Lena Dunham Tweets Her Outrage Over 'Girls' Porn Parody

May 24th, 2013 12:53pm EDT
Lena Dunham
Lena Dunham has spoken out against plans to make a porn parody of her hit TV show Girls, insisting the video goes against the series' feminist ideology.

Executives at Hustler have commissioned an adult film version of the show called This Ain't Girls XXX, with porn stars taking on the characters made famous by Dunham and her cast mates.

Nonetheless, Dunham, who created the show, is adamant she can't just laugh off the porn tribute as she finds the idea deeply troubling.

On her Twitter.com page, she writes, "I wish I had a better attitude about the Girls porn parody. I really can never...
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VICE EPISODE 8 PREMIERES ON FRIDAY, MAY 31st

May 20th, 2013 9:04pm EDT
Thomas squares off against the toughest fighters in West Africa, where the rise in popularity of 'lamb wrestling' actually coincided with the downfall of the Senegalese economy. Wrestling became "the last hoop dream of all these kids who can't find work otherwise." Then we find out how climate change is transforming our planet from experts across the world.

Don't miss the eighth episode of VICE this Friday, May 31st at 11pm, only on HBO.

Visit Vice on HBO.com to find shareable infographics, photos, and clips from the latest episode.
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HBO Documentary Films - 'INSIDE OUT: The People's Art Project'

May 20th, 2013 5:35pm EDT
 Known for billboard-sized photographic portraits of everyday people in urban settings, French street artist JR has a simple call to action: “Tell me what you stand for, and together we’ll turn the world inside out.” To transform his idea into reality, he created the Inside Out Project, the world’s largest participatory art project and a remarkable testament to the power of the image and the role art can play in transforming lives. INSIDE OUT: THE PEOPLE’S ART PROJECT visits locations around the world, including: Haiti, Tunisia, North Dakota, and the West Bank.

 The 2011 winner of the pres...
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'Game Of Thrones' Recap: 'Second Sons' - Tyrion And Sansa Wed

May 20th, 2013 11:31am EDT
'Game of Thrones' Recap: 'Second Sons'
Last night's "Game of Thrones" was another seminar in set-up, which is fine, since this book-reader knows what’s in store for these final two episodes (and it’s pure craziness, rest assured). Still, “Storm of Swords,” the book on which this season is based, is dizzyingly epic, and it’s a little disappointing what they’re choosing to save for next season – some of that could easily be applied to episodes like this to speed things along. Alas, we’re left with at least one extremely badass moment (from Sam, of all people!) and a lo of talking heads before that.

Strictly speaking, Tyrion and S...
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'Family Tree' Preview: Christopher Guest Takes His Comedy Formula To HBO

May 11th, 2013 11:03am EDT
Family Tree
Long before The Office, Parks and Recreation, and Modern Family turned the mockumentary into a sitcom staple, Christopher Guest cornered the genre on the silver screen. With comedy classics like Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, This is Spinal Tap, and A Mighty Wind under his belt, it’s no surprise that Guest decided to bring his brand of entertainment to television.

With Family Tree, Guest and co-writer/creator Jim Piddock have taken his classic formula and squeezed it down to a thirty-minute episode format for HBO, turning it into a clever semi-improvised comedy following that single-ca...
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'Game Of Thrones' Recap: 'The Climb' Slows Things Down... For Now

May 6th, 2013 10:47am EDT
GOT: Thomas Brodie Sangster, Ellie Kendrick
Part-way through last night's new "Game of Thrones" episode, "The Climb" (not the Miley Cyrus song, but a weird metaphor for ascending the top tier of Westeros politics), Theon's still-nameless torturer uttered a line so on-point for the series that it felt like a purely meta conversation-starter: "If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention." That's sort of "Game of Thrones" in a nuthsell, no? And it spoke odes to where a lot of our favorites ended up last night. Because in Westeros, happy news is always terrible news.

Let's start with some of our "outsiders" (...
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New On HBO: 'Family Tree' Created By Christopher Guest & Jim Piddock

May 4th, 2013 11:30am EDT
Family Tree HBO
Down on his luck in love and life, having recently lost his job and girlfriend, 30-year-old Tom Chadwick has an unsure sense of his own identity. But when he inherits a mysterious box, Tom starts investigating his lineage and uncovers a world of unusual stories and characters, acquiring a growing sense of who he and his entire family are. FAMILY TREE kicks off its eight-episode season SUNDAY, MAY 12 (10:30-11:00 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO, followed by other episodes subsequent Sundays at the same time.

The new comedy series is a single-camera, documentary-style show in the manner of G...
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'Game Of Thrones' Recap: 'Kissed By Fire' Packed With Schemes And Developments

April 29th, 2013 10:41am EDT
Game of Thones Season 3 Episode 5
If "Game of Thrones" is about one thing, it isn't war or honor, death or betrayal, succession or glory. It is, funny enough, about family, or the frayed remnants of whatever that word means to the individual. For Robb, that family is Talisa, his mother and the siblings he believes dead. For Daenerys, it's her dragons and the memory of her dead brothers, husband and son. For the Lannisters, it's the strange but unspoken sense of loyalty that binds them as one ragged, but surprisingly sturdy, unit. The boundaries between all the different families, from the blood-related to the scrounged and ...
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'Game Of Thrones' Recap: 'And Now His Watch Is Ended' Was Simply Epic

April 22nd, 2013 12:09pm EDT
Game of Thrones
Well. That was a big one, no? DANERYS TARGARYEN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. Everything was great, but those last ten minutes wiped the floor with whatever came before, both in the episode and the season (and maybe the series). After an entire second season of middling Dany storylines - an obvious ploy to kick her tertiary book plot up a notch - this felt like sweet, sweet vindication.

But first things first: what in the sweet hell is Varys doing with that dude in a trunk? That was some straight up Harry Potter business, like MadEye Moody in his office chest. After a rousing story about his cast...
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Hilary Swank Gets Mad At Materialistic Friends In HBO's 'Mary And Martha'

April 19th, 2013 1:30pm EDT
Mary and Martha
Oscar winner Hilary Swank ("Million Dollar Baby," "Boys Don't Cry") and Oscar nominee Brenda Blethyn ("Little Voice," "Secrets & Lies") star in HBO Films' "Mary and Martha," the story of two mothers who find a way to make a difference, one child at a time. Swank plays an American interior designer who takes her little boy on an extended trip to Africa; Blethyn is an English housewife whose own son heads to Africa as a volunteer. When malaria strikes, the lives of these very different women change forever. They forge a deep friendship and embark on an epic journey of self-discovery to Africa...
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