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Lucasfilm fires ‘The Mandalorian’ star Gina Carano after offensive social media posts

Gina Carano, who starred as the unassailable warrior Cara Dune in “The Mandalorian,” won’t appear in any future Star Wars projects after she shared offensive social media posts, including one that compared Nazi Germany to the current political landscape. Lucasfilm fired Carano Wednesday, calling the social media posts she made that day “abhorrent.” “Gina Carano

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‘Minari’ looks back at one family’s American dream in rural Arkansas

“Minari” is a deeply personal film, and quality that’s evident in writer-director Lee Isaac Chung’s reminiscence about his childhood. Focusing on a Korean immigrant family, the universal themes come through loud, clear and ultimately with considerable power, even if the movie’s languid pace works against it. The title refers to a particularly durable crop, which

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‘Clarice’ turns ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ into a pretty flavorless dish

“The Silence of the Lambs” characters can’t seem to stop talking, certainly not in television, which has given us the 2013 series “Hannibal” and now “Clarice,” which starts promisingly enough but quickly fizzles over subsequent episodes. After a credible set-up drawing upon its origins, the show looks like a standard CBS crime procedural, and risks

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‘Bachelor’ host Chris Harrison apologizes after defending controversial contestant

“Bachelor” host Chris Harrison is apologizing after defending a frontrunner on the current season of the show who has come under scrutiny for photos that have surfaced from her past on social media. Harrison spoke out on behalf of Rachael Kirkconnell, who was reportedly photographed at an antebellum plantation-themed fraternity formal in 2018. Kirkconnell has

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‘Framing Britney’ director says she ‘tried everything’ to get her to participate

Britney Spears does not appear in the new, buzzy documentary about herself, and for its director, that’s a problem. Samantha Stark, the director of “Framing Britney Spears,” told “Entertainment Tonight” that “There’s a big ethical conflict for me in making a film where the central person in it isn’t participating.” “It’s really something that I’ve

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