Film Reporter • brian.welk@thewrap.com • Twitter: @brianwelk
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Aretha Franklin’s Grand Farewell: 6 Incredible Facts, From Outfit Changes to Pink Cadillacs
A surprising connection to Rosa Parks and big names attend funeral
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Peter Dinklage Shoots Down ‘Whitewashing’ Outcry for Playing ‘Fantasy Island’ Actor Hervé Villechaize
“What they’re doing is judging and assuming what he is ethnically based on his looks alone,” the “Game of Thrones” actor says
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Ryan Gosling’s ‘First Man’ Lands Early Raves: ‘Nobody Has Taken Us to Space This Way Before’
Critics praise Gosling’s performance as astronaut Neil Armstrong in Damien Chazelle’s follow-up to “La La Land”
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Michael Che Defends Louis CK: ‘Can You Believe This Guy Went on With His Life?’
“Just because it looks to you like someone is ‘getting off easy’ cause they still have the perks you would kill to have, doesn’t make it so,” “SNL” star says
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Before ‘Operation Finale,’ Check Out This Award-Winning Short Film
“The Driver Is Red” also documents the capture of Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann
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‘Blindspotting’ Star Rafael Casal Explains Why We Shouldn’t Doubt Short Filmmakers (Video)
2018 ShortList Film Festival: “It’s like asking a writer whether or not a haiku is valid,” the “Blindspotting” actor tells TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman
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How Nazis, Drunk College Kids and Stubborn Goats Shaped This Year’s ShortList Finalists (Video)
ShortList Film Festival 2018: “We’re not going to pout and cry about it. We’re going to make something happen,” filmmaker David Fortune tells TheWrap at ShortList Film Festival
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How Donald Glover’s ‘Atlanta’ Season 2 Stayed ‘Weird’ While Confronting Success – and Trump
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “We’re not the new kids on the block anymore,” producer Stephen Glover says
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Aretha Franklin’s 10 Best Live Performances, From ‘Respect’ to ‘Rolling in the Deep’ (Videos)
The Queen of Soul’s legacy was undeniable
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How ‘Atlanta’ and ‘This Is America’ Director Hiro Murai Mashes Up Comedy and Horror
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “A lot of people who make films in my generation have the vocabulary of all the films they’ve seen before,” says the Emmy-nominated director of “Atlanta”
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John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s Sons Come Together for a Selfie (Photo)
Sean Ono Lennon and James McCartney sparked hopes for a collaboration among Beatles fans
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Elon Musk Denies Azealia Banks’ Accusation He Was ‘on Twitter While on Acid’
Musk said he’s “never even met [Banks] or communicated with her in any way”
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Before Topher Grace in ‘BlacKkKlansman,’ 12 Actors Who’ve Portrayed White Supremacists on Screen (Photos)
Ryan Gosling, Russell Crowe and Edward Norton have all portrayed neo-Nazis or skinheads on film
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Hollywood Stars Clown Trump’s Space Force Plan: ‘Just Give People Healthcare’
“If Space Force were a TV show, the writers would keep pitching on a better title,” Seth MacFarlane says following VP Pence’s announcement Thursday
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Kathleen Turner’s Vulture Interview Gets Real: Trump’s ‘Gross Handshake,’ Cliquey ‘Friends’ Cast
Star of “Body Heat” and “Romancing the Stone” also dishes on Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Nicholson and being a “sexual target”
