Benjamin Svetkey
Benjamin Svetkey
Veteran entertainment journalist Benjamin Svetkey shoots the breeze, raises a brow and sometimes wags a finger in his ruminations on the latest Hollywood news and controversies.
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Truth or Dare: Hasan Minhaj Gets Caught Telling Whoppers | Commentary
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Film Festival Audiences Get Up for Anything These Days. Maybe they Shouldn’t | Commentary
This article will take you 10 minutes to read — about as long as Yorgos Lanthimos’ standing ovation last week in Venice
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I Watched Fox News So You Don’t Have To | Commentary
An MSNBC and (sometimes) CNN viewer takes a walk on the wild side to see how the conservative network covered Donald Trump’s arraignment
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Warning! This Article Will Trigger Jonah Hill | Commentary
The “Superbad” actor’s ex-girlfriend has posted text messages that make him seem like a manipulative, psycho-babbling jerk. Was it wrong for her to expose him? Or is Instagram the best revenge?
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Netflix Ex-Insiders Explain Those Bare-Bones Blurbs, AKA I Was Right
Turns out the reason the streamer’s once snappy descriptors are now so crappy is because the people who used to write them got fired last summer
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Hey Netflix, What the Heck Happened to Your Blurbs? | Commentary
If this were a descriptor for a Netflix movie, it would tell you absolutely nothing that makes you want to read it. That’s a problem
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How ‘Succession’ Captured the Zeitgeist of Our Mean, Bitter Times | Commentary
Sunday’s final episode of HBO’s darkly satirical series marked the end of an era — at least on TV. The rest of us have to deal with reality for a while longer
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Hello, He Lied: CNN Goes After Trump Lovers – and Fox Viewers – With a Fabrication-Filled Town Hall
The news network flirts with disaster by giving the twice-impeached, soon-to-be-indicted ex-president 70 minutes of prime time air to fume and spew
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Sensitivity Readers Take Aim at 007: No, Mr. Bond, They Expect You to Cry | Commentary
Ian Fleming’s classic spy novels have just been rereleased, but some of the late author’s original words have been removed or replaced to protect 21st-century sensibilities
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Fox News vs. ‘A Face in the Crowd’: How a 1957 Elia Kazan Movie Foretold a News Credibility Crisis
The Dominion lawsuit has revealed what Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham really think of their viewers
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Sit On It, Ojai! How ‘Happy Days’ Star Anson Williams Lost a Mayoral Race to a Yoga Instructor
Recounts! “Popping” Ballots! Lawsuits! Inside the bonkers politics of a tiny mountain town where nothing is as mellow as it seems
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Why the Academy Needs to Give ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ the Best Picture Oscar
If AMPAS wants to save the Oscars, it can start by handing a trophy to Tom Cruise
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Elon Musk’s ‘Twitter Files’ Are Turning Hunter Biden’s Penis Into a Constitutional Crisis. No Joke.
Twitter’s CEO and GOP lawmakers’ “shocking” reveal is a self-own, of their own lack of understanding about the First Amendment
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Apple Vetoes Trump Bio Series – Has Hollywood Turned the Page on Our Long National Nightmare?
Maggie Haberman’s “Confidence Man” (and a slew of other Trump books) will not be coming to a screen near you anytime soon. And that’s a good thing
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Hey, Hollywood! Elon Musk Is Turning Your Tesla Into a MAGA Hat on Wheels!
The car is sleek, cool, and lets you virtue-signal at 60 mph. But the more Twitter’s new owner opens his mouth, the more embarrassing it is to drive one
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Benjamin Svetkey
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