that aired when George W. Bush was president. He’s played a robot in a failed pilot—twice. He’s like hundreds of actors who bounce from TV jobs to indie films to plays like balls on a r...
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March 7, 2018 • 7 mins
Scottish actress Pollyanna McIntosh plays Jadis as a strange, enigmatic presence on The Walking Dead. She speaks in Yoda-like haikus, wears a Rhythm Nation-style getup and paints in her spare time. On Sunday night, she came more fully into her own in “The Lost and the Plunders,” the most Jadis-centric episode to date. (Major spoilers ahead.
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March 6, 2018 • 3 mins
Pro tip: For maximum enjoyment, watch Red Sparrow for the movie it is, instead of the movie you wanted it to be. The new spy thriller based on the first entry from former CIA operative Jason Matthews’ best-selling trilogy of dark, sexually charged novels, stars Jennifer Lawrence as Dominika, a Russian ex-Bolshoi ballerina with an ailing mother (Jolie Richardson) in need of medical care.
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March 5, 2018 • 9 mins
Articles and interviews from Playboy magazine, plus Playboy.com online exclusives. Because we all read Playboy for the articles. A SpokenEdition transforms written content into human-read audio you can listen to anywhere. It's perfect for times when you can't read - while driving, at the gym, doing chores, etc. Find more at www.spokenedition.com
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March 5, 2018 • 9 mins
Articles and interviews from Playboy magazine, plus Playboy.com online exclusives. Because we all read Playboy for the articles. A SpokenEdition transforms written content into human-read audio you can listen to anywhere. It's perfect for times when you can't read - while driving, at the gym, doing chores, etc. Find more at www.spokenedition.com
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March 2, 2018 • 6 mins
Netflix’s half-hour dramedy Everything Sucks! is woke nostalgia. The series overlays post-millennial sensibilities about race, sexuality and storytelling onto a 1990s world of rotary phones and mail-order CDs. It’s goofy enough to name a kid Scott Pocket, and earnest enough to stage an impromptu death-by-corn dog performance of Uncle Vanya in the cafeteria. The result is a warm, thoughtful take on coming of age in the ’90s.
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March 2, 2018 • 6 mins
Netflix’s half-hour dramedy Everything Sucks! is woke nostalgia. The series overlays post-millennial sensibilities about race, sexuality and storytelling onto a 1990s world of rotary phones and mail-order CDs. It’s goofy enough to name a kid Scott Pocket, and earnest enough to stage an impromptu death-by-corn dog performance of Uncle Vanya in the cafeteria. The result is a warm, thoughtful take on coming of age in the ’90s.
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