Liz Feldman‘s “Dead To Me” found a second life at Netflix, so it only make sense her follow-up series lands on the streamer too. But while Feldman’s previous show took a darkly comedic look at therapy, her new one, “No Good Deed,” tackles another topic entirely: the highs and lows of buying or selling a home.

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Lisa Kudrow and Ray Romano star in the upcoming series, on Netflix next month, as an empty-nester couple who decide to sell off their beloved LA villa.  But what should be relatively normal transaction becomes to stuff of comedic nightmares when potential buyers how far they’re willing to go to own their dream home.

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Buying a home might be one of the most stressful times in your life. For many, a home is the largest purchase they’ll ever make. So you better believe they’re going to do their research. That’s what we see in the new series, “No Good Deed.”

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As seen in the trailer, “No Good Deed” tells the story of an empty nest couple who are trying to sell their beautiful Los Angeles home.

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What’s that meme about “the perfect movie doesn’t exist—” followed by a contradictory abrupt cut revealing, well, actually it does? Well, apply that to “Fly Me To The Moon,” the exuberant, tightly-crafted, endlessly charming, and near pitch-perfect space race film. Part comedy, part drama, part romance, and part race-against-the-clock and overcoming obstacles-to-pull-off-an-impossible feat thrill rush, it’s simply terrific, and maybe very unexpectedly so. Yes, this rare breed of movie, a mix of “Apollo 13,” “Mad Men”-era Madison Avenue advertising, and hell, even a little bit of ticking countdown “Oppenheimer” filtered through the champagne sparkle of the most intoxicating rom-com dramedy and you’ve got a shimmering delight that’s immediately engaging and front to back fully dialed in and compelling.

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Ray Romano has been a household name in the US for decades now, thanks to his sitcom career. However, in recent years, he’s been doing a lot more indie stuff, flexing his dramatic muscles a bit. However, with “Somewhere in Queens,” we see a new side to Romano, as he makes his directorial debut.

As seen in the trailer for “Somewhere in Queens,” the film follows the story of a married couple trying to help their teen son figure out what to do with his life.

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Ray Romano is a good actor, and seems like a nice guy. These are the two primary takeaways from “Somewhere in Queens,” which the stand-up comedian, character actor, and sitcom star co-wrote, co-produced, directed, and starred in. That bit of muti-hyphenating isn’t as much of a stretch as the casual observer might think; he co-created and wrote several episodes of his post-“Raymond” series “Men of a Certain Age,” and has been spending some time on Scorsese’s sets, so the filmmaking here is confident and competent, if not particularly inspired.

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Given our current scorching discourse on physical female autonomy — or lack thereof — is there anything more bleakly dystopian than the idea of a chip implanted inside a woman’s head so a Silicon Valley douche can keep tabs on her? In Season One of HBO Max’s “Made For Love,” this premise offered a harsh condemnation of men, toxic male culture, and the need for control from the fat-headed Elon Musks of the world.

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The full Tribeca Film Festival lineup of 109 feature films from 40 countries and 88 world premieres for the 2022 event that takes place June 9-18 has been announced. It’ll be interesting to see if some of the films at the festival will end up being popular breakouts, land major studio/streamer distribution, or eventually move on to get recognized during awards season.

Some highlights of those upcoming films at the fest include Joachim Back’s “Corner Office” starring Jon Hamm, “Somewhere In Queens” which was directed by Ray Romano starring Romano and Laurie Metcalf, “American Dreamer” with Peter Dinklage, Shirley MacLaine, Matt Dillon, and Danny Glover; “Beauty” that was written by Lena Waithe, “Jerry & Marge Go Large” by David Frankel and starring Bryan Cranston, Annette Bening, and Rainn Wilson, Andrew Bujalski‘s new film, “There There” starring Jason Schwartzman, Lili Taylor, and Molly Gordon, “Aisha” with Letitia Wright, “MLK/FBI” director Sam Pollard‘s new documentary, “After Selma: The Lowndes County Freedom Party,” “Alone Together” that is directed, written and starring Katie Holmes alongside Jim Sturgess, Zosia Mamet, and Melissa Leo.

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A darkly humorous story of modern love and divorce, HBO Max’s “Made For Love” also centered on the dark and twisted side of technology. Season one followed Hazel Green (Cristin Milioti), a thirty-something woman on the run after ten years in a suffocating marriage to tech billionaire Byron Gogol (Billy Magnussen), as smart as he is insufferable. After discovering that her husband implanted a monitoring device—the Made for Love chip—in her brain, allowing him to track her, watch her and know her “emotional data,” Hazel fled to her desert hometown to take refuge with her outcast father Herbert (Ray Romano) and his synthetic partner, Diane.

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It’s a certain kind of man who can rob the female orgasm of joy through data mining, and in HBO Max’s “Made for Love,” that man is Byron Gogol (Billy Magnussen), entrepreneur, tech genius, and serial creep. After coating the world in screens designed to connect consumers but intended to surveil them, he’s sorta kinda almost perfected his masterpiece, also called Made For Love.

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Unless you believe all those ridiculous conspiracy theories on social media, as of right now, there aren’t any tech billionaires secretly trying to put monitoring devices into our brains. But in the upcoming HBO Max series, “Made for Love,” that’s a very real consequence in the failing marriage of a tech billionaire and his wife.

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As seen in the trailer for “Made for Love,” a young woman is attempting to escape a terribly toxic marriage she has been subjected to for 10 years.

