New Movies to Watch This Week: ‘Eurovision Song Contest,’ ‘Irresistible’

Billie Eilish will taking part in a new podcast about The Office, entitled An Oral History of the Office.The 12-part series will cover every aspect of the show chronologically, from its inception to various favourite storylines and moments from the show.According to Entertainment Weekly, the podcast will be hosted by actor Brian Baumgartner, who plays Kevin Malone in the US versiom.

What’s it all about?The story follows two ABBA-loving singers from Iceland whose childhood dream of appearing in the Eurovision Song Competition comes true.Sigrit Ericksdóttir and Lars Erickssong don’t exactly get in by merit - they luck out after some dodgy play by their country’s representatives.But that does not matter to our stars of course, who are delighted at their chance to represent their country.Of course the road to Eurovision is not that simple - expect plenty of romance,

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorDavid Dobkin had no idea the Eurovision Song Contest even existed until the script by Will Ferrell and Andrew Steele landed on his desk.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This weekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Netflix the week of June 26-July 2.This week sees the triumphant return of one of America's favorite comedy stars, Will Ferrell, as he dons a Viking helmet and sings very funny original songs in Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, in which he teams up with Rachel McAdams to play an Icelandic pop music duo. The movie is topping the Netflix chart at the moment, and features a scene-stealing supporting performance from Dan Stevens.

Rose Byrne has revealed the real-life people who inspired her character in new political satire Irresistible.

Jon Stewart takes both sides of the politicalspectrum to task in his second feature filmIrresistiblestarring Steve Carell, Rose Byrne, MackenzieDavis and Chris Cooper. The Focus Features film sees Carell play Gary Zimmer, a Democratic strategist who worked on the Clinton campaign in 2016.

Eurovision plans – the first year since 1956 that the music contest won’t air – it isn’t entirely absent from 2020. Instead, it arrives in the form of Netflix’s original film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga.Lars Erickssong (Will Ferrell) and Sigrit Ericksdottir (Rachel McAdams) have dreamt of representing Iceland at Eurovision since they were little kids.

Demi Lovato makes sense of her loneliness in her new song for Netflix's new movie Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, which both came out today (June 26).

Lately, it feels like every movie has us thinking, “What the f*ck did I just watch?” In this series, we will break down exactly what happened in all those wild, mind-bendy, and just plain strange flicks...in a way that’s much easier to understand than the actual film.There are some things about this movie that definitely didn't work for me.First, it's long. Like, two hours long, and after the first hour I was pretty much ready to call it a day.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterIn what has been one hell of an election year, Jon Stewart is cutting through all of it with his biting political comedy Irresistible starring Steve Carell, Rose Byrne and Chris Cooper.

Dan Stevens can sing but that doesn’t mean it is his voice in “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga”.

Also Read: Steve Carell Tries to Save the Democrats in Jon Stewart's 'Irresistible' Trailer (Video)Stewart’s “Irresistible” is about a political strategist played by Steve Carell who comes into a small town in Wisconsin to run a campaign for a blue-collar war veteran (Chris Cooper) as a Democrat against a Republican mayor.

Eurovision Song Contest is a fever dream like no other. A 50-ish-country competition to create the best tune, in past years it has featured scary horror masks, a Russian number saluting grandmas and a German ode to Genghis Khan.

Throughout Jon Stewart’s 16 year tenure as host of The Daily Show, the comedian often took aim at a familiar foe – the US government. An institutionally corrupt system, he claimed, was hurting Americans with its over-reliance on money – and a divisive, all-encompassing Democrat vs.

The Jon Stewart who popularized the political news satire format that dominates TV today? The same Jon Stewart who won so many Emmys, they should have called them Jonnys? Are we sure this lame movie wasn’t made by Martha Stewart’s nephew?Nope.

Also Read: Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams Humiliate Iceland in New Look at 'Eurovision' Parody (Video)But in the Ferrell canon, “Eurovision Song Contest” is a workmanlike, “Blades of Glory”-level effort, never as funny as you want it to be no matter how hard it tries or how silly its actors look.Director David Dobkin has ventured down this road before, successfully in “Wedding Crashers” and less so in “Fred Claus” and “Shanghai Knights.” (His best work is probably in drama, with 1998’s “Clay

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic“Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga” is like a “Saturday Night Live” sketch — a very thin one, a daffy but leaden final-third-of-the-show one — that’s been stretched out, for no reason at all, to two hours.

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