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Each year, countless films premiere at festivals across the world. Filmmakers are celebrated for their artistic vision. Projects are praised for their ability to push the boundaries of what we expect from national cinemas. Then, just as quickly as these films burst on the scene, many disappear from the public eye. Some fall through the cracks of distribution. Others are snapped up by discriminating studios but languish in the vault as executives work to puzzle out the perfect date and platform for their release.

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Today marks the opening day of one of the year’s most anticipated feature films, “The Irishman.” And if this was only a few years ago, a Martin Scorsese film starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Joe Pesci would be seen on over 3,000 screens and all around the world. But, considering this is a Netflix film, “The Irishman” is getting a short, select theater run for a few weeks before people will stream it at home, at work, in school, or even on the toilet.

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When making a good film that involves gangsters, having Robert De Niro as part of the cast should be a top priority, and here’s another one as he plays “The Irishman” as another mobster.

READ MORE: New Images From ‘The Irishman’ Show A Digitally Altered Robert De Niro Through The Decades

Directed by legendary director Martin Scorsese, whose previous work includes “Goodfellas,” sees him join forces again with De Niro as a hitman who must recall the events of his involvement with Jimmy Hoffa. 

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Martin Scorsese‘s newest passion project is finally here: “The Irishman.” The film covers the real story of Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran, a labor union leader and infamous mafia hitman of the 1940s. Much of Sheeran’s notoriety today comes from a death-bed confession, where he claimed that he had murdered fellow union leader Jimmy Hoffa. The complex story of murder, war, and mystery will be upfront and center in Scorsese’s new feature, and as announced earlier this week, it’ll be making its world premiere at the New York Film Festival in late September.

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Director Alex Lehmann made his narrative feature film debut with the critically-acclaimed “Blue Jay” in 2016, a film that was shot with just a sketch of a screenplay in just under seven days, with actors Mark Duplass (who also wrote the sketch) and Sarah Paulson improvising the dialogue. His sophomore feature, “Paddleton,” which also marks his screenwriting debut, is a much similar, bare-bones production.

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Alex Lehmann’s “Paddleton” opens on a decidedly (and deceptively) serious note. Michael (Mark Duplass) sits in a doctor’s examination room, looking drawn, haggard, and worried, and for good reason; he has cancerous lesions on his liver, and while his physician won’t come right out and call it terminal, it’s hard to miss the inference. But his neighbor and best friend Andy (Ray Romano), who’s come along for moral support, tries to get some clarity; he proposes an elaborate code wherein the doctor will correct him if he says anything wrong about his friend’s prognosis.

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Mark Duplass is a bit of a Sundance regular. And this year, the filmmaker comes back to the annual film festival with a new film that he co-wrote and stars in, titled “Paddleton.” And he’s bringing comedy legend Ray Romano along for the ride.

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In the first trailer for “Paddleton,” we meet Duplass’ character, a middle-aged man that was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer and decides that he doesn’t want to let the illness destroy him and will take matters into his own hand.

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In the lead-up to the Emmy nominations, announced this past week, The Hollywood Reporter ran many of their award-season roundtables on “Close Up with the Hollywood Reporter.” Catching up with all the videos, today we’re looking at the Comedy Actor. Moderator Lacey Rose sat down with Marc Maron (“GLOW”), Tracy Morgan (“The Last O.G.“), Louie Anderson (“Baskets”), Sean Hayes (“Will & Grace”), Ray Romano (“Get Shorty”), and Tony Shalhoub (“The Marvelous Mrs.

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[Updated Feb. 4]

Winner prediction:
1. Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri”
2. Willem Dafoe, “The Florida Project”
3. Christopher Plummer, “All The Money In The World”
4. Richard Jenkins, “The Shape of Water”
5. Woody Harrelson, “Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri”

Current predictions:

Best Picture
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Director
Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay
Editing
Cinematography
Production Design
Original Score
Best Song
Costumes
Sound Mixing
Sound Editing
Documentary
Foreign Language Film
Animated Feature Film
Makeup and Hairstyling
Visual Effects

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It’s not easy to get the tone of Elmore Leonard‘s books translated to the big screen, but 1995’s “Get Shorty” was one of the few times where everything clicked. Ironically, the sequel “Be Cool” showed what happens when you get the material totally wrong. Now, Epix is going to try and make “Get Shorty” work as a TV series, and the first taste has now landed.

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Coming out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, there weren’t many movies getting as much buzz as “The Big Sick.” After a bidding war ended with Amazon Studios spending $12 million on the film, everyone has been waiting for their chance to watch the movie. Well, the wait is almost over!

In the first trailer for “The Big Sick,” viewers are introduced to Kumail Nanjiani’s character as he navigates life dealing with his Muslim family and his desire to marry an American woman instead of an arranged marriage.

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“As TV has become more like movies, movies have become more like TV,” Laika CEO Travis Knight said about the culture of remakes and sequels, and he’s spot on. While television has certainly experienced a creative renaissance in the past decade, that industry is also just as focused as its movie counterparts in exercising IP for maximum value. Lately, that has meant seeing countless shows based on movies headed to the small screen (such as “The Departed,” announced earlier today).

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Overwrought Nostalgia Gets In The Way Of Martin Scorsese’s Episode 1 Of ‘Vinyl’

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Watch: The Sound Of The Revolution Arrives In New Trailer For Martin Scorsese's HBO Music Drama 'Vinyl'

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